Trump wrote a racy birthday letter to Epstein, Wall Street Journal reports The president denies writing the letter, which comes amid heightened scrutiny of his relationship to the accused sex trafficker.

The DOJ reviewed a suggestive 2003 letter from Trump to Epstein as part of its investigation into the convicted sex offender, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The letter, which the president says is “fake,” was part of a book of messages organized by Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s 50th birthday.

BREAKING: According to documents reviewed by the WSJ, a letter bearing Trump's name was sent to Epstein in '03. Trump has denied its existence.

Some supporters of this ideology have endorsed slavery.

Are you paying attention yet?

What We Must Understand About the Dark Enlightenment Movement The “Dark Enlightenment” movement and Curtis Yarvin have curried favor with tech executives in recent years, writes Ed Simon.

With ties to Peter Thiel—
Because of course it does time.com/7269166/dark...

While this injunction is good news, Planned Parenthood predicts the Big Ugly Bill will force 200 clinics to close-even in states where abortion is legal

“Stripping..communities of access to..health services like birth control, STI testing, and cancer screenings is not just bad policy-it’s reckless”

Judge Temporarily Blocks Government From ‘Defunding’ Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging the law in a Massachusetts federal court Monday.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging the law in a Massachusetts federal court Monday.

NEW: Planned Parenthood just won a temporary injunction that will allow its clinics to continue receiving Medicaid funding for services unrelated to abortion — despite a provision in the GOP tax law blocking such funding.

We asked Trump’s former prisons chief how $45 billion will reshape immigrant detention We also asked an ACLU attorney, a private prisons expert, and the ex-commissioner of New York City's jails.

The "big beautiful bill" that Trump just signed allocates a staggering $45 billion towards ICE's detention of immigrants over the next 4 years. Compare that to the $3.9 bn that ICE currently spends annually on detention, per @motherjones.com

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ukraine war briefing: Sanctions over Russian chemical weapons on battlefield Deaths as Kharkiv, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia come under attack; Ukraine hits warhead plant and oil refinery in Russia. What we know on day 1,231

Ukraine war briefing: Sanctions over Russian chemical weapons on battlefield

Good night and good luck Why corporate media—including CBS owner Paramount—is bending the knee.

Trump doesn't need to censor corporate media. It's enough to threaten their bottom line. There is no better illustration of why we need (and need to support) independent newsrooms. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Charlize is 49, making that a 23 year difference.

By comparison, Trump is 79 and Melania is 55 -- a 24 year difference.

And Stormy Daniels is 46 — a 33 year difference.

I’m sure Megyn would offer the exact same criticism of Trump… 🙄

Megyn Kelly Shames Charlize Theron For Admitting To One-Night Stand With 26-Year-Old Bitter much, Megyn?

Sounding bitter, Megyn.

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding Senator on vacation abroad while Texas was hit by deadly floods, a disaster worsened by forecasting cuts, critics say Ted Cruz has had quite a week. On Tuesday, the Texas senator ensured the Republican spending bill slashed funding for weather forecasting, only to then go on vacation to Greece while his state was hit by deadly flooding, a disaster critics say was worsened by cuts to forecasting. Cruz, who infamously fled Texas for Cancun when a crippling winter storm ravaged his state in 2021, was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday, a day after a flash flood along the Guadalupe River in central Texas killed more than 100 people, including dozens of children and counselors at a camp. Continue reading...

Ted Cruz ensured Trump spending bill slashed weather forecasting funding

Red Sea cargo ships face new attacks as Houthis claim to have sunk vessel Two crew members are missing after drone attack on Greek-operated Eternity C; Yemen’s Houthi rebels say MV Magic Seas sank after Sunday raid Two crew members of a Greek-managed vessel have been wounded and two are missing after a drone attack off Yemen on Monday, hours after Iran-aligned Houthi militants claimed an assault on another bulk carrier in the Red Sea, saying the ship had sunk. Monday’s attack 50 nautical miles southwest of the port of Hodeidah was the second assault by the Houthis against merchant vessels in the vital shipping corridor since November 2024, said an official at the European Union’s Operation Aspides, assigned to help protect Red Sea shipping. Continue reading...

Red Sea cargo ships face new attacks as Houthis claim to have sunk vessel

Outrage erupts as Trump golfed at Bedminster while Texas battled historic flooding that killed over 80 Following devastating floods in Texas that claimed over 80 lives, including many children, President Trump faces criticism for golfing in New Jersey. His absence from the disaster zone, particularly K...

Trump and Elon Musk decimated the National Weather Service with budget cuts. The Texas office near the flash flood was missing key personnel and there was no early warning system in the county. Instead of flying there to help the families, Trump decided his golf game was more important.

I’m a physician who has looked at hundreds of studies of vaccine safety, and here’s some of what RFK Jr. gets wrong The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.

Excellent debunker of some of RFKJrs misleading statements about vaccines by @jakescottmd.bsky.social

The image features the American flag in the background, with a prominent bald eagle, which is a national symbol of the United States, superimposed in the foreground. The text at the top reads "LAND OF THE FREE," and the text at the bottom reads "HOME OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON POPULATION." This juxtaposition of imagery and text seems to convey a critical commentary on the notion of freedom in the United States, highlighting the paradox of having a large prison population.

Military veteran gets life sentence for plotting FBI attack after Jan. 6 arrest

Marine Corps veteran Edward Kelley was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to attack an FBI office and assassinate law enforcement officers in retaliation for his arrest on charges that he was part of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, court records show.

This isn't immigration control, it's genocide.

Elon Musk Is an Evil Piece of Garbage—and an A-Level Fraud Too He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. He is sinister. And people will die because of what he’s done.

He is stupid. He is incompetent. He is cruel. And people will die because of what he’s done.

https://trib.al/cIQ4IiJ

Never before in the history of this nation has such a large redistribution of income been directed upward, for no reason at all

There's literally hundreds of millions of us and only a few of them.

Abrego Garcia was beaten and tortured in Salvadoran prison, new court filings reveal | Colorado Newsline Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, endured “severe beatings."

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported in March to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador, endured “severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture” while there, his attorneys wrote in a late Wednesday filing.

Today! Oh, today, I definitely needed a video of a happy armadillo playing in a sprinkler!

Going shopping for your 4th of July cookout today? Trump's tariffs are making it a lot more expensive.

From beer, to beef, to ice cream – prices are higher than ever.

The American people deserve better.

BREAKING: A state court has again blocked enforcement of Missouri's abortion bans and certain restrictions targeting providers. This clears the way for providers to resume offering procedural abortion care in the state.

We won't stop until everyone has access to the reproductive care they need.

So…

The bill passed?

I mean… I’m not surprised…

But like… there are still SO MANY PEOPLE who have absolutely no idea just how fucked we are.

This will have decades-long repercussions.

This isn’t okay.

Ugh.

Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."

This is what I’m so worried about