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NYC, by way of DC, L.A., Austin, and London.

[anders @anders8675309]

@jemelehill @Faithkeeper1296 He's saying that one alternative is higher gas prices and the other is Iran has a nuclear bomb and can take out US cities like LA and San Diego. And he chose higher gas prices, which is a small price to pay, he says.

[Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias]

I can’t get over the fact that a Russian oligarch paying for Don Jr’s wedding is like a total non-story.

[anders @anders8675309]

@jonathanchait It's a negative income tax, right? So Milton Friedman probably.

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

Oh look, another strongly worded letter.

Give me a break. When Susan Collins had the chance to actually vote to stop Trump’s tariffs from driving up costs for Maine families and businesses, she voted NO.

Mainers don’t need more fake concern.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

Setting aside the fact that Trump was convicted of fraud, here are all the people who committed fraud and were pardoned by Trump:
Rod R. Blagojevich (Wire fraud under color of official right (8 counts)), Brian KelseyBrian Kelsey (Conspiracy to defraud the United States), Devon Archer (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), Trevor Milton (Securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)), Jason Galanis (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud (2 counts); securities fraud; investment adviser fraud), Ozy Media, Inc. (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud), Carlos Roy Watson (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud), Michele Fiore (Conspiracy to commit wire fraud; wire fraud (6 counts)), Scott Howard Jenkins (Honest services mail fraud; honest services wire fraud (3 counts)), Julie Chrisley (Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (5 counts); wire fraud), Todd Chrisley (Conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud (5 counts)), Lawrence S. Duran (Conspiracy to commit health care fraud; health care fraud (11 counts)), Michael Gerard Grimm (Aiding/assisting preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns), Marian I Morgan (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; wire fraud (7 counts); transfer of funds taken by fraud (5 counts)), John G. Rowland (Conspiracy to defraud the United States), Charles Overton Scott (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), George Anthony Devolder Santos (Wire fraud — the Party Program Scheme), Glen Casada (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (4 counts); use of fictitious name to carry out a fraud), Cade Cothren (Conspiracy to defraud the United States; honest services wire fraud (6 counts)), Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr. (Health care fraud), Joseph Lewis (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud (2 counts)), David Gentile (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; wire fraud (2 counts)), Enrique Roberto Cuellar (Honest services wire fraud; honest services wire fraud conspiracy), Imelda Rios Cuellar (Honest services wire fraud; honest services wire fraud conspiracy), Jacob Deutsch (Conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud), Adriana Isabel Camberos (Conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud (7 counts)), Andres Enrique Camberos (Conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; wire fraud (7 counts)), Julio M. Herrera Velutini (Honest services wire fraud (2 counts)), David Levy (Conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud), Hollie Ann Nadel (Conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud), Mark T. Rossini (Honest services wire fraud), Wanda Vazquez Garced (Honest services wire fraud), Terren Scott Peizer (Securities fraud; insider trading (2 counts)), Timothy S. Smith (Conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service), Stephen E. Buyer (Securities fraud (4 counts)), Joshua L. Davis (Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act), Matthew Sidney Geouge (Conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act; tax evasion), Adam R. Kidan (Conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud), Danny Preston Conrad (Embezzling by postal employee), Jack Charles Harvard (False statement to a federally insured bank, and aiding and abetting), Jeremy Young Hutchinson (Conspiracy to commit bribery; aiding and abetting filing of false income tax return; conspiracy; criminal forfeiture)

[anders @anders8675309]

@grok @greenacid24 @GerryCallahan Does that mean that her net worth is much lower than $8 million after mortgage debt is taken into account?

[alan rusbridger @arusbridger]

The guy who delightedly claimed to bring down Jason Arday, Nathan Cofnas, had his own work demolished as “unintelligible, wrong-headed …nonsensical” by nine more senior academics two years before Cambridge appointed him. He has argued that universities like Cambridge would have virtually zero Black professors if appointed solely on merit (which, funnily enough, is more or less what the supposedly ‘woke” Cambridge in fact has). He argues that Black people can only excel in sport and entertainment. A strangely under-covered aspect of this sad story https://t.co/rZ40w2dzvO

[Max Fisher @Max_Fisher]

2026 polls continue to massively oversample left-wing demos which should be a huge source of concern for Dems going into November but for some reason isn't https://t.co/UMRs8zOk0z

[anders @anders8675309]

@CharlesPPierce It's also obviously written by AI

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

Tom Tiffany not only opposes a data center moratorium—he voted for a ten-year national ban on state and local regulation of AI.

Tiffany is lying about Crowley. Don't just watch Tiffany's misleading clips. Watch Crowley on the campaign trail actually laying out his view.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

⁨⁨.@JamesTalarico: The only thing worse than Ken Paxton's personal cheating is his public cheating.

Today is the the anniversary of his famous mugshot — that was because he was indicted for investment fraud. What's fascinating about that story is that he was scamming his own friends. He convinced his own friends to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into a tech company, and then he didn't tell them that he was getting a commission off those investments.

If Ken Paxton is willing to scam his own friends for a quick buck, what makes you think he's not going to scam you in the United States Senate?⁩

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

“Another way of saying it is simply that we’re replacing the free market with the market for Trump’s affections.”

Must read scoop from the WSJ: https://t.co/LyWHPMQxC1

[anders @anders8675309]

@cjscalia They're just trying to emulate England! https://t.co/YOuEEM6GAI

[anders @anders8675309]

@tolstoybb Can we find out in advance of the match which side the VAR official supports?

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

On the play that led to England's equalizer, the ball hit the FIFA sky cam before the goal.

[anders @anders8675309]

@tolstoybb It's so wildly inconsistent. How do they miss the purely objective one (the ball hitting the cable) and review the subjective one?

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Congress can and should extend TPS for Haitians (and others) for three years.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID

[anders @anders8675309]

@jimgeraghty I just purchased an annual national parks pass and it has Trump's face on it. Remarkable.