J Stewart

[Austin Police Department @Austin_Police]

Today, we honor Austin Police Officer Leland Anderson, who was tragically killed in the line of duty on June 6, 1975. Officer Anderson, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War, served with the Austin Police Department for two years. He had stopped a van for a minor traffic violation, but the three occupants attacked him, shot him using his own weapon and ran him over when they were fleeing. Officer Anderson is survived by his wife and daughter.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[J Stewart @JaStewrt]

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Graham Platner via @actblue https://t.co/AD3eA3ENGY

[J Stewart @JaStewrt]

John Roberts, Roger Taney, And The Unbearable Weight Of Desperation https://t.co/bMQ06Gpw9o

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist Dr. Henry David Abraham on my show shared a colleague believed Trump might have Tertiary syphilis given he has all the symptoms including signs of dementia, poor emotional control, difficulty thinking things through & abnormalities in gait. Watch full interview: https://t.co/mTCoFkZcr5

[J Stewart @JaStewrt]

"I'm gonna cut your mic!!" Rightwing host LOSES IT on Brian Tyler Cohen https://t.co/fJFSETwU1R via @YouTube

[J Stewart @JaStewrt]

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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Brutal statement from Iran’s state-aligned Fars News: “It should be noted that American officials have acknowledged in multiple messages to Iran that Trump's tweets are primarily for promotional purposes and media consumption within the United States, and they have recommended that no attention be paid to these statements.”

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

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[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

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[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

A year ago I warned what would happen if the U.S. tore down our disease detection system around the world

With Hantavrirus and now a very concerning Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost.

And why it matters.

Read my @TheAtlantic piece from a year ago outlining what happened, and follow along as I continue to cover these issues in the coming days.

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[J Stewart @JaStewrt]

"Morning Joe" Mika Just Keeps Making It Worse https://t.co/v1szvgMW9o via @YouTube

[Annmarie Hordern @annmarie]

Jensen Huang is now joining President Trump on his trip to China, according to the White House. The Nvidia CEO boarded Air Force One in Alaska during a refueling stop.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Samuel Alito Quoted Fake Data in His Ruling Gutting Voting Rights Act https://t.co/dMHr4BLjIE

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

What has me worried — what we all need to focus on — is that something important in our democracy broke last week, and we are only beginning to see the fallout. https://t.co/Ejx2m6lg8P

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

CNN confirms a historic disaster. Donald Trump's independent approval rating is completely collapsing.

He is officially more unpopular than Richard Nixon during Watergate and George Bush during the Iraq War.

Trump's disastrous and unprovoked Iran war is destroying his future.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Global perceptions of the US have deteriorated for a second consecutive year and are now worse than views of Russia, an annual study on democracy showed, as President Trump's policies continue to severely strain the NATO alliance https://t.co/fND2YhwgdK

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

When Israeli settlers put up barbed wire that stopped children in the occupied West Bank village of Umm al-Khair from going to school, Israel did nothing.

Zeteo’s Mohammed Abdelbary spoke to a human rights activist to discuss how incidents like this are far from rare.