What do we make of the AI revolt happening around the country? How worried should we be about the screwworm? What's the media missing when covering the latest jobs report? Heather and I discuss the latest (from a very special location) on a brand new Coffee Klatch.

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

The amount of corruption in this administration is astounding.

New in PN: Elon Musk is about to get richer and more powerful than ever "If the artificial intelligence industry was built on a bubble before, it’s about to get even more so — and your retirement account could depend on whether that bubble pops."

Trump’s CFTC has pushed out senior career officials who raised concerns about crypto and prediction markets. It’s barely lifted a finger to regulate these rapidly expanding platforms. Trump’s family just so happens to have financial ties to both industries. Coincidence — or corruption?

Wealth inequality is surging beyond anything ever witnessed in America. A wealth tax is a necessary precondition for addressing this problem — and protecting our democracy. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-taxing-great-wealth

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

You gotta give to the GOP. They trained their voters to hate “libs” so much they would gratefully accept every manner of corruption, lawlessness, cruelty, ineptitude, and criminality, and cheer it on, so long as it is their team doing it.

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

AOC: Whether it’s people in the Epstein files still roaming free, or the president, a known rapist, continuing to occupy the White House, all of this has contributed to the normalization and the idea that incidents of harassment shouldn’t matter. And I think today was an important turning point

Both Donald Trump and his Slovene-born escort spent years calling for Obama’s birth certificate. I am calling for Melania Trump’s legal immigration papers: How did she get an “Einstein” visa for extraordinary abilities despite her blatant lie under oath about her college degrees?

The Art of the Deal.

The FY2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for military spending and pays for it by gutting NOAA, FEMA grants, NIH, and fully eliminating programs that keep the lights on for struggling Americans.

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

Massive No Kings rally in Washington, D.C.

HAPPENING NOW: A HUGE crowd has gathered in London, England for a protest against the far right in coordination with the No Kings day protests in the US

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy

Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud Dept.-Kinda sounds like he's admitting he interfered in the election with VERY specific statistics. I quit Twitter because he bought it, way before his confession he stole the election for the Orange Atrocity. 🍊💩 Now I'm SURE I made the right decision! 👍

Somebody is making a fortune on the war with inside information and it is grotesquely corrupt.

This is why you always follow the money...

It’s pretty goddamn simple: Fund TSA, not ICE.

More on the World’s Worst People.

We’re now almost 3 weeks into war w/Iran, no signs of it slowing down, gas prices are up, inflation expected to rise, airport lines are an absolute jump scare. At this point, "Breaking News" notifications have lost all meaning. In that spirit, the Economist released new cover going super viral:

Civilians in Tehran are reporting toxic oily rain following US and Israeli airstrikes on oil storage facilities. An estimated 10 million people face exposure to hazardous chemicals, with risks including skin burns and lung damage.

Also known as "using insider knowledge for war profiteering."

Are we allowed to get the rest of the Epstein files now?

The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️ @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

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Mullin is a devoted Trump bootlicker he’s a typical flawed republican

Dear white Christian nationalists, Markwayne Mullin has replaced Kristi Noem and will protect you

💯 I agree except I think Mullin is worse, because he's a better liar.

Now fire Mullin and shut down the whole agency.

Here's how tough Mullin is:

Proving yet again one of my basic rules on navigating Trumpism: He will always replace an incompetent person with someone more incompetent.

"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)

According to reporter Tara Palmeri, Verglas shows up at least 681 times in the Epstein files, a result of the longstanding friendship between the two men that continued way past the point of Epstein’s conviction as a predator and sex offender. www.queerty.com/surprise-the...

This is why he bombed Iran. So no would be watching him remove files about his crimes and corruption with Jeffrey Epstein. The DOJ is covering up the crimes of our rapist president.

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

Cricket’s revenge.

Morgan Stanley is laying off 2500 people across its major divisions, including investment banking and wealth management.

Trump and Netanyahu have been funnelling weapons to Kurdish volunteers in Western Iran for months. They’re expected to begin an armed uprising in days, ITV reports.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Twitter? "Drowning in Disinformation?" Say it ain't so, Mindless Führer.

Jesus. F*cking. Christ.

THEY’RE GOING TO STEAL THE ELECTION. In case you didn’t know already.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

BREAKING: It seems we have arrived at the We Told You So part of the program