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The deadly Texas floods remind us that government services (like weather forecasting and emergency warning systems) need to be properly funded. And Trump supporters have a lot of nerve accusing people of politicizing a tragedy while defending a man who politicizes everything.
The Perfect Storm 1. The National Weather Service vacancy rate at its Texas offices doubled since Trump took office. 2. Kerr County (which voted 77% for Trump) did not have a warning system because local residents didn’t want to spend the money. 3. Climate change is making this happen more often.
Wanna know how Republicans passed Trump’s big, ugly budget bill even though every poll shows Americans hate it? One word: racism. This is why we can’t have nice things.
House Republicans chant “USA” after voting to take away health care and food from millions of Americans and add $3 trillion to the national debt. Trump‘s big ugly bill passed 218-214 with two Republicans joining all Democrats in voting against it. 
Paramount is the latest media company to pay Trump’s ransom to resolve a bogus lawsuit. It follows ABC News and META forking over millions to the con man in the White House and sets a dangerous precedent.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been acquitted of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges but convicted of transportation to engage in prostitution related to Casandra Ventura and “Jane” in a mixed verdict.
Iran has decided to stop cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency, blocking UN inspectors from monitoring its nuclear sites. Looks like Trump’s plan to withdraw from the Iran deal and join Israel’s war against the country is working out perfectly.
A year ago, Donald Trump was in trouble. With six bankruptcies on his record, $600 million in legal judgments against him, and his last two major construction projects not making money, he finally hit the jackpot in recent months by monetizing the presidency.
Tesla global sales plunged 13 percent last quarter as Elon Musk’s assocation with Trump turns off buyers worldwide.
The Senate has passed Trump’s big budget bill that will force nearly 12 million people to lose their health insurance and add $3.3 trillion to the national debt. Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote after the Senate deadlocked 50-50.
The Trump administration has filed a frivolous lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles for being a sanctuary city. A sanctuary city is simply a city that chooses not to assist federal immigration authorities. But Trump claims it's "unconstitutional" for a city to decide how to spend its own money.
Republicans ran on lowering the price of eggs during the campaign, but now they’re pushing through Trump‘s big budget bill that will make eggs unaffordable for millions of Americans.
Of course Trump lied about the Iran nuclear strikes. He lies about everything. I’ve never seen anyone of any race, gender, nationality, party, or age lie as much as The Lyin’ King.
The Senate Republican budget bill will force nearly 12 million Americans to lose their health insurance and add $3.3 trillion to the national debt, according to a new Congressional Budget Office analysis. All to give tax cuts to billionaires.
Just when you thought you could have a few days without more TACO chaos, Trump says he is terminating trade talks with Canada and imposing new tariffs. 🌮
University of Virginia President James Ryan has resigned under pressure from Trump because the college had a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program and the board feared the school could lose millions of dollars in federal funding if he stayed.
California Democratic political operative detained at the airport after returning from family vacation in Turks and Caicos. “If we’re in a country where packing an Obama T-shirt makes you nervous at the border, what kind of America are we living in?”
After today’s Supreme Court decision limiting nationwide injunctions, Trump announces that he will end birthright citizenship and impose other new changes to the laws and Constitution by executive order.
Porn-obsessed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who once expressed his admiration for porn star Long Dong Silver and placed a pubic hair on a Coke can to sexually harass Anita Hill, writes the majority opinion in today's porn case. Kagan writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
The Supreme Court does not rule in Louisiana redistricting case and schedules reargument for another time. Justice Clarence Thomas is the only dissenter. I guess he can't wait to remove Rep. Cleo Fields (D-LA) from office and abolish Louisiana's second Black congressional district. 😏
My favorite part of Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent in the Maryland LGBTQ+ schoolbook case is that she included the entire book, UNCLE BOBBY'S WEDDING, as an appendix in her opinion to remain for posterity. Terrifying stuff here. 🙄 www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting in 6-3 SCOTUS birthright citizenship case: "It is not difficult to predict how this all ends. Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
It's been 10 years since the Supreme Court's marriage equality decision in Obergefell, and we’re still fighting. But Andrew Sullivan is trying to ruin Pride weekend by telling us to sit down and be quiet. That's not happening.
While billionaire Jeff Bezos is popping champagne bottles in Venice with his rich celebrity friends at his $20 million wedding, he wants to lecture struggling New Yorkers that Zohran Mamdani is bad for New York City. The same Bezos-owned Washington Post that pulled its endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Wednesday morning’s New York Daily News cover: MAMDANI STUNS CUOMO
Andrew Cuomo concedes New York primary race to 33-year-old Democratic opponent, Zohran Mamdani: “Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won.”
