OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody The agency has declined to say whether a Biden-era policy largely barring detention for pregnant and nursing mothers remains in force.

NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force.

They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health.

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Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations Files released by US Department of Justice detailed his relationship with the child sex offender

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him: ...I ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew -- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

Genuinely least self-aware motherfucker in Washington.

They Said Red America Would Stay Silent. Then It Roared “No Kings.” From the plains of Wyoming to the pews of Georgia, millions stood in defiance of tyranny. Inside are the voices, colors, and conviction of a nation finding its roar.

When our freedom is threatened because the rule of law that guarantees it has been hijacked by a lawless, tyrannical regime, WE THE PEOPLE don’t check to see which side we’re on before we fight back.

We’re on each other’s side. We have each other’s backs.

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I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

a lot of folks are asking… how does the poop plane actually work?

I prepared a diagram.

it really is a marvel of modern engineering.

My dad was a card-carrying member of Antifa, but back then it was called the United States Air Force. 💙🌊

Rand Paul talking like an actual libertarian

Wut

Timelapse of Chicago’s No Kings rally. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You? Read more here.

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

if democrats retake power they will have to wield it to rebuild civil society almost from scratch.

Homeland Security DHS account on X: Remember your Homeland's Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling

The official DHS account is now tweeting about “your homeland’s heritage”

go on

A lot of people and organizations have stayed on X because many members of their audience are still there. But for most of them, their engagement is steadily falling. Even for bigger accounts. This is by design. They’re wasting time when they could be rebuilding elsewhere. It’s sunk cost fallacy.

OMFG.

Live in San Francisco right now.

Check out Kentucky resist protesters in the 4th of July parade.

🚨👇🏽THIS THIS THIS👇🏽🚨

A little town in Vermont decided to make their 4th of July parade also about fighting fascism.

Even the New York Post understands it.

So does he think that makes it all okay?

This last minute freeze of funds will cripple summer classes and camps scheduled to begin soon, leaving poor working parents without options. Shameful. Illegal. Wrong.

After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.

25 dead so far across Texas from flooding. Local authorities are blaming poor forecasting.

It’s all so tragically predictable and criminally negligent.