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The same people who shoveled money to a settle bogus case with Trump, have now fired Terry Moran for telling the truth. No one should wonder why viewers are abandoning legacy media in droves. www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/m...

Can a producer for @lauracoates.com @cnn.com @cnn-news.bsky.social get in touch with me ASAP? Your guests are factually wrong on the law in California and this is dangerous. Press exempt from arrest per CA Penal Code 409.7. I negotiated language of the law. You need to correct this ASAP.

Democrats should introduce articles of impeachment for RFK jr Even if it doesn’t work, which it probably won’t, democrats need to make clear that he’s not gonna get away with it

Does anyone know if people like Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, and other Democratic "leaders" are still alive? If so, there is little evidence as Donald Trump is threatening to arrest the governor of our largest state.

This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

Martin Phillip Fjellanger Let this man go viral Los Angeles

This is incredibly courageous and brave. Support NIH staffers. They stuck out their necks for us. Now we have to have their backs.

Taking potshots at the freedom of the press in the midst of going after the right of the people peaceably to assemble.

Lots of talk today about the demise of BlueSky. For whatever it's worth, it's been a boon to indie publishers like us. Twitter and Facebook have pretty much silenced us, so the engagement here has, and continues to be, wonderful.

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

cops doing crime on camera. as @chadloder.bsky.social has been pointing out all day, this is totally illegal. cops doing crime. on camera. adjust your stupid headlines accordingly.

Zelenskyy: "We are not playing in the park with the Russians like two boys, two kids -- Putin is not a kid ... we cannot say, Ok, let them fight for a while ... it's not about President Trump. Anyone living thousands of miles away can't fully understand the pain."

He just said this is an American city and the First Amendment cannot be allowed.

Gotta wonder about the value and wisdom of "there is a shopping cart on fire" news updates in the paper of record

Trump ordered the deployment of the national guard in LA to sow chaos and hurt protesters last night, then he casually attended a UFC match.

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

i was just in paramount basically a block away from ground zero of the confrontation, there is no civil unrest, nothing is wrong. people are going about their business heading to dinner and parties.

Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.

Trump and those around him have sought from day one a pretext for unleashing military force against the American people. Today's actions are bad. But things will only get worse from here. The best possible response to it is collective action, stand up to force and document and share everything.

Hands Off! was the biggest day of civic protest in years. We want next Saturday to be even bigger — with more people in more places driving even more defiance of Trump’s fascist agenda on No Kings Day.

The result of the antivaxx movement is death for kids. Whooping cough can be fatal for young infants - it causes them to stop breathing. Kids can only be vaccinated at 6-8w of life. Before then, protection is provided by vaccinating mum during pregnancy.

This sums it up so perfectly. I know this is what the administration wants. I know it’s an intentional provocation. I know they’ll use it to justify more draconian actions. But not standing up to it isn’t an option. Period. You stand up or you get walked over.

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

We don't have secret police in America. At least we're not supposed to.

Aggrieved whites pretending they only lost out because of "unfair advantages" to minorities is an old script. The Bakke ruling against racial quotas came after Allan Bakke was rejected by 12 different med schools. He sued the *one* that had a racial quota, arguing that and that alone kept him out.

Expect a fixed “sue and settle” outcome with MAGA DOJ. Taxpayer resources to political allies is their specialty. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is why due process is so important. Any one of us, including you, could be the next "MS13 leader."

Babies dying of trivially preventable disease

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

Some sticklers might say that using the instruments of the state to harass personal enemies is not actually an option for the president of our constitutional republic.

We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

Happy ANTIFA Day to those who celebrate.

Someone should tell Trump that Elon would feel very owned if he fully funded USAID and the CDC.

No. Absolutely not. He's a nazi. He smashed the federal government and stole our data. He put USAID and USIP in a wood chipper, leaving hundreds of thousands of children to die. He's not welcome in any party I belong to. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Good morning, it's a new day, and yet another day in which steel tariffs are going to save a handful of jobs in Pittsburgh, but cost thousands of jobs across the rest of the steel-reliant manufacturing sector.

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

“One Big Beautiful Bill”? Try one big, bold-faced lie. They swore this mess wouldn’t add to the deficit…but the nonpartisan budget office says otherwise. $2.4 TRILLION added to the deficit—and for what? Tax cuts for the rich.

Warren’s Senate report on Musk is getting some pickup. $TSLA @cnbc.com @warren.senate.gov www.cnbc.com/2025/06/03/e...

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Now even someone on ketamine, mushrooms and Ecstasy can see it.

The head of FEMA joked about not knowing hurricane season had started. Americans work too damn hard and pay too much to be governed by clowns. When lives are at stake, we need serious leadership, not punchlines.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

Always wise to strike while the iron is hottest. Joni Ernst is under maximum scrutiny right now, and Scholten will be able to exploit that to the fullest (and raise a ton of $)

Jeffries thinks he’s protecting vulnerable Dems but he’s not. He can protect them best by adopting war rhetoric.