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Incredible stuff www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

THIS 👇

ICE denied U.S. Reps. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) and Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) entry into it’s facility in Chicago.

This should end well…

This is brutal. India says Trump is lying about a trade deal and says he also lied about brokering a peace deal between India and Pakistan. We are a joke around the world. bsky.app/profile/meid...

Dafuq?

Performative hate. It’s who Trump is. It must not be who we are. Today’s Substack. Check it out.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Yes, Trump yesterday goaded U.S. troops into booing & jeering their fellow Americans. Not a surprise Trump did that. Trump is an utterly horrible human being. But what was surprising and what was so disappointing was that those troops DID boo. They DID boo & jeer their fellow Americans.👇

Kristi Noem on LA: "They're not a city of immigrants. They're a city of criminals."

Pam Bondi is Trump's personal lawyer. She is not and has never been the Attorney General.

He’s disappearing innocent people off of our streets and ordering the military onto our streets. He does not give a damn about the rule of law. He is the very tyrant our founding generation rose up against 249 yrs ago. It’s time for the American people to rise up again.

Deploying the military on U.S. soil as law enforcement against Americans was on page 555 of Project 2025. So don’t say “I didn’t vote for this,” because you did. This isn’t a response. This was always their plan.

Dean: When did we have a trade surplus? Lutnick: About 100 years ago Dean: It was the Great Depression.

I’m a freedom-loving conservative. I left the Republican Party 5yrs ago. Today, I’m doing something I never thought I’d do - I’m formally joining the Democratic Party. Here’s why:👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Elon’s cruel, destructive, chaotic, dishonest legacy. This weekend’s Substack. Check it out.👇 substack.com/@socialcontr...

Himes: "It was like 1984 or something listening to the Speaker."

TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about

BAKER: “.. universities are actually a major source of export earnings for the United States. Last year, we got over $56 billion from tuition and other expenses paid by foreigners to U.S. colleges .. This number is likely to fall sharply ..” @deanbaker13.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

APOLLO: “The lack of a rebound in container traffic after the China-US trade deal on May 12 is worrying.” [Slok]

Warnock: You literally have, in real time, the leader of another nation-state—in this case, South Africa—there to talk to him about trade, and he’s saying, “Sorry, Mr. President, we don’t have a plane to offer you.” And you see why we have an Emoluments Clause in the first place.

McGovern: Democrats are making a series of procedural motions today to stop the consideration of this lousy, awful, disastrous bill… we will not stand by and watch Trump and his billionaire friends destroy this country without putting up one hell of a fight.

The thing about the Dem effort to find "a blue Joe Rogan" is that the phenomenon they're trying to capture well exceeds a single charismatic podcaster. Rogan himself represents the peak of a broad right-wing media ecosystem that's been patiently built, funded, and expanded over decades. 🧵

New: The crypto folks who bought the President's memecoin in order to attend his elite dinner tomorrow spent over $1 million each on average, and nearly $400 million in total. Per @molly.wiki, nearly 3/4 appear to be foreign nationals who'd be legally barred from donating cash to candidate Trump.

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio theonion.com/state-d...

Liberal media!

Crying censorship while violating first-amendment rights, ignoring contractual obligations, bypassing peer review, destroying science in the public interest. Orwell would have been proud. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

What winning might look like…

BREAKING: A massive explosion from a bomb has destroyed American Reproductive Centers, an IVF and fertility center in Palm Springs, CA. At least one person is dead. Authorities are investigating whether terrorism played a role.

Cancer research is DEI?

It’s hard to really state how dangerous it is to have a growing authoritarian order and the asshole in charge of your country is the most easily corruptible and influenceable person alive.

As a reminder, this is a permanent resident, in the US since she was seven, high school valedictorian www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

When the HHS Secretary is telling the American public that trusting expert scientists is not a function of democracy, it’s well and truly over for science in the USA. I can’t stress this enough. If scientific expertise is believed to be an enemy to democracy, we are finished. Complete catastrophe.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

Someone in the media, please ask this question.👇

@adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social looks at unconventional media types, from Joe Rogan to John Oliver, who are spreading immigration horror tales to audiences beyond the usual. Every mention counts and maybe even helps. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

@jilldlawrence.bsky.social describes how the Trump regime is disappearing data it doesn't like and gathering personal data it can use against Americans. A disaster for democracy that depends on knowledge and a danger to every one of us. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Time to make popcorn?

Imagine a situation in which the threat of fascism is so pressing that you consider sending your children to another country. That’s what happened decades ago for the family of @julianborger.bsky.social, the world affairs editor of the Guardian. Read @davidcorn.bsky.social's interview with him.