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Former Cali girl and Business School professor. Consultant and innovation/entrepreneurship mentor.
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Okay; we experimented with a criminal president. We’ve seen enough now.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8rjsBQE/ 😅😅😅😆😆😆😆😆

“Our history isn’t always perfect. We have faith as Americans that we can tell these stories, even the hard-to-tell stories, and we learn from them,” - Theresa Pierno, NPCA President and CEO nyti.ms/440JdCX

The GOP’s “big beautiful bill” doesn’t just slash low-income programs like Medicaid and food stamps—it gives ICE a nice raise, too. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Sen. Mike Lee's unfounded claims on social media about the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker have angered his U.S. Senate colleague from the state.

Eight-year-old Liza and her friend welcomed Ukrainian POWs returning home to Chernihiv.

It's not hyperbole to say that corpses have more rights than pregnant women in many US states. Liz Bruenig really said "brain dead people are incubators too"

This is genuine outright fascism from Liz Bruenig. Absolutely horrifying

Trump just doing Obamaphones for real is a little on-the-nose from the writer's room. www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

Haven’t seen reported on out here yet: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

In the @financialtimes.com today... on.ft.com/3G1JvBB

@timmiller.bsky.social: "Two United States Senators, Mike Lee and Bernie Moreno, and a bunch of other very prominent right wing media folks are still trying to claim that [the Minnesota assassin] is a Marxist...This is a deep brain rot."

"The Senate will be MORE aggressive seeking savings from Medicare" is at "the vampires will be MORE aggressive seeking iron for their diets" levels of language obfuscation.

Mamdani: This military parade the other day is a perfect example of everything that’s wrong with the MAGA movement—a focus on pomp and circumstance over actually addressing the needs of working- and middle-class Americans.

Today, all attorneys general have signed onto an historic settlement that permanently ends the Sacklers’ control over Purdue and their ability to ever sell opioids, and forces the company and family to pay $7.4b for their role in one of the most devastating public health crises in American history.

The orange dictator is doing what he does best: embarrassing himself at the G7 in Canada. You have to feel for the other leaders. That’s a long time to sit around with him.

Openly using law enforcement for perceived partisan political purposes, surely this is what the founders thought they created in 1787

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories. First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist: www.propublica.org/article/blac...

Nowhere but Los Angeles could birth a mariachi tribute band to The Smiths and Morrissey. wapo.st/3ZAJeMG

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

Melissa Hortman was murdered in her own home. Not a random act. A political assassination. We cannot afford silence—or soft language. Or hope as a plan. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

The 60s are still in living memory, so I think we can be expected to remember there are quite a few grades between "domestic harmony" and "civil war" Not thrilled that we're going to be exploring a bunch of them! But the "imminent civil war" takes are overbaked

Not Christian. Not supporters of democracy. Anti-constitutionalists. That’s what they are, by definition.

A lawmaker and her husband were murdered. A senator and his wife nearly killed. The suspect had a hit list. And what did we do? We blamed each other. We justified. We spun. Political violence isn’t coming—it’s here. And we’re normalizing it. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/political-...

A win! A federal judge has ordered the government to restore hundreds of NIH grants slashed by the Trump administration, ruling the cuts were discriminatory against minorities and LGBTQ individuals. The judge said he’d have to be “blind” not to see the discrimination and declared the cuts illegal.

"When I woke up on Father’s Day, I didn’t anticipate I would be seeing... one certain individual that has caused much pain and suffering in the world. Some would say he’s a horrible person, and we all know many reasons. I stood taller than him as proud Tsuut’ina Isgiya.” #G7 #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦

Trump’s opening statements at the G7 about Putin not being there only proved to the world leaders that he’s a Putin puppet and the leaders will joke about it at the next happy hour. What a fucking embarrassment.

Donald Trump is Putin's little propaganda bitch – and every world leader at the G7 knows it.

A woman participating in Riverside’s “No Kings” protest on Saturday night was struck by what police are investigating as a felony hit-and-run. According to the Riverside PD, the incident happened downtown around 9:40 p.m. on University Avenue & Orange Street. The victim is in stable condition.

P.S. State and federal charges are not mutually exclusive under the dual sovereignty doctrine (and it looks like MN is seeking charges). Personally I think state has greater interest here and should go first

The Trump VA is now allowing healthcare providers to discriminate. The latest in yet another policy based on hate. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who’s on RFK’s new vaccine advisory group? What are their conflicts of interest? Read and weep. open.substack.com/pub/sheenacr...

Oh my God. Nationalizing key industry by sleight of hand.

Quick reminder that the majority of Americans live in cities, "real America" is urban, and when people scream obscenities about cities they are screaming obscenities about America.

They’re bombing hospitals in Iran too and they’re also using “human shields” bs like motherfuckers don’t even update their propaganda

The real America vs MAGA

Calls for civility are meaningless when her colleagues Mike Lee and Bernie Moreno are lying that the assassin was a leftist. They’re fueling hatred on the right while she’s taking the high ground.

There is no need for active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. This is deliberate militarization of the police functions that the LAPD can handle. The Police Chief said as much.

If a man who collects guns and protective gear, impersonates police offices, vehemently opposes access to abortion, preaches white evangelical Christianity in Congo, declares LBGTQA people evil — if a man like that “shows no sign of radical political views” we need new signs

Roommate of Minnesota shooter tells @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy: He "would be offended if people thought he was a Democrat” Listened to InfoWars. Hated Walz and other Dem politicians. Loved Trump.

The Minnesota shooter was a big InfoWars fan, according to his roommate. Naturally, his favorite website has spent the last two days calling their big murderous fan a Democrat and a patsy.

NEW: We did a deep dive on new US attorney Jeanine Pirro who said - endorsed possible criminal charges for J6 prosecutors - NY is murdering fully alive babies after birth. - 2nd graders are taught how to give oral sex - undocumented immigrants vote 4 times each edition.cnn.com/2025/06/16/p...

Agreed. And with good reason

The new affordable housing complex will simultaneously overrun with drug addicts and gentrify the neighborhood. And the three-story building will tower over the adjacent two-story builings.

President Moron is embarrassing this country at the G7, kissing up to Putin and admonishing the leaders for kicking out Russia. This traitor is given so much power with no pushback. It's absurd that this evil idiot is our president.

In light of some European nations currently falling for Russia's populist propaganda, a reminder that escaping Moscow's grip is the absolute #1 most effective economic stimulus on earth.

When does the “great” part start?