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Lights are reflected off a bulletproof screen as President Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina. More photos of the week: reut.rs/4yGkBNh 📷 Evan Vucci

The absurdity of Witkoff www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “No Kings: Vote Early Burbank, CA” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

AI data center developers are increasingly pursuing "Bring Your Own Power" (BYOP) strategies, where they build their own power plants. These BYOP plants (which are usually gas) often evade regulations and harm communities. It’s time to stop this massive buildout.​

I was thrilled to be asked to contribute artwork to the inaugural issue of H.E.R.E. Journal, a print magazine about the Hudson Valley and its ecology, people, and the intersection of the two. Check it out at herejournal.org!

A federal plan to clean up #atrazine would leave 99% of the nation’s most contaminated watersheds polluted with the pesticide at levels the Environmental Protection Agency itself considers unsafe. Lakes, rivers and streams in these watersheds provide drinking water for millions 🔗➡️ bit.ly/4j9CLCT

Trump: Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him? *a few moments later* Trump: 😴😴😴

A federal judge has declared that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated $7 billion in grant funding for clean energy programs in disadvantaged communities. insideclimatenews.org/news/2109202...

Troubles lie ahead

Senator Rick Scott objected.

LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

Everything's falling into place

I'm old enough to remember that time a Democratic senate, in the middle of a Democratic president's reelection campaign, ordered a bipartisan investigation of the president's brother's receipt of $200,000 from the Libyan government. {gift link: www.nytimes.com/1980/07/25/a...

Rep. Joyce Beatty and a whole bunch of folks including Hands off the Arts are still fighting for the Kennedy Center.

DOD thinks it's highly likely the strike that killed civilians at a wedding in Iran was an errant bomb, one of six launched at a comms tower about 440 feet away. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

if we stop eating food and paying rent we'll save a lot of money

Realize that when you sigh with relief to hear a university president finally call out the Trump administration for promoting white nationalism or stifling free speech or destroying higher ed - it's always the same guy. It's Michael Roth from Wesleyan. One voice. The others are silent.

These people have the foresight of a goldfish

@stevevladeck.bsky.social aka "greased lightning vladeck'"already out with a detailed analysis of what's at stake and what isn't in the Supreme Court decision in the mail ballot case. As I've said before, his substack is indispensable. www.stevevladeck.com/p/246-making...

It's pretty far down the list of outrages, but I hate the way my government has me rooting against my country on the global stage.

New Judiciary Democrats Report Exposes MAGA’s Cash-for-Clemency Racket. Read report re Pardons here: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Here's the HJC pardon report that both @macfarlanenews.bsky.social and @meidastouch.com reported on. Those who complain Dems don't focus enough on Trump's corruption might look for a local connection to get this more press. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

And, all supported by your GOP leadership!

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/20/c...

So horrible www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...

I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.

This is the garbage Trump feeds his supporters. There is no evidence to support this claim. In fact, Trump campaign’s challenge to vote count in Detroit in 2020 was dismissed and its lawyers were sanctioned. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

No surprise! www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...

Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...

Okay wait. He’s charging…the world…20 percent to use the…you know what, forget it

Oh i bet he tells himself this in a loootttt of circumstances

Wait until the 🤡 hears about this! He’s going to be up all night on Lie Social!

Now Vance is blaming the “deep state” for Nixon’s shame. The efforts to erase history continue. Orwellian.

New Congress arriving next year, please rename the reflecting pool - "The Trump Memorial Swamp"

www.youtube.com/live/A87ohdX... Obama Presidential Center Grand Openint\g

So many power hungry Republicans jumped on the crazy-toons, anything goes MAGA bandwagon. www.ms.now/opinion/nanc...

#ETTD

The Trumpified Kennedy Center is getting its ass kicked in so many courts at once www.lawandchaospod.com/p/trump-kenn...

This Sunday looks like so many before it; too much at stake to step back. But there's something worth pausing on as we cover recent developments: the building sense over the last few weeks that Trump's grip is loosening. Let's stay informed and keep pushing. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In a stunning confrontation, Scott Pelley accused Bari Weiss of “murdering” the newsmagazine and relentlessly grilled her newly installed executive producer, Nick Bilton, over the show’s recent firings, according to audio obtained by Status. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) fiercely grilled acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

It's interesting to see just what the breaking point is for various Trump Administration lawyers. This one comes just seven months after his confirmation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...