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The White House You Tube channel posted this week a couple dozen short hagiographic video bios of founding father figures, created by conservative PragerU. m.youtube.com/@WhiteHouse/...

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As I keep saying, this administration and Congress are actively pro-climate-change

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Kari Lake Wobegon

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“…Canada, a very difficult country to TRADE with…” —President Trump, in a new social media post

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MAGA Twitter is pretty hype on SCOTUS rulings today, not least because it gives them an opportunity to insult Kentanji Brown Jackson’s intelligence, which they absolutely love to do

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I’m not a lawyer: could I have gotten out of chemistry by saying that I believe molecules are gay

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In both cases, SCOTUS just doing its best to let folks deny the existence of people unlike themselves

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I am, indeed, seeing a lot of quick takes raising questions or making assumptions that might be addressed in the opinions. Best to wait for smart people (like Chris) to have a chance to read, digest, and discuss!

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It’s amazing that a gripe that the American right wing just adopted earlier this year—lousy power-mad rogue judges shouldn’t be able to temporarily stop a Trump EO nationally!—has already been institutionalized by the Supreme Court.

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It shall henceforth be a crime to listen to a transistor radio, read a translation, or use transportation.

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The Trump-Biden ‘24 debate took place one year ago today: June 27, 2024. Does it seem like a generation or so ago to anyone else, or is that just me?

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Ingraham posting three minutes apart: Powell is destroying the economy!/The economy is great under Trump!

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“People want to be proud of the ship they’re sailing in.” —DefSec Hegseth, in a video this morning announcing that the Navy is renaming the USNS Harvey Milk to the USNS Oscar V. Peterson

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What if the ICE director is the one making them feel unsafe tho

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Laura Loomer will be a guest on Alex Jones’s Info Wars today.

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BREAKING: Tomorrow — Friday — will be the final SCOTUS decision day of the term, Chief Justice Roberts announces. The following cases — www.lawdork.com/i/166479240/... — remain:

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Pete Hegseth is acting outraged that anyone would disparage the work of his fighter pilots (which nobody is doing), while he disparages the work of his intelligence analysts.

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Jim Jordan is scheduled to be on Matt Gaetz’s OANN show tonight.

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I just noticed that WH spox Leavitt said today that Iran was “only weeks away from being able to produce a nuclear weapon” when we bombed them. I’m not even sure what that means exactly, but have we heard that from the WH prior to today?

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This post, and its hundreds of comments & quote-tweets, celebrates the economic and cultural devastation being done to large parts of Los Angeles b/c residents (legal and non-) are terrified of being seized and detained by federal agents.

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There’s a life insurance ad where the wife is worried that if husband dies she & the kids will end up homeless and destitute, and he whines yeah but there’s all these forms and I’d need a doctor visit… and I always think: woman you don’t need easier insurance you need to LEAVE THIS LOSER’S ASS NOW

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Stephen Miller says “unchecked migration” got Mamdani the win. Adds that migration has ruined a once-great NYC, which is an interesting read on NYC’s history.

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Scotto rides again www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/n...

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Let Trump insist that we obliterated Iran’s nuclear program. Otherwise he might use a nuke to finish the job. My new column: open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

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Over on X, on my List of Right Wing Marketplace accounts, there is quite a competition for most offensive comment about Mamdani winning the Democratic primary

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MUST-READ thread 🧵 on ICE detention conditions:

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Seems very super normal for June, carry on dismantling all federal climate mitigation programs

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I talked about those GOP pollsters and the polling averages in our GP/BP pod out today - plus @juliaazari.bsky.social and @dbernstein.bsky.social said all kinds of smart things, as they always do. Paywalled; we hope you consider a paid subscription. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/bombs-away

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The White House and MAGA media spent yesterday branding the Israel-Iran conflict as the “12 Day War,” like it had ended, which a ceasefire doesn’t mean. Definitely less use of that term today.

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Forget about intelligence tho

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Big blow to Cong. Steve Lynch, defeated for Ranking Member on Oversight Committee per reports.

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“[Iran and Israel] don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.” —President Trump to media scrum this morning

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We really don’t talk enough about the contempt this administration has for Latinos

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SCOTUS did what now

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First impression: this retaliatory attack is in effect a de-escalation; intended to allow internal face-saving without forcing a US response. We’ll see.

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Ah but what if you’re a college that wants access to people who have access to wealth

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Re the whereabouts of Irans 60% enriched uranium, here’s some observations from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Spoiler: if they moved it they could maybe enrich it to weapons-grade in a week)

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Kind of wild that in the final 24 hours or so of preparation for war with Iran, the Vice President took time to travel all the way to Los Angeles to publicly make a racial slur against a United States Senator

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MIGA huh

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