Shell Game

Food companies wanted deregulation. Now there are dozens of recalls across the country. Mining companies wanted deregulation. Now the black lung rate is at a 45-year high. Financial companies wanted deregulation. Now financial losses to fraud are the highest on record. Noticing a pattern?

There's officially been more accountability for corporate extramarital affairs at Coldplay concerts than there's been for the sitting president covering up a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

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. 🙏🏻

The idea of civil rights is that all people are equal members of society, and therefore mechanisms that make people unequal are illegitimate. The far right has built a perverse mirror ideology, in which races are known to be unequal, and therefore mechanisms that make us equal are illegitimate.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz after touring "Alligator Alcatraz": "These detainees are living in cages. The pictures you've seen don't do it just. They are essentially packed into cages. 34 detainees per cage...they get their drinking water & they brush their teeth where they poop, in the same unit"

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

READ THE COMPLAINT: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Since 1980, there have been over 400 weather disasters in the US, with total damages over $1 billion. These disasters have cost $2.9 trillion in total and killed nearly 17,000 people. Don't tell me we "can't afford" to address the climate crisis. The truth is we can’t afford not to.

Just wow! Can we appreciate the fact that a team from Mexico is in Texas helping with the search and rescue. 👏🏽

SO make sure EVERYONE KNOWS what is in it #NOKINGS #NOICE #NOFASCISTS #DEFENDDEMOCRACY #EMPATHY #TOLERANCE #HUMANITY #dueprocessforall #RESIST

You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher grocery bills. You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher medical bills. You can thank Donald Trump and Republicans for your higher utility bills. That’s their "Big Beautiful Bill" in action.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

A very sensible list. This shouldn’t be so damned hard.

More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.

We're in anticipation of recession territory. US private sector shed 33,000 jobs, first decline in 2 years. It's clear employers are growing weary over Trump tariff impacts and just the continuing levels of uncertainty.

Bartiromo: "We are waiting any moment now to get the jobs number for the month of June. The expectations call for the numbers to be up 95,000. Right now seeing the number -- actually, uh, showing a decline in jobs, uh, down 33,000, uh."

Breaking: The US lost 33,000 jobs in June. They were expecting to *gain* 100,000.

"The biggest job-killing bill in history."

If there was ever a time to call your Senator, this is it. Voting has begun on the GOP plan to cut off health care for working-class Americans and slash taxes for the wealthiest.

Van Hollen: "The real problem is Republicans refuse to ask billionaires to contribute more to the overall good of the country ... they have an obsession with giving tax cuts to very rich people and big corporations and everything else is sacrificed for that cause."

This isn’t just a bill. It’s a fundamental restructuring of American society in which the poor are abandoned, and “immigration jails” outrank healthcare. Billions taken from one and given to the other.

Is the plan to turn everything over to Elon, with his terrific record of explosions?

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

Republicans told us they wanted to vote on their Big Ugly bill promptly at 4pm ET. We’re here. But it seems they’re not ready to go. I guess they’re still working on buying the votes they need to cut Medicaid, close hospitals, and kick seniors out of nursing homes.

Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features

Word of the Day: OBLITERATED Which is: What America's airstrike did to Iran's nuclear stockpile OR What POTUS did to America's status in the world

Trump on his budget today: It reduces the deficit! (It raises the deficit by $3.4T) No tax on social security! (That’s not in the bill) No cuts to Medicaid! (Largest Medicaid cuts in history).

Important point about Medicaid cuts, which will cause a whole lot of rural hospitals to close: it doesn't matter how much $$ or insurance you have. If the nearest hospital is over an hour's drive away, that time gap could kill you. Cartoon by R. J. Matson @rjmatsoncartoons.bsky.social

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

Oh my god. Mitch McConnell just said this about the Republican plan to kick 16 million people off their health coverage: “I know a lot of us are hearing from people back home about Medicaid. But they’ll get over it.”

In a few months, Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step was to unleash the AI. A reminder of what has happened:

this had been driving me nuts so i’m glad it’s out, at least for now.

It does not get any more backwards than Republicans pushing rural hospitals to closure through partisan health care cuts... to then try to keep those hospitals open by creating a new fund to counteract their own policies.   There's a simpler solution. Vote NO on the entire bill.

Damn right!!!

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore. Make it make sense.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."  -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

This was not a full-page ad I was expecting to see in the Sunday NYTimes today

Take note.

Headline juxtaposition doesn't get much more Orwellian than this

There is no “one and done” in any conflict. The opponent always gets a vote, and unless we’ve prepped for all the things Iran may do we’re gonna have some surprises.

Nothing to worry about, just the world's richest man openly promising to turn his LLM into a PRC-style propaganda apparatus garymarcus.substack.com/p/1984-but-w...

What am I worried about? -Safety of 30k US troops in the Middle East -cybersecurity (since CISA was recently gutted) & homeland security (as HLS focused on immigration) -Economic strength (oil prices and tariffs) -Allied assistance (we’ll need that now) -Domestic intell (leadership at FBI/DNI)

It’s the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…

Instead of CUTTING Social Security benefits, Congress should INCREASE payments by $200 per month and extend the solvency of the Social Security program by 75 YEARS. How? Make the wealthiest Americans pay a fairer share. I’ve got a bill to get it done.