My kid gets a lot of college mail, but this one took the cake @bcdreyer.social

New filing: "Penguin Random House v. Gibson (publishers sue re book ban)" Doc #129: Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment AND Order on Motion for Summary Judgment Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69110142

NEW: A consultant claiming to work for the White House called several Republican county clerks in Colorado last week, seeking “third-party” access to secure voting equipment. All of the clerks rejected the request.

❗️CNN has released an exclusive audio recording from 2024, where Trump, at a meeting with sponsors, says that he threatened Putin to "bomb Moscow" if Russia invaded Ukraine

The builders behind Alligator Alcatraz and other detention sites are top DeSantis donors. They scored no-bid or “emergency” contracts worth tens of millions—while funneling cash into his political machine. Pay-to-play isn’t just speculation—it’s backed by the paper trail. 🧵

Congress has approved the first national school voucher plan, which will help all but the wealthiest families pay for private school and other educational expenses. But states must opt in, which could limit its reach.

EXCLUSIVE | Trump’s Bedminster to bill US taxpayers $600,000 so Secret Service agents can use golf cart and port-a-potties

Want to help my kid build a college list? Excellent grades/test scores/extracurriculars. 12 APs inc. Capstone, AICE diploma. Interested in communications, poli sci, Econ. Assume $ no object, wants to be in or near a big city and a school with an improv troupe. Jewish. In FL but looking everywhere.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

the way calling for the deportation of any visible non-white person is rapidly becoming normalized is a huge cause for concern.

There should be no surprise at her “transformation” — I know lots of smart people who have shifted and pretzeled themselves for all kinds of reasons and ambitions, especially recently, both good and (often) bad: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

Is he doped up?

Melissa Hortman and her husband have both been killed.

BREAKING: The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose.

Gavin Newsom didn't choose this fight, but now that he's in it, he's relearning an important lesson: fighting MAGA is a good look. More Democrats should pay attention. www.salon.com/2025/06/13/g...

According to Fox News, President Trump was aware of Israel's strikes before they happened "He gave me a quote.He said: ‘Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb.We're hoping to get back to the negotiating table,’"Fox News quoted Trump

it is nigh impossible to meaningfully differentiate this culture of violence from the jim crow era. a nation under occupation and set back, quite literally, by half a century. those are the table stakes.

That the senator is just another brown person to them shouldn’t shock anyone

DHS is saying that Secret Service thought that Padilla was an attacker but he can clearly be heard in the videos identifying himself.

A, dude is 6’3” and it took how many goons to tackle him for asking a question at a public press conference - B, are they the same goons who let her purse get stolen?

Rubio would’ve sent Hitler a birthday card in 1943.

A pop-up shop that sells pro-Trump and other conservative-coded memorabilia, was set up on-site with campaign-style merchandise on Army property. Soldiers were seen purchasing "Make America Great Again" chain necklaces and faux credit cards labeled "White Privilege Card: Trumps Everything."

Everything. He has everything.

Love to see self advocates with #DownSyndrome on @msnbc.com - call your senators at 202-224-3121 to tell them not to cut Medicaid!

Let’s be very clear: Los Angeles is the perfect place for this to play out for the Trumpists. The Trumpists hate California and hate Los Angeles and a vast amount of their base feels the same — even the Trumpists here, who wallow in hating the place they live. /1

Are you not entertained?

Key context to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia story: The Trump admin brought gay asylum seeker O.C.G. back to the United States this week. They're the first big cracks in Trump's radical end-run of due process, as Abrego Garcia will get his long-deprived day in court. www.allrisenews.com/p/abrego-gar...

We’ll keep saying it: the Jewish community’s legitimate fears and concerns should not exploited to undermine core democratic norms, or otherwise advance discriminatory & unconstitutional policies. Doing so only makes Jews - and all communities - less safe.

‘Loyalty pledges’: New UF president’s $15M contract ties pay to DeSantis agenda https://trib.al/PgU8Th6

When left-wing American Jews comment on a rise in antisemitism in the US - without ever mentioning Israel or attempting to scapegoat Palestinian solidarity activism - here are some trends over the course of the decade since Trump first ran for President that they are likely referring to:

Congrats to all for whom it’s potentially about to get weird. Feel especially bad for the Karens who have endured enough already

This is a great way to give my kid with Down syndrome a daily rundown of what his school day has in store: speech therapy, PE, library, pizza for lunch. It is not appropriate for the presidential daily briefing for a self-described genius septuagenarian for whom English is a native language.

WTF. This is the most sensitive, classified information and they want a Fox News anchor/producer to have access to it? Good luck having anyone share intel info with us. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

After Elon Musk recently announced that he will step away from DOGE, @annabower.bsky.social details her search over the past 3 months for who was actually the administrator of the agency as it fired federal workers, accessed sensitive data, and worked to reshape the executive branch.

Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search *nationwide* for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Duffy: "If you're liberal, they want you to take public transportation ... the problem is that it's dirty. You have criminals. It's homeless shelters. It's insane asylums. It's a work ground for the criminal element of the city to prey upon the good people."

LEFTIST: Dude, you need to grow up and get a hobby. Start treating women like people and find a useful role in society. RIGHT WING INFLUENCER: You’re a pussy. You’re a beta cuck. You’re poor because of the soy in your blood. Suck my dick, simp. YOUNG MAN: the liberals have left me no choice

The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable

On Friday, a 2d judge—a George W. Bush appointee—struck down in its entirety a 2d of the Trump executive orders aimed at deterring law firms from representing causes that Trump disagrees with. It's well-written. Thread. ... 1/16 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

JD Vance takes pride in declaring himself to be a “Scots-Irish hillbilly at heart” but a trawl of genealogy records has found no evidence linking the US vice-president to Ireland

Sources: DOGE is using a customized Grok to analyze US government data, including at DHS where it has not been approved, raising security and privacy concerns (Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

NEW: reports today from @l-toczylowski.bsky.social and others that ICE has begun efforts to dismiss cases pending in immigration court for less than two years — so that they can then immediately arrest the same people and put them through “expedited removal,” skipping the court process entirely.

lol they are totally fucking around with Medicaid

This is what everyone should be doing. Ask them what they think it means, get them on record. They’re wrong.

If state election officials refuse to comply with Trump’s unlawful edict to share their voter rolls with Elon Musk, the attorney general could withhold law enforcement grants. “He’s going after the voter rolls in big cities, in blue states.”

No amount of gotchas is going to work to counter the right wing freak out over "8647" because they genuinely don't care. It's about power for them to openly incite violence against their political enemies while persecuting anyone who opposes Trump. You can't shame them because they are shameless.

Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry

Hey, Jake Tapper! White House aides are covering up the president’s decline! I look forward to your book about it!

Trump cut a secret deal with the Mexican cartels, Mexican security chief Omar García Harfuch confirmed cartel family members entered US in a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump regime. President Sheinbaum is demanding an explanation from the US which tried to keep it secret.