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This is important to say as a matter of both truth and political messaging: There is nothing less manly than being obsessed with other people's genitals and trying to police who's manly enough. The proper response is not "That's not appropriate." It's "Get lost, you loser, you creep, you pervert."

"The rejected 30-second spot features Trump calling journalists 'the enemy of the people' and suggested that Trump-allied Paramount chairman and CEO David Ellison could force CNN, the flagship Warner Bros. news network, to soften its reporting on the president and his administration."

Plaintiffs in the Kennedy Center renaming case ask judge to order Trump to explain what the tarp/scaffolding is about. "Willfully sabotaging the KC's iconic facade to assauge Defs' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Vance is so intent on demonstrating Iran has "transformed" that he went on TV to claim the Strait of Hormuz was open after Iran closed it, again. In fact, it's US policy Vance wants to transform, by allying the United States with authoritarian regimes, like Iran's and Russia's, as I discussed here.

"Chattel slavery stole people’s families, intellectual creations, land, access to resources, and, for some, spiritual foundations."

Still processing that conservatives spent decades insisting that religious institutions and wealthy philanthropists should take care of poor and desperate people (rather than governments) and then the last few years insisting that both divest from empathy, charity, and philanthropy.

I’m sure Trump will catch the vandals desecrating the Reflecting Pool just about the time that Captain Queeg catches the thieves who absconded with his strawberries.

Again, I guess this wasn't news earlier because Haberman & Swan needed to make money publishing books instead of doing their jobs. Congrats again, too, to the elites who told us this man was a credible Treasury Secretary because it’s a Big Club & he had the right degrees & went to the right parties

Something something Every Day is Jan. 6 now something from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy something no self governing society something can survive by denying that it exists something something The NYT Editorial Board told you this, but they clearly did not believe it.

I know it’s just an advanced reader copy, but look at this beauty!! Thank you so much for sending, @sonyabonczek.bsky.social! (Sonya’s the one to ask if you’re looking for one!)

The Shroud of the Lost Trump Memorial at the Kennedy Center is one of the more bizarre sights in DC, trumped only by the Trump Algae Pool, a massive failed amateur science project in front of the Lincoln Memorial.

Not at all the point of the story but: a *bag*? Not even an old yogurt container or a Pyrex, like a normal person would use to keep a wet food substance? Is he asking his wife to just put a Ziploc of loose sauerkraut in her luggage?

Five States Pass Laws to Block Trump Election Interference https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/20/five-states-pass-laws-to-block-trump-election-interference/

The problem isn't that the Dem fPOTUSs are appearing with GWB. The problem is that the 4 of them aren't loudly & collectively calling for Trump's resignation or removal & condemning the fascism. Bush was awful but he wasn't a fascist. The national front must be a big tent, & these guys need to lead.

Honestly to be this paranoid all the time, to believe everyone and everything that exists outside of your preferences is a scam, is a sign of psychosis The man is unwell. The party is a conspiracy-theory petri dish. And its all so unbelievably fucking boring and predictable and exhausting.

I'm just a Professor at CUNY Brooklyn College, a teaching college, where I teach many students.... and also published a major reinterpretation of US migration and *citizenship* history. Teaching and research are not zero sum. CUNY is however chronically underfunded. Ponderous read. Skip it. 🙄

On one hand, don’t do this, on the other, well….

A better title: "Trump Brings Rampant Hunger Back to the Richest Country on Earth"

Let’s see how the U.S. proposes to maintain freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz…

The Affordability Agenda is a new luxury airliner

This is the most important new thing in the world: cheap 24/7 renewable power via grid-scale batteries

Right wing oligarchs are dominating the information environment. Harper-Collins is a Murdoch-controlled (NewsCorp) publishing house. Looking forward to the sales #’s of VP Vance’s book. Amazon / Goodreads (Bezos-controlled) bsky.app/profile/sanh...

This is excellent; thanks, Greg

🎁 link: wapo.st/4uOm7ek

Someone has certainly been destroying a lot of government property.

The Trump administration wanted the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to be “American flag blue.” A water-treatment expert explains why the pool is still algal green and why the bloom could keep coming back

The Antifa super soldier is algae

Who would do such a thing?

