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A remnant of a remnant is left of elections protection against the extrememly wealthy after June 30 SCOTUS decision. open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...

SpaceX’s IPO could challenge pension funds as concerns grow over its valuation and governance structure under Musk.

When SCOTUS is the best hope we have for health care for women, I’m concerned.

Mind your own business, GOP!

Trump’s pardons are harming violent crime survivors | Johnny Olszewski

Is Markwayne Mullin’s FEMA Ready for Hurricane Season? Morale remains low, and many key agency functions are still in limbo.

We just paid this guy off for colluding with Russians to undermine our elections.

ProPublica obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, even nothing. (Published 2021)

Propublicaa series on the wealthiest Americans tax payments is excellent.

Don’t knock small talk. It has the power to mend a world ripped apart by rage | Bidisha

March's persistent unseasonable heat was so intense that the continental United States registered its most abnormally hot month in 132 years of records, according to federal weather data. https://to.pbs.org/3Ogo4AX

Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees

The Strait of Hormuz is blocked again by Iran as the IRGC’s hardline position appears to prevail in Tehran, setting the stage for the 3-day countdown towards the end of the ceasefire, with no new talks in sight.

The law doesn’t clearly say what happens when the Fed chair’s term expires without a confirmed successor. The White House and the Federal Reserve have very different answers.

Our American fight today remains the question of equality of all people; while racist rhetoric from the Confederates has shifted into the modern day attack on federal government. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Four women have described sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her. The Democrat, a candidate for governor of California, has denied the allegations. https://cnn.it/4voKIHQ

BREAKING: Iran's Supreme National Security Council says it has accepted a two-week ceasefire in the war.

Glad to know Armageddon is forestalled.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he's pulling back on his threats to attack Iranian bridges, power plants and other civilian targets, subject to Iran agreeing to a two-week ceasefire and reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. https://to.pbs.org/4tyQ41t

Bruce Springsteen. #NoKings

#boston #nokings

CPAC 2026: come for the speeches, stay because there’s no line for the bathroom.

The FBI confirmed hackers targeted the personal emails of Director Kash Patel. This is hours after an Iranian government-linked hacking group posted documents and images online, claiming to have stolen them from Patel.

Finally.

U.S. senators launch investigation into Alligator Alcatraz ‘torture’ allegations www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

"Christian identity politics is a symptom of religious decline...That Americans are growing more secular and less religiously literate has made religion more salient as a marker of political difference, even as invocations of it become less informed." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Post reporters called the White House. Their phones showed 'Epstein Island.'
 Someone messed with Google's widely cited databases of business listings.

Why is taking the train from Boston to DC 4x more expensive than taking a bus, and 1.5x more than a flight? Isn’t the train the oldest technology we built?

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

A huge win! The Senate voted unanimously early this morning to fund the Department of Homeland Security but without funding for ICE or Border Patrol deportation and enforcement operations.

What did wind ever do to him?

I need to hear more about this.

Felony charges for protestors?!?

Meidas Touch news, bring it!

11,000+ American kids have been traumatized by having their parent kidnapped by ICE.

Love you even more, Bruce.

Where it can be shared with the KGB…?

EXCLUSIVE: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is finalizing a plan to move oversight of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital firm that funds high-tech gadgets and software for U.S. spies, to her office — and away from the CIA.

The most important question confronting financial markets in the United States is whether to believe what the President of the United States told the people of the United States about whether the United States is in talks, or whether to believe Iran's leaders.

New in PN: @markjacob.bsky.social on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story "The press decided all of this is normal. They cast aside the idea that this guy’s totally unfit — which he obviously is. The news media could go much farther than they’ve gone so far in stating how unhinged he is."

​​We gave Amazon a $17.5 BILLION tax break last year. Meta got $13.7 BILLION. Citigroup didn't pay a penny—we gave them a tax REFUND. Those tax breaks didn't do anything to create jobs, let alone save them. We have got to stop with the corporate tax giveaways.

I should have thought of this first.

Carroll, New Hampshire and at least 7 other NH towns have signed up to be a local wxtension of ICE in return for having their sakaries paid. Carroll police later arrested 7 individuals who were transferred to DHS. Recreating Stazi. www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

The number of child labor violations has risen fivefold in the last 10 years, but Republicans across the US are continuing to propose and pass legislation that rolls back protections or regulations for workers under the age of 18.

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

Inflation in extortion.

EXCLUSIVE: Federal agent admits more than 100 asylum seekers wrongfully deported talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusi...