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This is going to suck for so many different people

Fun listening to it. Thanks for The fun podcast!

Most Americans Are Stressed About Grocery Costs — As Food Prices Climb The cost of food has risen faster than overall inflation in the last year.

And just like that, MAGAs stopped talking about grocery prices.

MAGAs in 2024: "Bidenflation! I can't afford to feed my family! Waaaah!😭"

Prices rise under Trump.

MAGA in 2025: "🦗"

Me: *sip*🔥☕️

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

NY Times and Democracy Docket cover the same hearing. Notice the difference in framing.

This is why -- right now-- we need independent, pro-democracy media.

Victim’s Haunting Words Show Maxwell Can Never Be Truly Free Even if Ghislaine Maxwell pulls off a pardon, the words of the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre will follow her always.

Read This: "Victim’s Haunting Words Which Show Ghislaine Can Never Be Truly Free" www.thedailybeast.com//victims-hau...

He’s giving the go ahead to kill citizens standing up to ICE…

New U.S. jobs report shows 2025 is off to a discouragingly sluggish start Over the first six months of the year, American job growth has slowed to a 15-year low. It's worth asking why.

“The question Trump and his team ought to face is simple:

'Why has American job growth slowed this year to a 15-year low?'”

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Beleaguered Weather Service defends its forecasts as Texas officials point fingers over flood warnings | CNN Texas forecasters issued a series of early-morning warnings about “life-threatening flooding” along the Guadalupe River.

"One of the NOAA labs slated to be shut down [in Trump's budget] is the National Severe Storms Lab in Norman, Oklahoma, which works to improve flash flood forecasting among other hazards from severe thunderstorms..."

www.cnn.com/2025/07/05/c...

Hmm…. Wonder how the governors of FL, GA, SC, AL, MS, LA, TX all feel about this…

We have OURS…. You all can just DIE

VOTE EVERY REPUBLICAN OUT OF OFFICE!!!!!

This 👇👇👇 exactly

As I've been saying for *years*: If we want young people to show up to vote, we need to give them local candidates who can talk about *their* issues in a genuine & authentic way, on the platforms they're on.

It's not rocket science. Just give 'em people to be excited about.

The Dogs of War What's really going on

The Dogs of War
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Defense Secretary Hegseth: "We were able to destroy nuclear capabilities. And OUR BOYS in those bombers are on their way home right now." Fox News has learned that at least one of the B2 pilots who took part in the Iran mission was female. @FoxNews

He Was Born in Philly and They Tried to Deport Him to Jamaica A Florida sheriff ignored proof of Peter Sean Brown’s U.S. citizenship and held him for ICE anyway. A federal court just ruled it was a blatant violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

"This case highlights the significant threat posed to U.S. citizens by frequent ICE errors, which are exacerbated when local law enforcement agencies participate in immigration enforcement...”

www.bet.com/article/6rdn...

Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.

I watched a screener of this from PBS — it airs next week.

Highly recommended.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Were the No Kings protests the largest single-day demonstration in American history? Depending on who you ask, between 4 and 6 million people showed up – and according to one theory, this could be a turning point

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

geniuses.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

What We Know About the ‘No Kings’ Protests on Saturday

“We want to create contrast, not conflict...”
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

A backpack with a small amount of white powdered pepperball residue on it

Removing pepperball residue from clothing and other items. This is based on my (unfortunately extensive) personal experience and experimentiation.

Pepperballs contain powdered PAVA, an oily, synthetic capsaicin analog. The only reliable way to remove it is with a good surfactant soap and water. 1/

Pete Hegseth better make sure he gets a pardon

Because it sure looks like he violated the Posse Comitatus Act

"Whoever..uses..the [military] as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both"

18 US Code § 1385

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social reacts to the Wall Street Journal reporting that Stephen Miller ordered ICE agents to target Home Depots and 7-Elevens.

Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere

Here’s the “Presidential Memorandum”:

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There’s no Insurrection Act invocation; Trump is federalizing 2000 CA Nat’l Guard personnel only to “protect federal functions.”

*Without* invoking the Insurrection Act, anything more would violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

This tweet alone warrants his impeachment and removal.

When the LA police says you are overreaching, you are overreaching.

Opinion | They are not good at this Nearly five months into Trump’s new reign of error, his administration’s mistakes are multiplying.

"Trump adviser Peter Navarro had said he wanted to secure '90 deals in 90 days.' But nearly 60 days later, Trump has secured only one — a vaguely phrased framework with Britain that still hasn’t been made public..."

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.

"Across the government, the Trump administration is scrambling to rehire many employees dismissed by DOGE initiatives after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process..."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...