WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.
Hayes: Musk wants you to forget his deadly DOGE legacy
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Indrani B. 🌷🐸🐧🐻❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦🕯
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Australian public lawyer/sociologist. Earthlover. Democracy lover. AUS/US focus. Culture, change, politics, history, law—the bits & how they fit together. #Dylanista #Janeite #Cricket fiend. Life is not theoretical. Personal acct. 🌏 Sydney, Australia
It's a good thing there are no surveillance cameras in DC, or else they might have been caught. 🙄
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Trump: "Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?" Reporter: "Do you have proof of that?" Trump: "Yeah, we have proof…When you have a 350ft slit from one end to the other, you think that's proof?" Reporter: "There's no evidence of it."
More people have been arrested at the Reflecting Pool than all the names in the #EpsteinFiles #worldnews
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · last mo.Trump: "Who would think that somebody would go into a pool and take a knife and start cutting it?" Reporter: "Do you have proof of that?" Trump: "Yeah, we have proof…When you have a 350ft slit from one end to the other, you think that's proof?" Reporter: "There's no evidence of it."
With the FBI raid of a prominent Ohio voting organization, the Trump administration’s intimidation tactics are escalating to new heights. bit.ly/43G11Ub
Politicizing the FBI to Intimidate Voters
The Trump administration’s targeting of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative is a clear abuse of power.
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Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Everything he does is an attempt to change the fact that the Epstein files are his legacy.
This 👇👇👇 is what you get when you DON'T elect a narcissistic, grifting, con man who's so insecure and weak that he has to slap his name and face on everything.
Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture
"A business tied to a longtime supporter of President Trump was given a no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool earlier this spring." But also, "A White House spokeswoman said the president was not involved in selecting Greenwater Services..." 🤔
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 2mo agoI’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Masked ethnic-cleansing gestapo insists on anonymity.
Law360@law360.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe DOJ sued the city of Philadelphia, D.A. Larry Krasner and the city solicitor in Pennsylvania federal court over an ordinance prohibiting federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themselves and their vehicles as part of law enforcement agencies. www.law360.com/artic...
Full. Neuropsych. Workup.
Jamie Gangel@jamiegangel.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew CNN has obtained new Trump book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals how Trump compared himself to Mao, Stalin, Attila the Hun — and how a top aide found him with Superglue trying to decorate the Oval Office…. w/ @jeremyherb #RegimeChange www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...
Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect as some A.I. companies coach young adults on how to get away with it. Inside a new arms race: "humanizers" and "autotypers" face off against AI detectors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
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A seemingly endless stream of brutally critical takes from GOP senators here jewishinsider.com/2026/06/wors...
As the screwworm spreads... Remember that Elon Musk’s DOGE cut $15M from a screwworm monitoring program. And we're now learning that Trump’s USDA delayed a project to develop new ways to contain the parasite and held up construction of a monitoring facility. The incompetence is dangerous.
you know this guy absolutely, positively knows this shit inside and out because he looks like the pooliest pool guy whoever pooled
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.
BREAKING: The White House oval office ceiling has collapsed during President Trump's live press conference. #DonaldTrump
Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.
TGA still investigating sunscreens that Choice testing found failed to meet SPF claims
SPF 'confusion' as sunscreens under investigation not recalled
Most of the sunscreens that failed to meet their SPF label claims, according to independent testing, are still under investigation by the regulator one year later.
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Why would anyone choose to dwell, for even a second, in the Kafka liminal zone of “by AI” or “with AI”? When you can do literally anything else, why would you do this with your one life?
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago“But Ellis denied that her piece was written ‘by’ AI. ‘It was written with AI, and there’s a really big difference there,’ she said.”
A highly dangerous maggot that eats the living flesh of pets, livestock, and humans has been discovered in Texas. Last year, Trump ousted thousands of key staff from the office dedicated to preventing the spread of dangerous pests.
The Strait of Hormuz, which Iran owns thanks to Trump, is 270 times as long as the reflecting pool.
Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together. Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social:
Abraham Lincoln by Barack Obama
There isn’t any dream beyond our reach, any obstacle that can stand in our way, when we recognize that our individual liberty is served, not negated, by pursuit of the common good
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Ukrainian drones hit an oil terminal in St. Petersburg in a demonstration of Kyiv’s military capabilities as the city hosted a major economic forum.
Ukraine Strikes St. Petersburg Ahead of Putin’s Economic Forum
The attack on an oil terminal and naval base came as guests arrived for the event at which the Russian president is expected to speak later this week.
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"The pick is bad for U.S. intelligence and a threat to civil liberties. But the greatest danger of appointing Pulte as DNI is that it’s a further step in Trump’s plans to subvert free and fair elections in the United States, in 2026 but especially in 2028." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Bill Pulte Is a Putz—But a Dangerous Putz
He’s unserious, unqualified, disliked, ill-prepared, inexperienced, and exactly what Trump is looking for.
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Again, Bill Pulte is a 38-year-old -- no really, 38 -- who only holds a BA in broadcast journalism and absolutely zero experience in the intelligence field. He has no qualifications for this job at all. Aside from being a psychotic lickspittle to the president.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The pick is bad for U.S. intelligence and a threat to civil liberties. But the greatest danger of appointing Pulte as DNI is that it’s a further step in Trump’s plans to subvert free and fair elections in the United States, in 2026 but especially in 2028." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
NEW: The Trump administration's DOJ has been systematically removing materials from its websites regarding the many indictments and convictions related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In response, @lawfaremedia.org has been systematically restoring them:
