Connie

This is the scrambling rush of some one who knows the ship is sinking

Get ready to hear this spiel from Trump's circle as commonly as we used to hear "of course Trump will be happy to release his taxes, just as soon as the IRS completes its audit."

DHS Wants States to Hand Over Driver’s License Data for Citizenship Checks It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.

#ICYMI: The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver's license information to a swiftly expanding federal system envisioned as a one-stop shop for checking citizenship.

By @jenafifield.bsky.social and @zachdespart.bsky.social

Explain this to me, Ben. How would releasing the Epstein files help her destroy the Trump presidency? I’m not quite clear on your thinking.

USA TODAY Network: Dive into Donald Trump's thousands of lawsuits A deep dive by USA TODAY shows how Trump amassed thousands of lawsuits over three decades, unprecedented for a presidential nominee.

The notoriously litigious Donald Trump has been involved in over 4,000 lawsuits. The touchy litigant has even sued a network for editing an interview of someone else. But he has NEVER sued over allegations that his was a pedophile connected to Jeffrey Epstein. Hmm.
www.usatoday.com/pages/intera...

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.

But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.

A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Choose wisely

Ugh, she's the worst of the worst...a former "educator," god help us.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon...

-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

#AZ07

Or else

Question for those advocating a “big tent,” are you all also speaking up for NYC democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani. I often hear newly “converted” democrats with a clear history of supporting conservative ideology argue Democrats should welcome them but at the same time try to kick out progressive.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Good luck have fun

Extraordinarily corrupt. I watched FCC chair Brendan Carr's full interview on Hannity. Carr basically said straight out that coverage of Trump he deems overly hostile can be decreed contrary to the "public interest," and thus grounds for yanking licenses:

newrepublic.com/article/2006...

This just in: Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central says. His guest: Maria Ressa

By "NPR" he means me, personally.

Or so I am going to tell myself.

@ericswalwell.bsky.social on Kimmel: “That’s what it looks like in China, that’s what it looks like in Russia, that can’t be what it looks like in America”

"They say." "You never know." "Things might happen." Sounds pretty passive for the supposed alpha male of all alpha males.

Look who came with

I should have gotten the low-down from you before I even bothered to check him on-line. SO repellent.

Wish I could take credit for a recent comment I read: "The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer."

This is all just being said out loud now on the air on Fox “News”, instead of away from the cameras like before. That’s what’s changed. They’re testing the response and normalizing the idea at the same time.

I thought Governor Cox managed to come off as halfway decent the day of (even mentioning the Minnesota shooting) and then heard his speech this morning. Holy cow...

target CEO about to start wearing kente cloth

Every state that doesn't ascribe to fascism should pass a version of this bill. If I have to show my papers to the Gestapo, the Gestapo needs to show me their face and their badge number.