Kansas City, BBQ, pickling and national parks.
Trump and Elon Musk gutted the IRS so it couldn't audit and investigate wealthy tax cheats. In the process, it kneecapped IRS customer service, and now everyday taxpayers—the ones who aren't cheating—are deal with the infuriating fallout, as my colleague @smencimer.bsky.social reports.
The IRS is imploding.The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”www.motherjones.com
so he’s saying his and his party’s total control of all branches of government is illegitimate?
Aaron RuparTrump: "These disclosures reveal an election system so broken and so vulnerable that no one can possibly defend it. It is not defensible."
Please explain to me how the same senators who voted for the Epstein Transparency Acf would now vote to confirm the man who’s leading the continuing coverup of the Epstein files.
A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
The guy who got the no-bid contract for the Reflecting Pool. -Mar-a-Lago neighbor -Big Trump donor -Previously convicted of bribery - "A fantastic man,” says Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
This is a private, for-profit event, for a company the President personally has bought stock in.
SherryTrump also had the Thunder birds do a flyover during the National Anthem at the UFC event at the White House Thunderbird in DC past few days practicing How many million did that cost taxpayers And the honor guard escorts for fighters at the Lincoln Memorial? And cost of Secret Service?
Instead of taking down his name from a building, we could have just done this
Sanho Tree“A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to military drones sent over Pyongyang to help create a pretext for his failed December 2024 martial law declaration.” He could have triggered WWIII.🤬
Trump has now rolled back fishing protections in every U.S. Marine National Monument, opening millions of acres of previously protected ocean waters to commercial fishing. The move threatens critical habitat for whales, sea turtles, sharks, coral reefs, and other marine life.
STATEMENT: Trump Opens Three Marine National Monuments to U.S. Commercial Fishing Interestswww.americanprogress.org
Reality check - Trump has the worst job creation record of any President since Hoover. New, from me👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/publish/post...
Reality Check - Trump Has The Worst Jobs Record Since HooverToday, 230pm ET - The US Men's National Soccer Team plays Germany in their last warm up before the World Cup kicks off this week. Going to be a big match!www.hopiumchronicles.com
GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...
‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHubPasswords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.gizmodo.com
This would constitute one of the most brazen, most appalling acts of corruption in U.S. history. I know we’re numb to all of this but this is a seven-alarm fire. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...
Justice Dept. Officials Consider Settling Trump Suit Against I.R.S.www.nytimes.com
The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINEall this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court
It’s very simple: the 6 republican Supreme Court justices are functionally no different than klansmen
Ari BermanThis is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters
Steve Vladeck#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:
this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.
How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme CourtThe state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.www.the-downballot.comTennessee can pass a 9-0 map in two days eliminating the state's only majority Black district but a referendum approved by 3 million voters in Virginia is nullified by the courts. Total double standard
I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority
Kyle GriffinReuters: VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT INVALIDATES DEMOCRATIC-DRAWN CONGRESSIONAL MAP THAT HAD TARGETED FOUR REPUBLICAN-HELD U.S. HOUSE SEATS