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[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

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[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Ah nothing like some masked Nazis marching through DC on the 4th of July with Confederate flags to celebrate America’s 250th

[dominic dyer @domdyer70]

YES: Mamdani's administration just funded New York City's first-ever pet food pantry program.

$750,000 in the FY2027 budget, specifically to help pet owners who can't afford food for their animals. Another $750,000 goes toward affordable spay/neuter services. $1.5 million total, aimed at keeping people and their pets together.

Here's why it matters: NYC animal shelters took in over 16,000 animals last year. Nearly 10,000 were strays. Another 6,500 were owner surrenders — people who loved their pets but couldn't afford to feed them or get them basic vet care, and had to give them up.

Animal welfare advocates had been pushing for this for years, asking for $15.3 million to fully fund pantries, spay/neuter clinics in every borough, and a real animal welfare office. They got a fraction of the ask, But it's the first time the city has put dedicated dollars behind the idea at all.

No family should have to choose between rent and feeding their family — pets included. This is a start.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The Trump Administration wanted Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States for our 250th anniversary.

Instead, he visited the Italian migrant island of Lampedusa and lifted up the plight of those who undertake a dangerous journey to new lands in search of a better future for their children.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump fucks up the economy with his tariffs, raises gas prices for every American with his foolish war, piles on to the national debt with his budget & wasteful spending on vanity projects, covers up Epstein, makes billions for himself, then starts yelling communism to distract.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

Of course a plane full of people who have never read a book has a bookshelf of fake books with titles like “Library”

[Stormetta @Janiebt]

@Shell You have the worst customer service through Imprint.

[Cliff W @CliffW08950229]

The Republican Governor of Ohio wants Trump to leave his Haitians alone.
https://t.co/BTxzjlLsn5

[Sjoerd Nolf @SjoerdNolf]

@krassenstein The Supreme Court left the $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict against Trump intact, rejected an RNC challenge to mail-in ballots, and blocked Trump’s attempt to remove Fed Governor Lisa Cook.
And it’s only Monday. Who’s going to tell Dozy Don when he wakes from his nap?

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MASSIVE WIN!!

The US Supreme Court has just DENIED Trump's effort to overturn the E. Jean Carroll sexual assault and defamation verdict.

[Stormetta @Janiebt]

Supreme Court's blockbuster week will put Trump's power to the test https://t.co/5b5Ie84M1y

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Every president before Trump understood that you cannot accept a $400 million gift from a foreign government and still claim to be working for the American people.  

No president in American history has ever accepted anything like this from a foreign government. There's a reason for that. It's called the Constitution. 

Congress never voted on it. You never got a say. And you’re still paying up to $1 billion to retrofit it, so Trump can fly around in it, and then hand it off to his own personal foundation when he leaves office. 

Yes, you heard that right. The American people don’t get to keep it. His foundation does. 

This cannot be allowed to stand. I am doing everything in my power to stop it. 
https://t.co/yw2SQE4XMQ

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine issued the following statement on the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in Mullin v. Doe, regarding Temporary Protected Status (TPS):

"Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its ruling allowing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to be canceled or expire.   

"Today’s decision is a legal decision.  As I have stated in the past, the policy to remove these individuals from this country is a mistake.

"As a result of today’s ruling, the over 10,000 Haitians who have been living in Ohio (mostly in the Springfield area) legally through TPS will now be here illegally and will be subject to immediate deportation. This also means that while these Haitians were working and contributing to our community and economy yesterday, today it is now illegal to employ them.

"The situation in Haiti could hardly be much worse.  The violent gangs run most of the country.  The government barely functions.  And, the economy is in shambles.
"Further, our federal government has an advisory against traveling to Haiti, and our Federal Aviation Administration prohibits U.S. carriers from flying there because of the danger to planes of being shot at by the gangs. 

"But, more importantly, changing the immigration status of these individuals is not in the best interest of the United States nor Ohio."

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Imagine being Amy Coney Barrett and being the mother of two adopted children from Haiti and having to explain to them why she voted to terminate Temporary Protected Status for roughly 330,000 Haitian Nationals living and working in the United States.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The # of Haitians who enriched our culture more than this frigid monster is endless. New Orleans is Mobile without them. Pierre Toussaint financed St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. Basquiat's art. Blake Griffin's oops. Ralph Gilles designed the Chrysler 300. Go back to Ireland @megynkelly.

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

THIS JUST IN: Pete Hegseth has decided to take away the rank from all military Chaplins- because they're not ‘warfighters’. Since WW One, US Chaplins have won 5 Medals of Honor, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Gov. Mike DeWine on the Mullin v. Doe: "It's a mistake for a number of reasons…You cannot fly into Port-au-Prince…It is clearly not safe…It is worse than it has ever been…It's not in the U.S. interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, who are buying houses, fixing up old houses, starting businesses, and put deep roots in this country and really are contributing — and yank them out…That is a huge, huge mistake."