No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.

MAHA terrorist dumped two mags into the CDC building because he thought the covid vaccine made him ill

He’s the ‘Mozart’ of Math and Trump Killed His Funding The latest casualty in the administration’s assault on higher education is a legendary researcher who embodies the best of America.

“Moving to research in the U.S., this is a decades-long commitment—you are uprooting your family and everything, you want some assurances that there’s not really chaos,” Terence Tao said.

Trump administration: Nice to want.

“STILL BEING STUDIED”

Embarrassingly few answers about Lee & Musk’s Tesla tunnel from Comptroller Jason Mumpower

He says Musk’s Boring Company “is rated among the highest of any transportation company” — um whut?🤔

(“speed of business” = speed of corruption) www.newschannel5.com/news/comptro...

Enter the Capitol (two chambers): has perfection been the enemy of the good in passing transit bill? Buckner says no, citing Wu-Tang Clan. - Streetsblog Chicago “Cash Rules Everything Around MeC.R.E.A.M., get the moneyDollar, dollar bill y’all” – “C.R.E.A.M.” by Wu-Tang Clan, 1993 (NSFW) Indeed, cash rules everything around Springfield politicians, especially...

Enter the Capitol: Two Chambers.

Is the Illinois House's delay on voting for the Senate's transit funding/reform bill a case of letting perfect be the enemy of the good? Rep. Kam Buckner says no, using a Wu-Tang Clan metaphor.

@chicagocta.bsky.social @ctaction.org @betterstreetschicago.org

genius transit/music metaphor from Rep. Buckner

Trump Will Nominate Economic Adviser Stephen Miran to Fed Vacancy Miran is currently the head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.

Stephen Miran is a Trump loyalist and one of the chief architects of the President's chaotic tariff policy that has hurt Americans’ wallets.

I'll have tough questions for him about whether he'd serve the American people or merely serve Donald Trump.

Stephen Moore claims that he has "access to some data no one else does"

(Stephen Moore is a Project 2025 author)

This is an absolute betrayal to people who faithfully served their country. There is not a single Republican on earth who gets to utter the lie that they “care about our troops” now

WATCH: RFK Jr. orders HHS to determine the cause of autism by September Anti-vaccine advocates, including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have for years inaccurately claimed that routine childhood shots may cause autism.

Only three more weeks until RFK Jr. reveals the causes of autism.

Time flies when you’re making things up out of whole cloth.

wow can’t believe people who think cybertruck is a personality did some transgressive sophomoric sex joke shit in public

Heinous.

BREAKING: US imposes tariffs on one-kilo gold bars, per FT

Lying can be hard work when you have a semblance of a conscience atrophying within you somewhere. Most senior officials in this administration are well past that stage, and, accordingly, are not similarly burdened.

For years, corporations have been attacking democracy with big money, drowning out the voices of ordinary people and fueling much of the anger that opened the door to a snake oil salesman like Trump.

Defeating Trumpism and getting big money out of politics go hand in hand.

Tell the Supreme Court: No Stay. Hands off NIH The Supreme Court is poised to allow Trump to illegally terminate NIH grants. Let's speak out. There is not much time.

The Supreme Court is reviewing a vitally important NIH case on its shadow docket.

It is likely that the Court will back Trump, and say his (illegal) grant terminations are ok.

We must speak up now.
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Q: Does your deadline for Putin agreeing to a ceasefire still stand tomorrow?

Trump: What?

Q: Is your deadline still standing for Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire tomorrow?

Trump: It's gonna be up to him. Very disappointed

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

Nothing— and I mean nothing— about this decision is more than the bare desire to harm.

I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024. People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

BREAKING: With #2030Census prep already underway, President Trump says he's instructed Commerce Dept to "immediately begin work" on a "new" census that excludes people living in the states without legal status from a count the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state”

Trump Is Undermining Trust in Official Economic Statistics. China Shows Where That Path Can Lead China demonstrates how manipulating economic data can ultimately erode government credibility.

What happens when a government undermines trust in economic data, as the Trump admin is poised to do? China can show us:

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful' The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official The administration and its Republican allies in Congress say the International Energy Agency discourages fossil fuel investments around the world.

The purpose of energy policy is not to consume energy, any more than the purpose of ag policy is to grow corn. It's to make sure consumers have access to affordable, reliable energy. The Trump WH focuses on fossil fuel consumption because they put consumers last. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Forbes: Almost 90% of Americans are Worried about the Cost of Groceries PBS News: White House says it will begin construction on $200 million ballroom in September

Most Americans are worried about the cost of groceries.

Meanwhile, Trump is spending $200 million of taxpayers' money to build a golden ballroom.

"So the tariff is paid in this country by the importer, is that right?" -- Eugene Robinson guides Scott Bessent into acknowledging that tariffs are in fact paid in the United States, not by foreign governments

Newsmax: Trump’s tariff have “begun to create visible damage for the U.S. economy”

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen BOMBSHELL update on bomb threat against Texas Democrats

Watch the full interview with @govpritzker.illinois.gov and subscribe to support independent media: youtu.be/mXwQ3V77T5I