Shell Game

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.

Translation: “I’ve discovered that TikTok is a great propaganda channel for me, especially with disaffected young white men, so now it’s okay.”

Inside the digital publishing industry, which I try to monitor closely, this is the big news. By Julia Alexander at Puck.

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."

The private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, ADP says Economists polled by Dow Jones forecasted an increase of 100,000 for the month.

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?

A bar graph. On the left side is a bar showing that Republicans are cutting $930 billion from Medicaid. On the right side is a bar showing that Republicans are giving $910 billion in tax breaks to corporations under their budget bill, paid for by gutting Medicaid.

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 Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says The Danish government is to clamp down on the creation and dissemination of AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to ensure that everybody has the right to their own body, facial features and voice. The Danish government said on Thursday it would strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities with what it believes to be the first law of its kind in Europe. Continue reading...

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).