The judge points out that the 76 pages of grand jury testimony are a drop in the well compared to the 100,000 documents the government could release.

Male Cheerleaders Are the Right's Latest Absurd Distraction Don't fall for it.

"The Republican Party has a long and proud history of producing the nation’s finest male cheerleaders. In the past 50 years, more Republican presidents have been male cheerleaders than seen combat."

Let’s call it what it is — UVA President Jim Ryan’s forced resignation is an attack on all of our public higher education institutions.

Just to be super clear, he is suing a woman because she did a poll he did not like the result of and is now trying to find a judge goofy enough to pretend this isn’t crazy

The Transgender “Issue” Is Not a Distraction for Democrats It’s an opportunity to speak clearly about human rights and morality. Follow the facts and the Golden Rule.

"Let’s be clear: Trump’s 'two-genders-only' is not science, it’s an ideological bumper sticker. Fundraising pitches are just that simple, but life is not."

1 in 5 Americans rely on Medicaid to cover their health care needs.

Trump's budget will implement nearly $1 TRILLION in Medicaid cuts.

Kill. The. Bill.

Tim and Gwen Waltz at the Twin Cities Pride Parade 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ both wearing a Melissa Hortman t-shirt.

Reminder: one of the bills Melissa Hortman helped pass, and for which she was assassinated by a Trump supporter and evangelical Christian, was to provide food to every child in MN schools.

Senate Republicans blocked Senator Merkley's amendment to prevent officials from selling access and enriching themselves with crypto schemes.

They're very busy cutting health care to pay for billionaire tax cuts, but still found time to protect the Trump family's corruption. Outrageous.

What an A$$. He wants to retire with his full pension and healthcare; he gives zero fucks about his constituents or the bill, he doesn’t want to have to fundraise millions for a primary challenger. He’s a liar just like the rest of them. Public service is no longer their goal

Two weeks you say?

On Juneteenth, we celebrate freedom and recommit ourselves to the work that remains undone. We remember that even in the darkest hours, there is cause to hope for tomorrow’s light.

"Peace president."

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Morality & Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" | Sen. Bernie Sanders

Speaker Johnson says there's “a moral component” to Trump's "big, beautiful" bill. Really?
 
Is it “moral” to cut nutrition assistance for hungry kids?
 
Is it “moral” to eliminate health care for 13.7 million Americans so the 1% gets a $664 billion tax break?

I don’t think so.

Black graphic titled "Here's Trump's plan to slash WIC benefits for fruit and vegetables." Underneath are two columns that show "Current Monthly Benefit" in white and "Trump's Proposed Monthly Benefit" in red. The graphic shows that breastfeeding mothers currently get $52/month and under Trump's proposal, they'd only get $13/month. Young children currently get $26/month, but under Trump's proposal, they'd only get $10/month. Rep. Ted Lieu's logo is at the bottom.

Trump wants to make massive cuts to WIC’s fruit and vegetable assistance to low-income mothers and young children.

This will take away healthy foods from families. So much for “Make America Healthy Again.”

Demonstrating yet again that the members of this administration are bigoted, offensive and petty to their core.

Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience. He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize. But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

Hegseth apparently also wants to rename vessels named for Thurgood Marshall, Harriet Tubman and a slew of other civil rights leaders. www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-ne...

i recently got a booster too

Perp Walk

#judgedugan @agpambondi #fascisminamerica @courierjournal

Rolling Stone headline: Trump has now deported multiple U.S. citizen children with cancer

Donald Trump isn’t just illegally removing U.S. citizens from the country without due process.

He’s illegally removing U.S. citizens who are literal children undergoing care for cancer.

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

that big dumb babbling pile of moldy orange peels a bunch of idiots inexplicably reelected is shown sleeping at the pope’s funeral

you wanna talk about waste and fraud? trump went all the way to rome just to take a nap

Trump fabricating evidence to imprison Abrego Garcia is bone-chilling--and it's what he would do to you This case is about our freedom

Trump fabricated a photo of Mr. Garcia with an MS-13 tattoo on his hand in an effort to keep him in prison. Please understand that Trump regime would fabricate evidence to put you or your family in jail. This is what FASCIST regimes do. My new article:
deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-fabr...

Three ex-presidents denounce the current one in a two-week stretch While presidents have been at odds before, there is often a sort of camaraderie among the small club of individuals who have served in the highest office in the land.

In just over two weeks, three former presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against President Donald Trump, despite the tradition that former presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave.

NEW: Several top US officials were put on administrative leave after denying DOGE access to the federal payroll system that, among many other things, issues paychecks to Supreme Court justices. @timmarchman.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

"It is more of a malevolent press release than a real government action," @mawaldman.bsky.social on the White House's new voting executive order. "The president does not have unilateral power to rewrite the election laws of the United States."

Trump executive order boosts proof of citizenship requirements for voting in federal elections | CNN Politics President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday seeking to boost proof of citizenship requirements for voter registration, which critics say could disenfranchise poor and older voters who don...

This is the biggest news of the last 24 hours—not the Signal Scandal.

Trump watchers have long said that early in his presidency he would begin a push to utterly destroy the U.S. voting system and disenfranchise millions and millions of voters.

Here we go.

A President who disregards Congressional appropriations unifying all federal payments under a single department run by his appointees alone would have total control of the federal purse, capable of punishing or rewarding individuals at will.

"Anti-constitutional," as @jamellebouie.net says.