Mark Campbell 🇺🇦🌎🐳🥥

Liberal, grasping at straws (but not plastic). Guinness pints & sane, WOKE folks rock! #Ally #SaveOurOceans #VotingRights🐋🌊🇺🇦

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Dems are doing ok refuting Trump's narrative from his bizarro speech, but - IMO - that's NOT the most important thing they should be doing! Dems REALLY need to focus on forcefully and pointedly presenting the argument that Trump is so erratic, unstable, and so full of falsehood and delusion, that he is NO LONGER ABLE to carry out the duties of the presidency and therefore MUST BE REMOVED from office.
Look at him! Listen to him! To do anything but broach his unfitness and removal is to normalize that. And to normalize Trump, is to normalize psychopathy, FFS!
So say it, Dems. Say it loud. And say it on TV.
It's true, it's 100% accurate, it shows the mettle that Dem and Indie voters want to see, and it needs to be out there now, all day, every day.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

If Trump is disavowing NATO and breaking an 80 year tradition — something’s wrong.

If Trump is praising Vladimir Putin, whose entire economy is slightly smaller than the state of Texas — something’s wrong.

If Trump is disavowing the 1994 defense agreement where we told Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons and we’d protect them — the agreement that got him impeached in his first term — something is wrong.

He blasts and berates every world leader. Won’t say a single negative word about Putin.

Putin owns him. It’s hard to watch as an American but it’s obvious.

Why does he own him? That’ll probably come out someday.

It’s not just Trump.

Right-leaning podcasters taking money from the Russian government to spout their talking points.

Republicans hanging out in Moscow, repeating the same lines.

The question isn’t whether something exists. It’s what.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING — REVEALED: The REAL reason behind ICE’s run of deadly shootings — and it’s WORSE than ANYBODY thought.

ICE just quietly confessed something TRULY HORRIFYING: agents were killing people because the White House demanded 2,000 arrests a day, no matter the human cost.

After two men — neither of whom was even the target of the operations that killed them — were shot dead by ICE agents within days of each other, the agency has secretly ordered a nationwide freeze on traffic stops. Not publicly. Not with an apology. Just quiet internal guidance, leaked by ICE's own people who are horrified by what's happening.

A senior ICE official told PunchUp exactly why agents are killing innocent people: "There is a demand for 2,000 arrests a day. Leaders are being fired for bad numbers."

Exhausted, quota-driven agents were forcing dangerous confrontations just to hit Trump's numbers. "I would shut down ops until we got a handle on s--t," the insider said. "Not doing traffic stops. Not blocking the vehicles. If they run. They run. Find them later. Don't force a bad position."

That's an ICE insider — not an activist, not a critic — begging the agency to stop because his own colleagues were creating deadly confrontations.

The dead: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Mexican homebuilder shot in Houston, whose passengers dispute ICE's claim he "weaponized his vehicle." And Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian man on his way to work in Biddeford, Maine — a man ICE admits wasn't even who they were looking for.

This is Trump's covert mass-arrest blitz in action — the one that swept up over 10,000 people in five days. Numbers over lives. Quotas over safety.

And when the bodies started piling up, even Republican Senator Susan Collins had seen enough, personally pushing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to halt "all non-urgent vehicle stops."

ICE's public response? A shrug: "We are always evaluating our procedures... We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics."

Two innocent men are dead. ICE's own agents saw it coming and begged their bosses to stop. Trump's quota system killed them anyway.

The real question is: exactly who and how many will be prosecuted once America drives Trump and his goons from office? Because if this kind of behavior doesn’t deserve accountability, we don’t know what does.

Please like and share to spread the news.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

FACT: If you fly from Fukuoka, Japan to Palm Beach, FL your ticket reads FUK-DJT! 🤣

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

We just opened up a new front in our war against robocalls. Now we’re going after the companies that are selling millions of unused, unassigned phone numbers to the scammers.

Here's how it works:

Scammers buy huge lists of unused phone numbers so they can cycle through them to get around your spam blocker. Switching to new numbers makes evading defenses easier.

And the companies enabling these scammers - companies like "The Number Barn" - are being reckless and complicit in supplying those unused numbers to scammers. Those companies should know better, but they’d rather make the sale.

It needs to stop, so we’re asking the FCC for two new rules.

First, companies shouldn’t be allowed to sell phone numbers to anonymous people. When a number is used for illegal robocalls, law enforcement needs to know who bought it.

