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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Appointing Pulte, who has criminally targeted Trump's opponents and has zero experience, to be Director of National Intelligence, shows we have a mafia government.

The naked corruption is crazy and frightening.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: The Trump administration is diverting at least $90 million from entry fees to national parks to fund a $1.6 million fireworks display and $76 million to repair fountains including the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, according to documents. https://t.co/QeFV9zh7Sy

[Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Trump is trying to impose a bogus political litmus test for all federal grants – limiting the funding, subjects, and potential discoveries of our researchers.

The cost of such a test would be felt for generations and could permanently stunt American scientific progress.
https://t.co/bNGTl3zXDM

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

"Globally, we’ve lost over 50% of the phytoplankton biomass since the 1950s, and we’re continuing to lose it about 1 to 2 percent a year. Never mind nuclear war. This is what’s going to kill us.”

You know the phytoplankton that creates most our our oxygen
https://t.co/RRiqCOkJro

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

The Trump administration made a backroom deal to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to cancel offshore wind projects. But states are fighting back to stop President Trump from destroying these clean energy jobs and the affordable electricity they’ll build. https://t.co/5jl0XWh56Q

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Good.

From Punchbowl AM: "Senate Democrats are privately urging GOP leaders to pressure President Donald Trump to withdraw his appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence — and threatening to tank a bipartisan FISA deal if the president refuses."

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rubio: "We're getting a lot of questions about us. I don't think it's fair because ultimately the people who have closed the Strait of Hormuz are Iran."

Sen. Schatz: "Nobody's defending what Iran is doing. I think what we're saying is this was not just predictable, it was predicted…It's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening."

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Are you OK with this?

In June, the U.S. government began pulling more than 900 deep-sea instruments out of the ocean.
Instruments that have spent a decade tracking ocean temperatures, storm formation, and the currents that determine whether the American interior gets rain or drought.

This network cost $48 million a year to operate. That is less than half the price of a single F-35 fighter jet.

Think this doesn't affect you because you live far from the ocean? The Gulf of Mexico's surface temperature determines how much rain falls on Midwest farms. Ocean data is crop data. It is flood data. It is drought data.

If a current political party doesn't like what the data shows, just stop collecting it.

Is that the country you want to live in?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized".

That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

I have watched 60 Minutes my whole life.
So have millions of Americans. For nearly 40 years, Scott Pelley was part of why. He is one of the truly great American journalists, and CBS just fired him, one day after he stood up in a staff meeting and told the truth about what is being done to the institution he gave his career to.

Pelley said new management told him to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story, and to report claims that had not been verified. A journalist of his caliber refused.

For that, he was shown the door.

He is praying for a day when sanity, competence, and courage return to that newsroom. So am I.

This is bigger than one man losing one job. 60 Minutes has held the powerful to account since 1968. When the people willing to ask hard questions are pushed out and replaced by people willing to soften the story, every American loses a watchdog we did not know how much we needed until it was gone.

Scott Pelley deserved better.

The country deserves better. A free press does not survive on its reputation. It survives on people with the spine to defend it, and we should all be paying attention to what is happening.

https://t.co/thowsAqEqh

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

USPS plans to crack down on mail voting ahead of the midterms, according to a soon-to-be-published proposed rule.

It's an alarming step toward implementing Trump's attack on mail-in voting, which pro-voting groups say is unlawful.

Here's what the proposed rule would do: https://t.co/zoC5rmW8qI

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Great work by Trump here.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The International Atomic Energy Agency believes Iran’s nuclear risks are now higher than before the Iran War began on February 28th.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

So, the slush fund was just a fringe benefit. What Trump really cares about is the “almost as good as a pardon” deal he gave himself via the IRS. Explained here: https://t.co/tTiMtlkCu7

[David Frum @davidfrum]

This is just crime

[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

SCOOP: Trump officials are diverting roughly $90 million in national parks entry fees to pay for the president’s July 4th plans, including a massive fireworks display. By @jakespring @ddiamond and @NaemaAhmed https://t.co/Oy1OqmYdZO

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Lead Left, a super PAC created on 4/24, purports to stand "against MAGA extremists."

It has spent $3M+ in Democratic primaries.

But it's funders and motivations have been secret.

Until now.

It's a GOP dirty tricks operation.

🧵

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

DOGE rifled through your Social Security data, your tax records, and your most sensitive personal information. All in the name of transparency, of course.

And now, in that same spirit of transparency, the Trump Administration is blocking the government's own watchdog from finding out what they did with it.

The only reason they’re blocking the investigation is because they're afraid of what it would find.
https://t.co/dzXsLuBMaM

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

"The phrase, a shorthand for unaccountable elites, was coined last year by Ro Khanna."

"An elite class who has been responsible for creating one of the most lopsided and unfair economic and political systems that America has had in our history,”

https://t.co/GdMnsUgSfu