Kris Bryant

Mr. Smith goes to Washington

My 1st mortgage in 1981 was at 16 3/4% with 20% down.

June 12, 2025 At a press conference for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles today, Noem’s security assaulted Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), dragged him into the hallway, forced him to the floor,...

June 12, 2025

Trump is now saying that "good" undocumented workers - employed, usually at punishingly low wages, by huge farms and other businesses often owned by GOP donors - will be excluded from his deportation sweeps. Hmmm.

Brutal Trump takedown by @governor.ca.gov Newsom

Photo of President Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, during a meeting in the Oval Office in April 2025. Trump has praised Bukele as “one hell of a president.” Credit: Al Drago/The Washington Post/Getty Images

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison.

But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

Especially since the parade is on Saturday

Trump went full Col. Jessup for this 😂

What the hell

You can’t sell me on the guy in stilts being a threat

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their break-up, DOGE shows no signs of slowing down—and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

Meanwhile, many members of the original DOGE strikeforce, which included young, inexperienced engineers who accessed some of the most sensitive data at government agencies, are now being converted into full-time government employees.

Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

The FEMA head didn’t know about hurricane season and they’ve gutted NOAA weather monitoring. Musk and RFK eviscerated our public health programs. The FAA is in shambles. Trump’s tariff reckoning is coming due. And the DHS head of counterterrorism is a 22-year-old bro.

This summer is going to ROCK!

On left:

Supreme Court: Questions of statutory interpretation of Alien Enemies Act are subject to judicial review

Middle:

SCOTUS dissent: We all agree 9-0

(ALL federal judges have agreed on this.)

Right:

Monday, Judge John Holcomb: No court should interpret AEA; POTUS decides what it means.

June 1, 2025 Even as government agents from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ramp up their arrests and confrontations, the lug nuts on the wheels of the White House bus continue to loosen.

June 1, 2025

Opinion | Ukraine just rewrote the rules of war A drone attack damaged Russia’s bomber fleet — and exposed air base vulnerabilities worldwide.

@maxboot.bsky.social: "Zelensky just played — if you will pardon the phrase — his trump card: Ukrainian ingenuity. The Ukrainians have consistently shown themselves to be more courageous and skilled than their enemies...The Ukrainians are signaling they refuse to be defeated." 🎁 wapo.st/3Hoj3lX

Aircraft carriers of the world
USA
UK
France
Ukraine

Large-Scale Ukrainian Attack Targets Air Bases in Russia

Breaking News: Ukraine launched one of its broadest aerial assaults of the war against air bases inside Russia as another round of cease-fire talks was planned.

Trump: “Ukraine has no cards!”

Ukraine <destroys 1/3rd of Russias bomber force>

Trump: “”

Trump's Clone Wars Week in Review: June 1, 2025

Trump is disseminating a bonkers theory about how Biden was assassinated in 2020 and the Biden you have seen for the past 5 years is a clone. I have some questions:

Who executed Biden in 2020? How long has Trump been aware of this conspiracy and why are we just hearing about this now? /1

Musk and Trump Are Increasingly Unpopular, New Polling Finds Elon Musk and Donald Trump are more unpopular nearly three months into Trump's second term as president.

The article was great, but where Rolling Stone really hit it out of the park was choosing THIS picture to go with it!
(For Alt users, it's the one of Crazy Donald's Discount Teslas car push outside the White House)
TnT

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

🚨 Tucked into the Republican BS Budget (section 70302) is a provision that would prevent courts from holding members of the Trump admin accountable via contempt rulings.

Meaning, a judge could order an action (Ex: return illegally deported people), but couldn't force COMPLIANCE of those orders. 😳 🎧

America, we must stand up against the bully in the Oval Office | Opinion This longtime GOP senator knows Donald Trump relishes being called a strongman. That’s the wrong word. | Opinion

From former Republican United States Senator John C. Danforth: America, we must stand up against the bully in the Oval Office
www.thestate.com/opinion/arti...

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

"It'll just die a whimper," Lavingia told Reuters. "So much of the appeal and allure was Elon." He said he expected DOGE staffers to "just stop showing up to work. It's like kids joining a startup that will go out of business in four months."

all of the Silicon Valley pathologies on display at DOGE

It's The Oligarchy, Stupid We're staring down the barrel of the largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world. Let's get on the same page.

NEW: Everything wrong in America is because of the ultra-wealthy. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/its-the-ol...

EU uses record-low energy amid efficiency gains and renewables surge The EU's gross available energy fell by 4.1% in 2023, but Europe is now doing more with less. Renewables now supply 19.5% of energy, with Nordic countries leading the transition.

The EU's gross available energy fell by 4.1% in 2023, but Europe is now doing more with less. Renewables now supply 19.5% of energy, with Nordic countries leading the transition.

#EuropeInMotion

Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.

The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.

Welcome to the Resistance, Leonard! Wait till he finds out you wanted to put me on the Second Circuit!! 🤣