DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
Does anyone else notice that no matter how many folks are posting about the Epstein files, it never trends on X?
Trump's DOJ has killed a criminal investigation into Trump's pardon of David Gentile, a private equity executive convicted in a $1.6 billion fraud scheme.
Gentile had discussed making payments of over $2.5 million to Trump allies to help facilitate the pardon.
The U.S. government just handed sacred Apache land to a copper mine.
When they're done, the ancient oaks where generations have prayed and come of age will be gone - replaced by a crater two miles wide.
Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, known as Oak Flat, sits in Arizona's Tonto National Forest outside Superior. Its 2,422 acres of old-growth oaks, springs, and sacred sites have held San Carlos Apache prayers and coming-of-age ceremonies since time immemorial.
The endangered Arizona hedgehog cactus grows here. An endangered ocelot was struck and killed on a nearby highway - a reminder of what else calls this place home.
President Eisenhower protected this land from mining in 1955. That lasted 60 years, until the late Sen. John McCain slipped a last-minute provision into a must-pass defense bill in 2014, authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.
Below Oak Flat, the Sonoran Desert rises to meet you in thousands of saguaro cacti lining the drive up from Phoenix. Environmentalists warn that block-cave mining at this scale threatens the fragile water systems that sustain this entire ecosystem.
Apache Stronghold fought it in court for over a decade.
They took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court declined to hear it - no explanation, no ruling on the merits, just a closed door. Even Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the Court's most conservative voices, wrote a dissent calling it a grievous mistake. This past March, the transfer was finalized anyway.
The crater the mine leaves behind will be two miles wide and 1,100 feet deep. Permanent.
The American people will receive zero in royalties.
That's not an oversight - it's the 1872 Mining Law, a statute signed by Ulysses S. Grant that lets mining companies extract minerals from public land and pay nothing. It hasn't been updated in over 150 years. 150 years — can you believe it?
Twenty-one of Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribes oppose this. Seventy-one percent of Americans support protecting Oak Flat.
"We will never stop fighting," said Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold. "This is a struggle for the soul of our people."
What kind of country lets a 150-year-old law give away sacred land and call it legal?
#DemsUnited
Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding administrative procedures, and an executive order that few people are paying attention to. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: https://t.co/8dvrOO8Zy6
Since 1970, North America has lost nearly 3 billion birds — a staggering 29% decline in the continent’s total breeding bird population. 1 in 4 birds.
This loss is not confined to rare or endangered species. It affects common birds that many of us grew up seeing every day: sparrows, warblers, blackbirds, and swallows. Grassland birds have been hit especially hard, suffering a 53% population drop, while forests have lost more than 1 billion birds. The result is an eerily quieter landscape — fewer songs in the morning, fewer flocks overhead, and a profound sense that nature is emptying out.
The main driver is habitat loss, driven by the expansion of agriculture and rapid urbanization. Additional major threats include collisions with buildings (up to 1 billion deaths per year) and predation by free-ranging domestic cats (an estimated 2.4 billion birds killed annually). Climate change is further intensifying these pressures by altering habitats and reducing the food and nesting resources birds depend on.
This widespread decline represents a massive ecological crisis. Reversing it will require urgent action to protect and restore habitats, reduce human-caused mortality, and address the broader impacts of climate change — before the silence in our skies becomes permanent.
At the G7, the CEOs of the big AI companies sat at the table like heads of state, alongside presidents and prime ministers.
This is the nightmare scene.
Governments need to have a response to the state-like power of these companies, whether it’s by taking ownership shares, breaking them up into smaller entities, or imposing a regulatory structure that controls their power over citizens.
We need an independent commission that can actually do something if a president becomes unfit to serve. Raskin’s bill would create one under the 25th Amendment.
Tell Congress to pass it.
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Will Elon Musk and other MAGA types be tweeting about this former top rightwing politician in the UK who was just found guilty of being a pedophile and whose wife aided and abetted him in those sick sex crimes against children? If not, why not?
🚨 After two assassination attempts, Congress gave the Secret Service hundreds of millions of dollars to hire agents, improve training, and upgrade security.
The Trump administration just redirected $352 MILLION of it.
Not to agents.
Not to training.
Not to technology.
To a "White House security measures" account tied to Trump's East Wing expansion and ballroom project.
That's more than 10% of the Secret Service's budget.
Remember when Trump said the ballroom would be privately funded and wouldn't cost taxpayers a dime?
Congress funded protection.
OMB reprogrammed it.
The ballroom got bigger.
The Secret Service priorities Congress funded got pushed aside.
If a CEO took money budgeted for security upgrades and quietly spent it on an executive showpiece, shareholders would demand answers.
Taxpayers should too.
Congress approved that money to strengthen presidential security after two assassination attempts. If the administration believed a ballroom was the higher priority, it should have made that case openly instead of moving the money after the fact.
The body of a dead baby duck floats in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after recent renovations directed by Donald Trump resulted in an algae infestation, leading workers to pour hydrogen peroxide into the water. June 21, 2026. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz.
So let me get this straight: Pulling a chunk of paint out of the Reflecting Pool gets you arrested for vandalism, but trump’s terrorists who attacked the Capitol, killed cops, broke windows, stole shit, and smeared their feces on the walls get to go free?
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:
Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.
Spread the word. Stand up for science.
When people discuss using taxpayer funds in a criminal way. What do you think should happen to a person in this position? Your answer should not be who’s the person?
The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.
Think about that.
At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.
Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.
Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.
Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.
Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.
Governments usually spend money to build things.
This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
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@atrupar I’m from Minnesota and we are stronger together than apart. Only idiots fall for these manipulative prats. If your brain can’t comprehend that we have different cultures Around this Globe. Maybe you should get it checked out. Hate is mental illness. So are those who commit crimes
This is not the administration that cares about the working class. This is a kleptocratic authoritarian regime. They will take anything that is not theirs. Including your life’s savings.
🚨🚨Mike Johnson just said the quiet part out loud. Republicans are gearing up to cut Medicare and Social Security.
He's called for raising the retirement age and tried to create a commission to cut benefits behind closed doors.
We stopped him before, and we'll stop him again!
JUST IN: Reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files, says she was working with sources to "expose government corruption."
Nothing at all going on here, folks.
"CBS News’ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization."
"Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed."
"CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.