Jeffrey Epstein shut down Congress.

She just voted against debate on releasing the Epstein Files fyi

The Supreme Court sure does seem to be acting like they believe there will never be another Democratic president or congressional majority...

The Right-Wing Supreme Court Is Enabling Its Future King

The Supreme Court's conservative majority, allowing Donald Trump to bypass Congress and dismantle the Department of Education, helps MAGA transform America into a right-wing authoritarian regime.

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Lieu: I also note the Epstein files that have already been released show that Trump is all over the files. He’s in multiple pictures with Epstein. There’s multiple videos of Trump with Epstein. There are plane logs of Trump on Epstein’s plane.

The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

MAGA has retreated so far into their echo chambers that the only time they brush against reality—or real people—are in spaces they don’t control, like Bluesky.

Alligator Alcatraz YouTube video by The Lincoln Project

Keep tabs. Don’t forget their names.

The Common Fight on Substack The country has never been perfect. But it’s still ours. Still our government. Still our future to claim.

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Independence Day @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

Rep. Van Orden on recon bill: “The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little bitches around here, okay? I'm a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinnites.”

He will 100% dutifully vote aye on the concentration camp megabill anyway because there's an R next to his name, but interesting.

Raskin delivers preamble to GOP’s Big Beautiful Bill.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…

NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

“Why won’t Zohran Mamdani denounce a dangerous slogan?” asks a headline in the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, Andrew Cuomo isn’t asked to denounce a dangerous war criminal whose legal team he joined.

The Democratic Establishment just got Mamdani'd.

Seismic and historic.

Imagine if the Democratic Party actually helped Zohran instead of trying to kneecap him at every step. A better party is immediately possible if they stop shoving money into the anti-trans combination Racism Dial/Money Toilet and instead get behind candidates people actually want.

Wallace: My guests on this week's episode of The Best People are amazing.

I spoke to the real life brothers behind the digital news Goliath, MeidasTouch..

"THE END OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL
REPUBLIC AS WE
KNOW IT COULD BE HAPPENING NOW"

I’m shocked having someone write your essay doesn’t make you smarter

First SCOTUS opinion today. Over nuclear waste storage. It's 6-3 with Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito dissenting. Thankfully the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is still allowed to exist.

Basically it's Common Sense 1 -- James Ho 0.

Trump Is Objectively Bad for America. Why Won't More Journalists Say So? I'd be derelict in my duty as a reporter if I obscured this truth.

“Trump Is Objectively Bad for America. Why Won't More Journalists Say So?” - John Harwood for Zeteo ‬⁩

The Common Fight: A Blueprint for Democratic Resistance Republican ideology is just a pretext - its all fraudulent

This isn’t a thinkpiece.
It’s a strategy. A warning. A way forward.
First dispatch from The Common Fight is out now:
#TheCommonFight

Breaking: MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and other deceased players from Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list. Manfred ruled that MLB’s punishment of banned individuals ends upon their deaths. They are now presumably eligible for election into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose can rot in hell

I'm still not clear why the @nytimes.com went along the idea that a presidential library owning a jet for the personal use of the ex-president was anything that real presidential libraries do. Weird.

AOC: If anyone is breaking the law in this situation, it’s not members of Congress — it’s DHS. It’s people like Tom Homan and Secretary Kristi Noem. You lay a finger on Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the Representatives that were there… we’re going to have a problem.

This is blatantly anti-Catholic and makes fun of Catholicism. Will ANYONE in the Catholic Church speak out against it?

As a party, we are prisoners being held hostage by people who simply refuse to accept that their time has passed and won’t accept that others more capable right now. Stay in the Senate, but step down from leadership. It’s time for a new approach, a new face, & a new voice.

But…but..but Biden…

AOC: We heard that we should take your word that Medicaid will be protected — that we should trust you that no one is going to be affected by this. But as a woman, the word was given that my rights would not be taken away by the Supreme Court — and that wasn’t true.

Who did this? 😂