DETAILS (as predicted):
FT: Residents of Oleshky who want to evacuate to Ukrainian-controlled territory will first be taken to Crimea or Russia.
Zelenskyy warned about exactly this scenario.
My take: Russia will do a propaganda movie about people “saved” (not starved) by RU, amplified by DC.
Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln
TRUMP: No they're not
Q: Has the deployment gone on too long?
TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.
I’m on the ballot tomorrow to be one of the 601 delegates to vote on the Maine senate nominee. I may not have much of a chance since the Jackson & Shah campaigns have a combined 750 people on the ballot in a coordinated effort & I am not connected to any campaign. Plus the voting is online. If you
Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
Literally the authoritarian playbook:
1. Call your opponents terrorists.
2. Deploy state power against them.
There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.
I find it weird that people are painting Mamdani as an extreme outsider.
The US govt. has taken ownership positions in major US companies like Intel (and soon TikTok).
Mamdani wants to open a city-run grocery store to sell cheap groceries.
And you're telling me the second is a radical socialist.
If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.
Newsom: He is a failed president. Who else sends ICE at the same time while having a conversation like this? Someone who is weak, broken. His weakness is masquerading as a strength. The most unpopular president in modern history.
Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
I’m starting to fear we’ve gone past a point of no return. I really hope I’m wrong, but our reality is beyond Orwellian. And yet, Congress is passive (at best), and the Supreme Court is a joke.
ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻
We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.
BREAKING: The Organizers of one of the most successful protests in recent US history, the No Kings protest, have just announced the "Good Trouble Lives On" protest on July 17th
July 17th marks 5 years since the death of John Lewis, who coined the phrase "Good Trouble"
Who's in? 👋
C-SPAN caller to Tapper: "When are you going to examine what's going on with Trump? ... this president has been pure chaos, which indicates to me that there is something wrong with him. We will never get a straight answer on his medical exam, and yet you have gone after Joe Biden with a vengeance."
IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country."
Don't let that slide by.
Whats happened in LA over the weekend is pathetic. Once again we see the commander in chief agitating and escalating shit.
On another note, it doesn't seem like dems were "overreacting" when we said the fate of democracy depends on this election.
Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.
People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
Republicans have a new talking point for gutting Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires even more tax cuts: “We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
WARREN: Can POTUS legally tell the IRS to change someone's nonprofit status?
BILLY LONG: I'm not able to answer
WARREN: You can't read these words and tell me what those words say?!
LONG: I can read the statute and I did
WARREN: Then tell me what they mean!
Please read/share if you love your national parks!
New from @pamherd.bsky.social & me: A DOGEr is now running the National Park Service.
They were already short of employees to manage record crowds. DOGE has cut 13% and wants to cut 30%.
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump is Putin’s puppet, a weak pathetic little man trying to be tough. Zelenskyy is stronger and tougher than he will ever be, and the whole world - minus the magat lemmings- knows this.
Trump is denying due process to foreign nationals here legally before ripping them from their families and deporting them.
Do we really believe this regime will follow any sort of due process for American citizens before Trump tries to deport them?
Call it what it is: fascism.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
A friend’s disgusted reaction to Paul, Weiss:
“So many non-profit lawyers have been so busy working on cases against the unconstitutional actions of the Administration, because the big firm lawyers with multiple houses and cars and boats and every other damn thing are too fucking weak to do it.”
What the f*ck, Ch*ck?? Stop capitulating! We have to actually oppose this fascist administration, not enable it.Instead of worrying about them blaming us, expose the truth!