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Scott has spent the last 15 years of his life working in the highest echelons of government, as FL Governor (from 2011-2019) and as a U.S. Senator (since 2019), during which time he has undermined every effort to use the tools of governance to improve the public sphere.

A black and white photo of a young Mary Beth Tinker wearing a black arm band sitting next to her mother.

57 years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of students' right to protest the Vietnam War in our landmark case Tinker v. Des Moines.

The law is clear: Students don't hang up their free speech rights at the schoolhouse gate.

Tellingly, Johnson is once again facing a revolt from the women in his party about Gonzales. And they aren't RINOs: They're hardcore MAGA folks like Nancy Mace, Anna Paulina Luna and Lauren Boebert. He can't dismiss them.

Elizabeth Warren on CNBC: "The point that no one is fighting over is that the American family paid for Donald Trump's illegal tariffs. And when you take money from people illegally, you gotta give it back."

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

Yes, that's why DoD is mad at them

And yet he was still re-elected.

Imagine winning an Olympic gold medal in men's hockey and then *immediately* destroying every bit of that coolness by partying with a graspy little dork like Kash Patel.

SEN ELIZABETH WARREN: President Trump's broken promise on credit cards President Trump could lower costs quickly if he would follow through on his campaign promise to put a 10% cap on credit card interest rates.

www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

Six weeks ago, Donald Trump called me. He said he wanted to cap credit card interest rates.

There's still no relief for the American people.

Ahead of Trump’s State of the Union address, I wrote about his broken promises on credit card affordability.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed.

I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

“Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated - and suggestions otherwise are fake news.” - White House, June 25, 2025 www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

“We don’t need raw milk or ivermectin.”

Wired out here just absolutely DECIMATING all the good faith they've built with genuinely good reporting over the last few years.

If I still worked for Wired I would be absolutely apoplectic right now about.

"Laughing stock of the world" is an understatement.
"Moronic and psychotic" is generous.
The Bozo Fascist is the most ridiculous parody of evil since Snidely Whiplash, but rather than being a cartoon villain, he's the president with his finger on the nuclear button.
It's no joke. Resist.

Has to be an impersonator because "Chuck Schumer who can't cook a cheeseburger" is the funniest thing I've ever heard

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

Conservative Georgia town pushes back against ICE detention center: ‘We are Americans after all’ Social Circle, a mostly Maga town, builds strange bedfellow coalition against plans to convert warehouse

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE...

“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees.

“I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I ran the numbers in my newsletter two weeks ago. The $100 mill the Post lost in 2024 was equal to about two days of the increase in his net worth since he bought the paper.
www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

MIKE LAWLER: As a long-term mechanism, I don't support tariffs

KATZ: But didn't you vote for tariffs? You say Congress should be a check, but you haven't done it. This is the problem with the GOP

LAWLER: Respectfully, I've pushed back on numerous things

“Great Man” theories of history may have been wrong but “That F*ing Guy” theory looks increasingly plausible.

"El Paso's airport is closed for ten days."

"No, wait, it's open now."

"TSA PreCheck is suspended."

"No, wait, it's back up now."

It's utterly irrational how much joy this tweet brings me.

Pope Leo Will Spend July 4 Visiting Migrant Crossing Island Pope Leo has spoken out against the treatment of migrants in the United States several times over the last year.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

This is what I keep saying: the right base *wants* this. Trump conformed himself to their desires and it turns out what they desire is violent thuggery & racism.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

Feels like another (likely missed...) messaging opportunity for Dems...

The administration is literally laughing about how they won't give back the $175 billion they illegally stole from you.

This is the kind of news cycle when on day two or three you can pitch the 17th century history story.