I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

There he goes again

Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!

➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

Help me out here. When did Biden take office? Who was the FBI director on January 6th? Who appointed that FBI director?

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

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Government funding is the one card congressional Democrats have to play, and one they could and should use to push back against Trump's authoritarianism.

What's their big demand?

RFK Jr's resignation? Reforms in ICE? Stand down of National Guard?

NOPE.

"Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits"

In a sane world, Fox host Brian Kilmeade would be fired and shunned for his depraved comments that homeless people should be euthanized. That’s sick (and deeply ignorant), but sicker still is that it’s tolerated.

America was not founded on faith in God—it was founded on a godless Constitution that draws power from the people.

U.S. foreign policy should defend human rights, not elevate one religion above all others.

Propping up Christianity isn’t patriotism—it’s theocracy.

Humanity

A system that rips fathers from their families in immigration court is not justice; it’s cruelty. People can only take so much before heartbreak turns into resistance.

More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C. Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my research Elevating contrarian views while burying the actual science

Trump’s climate report “cherrypicks figures and parts of studies to support a preconceived narrative that minimizes the risk of climate change.” @hausfath.bsky.social knows: it was his research they twisted to fit their preconceived narrative. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

If this is accurate, it is a new world record heat index (Dayrestan Airport, Iran). 🥵

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

I will continue to stand up for those that strengthen our country. Recognizing their dignity and worth is essential to a stronger, more prosperous future for us all.

op: thedadbriefs (via IG)

YouTube video by MoveOn He Walked Right Into THIS

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32 Palestinians fatally shot trying to reach U.S. group's food distribution sites, Gaza authorities say The U.S. and Israel seek to replace the traditional U.N.-led aid distribution system in Gaza, asserting that Hamas militants siphon off supplies.

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat." Yet, hungry people desperate to reach a legitimate food distribution center are being fired upon and killed. The desperation of hunger is not a crime. This is not defense, it’s a humanitarian failure.

The rescission bill has passed the Senate. Once it passes the House, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when TV stations still broadcast in black and white.

graphic showing increases in extreme precipitation across the continental US

The National Climate Assessment may have been deleted but the planet keeps reminding us what it said

THIS is what courage looks like.Today, striking farmworkers bravely stood in front of cameras, the community, and the press, risking their jobs, safety, and future. To speak the truth. About the stolen wages. About the years of being unheard.
This is a movement. And today was a turning point.

Hot air: the most extreme heatwaves are accelerating the fastest Tropical regions where heatwaves are already common will be hardest hit by this trend.

The frequency of the longest and most dangerous heatwaves is increasing as the planet warms

National Climate Assessment Interactive Atlas The Interactive Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment of the United States provides maps, data, and stories from the 5th Assessment.

*SIGH*...apparently the NCA5 website will not be archived by NOAA. But you can still easily access the PDF of the report from the NOAA Library. It's also linked in the NCA Atlas on an Esri server nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.com

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Screen shot of interactive change in average annual temperature of the US from the Atlas of the 5th National Climate Assessment

Happy Monday! The interactive ATLAS and StoryMap of the 5th National Climate Assessment can still be reached on Esri servers at
nca-atlas-nationalclimate.hub.arcgis.com and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0c8f...

NCA5 will soon be at www.ncei.noaa.gov/nca2023/ after NOAA finishes security scans
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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

MAGA kill children. Everyone involved with DOGE have the blood of hundreds of thousands on their hands. Murderers.

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.