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And will, short of urgent action.

Happy Independence Day Ukraine! Suck it Russia

Missouri's Amendment 3 would restore an abortion ban with limited exceptions, but its advertising is focused on a different provision: banning gender transition care for minors. The campaign never explicitly states it would repeal the constitutional right to abortion voters approved 2 years ago.

Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.

Note the date

"All lives have to matter! Isn't that what the [MAGA] crowd said? We need to care when people are being murdered in the street—and not just when white people are murdered,"- U.S. veteran/influencer @jollygoodginger.bsky.social tells us at the site ICE killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero.

Oh, so it was that simple all along?

Ironically enough, they were going to name it Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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Trump just submitted a $87.6 billion supplemental to cover the $67 billion cost of his Iran War plus his latest bailout for farmers to add to his proposed $1.5 trillion military budget and we’re only $39 trillion in debt so what the hell just put it on our tab.

It really is this simple

Do u do this while telling the girl why she can’t stay here?

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

The Trump administration lowered the authorization level for lethal force, broadened target categories, inflated threat assessments and fired inspectors general, according to more than a dozen current and former national security personnel.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

It’s really cold out there folks. A mask is a great way to avoid frostbite and/or accumulation of ice on your face.

These words demand attention. “In a real sense this is holy ground, consecrated by blood spilled here. The cost is high, and so I had to be here to stand in the very place where this tragedy unfurled… I think we’re at a defining moment for our country…” ~ Rev Warnock Take a moment, so much more…

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.

A competent opposition political party would cut together the footage of what ICE had been doing in the twin cities with Mike Johnson saying "ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do" and have it in ads all across the country

I was wrong. Ann Wagner hasn’t tripled her net worth while in Congress. The reality is far worse. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

Make it viral.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox Eversource Energy Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

@murray.senate.gov @booker.senate.gov @warnock.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @duckworth.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads

Whatever Trump is desperately covering up about Epstein, it’s clearly so bad that he thinks it could destroy him

@chrislhayes.bsky.social explains to @timmiller.bsky.social why he has long been a proponent of eliminating the filibuster.

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

Caving on the shutdown won’t make you “moderate.” It makes you WEAK! Giving Republicans what they want for NOTHING more than a “promise” of a vote and risking millions of Americans’ healthcare isn’t compromise—it’s surrender and it’s the most RADICAL thing you could do in this moment. 1/

Sen. Slotkin: “I believe that Trump is ready to bring the full weight of the federal government against Americans he perceives as enemies. Why? Because he has one goal, making sure that he and his ilk never have to give up power.”

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

No Kings couldn't have gone better - massive turnout, no violence, and it drove Trump so crazy his response was "Kings are good and I poop on everyone." Best of all was the effect on the millions of participants and everyone watching. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/no-kings-p...

If Jesus Christ is king, why then are Trump and Vance posting videos of themselves with crowns on?

As terrorists who hate America do.

#NoKings

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.* You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.

Mike Johnson is falsely generalizing the “No Kings” protestors as extremists to justify crackdowns. The truth is, they’re patriots. These protestors don’t “hate America.” They oppose an authoritarian president who tramples on the freedoms and principles America was founded on.

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.