Fiona Robertson

I can hear the theme tune!!

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

Ugh. Went to a concert at Lumen Field. A couple in front of us stood the whole time. Just those two. No one was in front of them; they were at the rail. They weren’t dancing. They just stood. They did not comply when asked. If a bunch of people are up dancing, OK. If it’s only you, not so much.

8 days in June ‘25:

- The president federalizes the California National Guard and deploys Marines to LA amid protests against ICE immigration raids
- Israel attacks Iran, fueling fears of wider conflict
- Democratic lawmaker assassinated
- Nationwide protests as Trump throws military parade in DC

BREAKING: Kamala Harris issues statement on Los Angeles.

So, to be clear, Musk has now admitted he funded a man he believes to be a pedophile to be president.

And Trump has now admitted that he gave access to high level government secrets to a man he believes to be a big time drug addict.

This should be *the* story on the Sunday shows tomorrow.

Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

I’m thinking Barron.

Trump promised no new business deals with foreign governments. He lied. On January 10, 2025, President Trump released an "ethics agreement" detailing how he would handle his personal business interests while in the White House.

1. Trump says imposing tariffs on nearly every nation on earth is essential to force companies to make investments in the US instead of abroad

But since taking office, the Trump Organization has announced new multi-billion $ development deals in the UAE, Qatar, India and Vietnam

And NONE in the US

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

This

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R): "We are all afraid…I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real."

When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US.

When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

🚨 Trump’s massive tariffs on nearly all imports into the U.S. are now in effect. This is one of the biggest tax increases on Americans in the history of the United States.

Attack of the Quack-Industrial Complex Another front in the war on American greatness

“Even if research funding is restored, U.S. science will have suffered huge long-term damage. So will the world trading system, and the effectiveness of the federal bureaucracy, which will be impaired for many years even if DOGE’s depredations stop.”

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A great night for Democrats:

1. Susan Crawford beats Schimel/Musk/Trump is Wisconsin and appears to be on track for a landslide.
2. Cory Booker delivers historic motivation.
3. +17 swing toward Dems in FL-01 from November
4. +19 swing toward Dems in FL-06 from November

Damn good night for Dems.

How poetically beautiful that a Black man breaks the filibuster record set by a racist segregationist. Less than 3 hours to get to that point - let's go, Senator Booker!

Ten weeks that shook the world On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power

"America’s new guard are almost all white, all male, and mostly unqualified to lead the departments they are vandalizing. It's not just foreigners who are remaking plans. US scientists are looking abroad. Trump has given the world a giant poaching opportunity." My column. www.ft.com/content/5100...

Erasing history.

Good lord what a bunch of liars and incompetents. Also, as an aside. who sets their disappearing messages to 4 weeks if they want to avoid accountability? Also, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social is a badass.

I don't think a guy who kept classified documents next to his toilet is gonna fire national security leadership for sharing war plans in an unsecured group chat. With emojis! This and worse was a given. Especially when you hire talk show hosts to run defense.

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes:

"The cruel irony is that thousands of transgender servicemembers have sacrificed — some risking their lives — to ensure for others the very equal protection rights the Military Ban seeks to deny them."

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place.

Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.

A 10-year-old CITIZEN girl recovering from brain cancer deported with her undocumented parents.

Do you all feel great again? For those who refuse to call out MAGA's racism, will this do it or is still economic anxiety?
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So MAGA needs to run down and buy a Tesla to support Musk, but their disabled vet neighbor who just lost his job at the VA is a lazy SOB taking advantage of a bloated government and deserves to be unemployed. They do worship their heroes to the extreme.

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

This current Social Security riff by Trump is completely debunked 100% total made-up BS. No president has EVER lied this baldly from the podium. And Vance, Johnson, and the whole GOP just nod and go along with it.

It Was an Ambush Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Donald Trump and JD Vance lured Zelensky to the White House under the false premise that they intended to help Ukraine, so that they could lecture a desperate man and further gaslight the world into thinking they actually care.

Watch the entire exchange here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXIJ...