Brett Sur

In short: the fate of the MAGA murder budget is undecided. Please consider joining a phonebank tomorrow to reach folks in key states and push more calls to senators who we might be able to sway:

Trump Vowed to Dismantle MS-13. His Deal With Bukele Threatens That Effort.

Using my last gift link for the month because this is so mind-blowing, even for Trump. He's sending MS-13 gang members back to El Salvador, where they're being treated like royalty, so that he can suck up to the dictator, who's been locking up his deportees. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/u...

Breaking: The US dollar has suffered its worst first half of the year since 1973, as Donald Trump’s trade and economic policies prompt global investors to rethink their exposure to the world’s dominant currency. https://on.ft.com/4ev1ux1

Oh I beg to differ, this one is quite good!
*good as well?
quite good too?
quite good as well?
(you’d know)

To be fair, Trump was a democrat then who had donated to them. 😉

This is the 6-year-old who just finished chemo for leukemia and is now falling apart without his medical care in a detention jail for brown people

Anyone who thinks this court wouldn’t rule in favor of segregated schools on any such premise/argument, isn’t paying attention.

If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here.

(Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff *counties* in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)

Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training Anthropic didn’t break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books.

I once had a fight with my publisher's lawyer over what constitutes "fair use." He said reprinting 4 lines of a poem without the poet's explicit permission was too much. But AI gobbling up whole books now counts as "fair use." Something is definitely wrong with US copyright law.

Like all narcissists, he thinks he is the victim.
Their fault, nothing to do with his actions.

I mean, speaking as an ex-pat, the New York vibes have always been more European than American.
And as a native New Yorker I mean that in the best way.

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.

If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

That’s why, to my mind, this is the worst decision from the Supreme Court of Trump’s second term so far. Not just in terms of impact—though subjecting thousands of immigrants to torture in foreign countries is ghastly. But also in terms of what signal it sends to the lower courts and the executive branch. The court has indicated that Trump and his allies can flout the law, make a huge mess, run up to the Supreme Court demanding relief when they’re restrained by a judge, and win that relief no matter how egregiously they misbehaved. What incentive remains for this administration to comply with lower court orders at all? I don’t see one.

I am not exaggerating when I say the Supreme Court’s unsigned, unexplained order yesterday is the worst thing it has done since Trump returned to office. And not just on the merits—it’s also an unfathomably dangerous green light for Trump to flout lower court orders. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Tim Miller should go on Rogan and talk to these guys.

Immigrant father of three Marines is violently detained, injured by federal agents, son says Narciso Barranco, a landscaper in Orange County, was detained by immigration officials in a violent altercation Saturday. Barranco is the father of three Marines.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

It’s wild that in the video DHS posted in an effort to make the beating of an innocent landscaper (with 3 marine sons) seem justified there’s a masked ice goon pointing a gun at a random car passing by and they don’t seem to think it matters at all

This should be referenced on CBS, NBC, every interview a Democrat does. Come on!!!

benefiting private businesses more and making them less safe and more screwed by the system, then it is evidence of total political malpractice and incompetence. 1/2

The Dizzying Rise of MAHA Warrior Calley Means, RFK Jr.’s Right-Hand Man One of the primary architects of the Make America Healthy Again takeover of the federal health apparatus, Means has risen to power in part on the strength of his personal narrative: he was a Big Food ...

If the Dems don’t use this reporting to dogmatically drill the fact that MAHA has a dangerous charlatan at its helm, citing fake research and a fake resume to demolish what’s left of America’s legitimate medical and science infrastructure, 1/2
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

No

This is terrorism.

The idea that Trump’s policy was ever coherent or held a purpose beyond “I am telling this audience in front of me whatever they want to hear” is just bonkers.

Please don’t presume this is now an American president making a serious decision for the good of America, not a malignant despot desperate to be seen as a strong man.

Everything is relative. You can be lonely in a relationship or totally content being single. Of course you will find someone when you’re ready. Right now you’re exactly where you should be. 🙂

As often as I think about Alito, it would be good for my mental health to meditate on Ketanji Brown Jackson.

My husband and I were separated during Covid until I was allowed to come here. This time will pass and it will be a memory ☀️✨

Maybe have a friend (or different friends) accompany you to a few of these appoints in the coming weeks. Schedule it with them in advance and plan to go to lunch or coffee before or after. You shouldn’t have to go through all this alone. Let someone who loves you be there.

Senate Democrats Are Letting Trump’s Judicial Nominees Off the Hook Trump's nominees gave some eye-popping answers in their written questionnaires. Why didn't Senate Democrats ask these questions in person?

I think it should be a bigger story that the Senate is preparing to confirm five Trump judicial nominees whose answers to questions about the 2020 election are exactly what you would say if you were a “Trump only lost because of voter fraud” conspiracy theorist