Zohran Mamdani leads Andrew Cuomo in the initial tally of the New York City mayor’s race with more than 80 percent of the vote counted. And despite talk of Black voters not supporting him, Mamdani appears to have won most of Harlem. The election will be decided by rank-choice voting.
Consumer confidence has dropped again, as Americans continue to worry about the effects of Trump’s tariffs. But this time the drop was most significant among Republicans.
New intelligence assessment finds that US bombs did not destroy Iran’s nuclear sites. Contrary to Trump’s rhetoric, the analysis found that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium was not destroyed and its centrifuges remain largely “intact.”
New CNN poll shows that 56% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s military strikes on Iran.
Trump on Israel and Iran violating the ceasefire: "We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing."
Trump says Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire, but this entire war was completely unnecessary and unprovoked. You don’t get a cookie for stopping a war that you started against a country that didn’t attack you.
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court allows Trump to deport migrants to countries they have never lived in, including places where they will likely be tortured. “I cannot join so gross an abuse of this Court’s equitable discretion,” writes Justice Sotomayor in a blistering dissent.
Nearly 400,000 US manufacturing jobs are unfilled as factories struggle to attract workers. Many Americans aren’t interested in factory jobs, and Trump’s crackdown on immigration, cuts to training programs for blue-collar workers, and efforts to eliminate the Job Corps are making it even harder.
Iran attacked US military forces at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar on Monday. Iran reportedly warned Qatar of the attack in advance and said the number of missiles fired was equivalent to the number of bombs dropped by the US on its nuclear sites. No injuries or deaths have been reported.
Zohran Mamdani has taken the lead over Andrew Cuomo in the final Emerson College New York City mayor’s race poll.
Trump has just launched a war with Iran, and he has no idea what Iran will do next.
US Enters War With Iran
The US has hust dropped bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites, according to Trump, bringing American military forces into Israel’s war with Iran.
Looks like TACO is tired of losing in court and finally decided to cave to Harvard. 🌮
As Black America celebrates Juneteenth, we find ourselves in a familiar place. Every time we make progress, a group of angry white people come along to try to tear it down.
A federal judge has blocked Trump’s illegal attempt to block Harvard University from hosting international students.
The Trump administration will now require student visas applicants to unlock their social media accounts for government approval.
Trump has ordered the National Suicide Prevention Hotline to shut down its services for LGBTQ people. People will die because of this decision. Every Log Cabin Republican or LGBTQ Trump supporter who tried to convince us that Trump would be good for the community was a liar, a grifter, or a fraud.
Trump's bombings in Yemen killed nearly as many CIVILIANS in 2 months as were killed from 2002 to 2024.
As Trump and his Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard contradict each other on Iran, one official said that Trump thinks she “doesn’t add anything to any conversation.”
Jay Jones has won the Democratic nomination for Virginia attorney general. He will face Republican Attorney General Jason Miyares in the November general election.
The Trump administration is sending an additional 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles, even as major protests have virtually ended and the city’s downtowin curfew has been lifted.
For the first time in 116 years, the NAACP is not inviting the sitting president of the United States to its annual convention. “Our mission is to advance civil rights, and the current president has made clear that his mission is to eliminate civil rights,” said NAACP President Derrick Johnson.
Trump has backtracked on his backtrack on immigration raids on farms. I can't keep up anymore. I guess TACO tacoed out in the middle of his taco. 🌮
This is what Trump doesn't get about American power. Yes, the US has the military capacity to take out Iran's leader. Our government did that in 1953 when it overthrew Mohammad Mosaddegh and replaced him with the Shah. But the Shah was deposed in 1979 and Iran seized 66 hostages at the US Embassy.
Trump threatens to assassinate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran.
"You exploited the murder of a lifetime public servant and her husband to post some sick burns about Democrats...Have you absolutely no conscience? No decency?" — open letter to Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) published in the Salt Lake Tribune
This is why Trump keeps doing everything he can to distract you with chaos. His big budget bill that cuts taxes for billionaires and cuts vital government services for everyone else is wildly unpopular with Americans. And it gets even more unpopular when people learn the details of what's in it.
Trump tells nearly 10 million Iranians to evacuate immediately from the capital of Tehran. It's 2:30 in the morning in Iran. None of this would have happened if Trump hadn't pulled out of The Iran Deal (JCPOA) in 2018. He and Netanyahu have created a completely unnecessary war.
Last year, Trump promised to make quick deals to end the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, prevent a conflict with Iran, and negotiate better terms for trade wth China. His team is “bad at diplomacy because they’re bad strategists,” said one defense expert. “They don’t think beyond their first move.”
You may not see it on the news, but there are Black people at the Los Angeles protests against Trump’s ICE raids.I spent the week following them around and getting to know some of them.
Trump supporter and former NFL player Antonio Brown wanted for attempted murder for a shooting outside a celebrity boxing event in Miami.
Four men escaped from a privately run immigration detention center in Newark after days of unrest over lack of food and unsafe conditions. The facility, Delaney Hall, is run by one of the country’s largest private prison companies, the GEO Group, which has a contract with the Trump administration.
Trump says Iran must make a deal, but they already had a deal 10 years ago until Trump pulled out of it when he came in office. Classic Trump. Always creating unnecessary crises.
It’s Wednesday night right before the LA curfew, and you see why Trump is wasting $134 million of taxpayer money for federal troops to patrol an empty building in downtown Los Angeles.
Zohran Mamdani leads former governor Andrew Cuomo in a new poll for the New York mayor’s race with just two weeks until the Democratic primary. Mamdani, 33, is the youngest candidate in the race and Cuomo, 67, is the oldest.
*Guard, not Guards. Does Bluesky have an EDIT button? Because I’m tired of having to delete posts instead of editing minor typos.
National Guards troops and Marines deployed to Los Angeles are “deeply troubled” about the assignment and feel like they have become “political pawns.” They’re sleeping on concrete floors with no beds, not enough toilets, no funds for food or water, and morale is low.
In a sign of more chaos from RFK Jr., Elon Musk’s failed DOGE experiment, and the incompetent Trump administration, hundreds of CDC staff are being called back to work after being laid off two months ago.
A Los Angeles man who came to the US legally with his family to seek asylum is now separated from them as ICE agents arrested his wife and daughters at a routine immigration appointment. They went in for a regularly scheduled meeting and never came out. Instead, they were flown to San Antonio.
For the second time in five years, Harvey Weinstein has been convicted for a sex crime in Manhattan. The decision came in a mixed verdict during Weinstein’s retrial after his first conviction was thrown out. The jury today acquitted him of a second charge and is still deliberating on a third.
Trump claimed today that Los Angeles would be on fire right now if it weren’t for him sending in the Marines and the National Guard.🔥 i’m here to tell you that’s a lie. LA was getting by just fine until Trump stepped in and ruined things.
Trump has declared national emergencies to justify his unprecedented abuse of power, but legal scholars say his actions are not justified by the law. “He is declaring utterly bogus emergencies for the sake of trying to expand his power,“ said one scholar.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has filed an emergency motion in court to block Trump from deploying troops in Los Angeles. “The federal government is now turning the military against American citizens,” Newsom said. “Donald Trump is behaving like a tyrant, not a president.”
The Pentagon said the cost of deploying Marines and National Guard to Los Angeles is $134 million. That’s an outrageous, wasteful abuse of taxpayer dollars for a protest that could have been resolved with local law enforcement. Trump is spending your money to create chaos in the streets.
Anti-ICE protest continue in Los Angeles as Trump announces plans to send in the Marines to provoke a confrontation during an already tense week of activity. I followed a group of protesters for miles and miles throughout the streets of Los Angeles, and their demonstration was entirely peaceful.
In the midst of all the LA protests, Trump’s new travel ban went into effect on Monday, banning people in 8 Black countries (including Haiti) from coming to the United States. He’s not just targeting Hispanics. He’s targeting Black people, too.
Trump’s incompetent HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has removed all 17 experts from the CDC’s advisory committee on vaccines. Because who needs doctors and scientists when you have a dead bear-dumping conspiracy theorist in charge of our health?
Trump ordered the National Guard to LA, escalating a tense weekend into an inevitable confrontation. I spent the weekend covering the protests in downtown LA.
In yet another unnecessary, provocative, and currently illegal move, Trump is deploying US Marines to Los Angeles.
Trump calls for the arrest of California Governor Gavin Newsom. The President of the United States calling for the arrest of a sitting state governor is unprecedented. Even during the Civil War, President Lincoln never arrested governors of the states that took up arms against the union.
Trump calling in the National Guard to Los Angeles is the first time in 60 years that a president has activated a state’s National Guard without a request from a governor. In 1965, Johnson sent troops to Alabama to prevent a civil rights crisis. In 2025, Trump sends troops to LA to provoke one.
Trump has called up the National Guard to Los Angeles to provoke a confrontation with ICE and compensate for his failed and illegal immigration policy.
Coco Gauff wins the French Open. 🎾 #RolandGarros
As Elon Musk and Donald Trump end their billionaire bromance, is their feud for real or is it all a show? 🤔
Trump officials told the Washington Post that DOGE hooked up the White House to Elon Musk’s unsecured Starlink internet satellite, which could compromise sensitive data or allow hackers to break in. But her emails. 😏
The federal prosecutor in Tennessee who would be responsible for the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia has resigned as US Attorney General Pam Bondi orders politically motivated charges against the wrongly deported Maryland man in Nashville.
The number of measles cases in the U.S. is nearing a 30-year high. As of Friday, 1,168 confirmed measles cases have been reported across 33 states. In comparison, the U.S. had only 285 measles cases last year.
Former US Attorney Damian Williams has left Paul Weiss, a law firm that struck a deal with Trump to avoid his wrath, and joined Jenner & Block, a law firm that fought back against Trump in court and won. "Jenner & Block fearlessly advocates for its clients” Williams said.
The Supreme Court, in two 6-3 rulings, allows Elon Musk’s DOGE team to have access to your private Social Security records and blocks a government watchdog group from accessing DOGE’s public records.
Michael Boren, the Trump donor who built an illegal airstrip on public forest land and flew a helicopter over US Forest Service crews to intimidate them, is Trump’s pick to lead the same Forest Service and oversee 200 million acres of public lands. 🚁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
After days of back and forth, the US Park Police has decided to close Dupont Circle, the historic center of the LGBT community in Washington, DC, during World Pride events this weekend. Local ANC Commissioner Jeff Rueckgauer called the move “a slap in the face" to the community.
Juan Vega moved to Puerto Rico from the Dominican Republic in 2021, got a job in construction, married a US citizen, and applied for residency. Then one day his wife sent him to the grocery store to buy an avocado and ICE arrested him, flew him to Miami, and locked him up.
Tesla stock plunges as Musk slams Trump's budget bill and says Trump is listed in the Jeffrey Epstein files and Trump threatens to pull Tesla government contracts. 🌮🍿
Oops. You're right. I read the opinion and didn't realize there was a second page. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
🌮 and 🥃 are firing Black people with decades of experience and hiring unqualified 22-year-olds to run our government. But DEI, right?
So, we had 6 SCOTUS decisions today that were ostensibly unanimous. 1. Ames v. Ohio (Jackson) 2. Catholic Charities v. Wisconsin (Sotomayor) 3. Smith & Wesson v. Mexico (Kagan) 4. LabCorp v. Davis (Per Curiam) 5. Blom Bank v. Honickman (Thomas) 6. CC/Devas v. Antrix (Alito) What's going on here?
TACO is clearly shook by Elon Musk's attack on his big, ugly budget bill, so he's desperately flinging around executive orders tonight. Now, the soon to be 79-year-old convicted criminal has ordered an investigation into Biden's health and use of an autopen, which all modern presidents have used.
Trump has signed an order banning travel to the US from 12 countries, including 7 African countries (Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Libya, Somalia, Sudan), and Haiti, and restricting people from Burundi, Sierra Leone, and Togo. But white South Africans, come right in.
In yet another blatantly illegal, unconstitutional, and retaliatory move to distract from his failures, Trump has signed an executive order restricting foreign student visas only at Harvard.
Why is TACO 🌮 trying to rename Navy ships named after Harriet Tubman and Harvey Milk? To distract his base from a new report that his big budget bill will force 11 MILLION AMERICANS to lose their health insurance and add $2.4 TRILLION to the national debt.
The Congressional Budget Office says Trump's big ugly bill will force 11 million people to lose their health insurance and raise the deficit by $2.4 trillion. All to cut taxes for billionaires.
While Trump, the 6-3 conservative Supreme Court, and MAGA Republicans are destroying affirmative action and DEI in America, Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expanding affirmative action to hire more Black people and balance the scales after centuries of colonial oppression and racism.
Kennedy Center theater ticket sale revenue plunged 82 percent after 🌮 appointed himself chairman of the board. Members have canceled their subscriptions and artists have canceled their engagements.