I do not understand what London is supposed to do with 100 degrees. The whole premise of that city is that the only weather is damp.

Republicans claiming there is widespread fraud in government are effectively saying Elon Musk is a moron. Trump gave him a free hand and a chainsaw to weed it out just a year and a half ago cepr.net/publications...

NYC ….!

I don’t know I’ve ever seen a person’s genuine smile be quite so unsettling

@liberalcurrents.com sent out a piece about me this morning: “What if the excesses of the right—the corruption, the lawlessness, the violent rhetoric, and actual political violence—are pushing some otherwise normie liberals into radical politics?”

Despite the difficulty in getting here, I'm excited to see my first World Cup game. The view from our seats is pretty awesome.

Rising measles cases offer a dire warning: Secretary Kennedy has brought longterm harm to children, and the Trump/Kennedy outbreaks of pertussis and measles are just part of it. wapo.st/4w6dixA

Live your life in a way and write the kind of book that will not get you savaged on book websites challenge.

It was just a year and a half ago that Trump set Elon Musk loose with his chainsaw to weed out all the fraud in government, yet now Republicans say it's everywhere. Is Elon Musk fucking incompetent or what? deanbaker22.substack.com/p/republican...

I think maybe Israel might not care what Vance thinks.

Well, friends, Maximum Dog was too persistent for the bodysuit, so we have upgraded to the donut. He's not as enthusiastic about it as we are.

Interesting. I also find people who use it to do simple tasks to be dullards.

"Polymarket built near-perfect copies of its website, then instructed creators to make simulated trades...and hide that they were being paid by Polymarket." US market is targeted, even though Polymarket's platform is banned here; the company knows you can access via VPN www.wsj.com/business/med...

<-than-full democracies also are more likely to lose wars because - in this case, having bypassed the legislature at home & the UN Security Council internationally - they have a harder time making credible commitments & are more likely to rush into wars before building support at home & with allies.

These deaths are on Elon Musk

YOU, AN EDUCATED PERSON: Freud was an irresponsible cokehead pervert and psychoanalysis was unscientific nonsense. THE MODERN RIGHT: Literally all we can talk about is our sexual hangups, we have nothing else.

👇🎯 Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of American Politics

Yes, you all have made it abundantly clear you do not understand diplomacy

Influencers and ultra-rich people looking to extend their lifespan are trading tips and tricks on how to eke out extra years

lol, so some unnamed vandals poured chemicals into the reflecting pool? Chemicals that turn into algae?

The richest man in the world dismantled USAID which has led to an Ebola outbreak and developed a technology that identified a girls school to bomb.

"They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real; The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Sometimes I make friends with salad: tomato /stone fruit,/edible flowers on whipped goat cheese

What do words mean anymore? "The day after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect, Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 23 people and wounded 20 others on Saturday, Lebanese media reported." us18.campaign-archive.com?e=a2a5859e96...

Antifa/Algae obviously stabbed the country in the back with respect to Iran/Reflecting Pool.

The Iran war ended, as Trump had predicted in March, with a surrender. Unfortunately, it was a US surrender. But too many people seem to be learning the wrong lesson. The problem was not getting out of the war, but getting in. A gift link to my column: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Breaking: National Guard seen actually guarding something in D.C. for the first time since Trump's useless deployment.

I FOR ONE APPLAUD THE USE OF THE NATIONAL GUARD TO PROTECT THE ALGAE. With the Strait closed again, we need the biofuel. #Satire

I'm giving the batter a 48 hour rest time, delayed gratification.

It me On Serbian TV Pleased to speak about the U.S.-Iran MOU.

I take no joy in human suffering except for when it’s teams I like doling out hilarious beatings to teams I hate. I am currently cackling

For the record: Not government waste: Low-income people staying on Medicaid and SNAP. Actual government waste: ⬇️

The thing is, X is the everything app. It’s exactly as correct as it is popular. It’s as full of intelligent people as it is a source of good memes. It’s as good a place for restaurant reviews as it is for socks descriptions. As in: everything about it is equally bad, there is nothing good.

