“ ‘I still celebrate that every time I go to cast and drop my ballot in the ballot box, the value of voting,’ he said. ‘It’s, I think, the minimum each American could do in engagement.’ “

If only there was an extremely simple solution to this that we’ve had access to for years!!!!!

A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

"the last two decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence have tended systematically to corrupt American democracy across a variety of related issues: campaign finance (including last week’s decision), presidential immunity, and, of course, the prosecution of bread-and-butter political corruption."

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

Oh okay. So Lutnick finally manages to close a diplomatic deal and everyone gets mad at him.

“After the Supreme Court grants Donald Trump immunity you filed a superseding indictment. You’re still ready to bring the case to trial, right?” asked MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “Yeah. Correct,” Smith confirmed without hesitation. www.msn.com/en-ca/news/w...?

they are not afraid of him being a bad mayor, they are afraid of him being a good mayor

He's deranged af.

This has been the most spiritually bankrupt celebration of anything I've ever seen and that's it, that's our 250th. We don't get to go back and redo it, this one's in the books: Temu Arch, cheesy architecture, horrible displays, AI everywhere. Far right propaganda. Jokes at our expense

Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

Democrats are preparing a hostile audit of Trump and his inner circle, intent on exposing — and ultimately ending — the most lucrative presidency in American history. Dems see the presidential gold rush as corruption personified — and plan to bury Trump's orbit in subpoenas if they win the House.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Just gonna point out again that 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes = 354.166~ fireworks EVERY SECOND. This is not a normal amount of fireworks.

i think he should show some courage and go speak to a crowd in 105 degree heat for two hours

america

A fun little scoop about the Christian nationalist-adjacent guy who just scored a recruitment contract with the State Department. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

the guy in the white house rolled in with "concepts of a plan" and now ACA subsidies have expired while our tax dollars pay for guys like kean to have the exact healthcare they deny their constituents because we "can't afford it." it infuriates me to no end.

when i was diagnosed with severe recurring depression i was a contractor and had no medical leave, no financial support. i had to say good bye my income which, guess what, was not helpful. we deserve so much better when it comes to our health care. congressional health benefits for all americans.

What does Trump have on him? How big was the crypto payoff? What else is going on here?

Conservatives don’t think they have to give a damn about anyone, and they’re consistent about that, but I have a special disdain for people who say “but the lights in Times Square” as a way to justify their own irresponsibility. You don’t get a free pass because you can identify structural issues.

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

HELLO

This feels like such a tease.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

The ruling today basically unanimously declares all trans girls as boys under Title IX. This case wasn't really ever about athletes.

🚨 NEW: "Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefited from his policies" Tom Bergin and Koh Gui Qing for @reuters.com

because if the answer is no i have to ask why you are wasting your time on politics, get a better hobby.

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

it's posts like these that give me a deep, nagging anxiety about democratic leadership

A piece that beautifully captures how I have been feeling for a while now. I am constantly asked “Are you sorry you moved back to the USA” … as I found during Trump 1 you can feel ashamed of your country while living anywhere in the world.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason

5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.

Maybe he’ll have an aneurysm.

In addition to stories from people who worked hard their whole lives only to fall into insurmountable debt, you'll also hear from formerly homeless folks like Keith, who managed to turn things around despite the odds—but now faces the prospect of losing the housing he fought so hard to regain.

With Elon Musk becoming our first trillionaire, I talked to American users of the rapidly growing “Almost Homeless” subreddit, who are struggling to stay housed amid a brutal job market and with social services slashed to the bone. They say this online community is crucial to their mental stability.

This ruling is good news for democracy which means Trump will double down on his efforts to rig the November midterms by trying to pass the SAVE Act

Per our new polling out today, the most popular politicians in America are… Barack Obama Bernie Sanders Zohran Mamdani Pete Buttigieg Jon Ossoff & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Trump is tied with Elon Musk and Hakeem Jeffries, Schumer and Carlson in last www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-29...

Alito’s brain is pickled. “If Bobby chooses one of 3 candidates on the 25th and his vote is recorded on the 28th, when did Bobby choose a candidate?”

Alito’s dissent in the vote counting case makes perfect sense if you think of it from the perspective of a braindead fox news viewer who thinks dems are “cheating” when more vote get counted and a republican lead in the count is erased.

But with Slaughter, a president could fire every agency head or commission member and then fire every replacement who refuses to be anything other than a complete stooge. The Senate’s vetting process means nothing. 2/2

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

The idea that the FTC must be “overseen” by the President so it does not become “subservient” to Congress seems deeply hostile to the whole enterprise of electoral democracy.

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!