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[Julia M. Payne🇺🇸🦅 @jmpayne24]

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

[Olivia Beavers @Olivia_Beavers]

NEW: President Trump and his allies have discussed pushing lawmakers to pass a resolution aimed at voiding his first-term impeachments, people familiar with the matter tell us.

“It should be done because I did nothing wrong,” Trump said in an interview.  

“I think it makes a lot of sense the more the evidence comes out, the more we know they really were sham impeachments,” said Speaker Mike Johnson, who said he has discussed the matter with Trump. Johnson added that he has had more detailed conversations with some of the president’s allies in the legal world, including Harvard law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz and Jay Sekulow, a conservative lawyer who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial.
https://t.co/xGg7Y4IV6J

W/ @AnnieLinskey @natalieandrews

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

77-year-old Giants ballboy lays out for this foul ball.

Get this man an MLB contract immediately.

[Julia M. Payne🇺🇸🦅 @jmpayne24]

@JakeSherman If they weren’t keeping their brilliant sportswriters, no way the awesome weather team ever had a chance

[Hoop Central @TheHoopCentral]

Knicks fans were celebrating and threw this cone perfectly on someone’s head

This clip is unreal. 🤣🤣🤣

(via @sidetalknyc)

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

For the first time, an American pro athlete is speaking out against fossil fuel sponsorships in sports.

I have an exclusive interview with Angels pitcher Brent Suter, who's tired of greenwashing and would much prefer to promote clean energy. Check it out: https://t.co/U1t6bf6iaN

[New York Basketball @NBA_NewYork]

Knicks legends backroom so packed it’s like something out of Goodfellas

[Covie @covie_93]

The media needs to start calling them out on their bullshit.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts.

I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me:

There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States.

The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud.

This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal:

A presidential commission under President Donald Trump.

The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena.

Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government.

State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud.

Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems.

Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud.

Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud.

What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud?

Ask The Heritage Foundation.

For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.”

The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.”

It covers elections going back nearly fifty years.

That’s billions and billions of American votes.

Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is:

1620.

That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things:

1. Some individuals commit election fraud.

2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA.

The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time.

It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that.

Stop trying to subvert our democracy.

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[Gus Saltonstall @GusSaltonstall]

The Lincoln Center Plaza lit up orange and blue for the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.

[Julia M. Payne🇺🇸🦅 @jmpayne24]

He ruins everything

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

When the $14 million renovations of the Reflecting Pool were completed last week, President Trump praised its “beautiful, clean water.”

Now, days after the pool was refilled, clumps of green algae have has been spotted throughout the water. https://t.co/TYHVgI8b5E

[Julia M. Payne🇺🇸🦅 @jmpayne24]

@JoyceCarolOates Welcome to sports!

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Mariska Hargitay went from Broadway to the basketball court — sprinting from her show to catch the Knicks in action and calling it “the greatest night of my life.”

She decided to sprint to Madison Square Garden after a two-show day to make it to the 8:30 p.m. ET game. https://t.co/09UILfshKJ

[Variety @Variety]

Six former #60Minutes staffers spoke to Variety about the turmoil that has unfolded under CBS News chief Bari Weiss.

“I have a feeling that Bari will not be overseeing ‘60 Minutes’ for very much longer,” Steve Kroft tells Variety. “I think once the deal gets done with Warner Bros., people will demand that she be let go or move into another position. Everything she’s touched has turned to shit. Everything she’s touched has gone colossally wrong. And I don’t think she’s shown any talent for this position. She’s only fulfilling other people’s agendas.”

Read more: https://t.co/VWtxlYJPJy

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Elderly people on privatized Medicare plans were routinely denied coverage for long-term hospital care and inpatient rehab by a trio of for-profit insurers that dominate the program, according to a government watchdog report. https://t.co/QFdaUZTJtx

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is Sad!

For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.

Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.

Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.

This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.

Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.

We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

PBS Sets Premiere for ‘Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War’ https://t.co/vTzmkkn22E

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas.

This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.

[Library of Congress @librarycongress]

The Committee of Five—John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman—was appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago today.

Jefferson's draft of the document is here at the Library, and will be featured in a new exhibition opening July 3.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

When Obama released his long form Hawaii birth certificate in 2011 and extra-definitively disproved Trump's birther idiocy, Trump didn't abandon the conspiracy theory; he just expanded that conspiracy theory to cram in the contradicting facts, pivoting to claims that the birth certificate was a forgery. 

It's a time-tested conspiracist tactic. And he’s now using it again when trying to explain why Steve Hilton succeeded in the California primary elections Trump had baselessly declared were a fraud and were being rigged against Hilton: https://t.co/l8yf1SFm7c

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Axios should just make this a pinned tweet.