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I think it’s fair to say there have been more overt attacks on and threats to freedom of expression in the US since January than in our entire history. And recently they are accelerating and getting more brazen.

Everybody gamely says “Vance hosted Kirk’s podcast” instead of “the regime officially turned the major channel into state-controlled media just as it began its violent crackdown on any opposition or dissident messages.”

Seems like a good time to point out that grocery prices are increasing and unemployment is up and, unless you’re a billionaire or a person with a mass-deportation kink, no normal American’s life has improved in any way since Trump took office. I have a column on this posting in the morning.

Keep the two distinct in your head.

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

Trump's #BigUglyBill would cost 11.8 MILLION Americans their healthcare coverage. It would close rural hospitals across the country. And it would add to the national debt. This is a terrible plan and we’re fighting like hell to stop it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

‘Congress exists’: Bay Area lawmakers deride Trump’s decision to bomb Iran as unlawful Bay Area congressional Democrats condemned the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran, saying President Trump overstepped his authority and thrust the country into another risky Middle East conflict.

Bay Area congressional Democrats condemned the U.S. bombing of nuclear sites in Iran, saying President Trump overstepped his authority and thrust the country into another risky Middle East conflict. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

BREAKING: Youtube Just Suspended Us We need your help now more than ever.

BREAKING: Youtube has suspended our channel for 7 days and given us a "strike" for posting this video of Rudy Giuliani and Trump from the 90's, marking it as "nudity and sexual content." This is insane. Please spread this below and join our substack here. substack.com/@reallyameri...

First-term Donald Trump credited George Washington's army for seizing airports from the British. Second-term Donald Trump claims Iwo Jima is in Europe.

Pete Hegseth is a FUCKING IDIOT
NOW THIS

A trump initiative signed by Trump
Brought up Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio

WHO ELSE AGREES?! 🤚

Every. Single. One. 😎✨

Elly's Superman impression helps spark historic 24-run rout BALTIMORE -- On a day when the Reds enjoyed an offensive eruption not seen in a generation, a defensive play perhaps stood out most. Of course, it came from none other than All-Star shortstop Elly De ...

Elly De La Cruz made a dazzling play and hit a home run while the offense had a 24-run explosion for a series win at Baltimore. www.mlb.com/reds/news/el...

Wait....So Chuck Schumer is a HEN....

Reds have only one hit but are up 5-0 after three innings vs. PIT. Last two runs scored on a wild pitch/E2... De La Cruz scored from 2B while Steer came home all the way from 1B. Not sure I've seen an E2 become a three-base error/run scored before.

In the Nuremberg judges trial, the judges who helped grease the wheels of Nazi atrocities argued that they were just applying the horrific law, and should not be held accountable.

Roberts, Gorsuch, Alito, Kavanaugh, and Thomas don’t even have that excuse. They’re making up their own horrific law.

What’s old is new again. Heinie Groh, who helped the Reds win the 1919 World Series, would feel right at home with today’s “torpedo” bats.

Sums it up

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Arrogant. Amateurish. Lacking in situational awareness. A huge security breach that opens operations to foreign actors and puts our military at risk.

A staggering story.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts Academics from US hoping to escape funding freezes and ideological impositions are being actively recruited

European universities offer ‘scientific asylum’ to US researchers fleeing Trump’s cuts https://twp.ai/1WGBY6

The Brits in particular, who lost hundreds of soldiers supporting the failed US missions in both Iraq and Afghanistan, seem like they would be pretty sensitive about being called freeloading cowards by the Americans!

Senator Ossoff says something that MAGA can’t deny.

“Trump and his cabinet are the elites whom they pretend to hate. They don’t care about the middle class.”

Putin just called Trump’s bluff on Ukraine, with the Russian art of the ‘no’ deal | CNN The US president has palpably lost his first direct diplomatic face-off with his Russian counterpart. For millions of Ukrainians his next choice defines their lives.

Putin playing Trump like a rusty fiddle.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/e...

Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.

Dear Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, and the entire Senate GOP, all of whom obeyed the wanna-be king and voted yes on RFK Jr.: Thanks for nothing. Relitigating settled science won't save money. But it will almost certainly cost lives. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won. Here are the numbers...

Did we choose though? www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...

Holy shit!! Trump just slipped on live TV that he lost the 2020 presidential election.

Trump would HATE it if this goes viral:

Let this sink in.

Trump’s Ukraine Deal Could Give Russia Everything It Wants A frozen conflict in Ukraine is tantamount to a Russian victory.

“Any deal that allows Russia once again to avoid defeat would be a betrayal of the Ukrainians, a win for the Russians, and a blunder by the United States.”
My latest. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ukra...