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This is the press secretary we didn’t know we needed.

Democrats’ lawsuit to block Donald Trump’s new anti-voting executive order has been assigned to the federal judge who quickly blocked his last executive order on elections — finding that the president holds no power whatsoever to dictate election policy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Marco Rubio declared that under the Constitution being born in the USA does not make you a citizen unless your parents are citizens. Marco Rubio's parents were Cuban immigrants who were NOT citizens at the time of his birth. Do you think Marco will now self-deport?

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

a must read!!! frankgeorge8675309.substack.com/p/dammit-its...

Trumpists will be giving the ICE murderer awards and recognitions and honors. That’s because (1) killing someone who thinks differently than they do is their fantasy (2) most of them are too spineless to do it but (3) by praising the murderer they can murder in a fantasy-league way

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came into office pledging radical reform to food regulation—but the newly released dietary guidelines show a different approach, Nicholas Florko reports:

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

After a speeding semitruck killed his son, Gary Wilburn and his wife spent decades advocating for mandated speed limiters in trucks. DOT proposed a rule to do just that. Then Trump appointees stepped in, killing the proposed regulation.

President Donald Trump suggested that the United States is preparing to take new action against alleged drug trafficking networks in Venezuela, telling service members during a Thanksgiving call that efforts for strikes on land will be starting "very soon." https://cnn.it/487SPPL

Reuters has done some really great investigative reporting on the impacts of Trump's retribution campaigns

DOT is on an unprecedented deregulatory blitz. The Trump admin calls this cutting red tape. Left unmentioned is just how many of the targeted rules sought to prevent deaths/injuries. "The regulations are written in blood," one former official told me. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW: A class action filed in Massachusetts aims to block Homeland Security’s use of civil penalties to ramp up financial pressure on people seeking a path to legal status. In more than 20,000 instances, the Department has sent fines as high as $1.8 million.

This, it seems, is an early preview of Trump’s lasting political legacy: Republicans are no longer apologizing, nor are they pushing out racist, bigoted allies when they inevitably find themselves embroiled in controversy. trib.al/LiSxg3s

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

Man who sends army of rapists into Ukraine enjoys time with man found liable for sexual assault a judge called rape.

A study of more than 2,100 people ages 60 to 79 found that an intensive two-year program of mental and physical activities, along with a heart-healthy diet, improved memory and thinking.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

This. Hopefully…

In other news I have fired my etiquette chief

We used to refer to Black babies as 'alligator bait', too. They know it, and they do it deliberately to invoke lynching among today's eager participants. The KKK lives in their hearts.

this is the nonfiction book i decided on btw!!

America (and Louisiana in particular) never gave up lynching completely.

They unleashed terror in 25 cities during The Red Summer of 1919—lynching, burning, killing Black families. Hundreds dead. Communities erased. Now they ban books + call truth “hate speech.” Read ERASED before they silence it again: 🎧: stan.store/gxldsociety/... 📚: stan.store/gxldsociety/...

But Mike Johnson thinks all we can do is pray. We could refund NOAA and FEMA.

The United States government is no longer able to protect us from real hazards, such as flash floods, because it’s shifting funds to fake hazards, such as a non-existent immigrant crime wave. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u...

“As she fought back tears, Olivera said to KGTV: ‘The only crime I committed is to love this country and to work hard and to provide for my kids.’” on the contrary, she’d already been deported once and snuck back in, which is more than a lot of the people who’ve been sent to gulags ever did

🖋️ “Release the billions of allocated federal education funds” hit 500 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PHUQQU to 50409

The vote makes it clear that most Democrats, like Republicans, do not see impeachment as a realistic, successful option. But maybe they shouldn’t—the president himself has already been impeached twice. https://trib.al/HyWSogI

most accurate headline of the day. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Fucking ICE quotas to line the pockets of Thiel and Miller

Sahil Lavingia, the programmer enlisted by DOGE, acknowledged flaws in the code. "Mistakes are always made. I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says. It’s like that ‘Office’ episode where Steve Carell drives into the lake because Google Maps says drive into the lake.”

How can we host the Olympics and World Cup when Trump is now banning so many fans from other countries from attending? And would others even feel safe coming?

this is saying something...

i'm really sorry for people who have to live in places like this.

This glitchy, error-prone tool could get you deported—even if you’re a U.S. citizen.

NEW: Texas legislators dropped efforts to spend millions of dollars to buy what experts call ineffective child identification kits weeks after @propublica.org and @texastribune.org reported that lawmakers were again trying to fund the program.

mic drop!!!

and the beat goes on...

This is evil.

AIR FORCE NONE? 🥴 Trump’s Air Force One deal with Qatar isn’t final. Turns out he asked for the jet—they didn’t offer. And now Qatar wants a memo of understanding signed with DC first.

Women are being hunted down like animals in Texas

He literally pays people to curate his news so he only sees the good stuff and now he has the sads because he didn’t know about TACO. He’s so embarrassing.

This is so deeply embarrassing. How do these people look at themselves in the mirror?

A federal judge lambasted the Trump administration for “manufacturing the very chaos they decry.” This comes after the DHS deported 6 men to South Sudan in a clear violation of Murphy's previous preliminary injunction. https://trib.al/Tux1Li7

The Utah Report shows exactly what the people commissioning it didn’t want to see, that gender affirming care works. This article brought to you by @evanurquhart.bsky.social

I have been hoping Tom would write something to help me understand Trump’s flip flopping “positions” on Putin and the wait is over. Let’s just say it’s not looking good.