DC Dad here: If your big boy’s special day is in late June, that’s an indoor party.
No Thug Fund. No DoJ “settlements” to rioters and other henchmen. No free pass to fraud from the IRS.
“Hostile sexism” — defined as the belief that men should dominate — strongly predicts dislike of Taylor Swift, particularly among Republican men.
Pam Bondi's letter to Minnesota on Saturday demanding the state's voter rolls is now showing up in court:
Adam Klasfeld@klasfeldreports.com · 6mo agoJUDGE: “It concerns me that Attorney General Bondi’s letter cites three things that are the subject of pending litigation before this court,” referring to the District of Minnesota. "Is the executive trying to achieve a goal through force that it can't achieve through the Courts?"
"He’s not even really pretending any longer to give a shit about working people in America. It’s why he’s been so widely rejected, because it’s clear his politics is really about enriching himself & his friends and screwing over everybody else. People have figured that out." — @simonwdc.bsky.social
Simon Rosenberg on Trump’s no good, very bad year
"It’s grotesque. He’s become a grotesque figure."
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Marco Rubio is the acting Archivist of the United States, as it happens
The irony is so thick, you could make bricks out of it.
Newtown Action Alliance@newtownaction.org · 11mo agoAmerican Firearms Association’s email exploiting Charlie Kirk’s death is reckless/dangerous. At a moment when our country is grieving another life lost to gun violence, they are calling for ⬆️ division/violence. We need real solutions to prevent more tragedies/not extremist rhetoric that fuels hate.
Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.
New in PN: Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward "In his second term, Trump is at last unleashed to fully realize his vision, and on economics, that means a new kind of mobster state capitalism."
Chairman Trump's Great Grift Forward
Move over, Mao.
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“If Trump is untouched by either a third impeachment or criminal prosecution, it will be an extraordinary miscarriage of justice. Even so, his presidency will still go down in history as the embodiment of injustice, malfeasance, cruelty and transgression.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
Opinion | Could the Third Time Be the Charm on Impeachment and Removal?
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LICCARDO: Capital One contributed $1 million to Trump's inauguration. And what happened as a result to the CFPB case? HARPER: They got their case dismissed LICCARDO: We're watching the defunding of the financial police happening
NYC Comptroller, Brad Lander, repeatedly asks for these masked people (purported federal agents) to produce a judicial warrant.
Gwynne Hogan@gwynnefitz.bsky.social · last yr.Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.
SCHATZ: "This is the stuff of dictatorships. He identified himself. That should be enough."
A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference. But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.
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The First Amendment still applies to speech about abortion even if Texas doesn't want it to, EFF’s Jennifer Pinsof told @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s Power User podcast.
You Could Be Arrested for Posting About Abortion
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
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Justice Allison Riggs sworn in following a six month election battle against her GOP opponent
40 years ago today, Philadelphia police bombed a neighborhood killing 11 Black people, including 5 Black children. The only person who went to prison was Ramona Africa, a Black woman who survived the bombing. Chances are this is the first you've heard about it. www.qasimrashid.com/p/today-mark...
Today Marks 40 Years After the MOVE Bombing
America Still Hasn’t Reckoned with Its State Violence Against Black People
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Last month I wrote about how the Trump regime is enacting Structural Eugenics that is killing women, low income, Black, & Latino Americans. Here is that piece: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-e... I'm publishing Part 2 later today, because he's doubling down & corporate media is still ignoring it.
Trump Is Enacting Structural Eugenics
It is important we understand this term, what it means for our personal safety, and why we must stand united to stop this fascism
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I see lots of fellow leftists & pro-Palestine ppl celebrating at the seeming ‘rupture’ between Netanyahu & Trump. Folks, it’s Trump. Don’t pay attention to what he says; pay attention to what he does - & what Israel does with his support. Right now, it’s the starving of Gaza.
So now a group spawned by Stephen Miller is suing Chief Justice John Roberts, demanding that the Chief turn control of the Federal Courts over to The White House. Even if it’s just clickbait, it provides a peek into their fevered dreams! talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...
Trump Allies Sue John Roberts To Give White House Control Of Court System
Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the...
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Hopefully this report will help Americans understand that there _wasn't_ a prior period during which Elon Musk was a mensch who cared about the environment. He's always been a robber baron who cares about nothing but profit and his own glorification. Environmental issues were merely a tool for him.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
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Common law: Birthright citizenship is given by native birth, with very few exceptions for agents of foreign powers Supreme Court: Cool, but not Black people, no matter free or enslaved Republicans in 1866: Let's fix that Two law professors in 2025: Well, things are really very complicated. No.
38% of people living in Mike Johnson's district were enrolled in Medicaid last year. Yet Johnson is pushing for devastating cuts to Medicaid — all to pay for tax cuts that will predominantly go to the rich. Is there a better encapsulation of the Republican Party?
