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Trump's wedding gift to Bezos and birthday gift to Musk were tucked in the new budget bill the Republicans released overnight: A special new tax break for SPACEPORTS.

Hello, 911. I want to report a murder...of the last shred of integrity that Cybernews might have left. Glorious. Fact-Checking Claims By Cybernews: The 16 Billion Record Data Breach That Wasn't jltee.substack.com/p/fact-check...

The symbolism is terrible

I absorb the excellent vibes from this good news and it makes me stronger www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

According to a DOJ IG report released this week, the Sinaloa cartel identified an FBI official working at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, tracked him via phone location data, tapped into Mexico’s surveillance camera network, & killed an unspecified number of informants. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

sick stuff.

In light of stripping Harvey Milk's name from a Navy ship, on this anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, & in the sad aftermath of the assassinations of Melissa Hortman, her husband, & her dog, I need to observe that Milk and Mayor Moscone were also assassinated by a white male conservative.

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

The topic of AI governance was mostly absent from this year’s G7 discussions, a notable omission given the summit’s pioneering role on the issue in past convenings, write @Afek Shamir and Paul Khullar.

Ottawa orders Chinese manufacturer Hikvision to shutter Canadian operations reut.rs/3ZSFTsm

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court www.tpr.org/border-immig...

LCRW is one of the best in the game, it's absolutely criminal that they've got to come to us hat in hand to make ends meet. they're consistently putting out incredible coverage on the far right. please help abner meet this current need & become a sustaining contributor to LCRW.

Honestly, this is my #1 objection to yesterday’s decision. SCOTUS had many, many opportunities to curb universal injunctions against the Biden administration. For four years, it refused. Then, almost as soon as Trump returned to office, it changed the rules to take away universal injunctions. Why?

"They’ll never experience that particular kind of mental wandering that happens when you’re stuck waiting somewhere with no phone, no book, no stimulation except whatever your brain decides to do with itself."

We were just suspended without warning from threads and Instagram. We have no idea why. If any of y’all are on those apps and want to let them know to fix that we would be appreciative.

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush. This week's selection includes: 1/2 www.metacurity.com/best-infosec...

Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.

Giant defense contractors as rent seeking middlemen who can extract value even when they contribute little to nothing or a story about how the United States buys zero-day exploits www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

from “student debt forgiveness is tyranny” to “the president is allowed to point at someone and have them summarily executed on the spot” in 2 years

It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.

Jeff Bezos of Amazon had a 50 million dollar wedding in Venice surrounded by billionaires, celebs, and the elite but the true threat to American workers and democracy is Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who want affordable housing, health care, and higher wages.

Today we published my Not Very Fun But Important Summer Reading List, if you're looking for something to read. First few in the screenshot, more in the post: www.404media.co/behind-the-b...

benjamindreyer.substack.com/p/briefly-jo... “The world, as you certainly don’t need me to tell you, so I certainly won’t, is an increasingly sinister place dominated by defiantly, brazenly evil people, and that is, not to put too fine a point on it, exhausting (and much, much worse).”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor reading dissent from bench: “The court’s decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the government to bypass the Constitution”

The New York Times: Hegseth Pushes Fresh Troop Readiness Agenda Military Dot Com: The Fuckin Army Wants to Kick Out Black Men

If you ever see John Roberts in person and don’t tell him to go fuck himself, you’ll regret it forever.

a crowd has gathered at the UVA rotunda in response to the forced resignation of president jim ryan

Prolific cybercrime gang now targeting airlines and the transportation sector

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

So, liberal parents who can ground their beliefs in religion (many do) can opt out of: - abstinence only education - Baby Olivia videos - reading Ayn Rand - any class that talks about Donald Trump or this Supreme Court This is going to be fun. (And by "fun" I mean "utter and complete nonsense").

RFK Jr.: Vaccines No More Effective Than Drinking Horseshoe Crab Blood Straight theonion.com/rfk-jr-...

So the fraud that DOGE was supposed to find but didn’t was actually Russians stealing the personal data of Americans (because our data protections etc are sh*t so tech bros can profit) — false claims which Americans were dutifully reporting to the govt /1 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

DOGE enters ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations. 
DOGE is working with ATF general counsel to cut upwards of 50 regulations by July 4 as the administration drastically reduces the number of inspectors. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

A non-awful 6-3 Supreme Court ruling: The FCC requiring and collecting contributions from telecom firms and distributing them for universal-service subsidies does not violate Constitutional limits on delegation of government power: "We hold that no impermissible transfer of authority has occurred."

this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?

Make no mistake: In all but nullifying nationwide, “universal” injunctions in these cases, where a uniform rule of law for birthright citizenship is gravely needed, the Supreme Court chose chaos. Yes, the right still exists. But a lot of needless confusion, fear, and litigation lie ahead.

no one’s ever gotten a better ROI than the federalist society

Breaking news: In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court finds nationwide injunctions for birthright citizenship likely exceeded the authority Congress has given the courts.

This is unprecedented. The AMA and other medical professional societies speak as one on respiratory virus vaccines and in their own way, say the Trump Administration cannot be trusted with your health. www.ama-assn.org/delivering-c...