Republicans win the White House, enact trickle-down tax cuts, and collapse the economy. Feel like we've been here before? Here's why it keeps happening.

👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥

🤬 Kherson. A Russian drone operator hunts down a civilian fruit seller and attacks him. The Russian with the remote control knows and sees what he is doing. They write that he survived.

I Remember, Hope you do….

If you want members of this regime to be held legally accountable, you have to add four seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. Otherwise, they'll protect their fellow oligarchs like they did in 2023. 1. Win the senate 2. Block nominees 3. Elect a dem POTUS 4. Congress adds 4 seats 5. Have nice things

ICE is still refusing to follow through on its pledge to equip its officers with body cameras. Their goal is without body camera footage, accountability becomes much harder. If you witness an interaction, remember to keep your camera rolling and document what you can safely.

There it is. And it's only just getting started.

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

PURE EVIL Stephen Miller’s worldview in one video clip. "I think the ideal solution would be to cut off their fingers. I don't think it's necessary to kill them entirely. We're not a barbaric people. We respect life. Therefore, torture is the way to go. Because tortured people can live.”

Tripling union membership would… -Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually -Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979 -Increase the number of people with health insurance And more. Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.

Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 3w ago

🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

This is quite clearly a total lie. The story quotes a "draft press release." This is why we meed to support independent pro-democracy media rather than the stenographers for the administration. Begin by subscribing to Democracy Docket. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

DHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states

in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 3w ago

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Well, of course. What possible other logical action can the EU take? www.politico.eu/article/9-eu...

Defund the Olympics over Russian re-entry, say 9 EU countries

Joint missive argues that Ukrainian athletes remain unable to train under equal conditions because of Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Some Democrats think the party has gone too far left and needs to readjust towards the “center.” Rubbish. Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?

Can ICE hold people indefinitely? *** How is this even a question? *** SCOTUS just agreed to decide whether ICE can jail people INDEFINITELY with no bond hearing. That goes against due process. It’s straight up authoritarianism.

The ‘butterfly effect’ here is that they are one of the main pollinators and losing them means massive distress to our ecosystems. All EU countries must implement the Nature Restoration Regulation and reverse this trend by 2030. We must save our ecosystems. We must save the planet.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Plug-in solar panels to go on sale in UK after it passed safety checks About time, given there are over 1mn kits already on sale in Germany There, they sell for between £200 and £2,000, deliver 5-25% of a homes energy needs, typical payback between 2 & 6 years www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Plug-in solar panels on sale ‘within months’ after safety nod

Costing hundreds of pounds rather than thousands, the panels could help consumers offset the rise in energy bills when the price cap increases next month

thetimes.com

Existing as a woman, or worse when you are just a girl.

Good news! A federal judge has found Trump’s cancellation of $82.1 billion in grants for clean energy projects in 16 states — funded by the Biden Dept of Energy — to be unlawful. Those projects are ordered to be funded ✊🌎

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Trump is removing devices that track climate change in our oceans. Because they don't work? No, because they work too well and provide inconvenient data! Apparently, climate change is like COVID, if you don't track it, it doesn't exist. Truly, we are living in the most destructive, stupid times.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Trump Administration will begin sending ships to begin pulling up the instruments later this month... The ocean observation system was designed to operate for at least 25 years, meaning the decision would result in the loss of more than a decade of data..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/c...

Coal is currently the most environmentally destructive energy source. Coal combustion produces more CO₂ than any other fossil fuel. ~60% more than natural gas & ~30% more than oil. There's no serious environmental case for coal. The remaining arguments are economic & political, not scientific.

The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant. (That’s the one I use too!)

European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns

The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech.

politico.eu

The worst heat pump is more efficient than the best gas boiler. A gas boiler turns one unit of energy into less than one unit of heat. A heat pump delivers 3 to 4 units of heat for every unit of input. More in future Substack long read. Sign up here: janrosenow.substack.com

BREAKING: '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley was just fired — by email — after saying Bari Weiss had "murdered" the newsmagazine. There is widespread belief that Pelley's departure could very well trigger a broader exodus.

In a few days, Republicans will try to hand Trump over $70 billion more for concentration camps like Delaney Hall.

So now corporations are allowed to vote in Delaware. This is the end game for Citizens United