Dorothy Barker

But, boy, those godless, commi-socialist libtards sure got owned. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.

It’s exactly the kind of thing you expect to find in a government waste book www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-fiscal...

Brutal community note

the business is called what a what now sorry

Went to a Juneteenth event last night — an interfaith thing among local churches my wife helped with. Learned a bunch I didn’t know. Among what I learned — that Owen Brown, John Brown’s son, became a big local figure in Pasadena and his grave up on a mountain is still a popular hike.

Former Fed chair Jay Powell received the Profile in Courage Award at JFK Library yesterday. He defended the Fed's independence and urged respect for rule of law. Should not require courage to say such things. But these days it does www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

I would not want to be standing under the giant steel arches on the South Lawn if there’s lightning. Good thing DC rarely gets thunderstorms in the summer. 🫠 www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-fyr...

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

There is not a grand jury in America that will indict E. Jean Carroll. We see you.

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"Increasingly, the judges can no longer trust the government to be telling the truth." "It pains me because the damage to the Dept. of Justice is just at this point immeasurable." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social and Mary McCord on the Trump DOJ torching its credibility with the courts.

This image features a giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis), the longest member of the mustelid family, which can reach up to 1.8 meters (nearly 6 feet) in length. #Otterday

"The entire Republican apparatus in Congress is dying for this war to be over...And so Trump not only is not making any clear moves in that direction...but he's adding to the war." @saletan.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social on Trump threatening to blow up Oman as the GOP begs for the war to end.

Chicken shit can’t face them because he knows there’s no justification for what he’s done. Consciousnesses of guilt. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...

US Attorney Andrew Boutros is currently scrambling to save his own skin in front of the district court over the Broadview 6 issue. How open will he be to pursuing this?

Per CNN this was referred to the us attorney’s office in Chicago. That is the same office currently being turned upside down by prosecutorial misconduct in the the Broadview 6 case. I’m sure judges in the Northern District of Illinois would look kindly on this kind of adventurism right now

One can only hope.

I can tell you a version of American history as a startup company. Let's call it by it's ticker symbol, USA. USA launched in a move-fast, break-things mode. It shipped tons of products (a central bank; territorial expansion) and attracted lots of users . . .

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Particularly given that he brags about being REPEATEDLY ASKED TO TAKE A COGNITION TEST

Democrats need to accept that they're entering a new era of procedural Total War. This includes a big escalation in redistricting, but it's not limited to that. If Republicans don't like it, tough shit: They made this world, and they are the ones inflicting it on us. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Honestly, if he was eligible to run for POTUS, I'd want to see Mamdani take a real run white rural voters in places like Iowa. www.thebulwark.com/p/is-the-dem...

"This is setting off alarm bells because it suggests the president is doing an end-run around the FDA’s normal scientific processes, quite possibly because he wants to quiet a politically influential podcaster who has been giving him grief over Iran."

Just heard her being praised on Tell Me Everything @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

My resolution to overturn the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision — H.J.Res 122 — has now been co-sponsored by 72 Members of Congress. You can view the full list at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c.... I’ll keep fighting to get it across the finish line!

More *just 'cause* than *just cause*

Earlier this week, I had the honor of breaking fast at Rikers Island with New Yorkers in custody. It was a night that will stay with me for quite some time.   In a system too often defined by what it takes, I was reminded of what it means to give—mercy, dignity, and humanity. Eid Mubarak, New York.

Weekly tradition time. Finding a few rays of light, no matter the weather. Tell me something good. What good thing happened in your life this week? Had some spring in your step or just made it to the first day of spring, both work. Just something good.

“It is time to depose the President.” You can say that again.

Republicans will charge a woman who took a legal abortion pill to end her own pregnancy with murder, but they won't charge the ICE agents who cold-bloodedly murdered Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti for absolutely no reason whatsoever. www.cbsnews.com/news/georgia...

I have a joke about Cassandra that you wouldn't believe.

The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week. But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more. Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts. Lemme youtubesplain: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCF_...

Mar Quayne is sounding a little sketchy

Trump found a new way to raise prices. For no apparently reason we're losing 200,000 commercial truck drivers in one fell swoop, thanks to rule barring immigrants who are asylum seekers, refugees or recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, from obtaining commercial licenses

"One reason I worry Trump is willing to let this war go on for months is that it’s a potential weapon against domestic opposition." lnk.thebulwark.com/3PbfCmC

Let’s see if Jeanine Pirro really will “bring all the cases” like she screamed at reporters Friday after being asked why she keeps losing.

President Donald Trump told Speaker Mike Johnson in a private conversation this week that “no one gives a [bleep] about housing,” according to four sources who heard the speaker recount the conversation. punchbowl.news/article/hous...

Does Trump Know His Favorite Shoe Company Is Suing Him? nymag.com/intelligence...

"The types of bets that Kalshi, Polymarket, and DraftKings and FanDuel have would make an eighties Vegas guy, he would blush red at the idea of stealing that much money from you. And that's what's normalized now inside of the system." @esaagar.bsky.social on the dangers of online gambling.

the bombings will continue until peace improves

"To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is." www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...

Vance announces price floor effort for minerals thehill.com/newsletters/...