Kris Bryant

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

June 12, 2025

Trump is now saying that "good" undocumented workers - employed, usually at punishingly low wages, by huge farms and other businesses often owned by GOP donors - will be excluded from his deportation sweeps. Hmmm.

Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

Especially since the parade is on Saturday

Trump went full Col. Jessup for this 😂

What the hell

You can’t sell me on the guy in stilts being a threat

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

Meanwhile, many members of the original DOGE strikeforce, which included young, inexperienced engineers who accessed some of the most sensitive data at government agencies, are now being converted into full-time government employees. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro. This summer is going to ROCK!

On left: Supreme Court: Questions of statutory interpretation of Alien Enemies Act are subject to judicial review Middle: SCOTUS dissent: We all agree 9-0 (ALL federal judges have agreed on this.) Right: Monday, Judge John Holcomb: No court should interpret AEA; POTUS decides what it means.

June 1, 2025

@maxboot.bsky.social: "Zelensky just played — if you will pardon the phrase — his trump card: Ukrainian ingenuity. The Ukrainians have consistently shown themselves to be more courageous and skilled than their enemies...The Ukrainians are signaling they refuse to be defeated." 🎁 wapo.st/3Hoj3lX

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

Breaking News: Ukraine launched one of its broadest aerial assaults of the war against air bases inside Russia as another round of cease-fire talks was planned.

Trump: “Ukraine has no cards!” Ukraine <destroys 1/3rd of Russias bomber force> Trump: “”

Trump is disseminating a bonkers theory about how Biden was assassinated in 2020 and the Biden you have seen for the past 5 years is a clone. I have some questions: Who executed Biden in 2020? How long has Trump been aware of this conspiracy and why are we just hearing about this now? /1

The article was great, but where Rolling Stone really hit it out of the park was choosing THIS picture to go with it! (For Alt users, it's the one of Crazy Donald's Discount Teslas car push outside the White House) TnT www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🚨 Tucked into the Republican BS Budget (section 70302) is a provision that would prevent courts from holding members of the Trump admin accountable via contempt rulings. Meaning, a judge could order an action (Ex: return illegally deported people), but couldn't force COMPLIANCE of those orders. 😳 🎧

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

"It'll just die a whimper," Lavingia told Reuters. "So much of the appeal and allure was Elon." He said he expected DOGE staffers to "just stop showing up to work. It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in four months." all of the Silicon Valley pathologies on display at DOGE

NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...

The EU's gross available energy fell by 4.1% in 2023, but Europe is now doing more with less. Renewables now supply 19.5% of energy, with Nordic countries leading the transition. #EuropeInMotion

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.

Welcome to the Resistance, Leonard! Wait till he finds out you wanted to put me on the Second Circuit!! 🤣

... And he traveled with a daily medication box that held about 20 pills, including ones with the markings of the stimulant Adderall, according to a photo of the box and people who have seen it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said President Trump would be breaking a promise if he went through with pardoning the two men who were convicted of plotting to kidnap her, claiming that he pledged not to do so during a conversation last month.

Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

The mad king, AKA "TACO", isn't too happy about his tariff spree being cut short, so now he's on a pardoning spree. He's even commuting the sentence of a murderous gang member, Larry Hoover. But it's the immigrants, right? 🙄

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

Why is the US Govt continuing to interfere in the domestic politics and elections of our allies, and why is the Homeland Security Secretary on a lengthy world tour?

“The lack of detail on the scope of the directive will no doubt fuel worries among the roughly 275,000 Chinese students in the United States, as well as professors and university administrators who depend on their research skills and financial support.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...

👀"22 young Americans have filed a new lawsuit against #Trump admin over its anti-environment exec orders. By intentionally boosting oil & gas production & stymying carbon-free energy, fed officials are violating their constitutional rights to life & liberty.." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Gonna give y'all some freebie headlines: MUSK DEPARTS, LEAVING TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION, DEFICITS, AND DEATHS MUSK SCORECARD: EMPTY PROMISES, FEDERAL WORKFORCE BRAIN DRAIN MUSK'S LEGACY: CAREER CIVIL SERVANTS REPLACED WITH INCOMPETENT WHITE NATIONALISTS DOGE HARMS WILL PERSIST FOR GENERATIONS

Most of Trump's tariffs were just ruled illegal (because they were based on nonsense). This is the second best possible off-ramp for the U.S. economy. The best would be if Congress were to take back the power the Constitution gave it. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

President Trump will fully pardon the reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were convicted three years ago of evading taxes and defrauding banks of more than $30 million to support their luxurious lifestyle.

The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

Memorial Day weekend recap. Note: Subscription to Heather's Substack is free.

Trump is hopeless when it comes to Putin - whom he both fears and admires as the Renfield to Putin's Dracula - but he has no effective national security or defense team around him to pick up the slack and actually run anything like an actual foreign policy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Nothing sadder than a tough guy who needs to remind you he's tough, right after admitting to shielding Russia.

NYT: Trump whacked Apple with new tariffs - surprising even his own aides - because he was pissy that CEO Tim Cook skipped his Middle East griftathon. (For some reason, this is portrayed as Cook's fault.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/t...

Trump said he would get a peace deal within 24 hours, and now is poised to lose the war. Why? Because he is the weakest U.S. president in our lifetime. He's told Putin he can continue the war and pay ZERO price. No sanctions. No new weapons for Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/u...

Had Trump’s anti-foreign student policies been in place decades ago, Musk would have built Tesla in the United Kingdom, Huang would have built Nvidia in Taiwan, and Brin would have built Google in Russia. michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

In 1945, GI World Series was played in Hitler’s Nuremberg Stadium. A team lead by two Black combat veterans, later elected to Hall of Fame & a communist Dodgers pitcher beat a team stacked by All-Star racist good old boys A deep look at Double V campaign. paydayreport.com/the-1945-gi-...