BROOKLYN 🌻

NY made. News Junkie. Tea/chocolate connoisseur. Speak truth to power sprinkled w/compassion. Protector of the voiceless. Country over party #LincolnVoter

[BROOKLYN 🌻 @Agent4Change20]

@TheAfrocentricI @ruthbenghiat One helpful tool to make a greater impact with our economic power is the app GOODS UNITE US which tracks political donations of corporations/executives/brands. Also available on Google Play.

https://t.co/2eNCGP9eSj

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

How Russian intelligence infiltrated Jeffrey Epstein’s inner circle. My 10-month investigation:

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Reuters: ABC URGES FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION TO DECLARE "THE VIEW" IS LEGITIMATE NEWS PROGRAM, CAN FREELY INTERVIEW POLITICAL CANDIDATES -- FILING

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

This is communism by the way.

[Jane Dashley @JaneDashley]

A mom who said vaccines killed her 18 month old twins on RFK Jr’s Children's Health Defense podcast has been charged with murder. https://t.co/CkzKrtQB6O

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Last week, Peter Thiel told a private group that Pope Leo XIV was working for the Chinese Communist Party. https://t.co/Sc4F7qPqC5

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

FULL timeline of the campaign to bring Balogun back, according to a half dozen U.S. government & soccer officials:
- Wednesday after U.S.-Bosnia match: Andrew Giuliani alerted Trump to the red card (Trump & Giuliani had been talking multiple times/week since start of World Cup and regularly before that.)
- Wed night: Giuliani, Lutnick and U.S. Soccer officials began activating on plans to challenge red card
- That kicked off 4 days of coordinated lobbying, legal maneuvering & diplomacy that stretched from Oval Office to Zurich
- On *Thursday* Trump dialed Gianni Infantino and asked abt FIFA’s rules around the red card decision and grounds for suspension. (They’ve known each other for 8 yrs.)
- FIFA declined to confirm any specific discussions but reiterated to POLITICO that the decision to suspend the one-match ban was made by an independent disciplinary committee.
- As U.S. Soccer’s legal team formally prepared & submitted its appeal to FIFA, Giuliani + Lutnick offered to make White House attorneys available to assist
- At the same time, Giuliani and Scott Goodwin — a hedge-fund manager who had helped pay the salary of Mauricio Pochettino — zeroed in on the officiating history of referee Raphael Claus
-Articles examining previous controversies involving Claus circulated among senior gov officials as they evaluated every argument that could bolster the appeal
- On FIFA side, Emilio García, who oversees the legal affairs of FIFA, advised Infantino on the available procedural options
- García + other FIFA officials worked to determine whether the circumstances of Balogun’s tackle met the narrow standards that would allow the disciplinary decision to be revisited
- By Sunday, FIFA announced that Balogun’s one-match suspension would be suspended
- FIFA insists that the decision was an independent one made by its 18-person disciplinary committee, but it would not say whether the decision was decided through a vote, and it has not published a report on the decision.

https://t.co/eXOOUkza6N

[CNN @CNN]

Officials from the Nashville Zoo say a planned data center just beyond its perimeter could introduce constant noise, light and industrial activity that may disrupt the environmental conditions critical for the more than 3,000 animals that call the zoo home. https://t.co/z6GV36fhYc

[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card.

FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Pollution this morning in DC after massive fireworks show last night

Washington Post reported National Parks Service prepared internal documents that the fireworks were expected to cause hazardous levels of pollution around the National Mall & “very unhealthy” conditions in DC

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

There is no contradiction between July 4th and Juneteenth. All Americans should take pride in both.

July 4th celebrates the founding promise of equality and liberty for all.

Juneteenth celebrates the enforcement of our founding promise.

Both are chapters in the ever-unfolding American Revolution.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize that in 100 years historians are going to use it as shorthand to summarize the whole era you're living through right now.

[NBC News @NBCNews]

More than 1 million wallets holding President Trump’s meme coin have experienced net losses totaling $4.51 billion since it began trading in January 2025, data shows. https://t.co/ubicb892av

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

NEW: A bulletin is warning Northern Virginia residents that Trump's firework display has the potential of causing worse air quality than severe wildfires.

The bulletin urges volunteers on the National Mall to wear an N95 masks, and warns of serious health risks. https://t.co/mOim5DTbw5

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: DOJ has lost for the 10th straight time in an effort to obtain states' voter rolls.

This defeat is courtesty of Judge Joseph LaPlante, a George W. Bush appointee in New Hampshire.

https://t.co/Dv6D8WhZZi

[New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag]

Israelis across the political spectrum are outraged that the U.S. president forced an end to the war against Iran. The right feels betrayed by Trump, and the left blames Netanyahu. Why is Israel the only country that thinks the war was a good idea?
https://t.co/JT1jxkYuw1

[Kristen Holmes @KristenhCNN]

The new Air Force One, a luxury jet donated by the government of Qatar, will make its inaugural trip on Wednesday, when President Trump flies to North Dakota for an America 250 celebration, two sources familiar with the plans told CNN.

Several high-ranking administration officials are expected to travel on the new plane with Trump to the event, one of the sources said.

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court grants six new cases for next term and, among other cases, denies Trump's appeal of the E. Jean Carroll verdict.

The $5 million sexual abuse and defamation verdict against Trump in Carroll's case stands.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie:

“I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Michael Scherer @michaelscherer]

NEW: Trump said is March that he would pay for the new black granite in the West Colonnade. But that wasn't true. The National Park Service was billed $1.3 million for the project, as spending at other parks collapses, per internal budget docs I obtained. https://t.co/s9ty15JyFL

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

The death toll from yesterday’s pair of major earthquakes in Northern Venezuela, measuring a 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude, has risen to at least 235, according to Venezuela’s Health Ministry.