Anne Marron

atheist, skeptic, and imperfect critical thinker who is (informally) studying religion ; proLGBTQ+rights prochoice

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins has accomplished a lot in the 21st century.

Stupid foreign wars: 3
Republican Supreme Court justices: 4
Tax cuts for billionaires: 4
Illegal stock trades: 24
Increase in her personal net worth: almost $10 million

Town halls: zero.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

We can have a thriving middle class, or we can have a handful of people accumulating more wealth than at any time in human history.

We cannot have both.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

On the fourth anniversary of Dobbs: a throwback to Susan Collins's stirring defense of Brett Kavanaugh.

[Rep. Derek Tran @RepDerekTranCA]

I am deeply alarmed by the detention of Sama Safi in an Israeli prison. Sama, a 20-year-old Palestinian American student, was taken from her home in the middle of the night and continues to be held without charges. This is part of a disturbing pattern of the Israeli government denying Palestinians their basic due process rights, often at risk to their health and safety. The United States has a responsibility to protect its citizens abroad, and we must hold our allies to basic standards of equal justice under the law. I am urging Secretary Rubio and the Trump Administration to use every diplomatic tool available to bring Sama home safely.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

JD Vance’s book on his conversion to Catholicism is scheduled to be released tomorrow. I got advance excerpts of it over the weekend.

I wasn’t going to release my thoughts about it until tomorrow morning on CNN, but since the embargo has been broken, I’ll have more to share today.

In short, the Vice President’s egotism shines through.

A recent convert, Vance acts as if he deserves special treatment from Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church.

He does not. He is no better than any of us.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CBS: The Iranians are saying they're gonna have access to a $300 billion reconstruction fund. True or false?

JD VANCE: That's the sort of things they could have access to so long as they honor their end of the obligation

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We should not reauthorize FISA until there is ZERO CHANCE Bill Pulte (or anyone else with a history of or intent to abuse of power to hurt Trump's political opponents) gets anywhere near our classified services.

[JoAnne Sapelo @JoAnneSapelo]

@RepMikeLevin @OneMargaux Everyone needs to speak up on this! This overreaching Regulation is being pushed through on an accelerated basis & it’s terrible. The sickening Executive Summary is at 91 F.R. 32198. Give your comments against before July 13 at https://t.co/uEkiQGgC5K under docket OMB-2026-0034.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test.

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump’s personal agenda. If they don’t like what you’re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job.
https://t.co/QCH17wANNb

[AGU Science Policy @AGUSciPolicy]

🚨A new OMB proposal could reshape how U.S. research works.🚨

🧪This would change science as we know it.

📢Make your voice heard.

Learn more and submit a public comment now! ⬇️
https://t.co/ExSKWkf7r0

[AGU Science Policy @AGUSciPolicy]

🚨Proposed OMB rule could let political appointees override peer review, cancel grants mid-project, ban certain research topics, restrict publishing and more.🚨

Stand up for science!

Learn more and use our resources to submit a public comment today ⬇️
https://t.co/ExSKWkf7r0

[AGU Science Policy @AGUSciPolicy]

🚨Proposed OMB rule could let political appointees override peer review, cancel grants mid-project, ban certain research topics, restrict publishing and more.🚨

Stand up for science!

Learn more and use our resources to submit a public comment today ⬇️
https://t.co/ExSKWkf7r0

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

You voted for this

[Terra 🌍 ☮️ ✌️ @Iget2bme72]

@BasedMikeLee Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned.

Christian nationalism always starts with “protect religion” and somehow ends with politicians deciding which Christians are Christian enough.

That’s not religious freedom. That’s government-approved gatekeeping.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The rural and deeply conservative town of Froid, in the northeastern corner of Montana, backed President Donald Trump in every one of his White House runs.

But earlier this year, when federal immigration agents detained one of the town's longtime residents, this tight-knit community pushed back.

Matt Standal of Montana PBS reports.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

He's leaking it all!

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HEARTBREAKING: Scott Pelley Sounded Like A Man Attending A Funeral.

Not for a person.

For a profession.

🔥 That’s why his defense of journalism hit so hard.

Scott Pelley confirmed on the record that CBS management ordered him to “inject falsehoods” into 60 Minutes coverage.

He named Bari Weiss directly. He said she was brought in to neutralize independent journalism inside the network.

He told 60 Minutes’ new leadership she was “murdering the show.”

Pelley spent 24 years at CBS News.

He just put his name on the record against the institution that built his career.

The Paramount-Skydance merger closed.

The new ownership installed Weiss. Pelley is the most senior on-air voice at CBS News describing what’s happening inside.

This is what institutional capture sounds like from inside the institution.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.