In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “I got to know Redford over friendly lunches and dinners and interviews for The Times and at Harvard’s Kennedy School,” our columnist Maureen Dowd writes. “And that rarest of things happened: He was everything you hoped he would be.”

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

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Someone I don't even know found the words I haven't been able to. Please see what she said that I couldn’t in the series of comments to follow:

What a miserable person.

In case anyone is still wondering why Bolton was raided

Susie Q “I’m concerned” Collins has some competition this time!! Let’s get Ms. Ineffectual the hell out of Congress.

Cape Buffalo - 1. Wealthy douchebag from Texas - 0. So much for reaping the benefits of that Bogus Bad Bill dude.

Anything to make his tiny dick hard again. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do not normalize this. This is fascism.

Just a regular reminder to please support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. Without us, they can't survive, and truthfully, without them, neither can we.

These officers are unhinged and deranged and need to be held accountable. Locally first because we know this federal government won't prosecute criminals

NBC: “Four Epstein victims who spoke with NBC News say the Trump administration should be exposing any powerful men who shared Epstein’s penchant for vulnerable young women, not putting the brakes on any future prosecutions.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump’s former casino president, Jack O’Donnell: Epstein was Trump’s best friend during those days… Donald and Jeffrey had come into the casino in the wee hours of Sunday morning, you know, two buddies, they had 3 women with them…the women that they brought down were underage to be in the casino

President Trump is openly telling a celebrity and political enemy — Rosie O’Donnell — that he is “serious” about taking away her American citizenship and exiling her from the U.S. because he dislikes the views she expresses when exercising her free speech rights www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Fit to govern! No, not to live. O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again, Since that the truest issue of thy throne By his own interdiction stands accursed, And does blaspheme his breed? Macduff, Act IV, sc. 3 Macbeth

As one whose mother escaped Hitler’s Germany and later came to this country through Ellis Island I can’t even begin to tell you how incredibly sick this all makes me. We must all speak up and never stop speaking up until this type of purposeful hatred is scourged from our country. Cont. below:

Praise be….burn in hell you sick bastard! apnews.com/article/jimm...

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Thanks a lot Lisa Murkowski for selling out the rest of the 49 States. Hope you feel great about accepting bribes for Alaska at a horrible cost to the rest of us. 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

We fought the good fight from emoluments to impeachment to criminal prosecution but Congress failed us and the Supreme Court has been fully complicit. We must keep invoking the lower courts’ fidelity to law but will need massive political mobilization. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

“The phrase constitutional crisis no longer describes our situation. The Constitution has failed, and we no longer know which institution will rescue it.” True but incomplete: It is finally We the People who alone can rescue it. Political activism is the answer washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

I just did the math, and yes, this checks out.

Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

What the hell are we becoming? www.vpm.org/news/2025-06...

"Home of the Brave is a community of Americans who refuse to be silenced. We’re lifting up the voices of people whose lives have been directly harmed by the Trump administration.” ofthebrave.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

This is oligarchy. This is obscene. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck & kids go hungry, Jeff Bezos, worth $230 billion, goes to Venice on his $500 million yacht for a $20 million wedding & spends $5 million on a ring while his real tax rate is just 1.1%. End this oligarchy.

“The private wound is deepest. O, time most accursed, ’Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!” — The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 5.4.75-77

Mic drop.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

Just came across my first 🍊💩lover on BlueSky. I guess it was bound to happen eventually.

The ‘sound asleep Goose blep’ when you don’t have a clue how freaking cute you are.

Outrageous: ICE agents arrested a former U.S. Army interpreter who risked his life aiding American troops in Afghanistan, right after his asylum hearing in San Diego. The interpreter legally entered the U.S. after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“The best way to honor our parents' memory is to do something, whether big or small, to make our community just a little better for someone else." Beautiful statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman.

Trump says mass deportations are urgent—but not if they mess with his donors’ pockets. ICE was told to back off farms & hotels 'cause it was bad for business. But LA and Chicago? Open season. Please be for real—this is the weaponization of government against cities that refuse to bow down to him.

Really?? Or is he leaving early because he’s a joke and a failure?? www.bbc.com/news/article...

OMG!!! 10 years ago today 🍊💩 boy slimed down the escalator. Longest damn 10 years of my life. 🤢🤮

The Hortman family helped raise and train dogs to partner with veterans. One of the many reasons we will miss Melissa and Mark.

OMG!!!! Best freaking poster, ever!!! I can’t stop laughing.

Bangor, Maine No Kings rally!!!

No Kings rally in Bangor, Maine.

I can see how Hitler happened. The last decade or so in the U.S. makes it easy to imagine. Not just Hitler; the Tulsa race massacre, Rosewood, lynching, slavery, the Rwanda & Rohingya genocides & more. There is a wolf pack evil that lurks in the human heart and it’s easily activated by a demagogue.