Ben Weinberg

They're doing a have-it-both-ways trick on rejecting the midterms to retain power too. The SAVE Act is insane & unworkable, would create guaranteed chaos if passed. They are hyping it up as the most important thing in history, so that it not passing is also apocalyptic pretext for chaos.

We need to recognize what happened to Scott Wiener at the San Francisco Trans Pride March as antisemitism, and finally purge this poison from left wing movements. A new opinion piece by Evan Urquhart, @evanurquhart.bsky.social, only on Assigned Media. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

1. Congressman Mike Collins, the GOP nominee for US Senate in Georgia, has spent over $400,000 of taxpayer money designated for office expenses on TV ads that are virtually indistinguishable from his campaign ads.

Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

She'll talk with Brad and eventually apologize. And the ADL will continue to label him and everyone else who goes to my shul kapos, because fundamentally they love antisemitism so long as it helps Israel kill Palestinians.

The Dem establishment and Dem centrists can wring their hands and complain about the results in Colorado. Or they can learn a lesson: Their repudiation was in large part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly and unhesitatingly to Trump. So start doing so!

Amanda Gonzalez, tonight’s D primary winner for Colorado SOS, was instrumental in making Colorado the first state to require polling places in every jail. That’s been a transformative policy change and an example for other states, where the bar for jail voting access generally couldn’t be lower.

VoteHub projects Melat Kiros to win the Democratic primary for Colorado U.S. House District 1.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

They're plundering the national treasury.

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.

It’s important to understand that the Court is now just an arm of the oligarchy. This decision strips the people of the right to limit the role of money in politics. It gives billionaires special rights to buy our elections. A precondition of oligarchy.

Full statement by NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito story

Obvious lies about the reflecting pool, and a pathetic excuse. But still, it strikes me that even with their imagined story, the *defense* is that Trump is so incompetent he couldn't even protect downtown DC, not even for the president's special project with additional deployed security forces.

Klein's description of the Dayton video is also surreal. To support the lie that Haitians were eating dogs in Springfield, Rufo pushed a video of Congolese men "grilling cats" in Dayton. (It was likely chicken.) That was close enough for Rufo. It was always about dehumanizing Black immigrants.

*kisses fingers*

8 "Antifa" members just got a combined 450 years in federal prison. The prosecution leaned heavily on an "expert" witness who never spent a day in government or academia - but who spent years at pro-Israel advocacy orgs: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/450-years-...

The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

Oh my god we **did not have a president** for the first, we date America's birthday to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, I'm losing my mind.

We should “stop calling the Court ‘originalist.’ The Republican faction’s monarchist view of the separation of powers is its own, and neither history nor the text of the Constitution have anything to do with it.” Via @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/the-...

The TL;DR, as always, is this: SCOTUS will allow Donald Trump to wreck separation of powers and the rule of law, but they draw the line at wrecking capitalism.

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

The issue is that nonpartisan, independent, and fact-based (good goals for journalism) have been replaced by centrist and equally critical of both parties, neither of which are journalistic principles. So confronted with a radical wing of the GOP, legacy media invents equally radical Dems.

Fair is closed.

To understand why 29-year incumbent Rep Diana DeGette (D) was vulnerable to a primary challenge, consider that her key campaign messages are negatives about her opponent and a pitch that she can deliver on her priorities if she only she gets a 16th term in Congress coloradosun.com/2026/06/26/m...

They keep screaming at us that they intend to steal the election. I know lots of folks on the Dem side are working against that goal, and I think the countermeasures will be effective, but we all need to be in this fight. Literally nothing is more urgent for our democracy.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Great @pablo.show episode about the late Grant Wahl. An absolutely lovely human. youtu.be/WAKE0Ig6Z68

TA-NEHISI COATES: “ @darializaforny.bsky.social was elected by a district of Black and Brown voters. @JamesCarville is saying they’re useful to him when they vote the way he agrees with — When they don’t, kick them out of the party… it’s not good for democracy.”

Had a great time chatting about the campaign with @davidsirota.com and @levernews.com! We can have nice things if we're willing to fight for them! Check out the full conversation at the link in my bio ❤️✊🏽

There are so many reasons to love Minneapolis… but their annual Cat Tour is at the top of my list…

This is better attended than Trump’s Great American State Fair

Ossoff is making a very strong play for the "I stand at the center of the Democratic Party ideologically, but I long to bathe in the blood of my enemies" lane in the 2028 primaries. And that's gonna be a good lane to have.

Opinion | I don’t know the name of the DSA woman who won a primary in the Bronx. But she is now the face of the Democratic Party.

The big papers all ignored the Gillibrand story. Big mistake, since corrupting people through their family is an old trick that is very popular crypto strategy these days. Just ask the Trumps.

“We need to roll up our sleeves, talk to people on the ground, and ignore everything they tell us.”

Ossoff: "The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller & refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That's after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool & it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the Guard."

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Elite universities already provide tuition breaks for low income students. If you really want to a bold change, end legacy admissions, which entrench privileged families in the corridors of power. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/o...

Fifth most liked post on Bluesky yesterday. No escaping the fucking AI liars.