To be clear: ICE shot and killed a man who was not their target. He had no criminal record, was seeking legal status, & was pushed off the road by unmarked cars.
There’s “no body cam footage”, his family can’t recover his body, and the witnesses in his van have been detained.
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.
Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.
250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY
Labor force participation has fallen to 61.5% — the lowest since 2021, erasing the entire post-pandemic recovery.
Since Trump's inauguration, over a million people have left the job market — which explains part of the reason the unemployment rate dropped last month.
This clip, from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness" is one of his FUNNIEST ever.
Awesome to have Rob Reiner as George Washington in possibly one of his final on-screen performances.
Cameo by Kimmel is chef's kiss.
RIP, Rob Reiner.
The day AFTER Trump's latest incoherent idiocy is as good a day as any to once again note that there are real world leaders. Of them, there are none under attack that speak, act, fight - and lead - like Zelenskyy.
He doesn't need to reclaim a 250th birthday for himself, because he never self-aggrandizes. He prioritizes his people. He is clear-eyed as to who his allies are. And while he's needed help with weaponry, he has also - quite amazingly - perfected his own.
Remember - this is THE ONE leader who has BOTH nobly defied Trump's extortive quid pro quo blackmail bullshit AND fought bravely to thwart Putin's murderous aggression - and he turned the tide on the now-gaunt sociopath in front of all. Trump AND Putin. And guess what - it's HE that has the cards.
Nobody can say for sure how things will transpire - but it CAN be said for sure that Zelenskyy ... is a very rare and very real hero.
Nearly 1m people who bought Trump’s memecoin have lost a total of $3.81b through the end of June.
Trump, meanwhile, made $636m from the coin last year, because he collected returns whenever anyone traded it, as he repeatedly pushed his followers to do. https://t.co/hWzMCXWiB7
Jack Smith: I'll give you an example from from my life. I resigned as special counsel. I know I need to get a lawyer because the president has said he wants to jail me for doing my job. And so I retain lawyers, as soon as that becomes public, the president and the justice department target that law firm, and they do it because they don't want me to have counsel. They don't want to have anyone represent me…
@FareedZakaria dear Fareed. An honest question. While I agree with most of the issues you identified for California, I am wondering, why did you choose this state for your speech? Why not Alabama, for example? Or Kansas? Etc
What this means is that the jury verdict that determined that @realDonaldTrump had sexually abused my friend E. Jean Carroll by penetrating her vagina with his fingers, and therefore had defamed her by denying that he had done so, will stand as a final and conclusive judgment.
The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.
So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact:
DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.
Syrskyi: Our main objective is to ensure that the enemy loses more than 1,000 personnel killed or wounded every day.
Ukraine’s war aims: hold territory, kill Russians faster than they can be replaced, destroy logistics with mid-range drones, and bleed Russia’s economy with long-range strikes. 1/
The numbers are in, and they are devastating.
5,000,000 Americans have dropped their Affordable Care Act coverage.
Here’s why.
Premiums on these plans doubled, on average, from last year to this one.
Deductibles hit a record high.
And families who were getting by suddenly found a monthly bill they simply could not pay.
So they did the only thing they could. They gave up the coverage they needed. And it did not have to be this way.
The reason costs exploded is that Trump and Republicans in Congress let the tax credits that kept these plans affordable expire. We fought to extend them.
We warned, for months, exactly what would happen if those credits went away.
Republicans pushed their agenda through anyway, in their Big Ugly Bill, and chose tax breaks for billionaires over keeping a working family’s doctor visit within reach.
Now look at how they’re trying to spin it.
The administration wants you to believe this drop is about fraud. That’s nonsense and they know it. Independent health policy experts have looked at the data and reached the same conclusion. People did not disappear because of some crackdown. They disappeared because they could not afford the bill anymore.
When you double someone’s premium, they drop the plan.
This is not complicated.
It is as cruel and cynical as it gets. And the people who did this are going to answer for it.
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