Second, companies shouldn’t be able to sell enormous batches of numbers to people who don’t provide telephone service. If AT&T needs new numbers for new customers, that makes sense. But why would someone who doesn’t operate a phone service need a million unused numbers? They wouldn’t, unless they're planning a robocall attack.

We’ve got more coming in the robocall fight. That’s the latest, and I’ll keep you posted.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Republicans used to proclaim they were the party of law and order.

They would say how important the Constitution was and show the pocket-sized copies they carried with them.

🔸The $1,776 billion insurrectionist settlement fund has been voided.

🔸ICE continues to violate rights, use excessive force, and lie about what happened.

🔸Ongoing extrajudicial killings are happening to boats in the ocean.

🔸Tariffs ruled illegal.

🔸The war in Iran was, is, and will continue to be illegal.

🔸Trying to limit birthright citizenship was struck down.

🔸Federal funding freezes blocked.

🔸NIH grant cancellations ruled illegal.

🔸Executive orders targeting law firms and Harvard funding cuts violated the First Amendment.

Not only do Republicans in Congress do nothing to stop Trump from continually violating the Constitution, breaking the law, and even taking power from Congress, but they also enable him.

Our government was designed so that Congress would serve as a check on the executive. And our elections are to ensure our representatives do their jobs and work for the people.

Exercise that power in November.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Do you not despise Trump enough? Then read this:
Today, the Trump Interior Department and Commerce Department announced a rule that says that destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would NO LONGER be considered illegal. (MAN this pisses me off!)
Why would the scumbag f*ckfaces do this, you ask?
So that fossil fuel companies, agricultural interests, land developers, and others can disturb and destroy the habitats of vulnerable species, of course.
Environmental law firms plan to challenge the final rule in court, charging that it violates the Endangered Species Act as well as a 1995 SCOTUS decision.

[Carolina Forward @ForwardCarolina]

This is absolutely bonkers: newly uncovered text messages reveal that Republican operatives INSIDE the North Carolina State Board of Elections are secretly collaborating with the NC Republican Party to force local elections officials to obey partisan directives - or be fired.

This is a smoking gun: @DallasWoodhouse, the disgraced former leader of the NCGOP who Republicans nevertheless hired to help run the State Board of Elections, is working hand-in-hand with NCGOP legal counsel to pressure officials and even arrange votes.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history.
We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal profit; and who knows what the hell else.
His many Useful Idiocies will boggle the mind. And his America First gaslight will be remembered as it should be remembered: "Trump Before America, facilitated by idiots who called themselves patriots."
His treachery - most done purely for power and profit, and some from pathology, revenge, and entitlement, will have massively impacted the globe, permanently shifted wealth, and cost many millions of lives.
I have to add that a good deal of it would not have happened but for our legacy media's consistent and widespread normalization of his disorders.

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

THE SWAMP WEARS ROBES Republicans screamed "drain the swamp" while dark-money kingpin Leonard Leo secretly wired $80K+ to Ginni Thomas.

His instructions? "NO MENTION OF GINNI, OF COURSE." That's not politics. That's a crime boss covering his tracks.

Ginni Thomas texted the White House to overthrow the 2020 election while her husband Clarence sat on the Supreme Court. The same dark-money group filed briefs before his court.

Clarence was caught taking millions in luxury vacations, real estate deals, and private tuition from billionaire GOP donors—all while ruling on their cases.

The Federalist Society didn't just pick judges. They bought them.

Why are voting rights dying and corporations always winning? Because Leonard Leo owns Clarence Thomas, Ginni tried to steal your vote, and Clarence lets it slide.

Democrats want a judicial code of ethics. Republicans want a cover-up.

If you believe the Supreme Court should have term limits and higher ethical standards, drop a heart to show your support 💙

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself — should concern every American, regardless of party, because the EAC was established by Congress as an independent, bipartisan body to help states administer secure and credible elections.

If these reports are accurate, removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

"A Brookings analysis found that ICE operations wiped out roughly 668,000 jobs, and that somewhere between 51,000 and 297,000 of those jobs had belonged to workers born right here in the United States.

Construction, hospitality, and food service, the very industries where those anxious young men actually work, got hit the hardest.

University of Colorado economists went looking for the promised windfall from Miller’s imprisonment and deportation campaign and couldn’t find it. There was no boost in jobs or wages for U.S.-born workers.

