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So an Antifa scuba diver with a box cutter snuck into the Reflecting Pond to cut a 300 foot section out while evading all cameras and law enforcement in order to sabotage Trump. Do I have that right?

He’s screwed up the reflecting pool. He’s screwed up the White House grounds. He destroyed the East Wing & the Rose Garden. He’s failed in Iran, fouled-up the Mideast & ruined relations with our allies. And yet the Republicans continue to stick with him as if he’s not demented & destroying America.

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News: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass for 500 participants (some pictured here) at the Outreach conference for LGBTQ Catholics at Georgetown today. We will post his homily, which moved many in the congregation to tears, later. We are so grateful to His Eminence.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

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Will Trump ever get over his Obama envy? Weeks like this one are why the answer is probably no, never. My new piece at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-stil...

Michael Bloomberg is convinced that the fossil fuels industry has completely captured the US government and US media. And he's correct. He plans to do something about it. www.ft.com/content/5d02...

RFK Jr. Recommends Drinking Anything That Comes Out Of Cow https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-recommends-drinking-anything-that-comes-out-of-cow/

This was a heartbreaking but completely unsurprising story. All the rich want cheap labor but don’t want to acknowledge the people who provide it.

Donald Trump doesn't own the White House. He didn't own the East Wing. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is not his, either. They are ours and his acts of destruction are attacks on all of us.

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Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE cut the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program, which cost $15 million. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1 billion to combat the screwworm outbreak. Never forget how destructive and downright stupid DOGE was.

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil." April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil, much more than we need." June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks..."

Meteorologists and climatologists are troubled by cuts to a direct source of raw weather data, but they say it's hard to gauge the immediate impact.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Day 1576 of my 3 day war. Russian oil production is booming.... I remain a master strategist.

Here it is, in clear form for all to see. 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮 Obama kicks tRump’s ass again

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More cocaine is currently reaching the United States than ever.

Our discourse is now so corrupt the Russian firebombing of the PM’s home, and the Kremlin-backed lies about Starmer using rent boys, are ignored by supposedly patriotic conservatives We have proof that the country is under attack and they are so lost in culture wars they look the other way

How else to interpret giving the Iranian regime $324B USD besides saying with dollars "we fucked up, our bad"

Thanks to Trump's tax cuts, 88 corporations — including Coinbase, CVS, and Disney — paid ZERO federal income tax last year. They also spent $852M on political donations and lobbying. Their combined tax savings: over $26 BILLION (a 3,000% ROI!) We must break this corrupt cycle.

"Forest Service inspectors have flagged problems with aircraft from Senator Sheehy's company for years..." www.propublica.org/article/tim-...

Father's Day is next Sunday...a shameless self-promotion, but a nice gift for any dad or soon-to-be father is my book. Order from Ballast Books through markhertling.com & you’ll receive a signed edition.

🤦🏽. The arrogance and stupidity from these people will never cease….

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

Doing god’s work. Great NYT pic of the rainbow at the Kennedy Center last night for the “Great Unnaming”

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Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...

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Elon Musk: The trillion-dollar psycho Conservatives say Musk’s new trillionaire status hurts no one Really? He incites race riots on our streets. To top that, in an ignorant frenzy Musk slashed the US Aid budget and began a humanitarian crisis that is causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands

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More socialism for farmers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I guess the majority of farmers have proven that the best way to get ongoing perpetual government welfare during the Trump years is to reliably continue to vote Republican even when their policies repeatedly make you insolvent.

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Reminder that DOJ's 7/7/25 letter claimed, absurdly, "There was also no credible evidence found that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions." You should ask WHY DOJ told that lie? 🤔

I needed: - 2 years to be a spiritual director - 8 years to be a counselor - 4 years to be a teacher - 13 years to be a priest None of those positions allow me to use deadly force. But I could become an ICE agent, with the authority to use deadly force, in 71 days.

It doesn’t matter who’s in charge. FISA 702 can’t be renewed without real reforms. Case in point: Trump’s latest nominee for director of national intelligence was peddling election conspiracies just a few days ago.

Californians, read this and get angry.  After many in our state lost everything in last year’s fires, insurance companies quietly buried “wildfire deductibles” in their policies. Not the standard deductible. A separate one,

That’s called a bribe.

The wannabe dictator of this Christo-fascist, Neo Nazi regime where the is not even hiding his goal of fully using the DOJ as a personal weapon to attack his opponents & any one who disagrees with him. We in our 250th year must stop this destruction of our democracy or we will not see a 251st year.