Amanda

The US Open has a jumbotron advertising for the UAE? So gross 🤢

He's saluting. He's an idiot.

Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says

whoa!

(gift link so you can read without the paywall)

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests The Agriculture Department said it would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

Trump’s decision “will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding, including about 30% of the land in the National Forest System — encompassing 92% of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world…”

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

“The unspoiled land in question includes millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho…”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/c...

As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void

Gift article. Please share. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...”

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’ The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee

Trump Republicanism cashiers the nation’s public health system in exchange for… what, exactly?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’ The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee

Gift article. Please share. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

G.O.P. Bill Has $1.1 Trillion in Health Cuts and 11.8 Million Losing Care, C.B.O. Says

Gift article. Please share. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

Republicans want 1.1 *trillion* dollars in cuts to Americans' health care.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

Today, a chamber that once filled me with wonderment made me feel disgust.

BREAKING: Trump admin is releasing three-time felon Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes and sparing him from deportation in exchange for "testifying" against Kilmar Abrego García. 🤔 Trump is trying to keep this plan quiet. You know what to do.

Remember this?

The Supreme Court has turned itself into a one-branch dictatorship. They seized the wheel, slammed the brakes, and walked the fuck away. Thousands of lives in chaos, and they won’t be back till October. We’re living under judicial terrorism.

Feels weird to barge in with good news, but The Onion is hiring two more fellows:

Here's a link to our Graphics Fellowship: jobs.gusto.com/postings/the...

Here's a link to our Video Fellowship:
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Solid pay + full benefits for six months. Come make stupid shit with us.

www.mediaite.com Top Lawyers, Jan. 6 Prosecutors Urge DC Court to Investigate Trump Appointee for ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’ in Scathing Letter

Top Lawyers, Jan. 6 Prosecutors Urge DC Court to Investigate Trump Appointee for ‘Violations of His Oath of Office’ in Scathing Letter https://twp.ai/4imdQh

The DEI purge at the Pentagon is White Supremacy.

The dismantling of the Dept of Education is Christian Nationalism.

The rampage by the kids in DOGE is just petty dumbfuckery.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

“This is bullsh*t. This is not a real strategy. The reason why you do this is because you think your constituents are too dumb to understand how congressional procedure works.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social

Call your Democratic senators and urge them not to cave: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

JD Vance booed at Kennedy Center Vice President JD Vance was booed while attending a National Symphony Orchestra concert at The Kennedy Center on March 13.

It has been a day; maybe you’d also like to listen to Vance being booed at the Kennedy Center?

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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

Judge rejects DOJ's effort to expand reach of Trump’s Jan. 6 pardon U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, called the Justice Department's position irrational.

NOTABLE: Trump-appointed judge rejects Justice Department effort to expand Trump Jan. 6 pardon to cover gun crime unrelated to #CapitolRiot. w/@kyledcheney
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

It ain’t just progressives

You ever notice how people who say the tariffs will cause "some disturbances" and "some discomfort" are people with a net worth in millions and billions WHO WILL NEVER FEEL THE FUCKING PAIN?

YOU will feel it.
I will feel it.

But our pain is a sacrifice they're willing to make.

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill.

They vote in the morning.
☎️: (202) 224-4451

Newsmax reveals it agreed to pay Smartmatic $40M in settlement with the voting machine company Smartmatic settled a related defamation lawsuit in April against One America News for an undisclosed sum.

Newsmax reveals it agreed to pay Smartmatic $40M in settlement with the voting machine company

www.nbcnews.com/media/newsma...

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.