If anything, the crackdown hurt working-class men in immigrant-heavy trades like construction, because when you rip a non-citizen bricklayer off a job site you also idle the American electrician and project manager who needed that wall to go up.

So the red-hat guy’s pain is real. His paycheck really did shrink, his rent really is crushing him, his kid really can’t afford the college my dad could.

But the story he was sold about who did it to him is a lie, the same lie they sold his great grandfather in the 1920s when they swore it was Black people coming for his job, or his father in the 1980s when Limbaugh said it was the “Feminazis” who wanted to displace him, now just repackaged with browner faces, tradwives, fake Christianity, and a border.

The Century Foundation surveyed working-class Americans, including the ones who voted for Trump in droves, alongside their college-educated neighbors who lean Democratic.

On the policies that actually shape their economic lives the two groups were highly aligned, both of them overwhelmingly backing populist economics and hard limits on billionaire and corporate power.

The rest of the polling tells the same story. A CNN survey this spring found 76 percent of Americans naming the cost of living as their single biggest economic problem, with about three-quarters saying the system is rigged for the powerful and three-quarters saying it’s harder to get ahead than it was a generation ago.

A January New York Times and Siena poll found 65 percent of voters say a middle-class life is simply out of reach, and 77 percent say it’s harder to reach now than it was for their parents.

That isn’t a “left” or “right” number: that’s my dad’s vanished paycheck and benefits, expressed as despair, across the whole country.

Which is precisely why the morbidly rich oligarchs and their lickspittle politicians, and the billionaire-owned media, work so hard to keep us in these neat little categories and at each others’ throats."

What Happens When Trump Voters Realize They Want the Same Thing Progressives are Working For? https://t.co/d0p471TBMP

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society.

This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.

Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.”

— Albert Einstein

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I was watching Trump sitting next to Zelenskyy this morning, rambling and riffing for the press. I was making notes, when - holy shit, did he really say that, when - holy shit, he just did a 180, when - holy shit, that makes no sense, and holy shit, something else - so I threw my notes away to make this post instead.
This man cannot be the emissary for America anymore. He is shot. He is full of gaffes (the Islamic Republic of Japan, yes - he said that), he is full of hyperbole (the bomb goes off and leaves you with no face), he is full of narcissistic envy (he can't shut up about Obama), full of ambiguity, full of politicization, and his attempts at grandiosity fall flat to the rest of the world and make us look terrible.
What the rest of the world thinks, matters. Our friends scratch their heads; and our adversaries salivate at how predictable and malleable he is. Everyone privately scoffs at him. His reputation is not salvageable, and he's dragged America's reputation down with him.
Malignant narcissists in decline ALWAYS get worse, and they NEVER go down alone.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Democrats - knock off the stupid ideological food fight. Find someone who can speak articulately about housing and gas costs, corruption, doesn't have a Nazi tattoo, and isn't over 80. It's not that hard.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Hi Nance - Here's 10 of the 28 women who said Trump sexually assaulted them. Oh, and pls don't forget @ejeancarroll who Trump has to fork over $5M to for raping her. Any questions?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

JUST IN: Over 1,200 former DOJ employees just signed a letter urging the Senate to REJECT Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General. https://t.co/TG2w7kvH7K

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

The Patriot Front's usage of masks to shield their identities in DC on July 4 served dual purposes, per former DC police offer Michael Fanone

1) It adds to the impact of menacing
2) It shields the Front members from being identified and fired from their jobs

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: More than 1,200 former Dept of Justice employees have signed etter urging Senators to block Todd Blanche’s confirmation

There are so many signatures… this letter consume 59 pages. It was distributed by @Justice_CXN

https://t.co/trnrzYcQiu

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “It’s not just that he’s getting wealthy, it’s that there is this crew of people that the whole U.S. is explicitly being RUN FOR. It is for them…for the people at Maralago and the people around the White House and the oligarchs that lavish Trump and his family with gifts and contracts and contributions—The foreign emirs, and the crown princes, the Ellisons, and the Bezos, and the Zuckerbergs, and the Musks, the Lutnicks, and the Witkoffs and the Kushners. Our government is being run explicitly for this Oligarch class. Full stop. That’s what he cares about. That’s who he’s looking out for. He’s part of that class and you ain’t, and it’s a total, complete desecration of what makes self governance, our very birthright as Americans, so precious.”🤦‍♀️