Apart from the obvious fact that the 'deal' would never hold up, Iran has a strong incentive to show that it can close the Strait at will after the end of hostilities, to coordinate everyone's expectations that no one (aka the US) will dare to do anything to stop them

www.foreignaffairs.com/hungary/how-...

My husband’s cousin found my book Coverage Denied in the wild! If you’re interested in learning more about the politics driving the all-too-prevalent health insurance barriers in the U.S., and how this shapes patients’ and physicians’ experiences of burden, give it a read! a.co/d/01eRsyF1

This is so dumb, but also NICE is what the UK Agency that decided on health care - aka, the “death panels” – is called

People with “fearful” or “preoccupied” insecure attachment styles had more children, whereas securely attached people had fewer, according to a recent study

Any anti-Trump candidate needs, at a minimum, to promise legislation to eliminate any form of little green men in the United States. And the only way to enact any major anti-Trump legislation that is enforced is Supreme Court reform. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_...

This isn't "equal treatment," "merit-based treatment," or (to use the words that the Trump Administration has tried to turn into a cruel joke) "Gold Standard Science." It's just discrimination against minorities. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

"But that might change, and, even for now, public shaming – peaceful but unquiet – is an appropriate response to shameless perpetrators."

Crawling back under the rock from whence I came. Enjoy your weekend!

lol “embrace war mindset,” a phrase coined by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com to talk about taking resistance seriously, in a video about Virginia democrats and the state Supreme Court

WAITING FOR ELMO no wait that exists

Neighbor’s hydrangea down the street

it seems unusually weird for vance to double down on lies about iran’s capacity to close the strait. is the audience just trump? keep him assuaged and hands off the trigger? because nobody in the world of reality can buy it.

Judge Jeanine is seeking an indictment of the algae.

Phillies I love you so much for this but can you do this when we have Kruk on the air because it would introduce new thoughts and phrases to the lexicon that we can’t even imagine

It is cool to invade the Capitol and beat police officers. But don't get near the peeling, algae coated paint in Trump's pool.

I’m guessing the algae reflecting pool has totally broken through with normies to an extent other more serious things have not?

Miller, of all people, calling Talarico "bizarre" is the ultimate in self-parody.

Excited to see the PA state legislature is working to make health insurance CEOs liable for criminal penalties when their wrongful coverage denials cause serious injury or death. My book Coverage Denied elaborates on the scope of this policy problem: a.co/d/08hyQ9qt. www.abc27.com/local-news/m...

It really would be good if the reporters who cover Republican politicians claiming widespread fraud in government could learn about Elon Musk and DOGE.

Vance should be heading to the Gulf, where he can demonstrate that the Strait of Hormuz is actually open, by piloting a vessel thought it.

Historian here @gregsargent.bsky.social quotes Lincoln beautifully: That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.

All Putin can do now is use terror.

Narrator: Trump's thugs arrested an Olympic cyclist for touching some peeling, algae covered paint.

Algae protection squad.

Stein’s Law remains undefeated 🇬🇧

Autistic children are subjected to a stem cell treatment with no known benefits, that costs up to $20,000 per treatment and involves heavy sedation, promoted and helped by Secretary Kennedy, says @edpilkington.bsky.social in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This guy does a lot of long threads and they’re always so damn good.

This loathsome scum is such a toxic misogynist.

Interesting that Trump didn't have this same attitude toward the serious destruction his domestic terrorists did to our nation's Capitol on January 6th.

Approaching my Father's Day gift.

Thesis: LLM-driven automation is overrated. More general ML-driven robotics automation is underrated. Implication: many non-computer jobs that now seem safe from AI disemployment are in fact at more at risk than many computer jobs. Dunno if that’s right but something I’ve been thinking about.

The danger is not only that Trump attacks courts. It’s that he wants a Justice Department built around loyalty to him — while weakening the legal checks that protect everyone else. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social and I talk habeas corpus and DOJ independence. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Ireland is a major cog In the Russian murder machine. The Irish government claims to be "investigating" whether a Russian plant in Ireland that sends a commodity crucial to building weapons to Russia during wartime is using the product to ... build weapons.

Nmecha’s pass is perfect, too

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If you know, you know. Cc @bhighsmith.bsky.social

I’ve a feeling we’re not in France anymore, Tôtô

This will do.