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YouTube video by Principles First Principles First Virtual Town Hall: Bridges Not Walls

Was proud to have participated in this bridges-building town hall hosted by Principles First.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_FY...

Dear America:

Quick reminder here. You can’t blame Democrats for how things are running in DC when you gave Republicans control of the White House, the House and the Senate.

Whatever it is you think they should be doing to stop Trump, there aren’t enough of them in office now to do it.

Another great gathering of @principlesfirst.bsky.social! Tonight, folks came from Florida, Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia to Greenville, SC to hear our message of restoring principles into our politics. Join us!

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

Breaking NYT:

A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill Trump's deportation campaign, according to a whistleblower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

CNN: Breaking news now, as President Trump announcing that the U.S. has bombed sites in Iran

Update from Maggie Haberman

Trump announces that US bombers have hit three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordo, and have left Iranian airspace, inserting the United States directly into Israel's offensive campaign against the Islamic state. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Ahhh New Haven

Another remarkable view down 5th Avenue.

Tens of thousands united in saying no to Trump, no to ICE, no to fascism and #NoKings.

(🎥 Unheard Voices)

After analyzing more than 100 videos I can easily say millions of people are protesting Trump today. Without a doubt. #NoKings

Must-not-watch TV. Yawn. Boring.

Yawn

JPMORGAN: “.. The trade war shock is still material. .. we now estimate an effective ex-ante tariff rate of 14.4%. This is akin to a $475bn tax hike on US households and businesses, worth 1.6% of GDP (still sitting close to the largest tax hike in the post WWII period).”

It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…

Wild: House bill would strip courts of contempt enforcement power In the ongoing public discussion about whether the courts will try to rein in the Trump administration’s lawlessness, or will prevail in a resulting showdown if they do, the story that follows has bee...

New from me: language in the House reconciliation process would gut courts' power to enforce contempt rulings. That's a threat to justice not only in the Trump disputes at hand, but also across the private economy and, crucially, in other areas where government has violated constitutional rights. /1

Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies.

The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits.

Maybe it's not the judges?

You could not distill Trumpism any further

multiple issues here:
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate

Trump seems genuinely surprised and unsettled when bullying doesn’t work.

He thought Putin was “genius” and “savvy” for attacking Ukraine, and is frustrated it hasn’t worked already. Similar with tariffs on US allies.

When targets fight back rather than bow down, it throws off his whole worldview.

Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

“People should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions.” @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @shaneharris.bsky.social share the group chat in which officials planned strikes on Yemen. theatln.tc/AHkpb39A

They have zero clue how strongly everyone - but especially seniors - feel about social security payments (aka, their money).

Discussed this with my undergrads just now and asked them what their immediate first question should be in response, and one young man said “what is illegal protest?” to which I replied “ding, ding ding!”

YouTube video by Principles First Mark Cuban on Politics, Principles & Leadership

youtu.be/KCgT47gL2jE?...

If you worked for 18F and got fired, Group together to start a consulting company.

It’s just a matter of time before DOGE needs you to fix the mess they inevitably create.

They will have to hire your company as a contractor to fix it. But on your terms.

I’m happy to invest and/or help

Setmayer: No, you got your chance and I'm going to have mine right now about this for the for the law enforcement officers who lost their careers, who almost lost their lives, who protected those ungrateful bastards…

As always, the core question is what is meant by "the media." If it's left to the responder to decide what "media" is, it can range from your neighbor's camping tips podcast to Better Homes and Gardens magazine to NBC News to WaPo to Dan Bongino's tweets.

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

Rumors of a $40 million Musk ad buy appear to have been unfounded

Hooray! Let's do it- 162 games here we go.