We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.

We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.

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the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”

NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.

BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.

Parody of Times headline "Did Humans Going to Work Ruin Everything?" Dek: That wasn't enough wet food, I'm STARVING

Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one? The anti-tobacco playbook could help turn the US public against their beloved oversized cars.

This is a good article, worth reading.

Gigantic SUVs are a public health threat. Why don’t we treat them like one?

The anti-smoking playbook is worth studying and learning from, and is completely applicable to oversized cars.

Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in @vox.com #CarBloat

Love this for you both. I was *so close* to adopting lambo, but this is so much better.

Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!

Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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Ugh Cuomo is so awful. I’d rank:

1. Mamdani — way more left than I’d usually vote but admirably scrappy and gives a shit
2. Silwa —- racist propagandist bootlicking thug
3. Theoretical candidate whose entire platform is Edward Scissorhands giving me a prostate exam streaming on Netflix
4. Cuomo

A two-panel horizontal bar chart titled “Electoral Effects of Ideological Moderation vs. Incumbency.” The top panel, labeled “Effect of Being the Incumbent,” shows large positive estimated vote share effects (between roughly +2% and +4%) across seven different measures of ideology. All bars are to the right of zero, indicating a strong and statistically significant advantage for incumbents. The bottom panel, labeled “Effect of Moving to the Center,” shows estimated vote effects when candidates shift ideologically toward the center. Across the same seven ideology measures, the horizontal bars cluster around zero, with confidence intervals that cross zero—indicating no statistically significant electoral benefit from moving to the center. The chart visually contrasts the strong, consistent incumbency advantage against the negligible and statistically insignificant effect of ideological moderation. The note clarifies that moderation refers to shifting a candidate’s ideology toward the 95th percentile of centrist positioning.

The NYT piece is skeptical of academic data, asking for measures tied directly to voter perceptions.

This chart includes exactly that—the survey-based "Voter Perceptions" score (from the CES). It shows moving to the center has no effect on vote share, while the benefit of incumbency is clear.

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Among the more obvious differences, this was about using the Alabama National Guard to enforce federal law *in Alabama*, where the state government was defying court orders.

Note that even in that much more extreme context, Kennedy used the Alabama National Guard, not some other state's.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves.

I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct.

I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

ICYMI: Live coverage of this hearing from me and @rparloff.bsky.social, now up on our site:

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/l.g....

‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’ Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Judge Sooknanan: "These children are going to be deplaned. They're going to be returned to ORR custody. And no attempts will be made to remove them from ORR custody and remove them to Guatemala, in light of my order, while these preliminary emergency proceedings are pending."

Ok, the hearing is underway.

Drew Ensign is here for DOJ.

(The audio isn't great so I couldn't catch which attorneys are here for the plaintiffs.)

Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 unaccompanied migrant children, senator says The Trump administration plans to remove nearly 700 Guatemalan children who crossed into the U.S. without their parents

NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Donald Trump’s immediate family is making a dizzying sum of money that would be unimaginable without his Presidencies, including profits from overseas deals and at least five different crypto ventures. nyer.cm/zB0NNxq

These are all the dogs we sponsored in July ❤️‍🩹

Women and children handcuffed being taken into the downtown federal building.

Lemme explain what bilateral trade deficits are, so that you can better understand -- and perhaps be infuriated by -- the intellectual error that's transforming our economy. #TeachEcon

Who's Afraid of Zohran Mamdani? And what it means to be an immigrant on July 4th

New, from me:
The Times published a piece accusing a man born in Africa as claiming to be African-American in a failed college admission.

They viewed this story to be newsworthy enough to grant anonymity to a eugenicist working with hacked personal data.
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Excerpt from the proposed 2026 NOAA Budget, showing the total funding for climate research reduced from $220 million per year to $0.

The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:

Total, Climate Research: $0

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More than 16 million people will lose their health care under Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.”

That's enough people to fill Fenway Park 424 times.

WATCH: Marine vet Alejandro Barranco joins @chrislhayes.bsky.social after the violent beating and detainment of his immigrant father by masked agents.


"My heart's broken. I love my country. I love my dad. I love my family, I love the community. It's hard. I do feel betrayed at times."

Children Beg for Father’s Release After ICE Detains Jackson Man Activists are calling on immigration officials to release Kerlin Moreno-Orellana from ICE custody after his arrest for illegal dumping.

Two brothers, ages 8 and 10, stared nervously into news cameras on June 19, speaking with quiet determination to a group of onlookers much older than themselves.

“We need our dad back home,” the 8-year-old said.

ICE took custody of their father, Kerlin Moreno-Orellana, that morning.