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Andrew Cuomo is afraid he'll lose, so his donors want you to fear me. His SuperPAC just sent out a mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened my beard. This is blatant Islamophobia—the kind of racism that explains why MAGA billionaires support his campaign.

WYDEN: The joint committee found out that millionaires will get tax breaks of a quarter million dollars. Do you think it's more important that 2m hungry kids have food? BESSENT: You're playing a game of semantics W: Why don't you just answer the question? B: Why don't you ask an honest question?

If you're an editor of an op-ed section and you want a tight ready-made essay on how the American empire and the imperial boomerang are behind Trump's crackdown in LA, hit me up.

Rep. Lynch: “Trump deported a 10-year-old girl, a U.S. citizen who was recovering from brain cancer…Trump deported another U.S. citizen, a two-year-old toddler, from Fort Lauderdale…Are cities safer now that this ten-year-old girl and this two-year-old toddler are gone?”

This is not a man defending the rule of law. This is a man continuing the project he began in his first term and tried to complete on January 6th: replacing the rule of law with himself.

"Trump is using the Guard and the military to enforce his will, not the law....When rioters were on his side, he didn’t call in the Guard. He embraced the criminals, pardoned them, and purged the law enforcement officials who prosecuted them. He’s a despot and a scofflaw." -- @saletan.bsky.social

The Supreme Court's fourth decision is Parrish v. U.S., a complex procedural win for civil litigants—here, a victim of abuse in prison. 8–1 opinion by Sotomayor, Gorsuch dissents. Still more opinion(s) to come! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The Supreme Court's fourth opinion is in Martin v. U.S., a "wrong-house raid" case. It's a qualified victory for victims of police misconduct, rejecting a sweeping grant of immunity and allowing a suit for damages to move forward, without answering every big Q. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Third SCOTUS decision: Martin v. U.S., the case over the wrong-house raid. Gorsuch has the opinion for a unanimous court vacating the Eleventh Circuit's decision against Martin and requiring a new look at the case. Sotomayor, joined by Jackson, concurred. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

When Trump is asked about something patriotic that a President should be intimately familiar with but he isn't, he calls it "very special."

Me thinks the Obergruppenführer doth protest too much.

Inspector Javert is being recognized more and more, many people are saying

it’s because he has no ability to inhabit another mind — he thinks he is the only person!

The Nazi asshole isn’t sorry he killed 300 thousand people denying USAID he s sorry he offended trump by telling truth about his Epstein ties - that were old news - So he gave 300 million to a pedofile rapist to buy the presidency He will go down in history as an insane cruel killer

A pretty shocking clip from today. An LAPD officer on horseback tramples a protester who then falls in front of another horse. As others try to help the protester up, an LAPD officer wields a blunt weapon to strike the protester, but strikes a nearby horse in the head.

McConnell: “Who’s the aggressor and who’s the victim in the conflict?” Hegseth: “Russia is the aggressor." McConnell: “Which side do you want to win?" Hegseth: "This president is committed to peace."

Folks in Tucson, Phoenix, Tempe, Peoria, etc. have gone so goddamn hard up against immigration agents this week. You can’t break us, we were raised up in the darkness of the Arpaio era and activists have been putting up this fight for decades now.

If Trump's budget bill passes, his executive orders effectively become the law of the land. And, just like that, we will have undone the American experiment and given all the power to one man. Read the latest from @eisendrath.net for Lincoln Square: www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-bud...

Spokane, Washington tonight became the center of national attention after a peaceful protest outside an ICE facility was escalated by police.

These are also the same people who seem to be perfectly fine with ICE ripping parents away from their crying children.

In a $30 million mansion perched on a cliff overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge, a group of AI researchers, philosophers, and technologists gathered to discuss the end of humanity. Read my latest on the AI party at the end of the world for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ai-ris...

Robert Malone is going to be making decisions about your vaccines. He's the guy some of us begged everyone not to underestimate, not to shrug off, but instead we were lectured about fearmongering. "I told you so" doesn't even begin to cover this one. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

@eggerdc.bsky.social on the perfectly predictable catastrophe of RFK Jr.’s new anti-vax vaccine advisory committee. Only in Morning Shots @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/department...

Menswear guy: not the hero we deserve but the hero we need.

This is kinda bugging me too tbh

Right now there are more U.S. troops deployed to Los Angeles than there are to Syria and Iraq combined.

Oh

Trump's approval is now underwater by 21 points, as Americans say that Trump's massive military parade to celebrate his birthday is a misuse of government funds of which they strongly disapprove. apnorc.org/projects/mos...

i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.

The top 10 tourist attractions in the United States, according to Wikipedia

Bluesky feels incredibly busy and vibrant to me….becuase I follow a lot of people. Which you have to do here if you want to see a lot of action, because *the site has no central algorithm.* A startling number of professional tech writers still don’t seem aware of this basic aspect of Bluesky.

Republicans are probably done permitting administration officials to appear at hearings from now until the midterms.

"Persist not because there's hope - persist so that there can be hope"

Me: man, I’m sick of the troops being here The troops: we are also sick of this weird armed vacation we’re taking without funds for food or water

WATCH LIVE: Defense Secy. Hegseth testifies at House budget hearing www.youtube.com/live/oFvmJUY...

If you see a crow eating your neighbor's corn, shoo it away.

This summer double issue also includes the print version of this: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... By @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me.

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Fun Fact: This same fine woman backed Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson in 2016. Perhaps going back to those same pro-freedom, anti-MAGA values would be a good way to earn back financial support for the Libertarian Party. #NoKings

If you live in the Atlanta neighborhoods of Benteen Park, Boulevard Heights, Custer McDonough-Guice, East Atlanta, Glenwood Park, Grant Park, North Ormewood Park, Ormewood Park, and Woodland Hills, you should be reading The Porch Press. Take it from my cousin Rob:

New individual articles by me in reply, from the latest issue of THE PORCH PRESS… theporchpress.com/print-editio...

They are not alone.

Again, the chaos is the point because Trump is so shit at the job.

Because he opposes the right to protest.

Musk is teaching us a valuable lesson about the president. Even by today's low standards he is not a honest politician. He can not even stay bought.