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A record 28 ships have reportedly been struck in the Strait of Hormuz in October, and many attacks aren’t even being reported. Brett Erickson exposes the troubling gaps in official reporting.

With Republicans facing increasingly dire prospects in the midterms, some of President Donald Trump’s most desperate supporters have urged him to declare a national emergency and seize control of the elections from the states. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"Remember that I can do anything I like to anyone." - Caligula. Yes, literally the original mad emperor Caligula.

You really can’t make this shit up.

“Every action needs to be assessed in the context of his psychological dysfunction, his cognitive decline and his untethered relationship to reality—rather than the typical framing of a sane president managing the nation’s affairs.” www.americaamerica.news/p/america-we...

I read today in an article in The Daily Beast that some military leaders have privately begun referring to Pete Hegseth with the nickname "No Tab Pete" and I nearly spit my drink out. I then realized that everyone should have the knowledge to appreciate this ruthless nickname. (thread)

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6

Your 'doom quote' for today: "... human civilization as we know it will collapse and billions could die. And we’re not talking about the far distant future. We are talking about collapse within years, not centuries. For real." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...

For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...

James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

Dr. Fauci was a researcher and an advisor. He could not and did not “mandate” anything. The whole thing is a ridiculous a charade, trying to ruin the life of a man who tried his best to to protect as many people as possible. 😔 TT: @ lucasbean_

Jon Ossoff just responded to reports that Trump plans to declare him an “illegitimate” senator because of nonexistent voter fraud. Every word of this is spot on. Spread it everywhere and support Ossoff!!!

What Congress actually approved in 1925 was a bridge and two 166 foot columns. Not an arch. The columns were never built. President Hoover scratched them from the plans in 1931 after the Commerce Department warned they could endanger aircraft.

In case you haven't seen this today.

#WATCH "8647" chants as protesters march through #WashingtonDC with large constitution on #America250

The fascists will not stop and are only going to get more violent. The Democrats have betrayed us. It’s on us to stop this. We have to carry out a general strike and boycott even if we’re not ready. We have to kill this system before it kills us. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/shut-it-down

Watching soccer with my wife: Her: who's the blue team? Me: Cape Verde Islands... Me (messing with her) do you know where they are? Her: Cape Verde Clever girl

Life is exhausting these days for lots of us, and I think I’ve figured out why. I think it’s having to sit through the pretending... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/americans-...

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

Lara Trump sounds like a goat trapped in a tanning bed.

“The Confederate flag at the North Carolina booth is a fitting symbol of how this whole enterprise has been managed. A symbol that the state itself never chose, attached to its flag without permission, displayed at an event meant to celebrate American unity…” open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Well you were invoked in the Epstien files 38k+ times.

The Whiplash of Trump’s Iran Capitulation America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else. By Tom Nichols www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you’ve ever worked with epoxy you know it’s pretty darned tough. It’s possible to cut the flexible type as I’m assuming they used here but that won’t make it come up in big sheets; you’d get smaller flakes. It sticks really well if the surface is prepped correctly which this evidently was not

Trump last month: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool. So strong. Powerful rubber.

"WE?" Corporate media that's owned by the same handful of billionaires who control the repub party? 🙄 Biden was aging, yes; as often happens, his speech impediment gave him more trouble. If you watch that disastrous debate, HE HAD COVID symptoms, was diagnosed a day or 2 later. He was ill.

BREAKING: Qatar and Pakistan have released a joint statement announcing the conclusion of the Lake Lucerne Summit and the first High-Level Committee meeting involving the United States and Iran.

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.

There are reasons I say never trust a conservative.

The reflecting pool is doing exactly what the reflecting pool is meant to do. Which is why it is currently swampy, stagnant, and degenerating. Because that is the America Trump has made.

Iran’s FM is disputing reports that the Strait of Hormuz has been closed. However, FT reports Iranian forces fired warning shots at ships and broadcast that the strait would remain closed until key conditions are met. The situation remains volatile, and the state of the strait is unclear.

In countries that have successfully reversed democratic backsliding in recent years—from Poland in 2023 to Hungary in 2026—opposition movements made prosecuting those who have broken laws a central campaign issue.

Rep. Jamie Raskin just introduced a bill to create a commission that can determine whether a president is fit to serve. Urge Congress to get it done. Because unfit leadership threatens everything — including Social Security. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

While Trump puppets swear they’d “never cut” Social Security, Sen. Mike Lee is on tape saying he wants to pull it “up by the roots and get rid of it entirely.” Believe what they say when they think it doesn’t matter. It matters. Vote like your retirement depends on it. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

Tweets like this from today make sense when you know where they are coming from:

The US-Iran "memorandum of understanding" is public. It amounts to US surrender. US WAR AIMS: Unmentioned or punted to further talks. IRAN GETS: Immediate concessions, including economic benefits. No wonder the White House hesitated to make it public. I went through the deal point-by-point, here:

Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

Icy mountains of PLUTO captured by NASA’s New Horizons probe after 9 years and a 3-billion-mile journey

Trump just said he may not sign the deal because he's "not sure that's something his name should be on", and then freely agreed to a "question" indicating if this deal fizzles, he's blaming Vance.