I was willing to look aside from Platner's dubious youth but a sexual assault is unacceptable. He needs to withdraw from the race and Maine Dems have to scramble to put forward someone who can take on Collins without taint.

Trump plugs Dell at first-ever White House opening bell, sending shares soaring [CNBC] How many shares did Trump and his inner circle buy last week before making this plug for Dell?

www.reuters.com/world/us/ves... How frightening that the Trump Admin has deemed a leading environmental organization too politically woke.

Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin A report from a cryptocurrency analytics firm details how those who bought the Trump memecoin have fared, with most retail investors having lost money while sophisticated traders did better. [NYT] MAGAts who believed.

Here is an excellent report on the reality of the farce on the Mall. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

GOP led Florida and Texas have banned protections for workers in the heat, including mandatory water and shade breaks for workers. I have no words for how cruel and evil this is. www.npr.org/2026/07/03/n...

Trump bought Apple, Nvidia and other tech giants before tariff reversal fueled rebound [CNBC] Just about anyone else would be prosecuted for insider trading. Once this grifter is in the rear view mirror, there's a lot of cleaning up to be done.

Trump bought as much as $5 million in Axon stock before ICE sought $220 million Taser deal [CNBC] The Trump corruption, gifiting, self-enrichment ... continues.

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tungsten. [NYT] GRIFTERS, they are.

The Trump cease fire with Iran is truly a Trumpism in every way

Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible I wonder how the Texan Buddhists, Muslims, atheists, etc feel about this. How do we stop the Christian Nationalists who wrongly believe the US is meant to be a Christian nation?

The Pentagon is again requiring flu vaccinations for all recruits in basic training, reversing an order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, after an outbreak at a base in Texas. [NYT] Gee, vaccines to prevent the flu from debilating our troops. What an idea!!!

The industry around kratom, a drug sold at convenience stores that is linked to thousands of deaths, has benefited from close ties to the Trump administration [NYT] Perhaps instead of bombing fisherman off S America, this should be addressed.

President Trump said that the newly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool would likely need to be drained for repairs and that vandalism was responsible for the problems. Not stated but clear to me -- Trump's vandalism of the reflecting pool.

Today’s SCOTUS rulings reaffirm my belief that the conservative majority is blindly applying 18th century conditions to the 21st century despite evidence of the deleterious effects those rulings have.

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed’s preferred gauge shows. #Trumpflation

NY MTA Chair Janno Lieber raised several concerns over Amtrak's oversight of the Penn Station reconstruction effort. Actually, it's Trump's, not Amtrak's, and I bet if you follow the money, you'll find Trump and/or his cronies will have a substantial financial gain from this plan.

Trump Says Vandals Sabotaged the Reflecting Pool. Internal Documents Raise Doubts. The documents do not indicate that the peeling blue coating and algae blooms were caused intentionally. [NYT] This is the Old Grey Lady being polite. Replace "raise doubts" with "show he lied." Trump speaks, he lies.

Factory job cuts in June neared financial crisis and Covid levels, S&P says [CNBC] Dems need to hammer on affordability and staunching the cuts caused by Trump and GOP war and policies.

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Iran Gets Major Economic Lifeline for Minimal Concessions in Initial Deal The agreement delays the most difficult steps for Iran for later talks, while granting it crucial benefits. [NYT] Tell me again how Trump's deal is better than the one Obama got.

Credit to the unknown cartoonist.

How is it possible even this many people approve of Trump's dismal and corrupt performance in office? From NPR

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he liked the idea of blaming Vice President JD Vance if a deal to end the war with Iran does not work out. Because, in his own mind, nothing is Trump's fault.

Crews just completed Trump’s $14 million renovation of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, coating its floor in dark blue. The water is already green again. [NYT] Another over budget and botched Trump project.

Dems need to run on: - affordability - stabilizing Social Security - restoring civility Positive messages!

Even if Trump gets a truce w/ Iran and talks continue, it is far from a win. Iran is newly emboldened. The US expended 15 of our lives and thousands of Iranians. Deal terms are highly unlikely to be better than what Obama got. And that's assuming progress gets made.

What the Ellison family would own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

Friends, it's worth an hour to listen to this episode of On The Media, covering how Musk fomented violence in Belfast and how CBS's 60 Minutes is being gutted ... and of course the WHY for both. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican candidate for New York governor, questioned the science behind vaccines. With his degrees in Poli Sci and the Law, he seems uniquely qualified to opine on all matters relating to science, doesn't he?

Today, as Musk became a trillionaire on paper, seems a good day to remember that until the 60's, the ultra wealthy were taxed far more than they are today.

From Neil deGrasse Tyson; food for thought on the impacts of Trump's immigrant-phobia.

From Elizabeth Warren, who continues to try to hold Trump and the GOP accountable to the American people.

Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy calls season ‘embarrassing,’ ... said the Red Sox's season to date has "been awful,' ... Well, that's stating the obvious.

The Trump admin was trying to erase history. Pirro’s losses in Fed investigation should stay on the books, judge rules [CNBC] Chief Judge James Boasberg put a stop to that saying this needs to be a matter of public record.

Exactly.

Trump Picks New Intelligence Chief After Revolt Over Pulte Perhaps the GOP will learn from this and other recent votes that Trump is not the 2nd coming, after all.

Trump yesterday: We're gonna bomb Iran like you've never seen. Trump and cronies: Buy lots of stocks after yesterday's tumble. Trump today: We're still talking to Iran, and sell all yesterday's stock purchases. Follow the money!

Hospitals See Diseases Resurge as Vaccinations Decline Doctors nationwide are encountering more children with whooping cough, bacterial infections and other serious illnesses, as well as more adults refusing tetanus shots. [NYT] This is on RFK Jr. and Trump.

U.S. economic growth between 1990 and 2016 would have been 15 percentage points lower without migration, per Citi Research. That clearly excludes Melania and Marco.

President Donald Trump said, “I love the inflation” after he was asked if he was worried about newly released 3-year high consumer price index data. Of course, he doesn't care, as he grifts hundreds of millions and lives on taxpayer largess. #Trumpflation

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Consumer prices rose 4.2% annually in May, highest in three years Yes, monthly, consumer prices rose 4.2% because of Trump's war on Iran. #Trumpflation

on President Trump and his sons have reportedly made $2.3 billion from crypto since he returned to the White House. Investors in many of those same ventures have lost a similar amount. (Reuters) Not that it is new info but Trump is a grifter of epic proportions.

A key Social Security trust fund could run out of money in 2032. The outlook for the retiree benefit plan worsened this year, according to a report from its trustees. It would have to cut benefits in roughly six years [NYT] The first and simplest step is to remove the salary cap on contributions

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. Launches Strikes on Iran to Retaliate for Downed Helicopter [NYT] This, against the country we variously vanquished and were days away from making a deal with. Now, we're back to a conflict with no clear end in sight.

Well, this is depressing. 51% of U.S. adults say the American Dream is out of reach for most people right now: CNBC survey

Trump was roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG, receiving louder boos than did the Spurs. Go New York! I'm glad NY let Trump know how we feel!

While private companies poured $300 billion to $400 billion into data centers, hardware, and physical AI infrastructure, combined federal spending on public transit and passenger rail totaled only $37.1 billion. Imagine if the opposite were true.