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Mom. Wife. Believe music and dancing is good for the soul.

[Eye Of The Idol @EyeOfTheIdol]

Just throwing this out there for your consideration…..

#DemsUnited

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Marco Rubio: "For years to come, there are many people on the right...that are going to be having to explain and justify how they fell into this trap of supporting Donald Trump because this is not going to end well.” (2016)

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A USDA food insecurity survey that ran since 1995 got canceled, with the administration calling three decades of data collection fear mongering. That number mattered to every county food bank in the country planning how much to stock. You don't fix a problem by refusing to measure it.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

President Donald Trump’s crusade to take over voting continues to falter in the courts. So he’s pulling out a range of dangerous new strategies to exert control.

That makes this an especially perilous moment — and one that Democracy Docket is tracking. https://t.co/M3BbqljJ3U

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A company that didn't exist three weeks ago is selling gas fifty cents under market rate at twenty five Pennsylvania and New Jersey stations, and nobody involved will say who's paying for it.

Freedom Fuel Network incorporated in Delaware on June 23. Trump promoted it on Truth Social a week later, calling it the work of a mystery "VERY smart Retailer" who "loves the U.S.A." Fuel industry veterans, the people who'd actually know, say they've never heard of it and can't figure out how it survives selling below wholesale. At least seven of the participating stations are owned by Blue Owl affiliates. Trump disclosed last month that he holds more than five million dollars in Blue Owl stock.

Nobody has to prove a direct kickback here for this to matter. What we know for certain is a Delaware shell company sprang up days before a presidential promotion, slapped patriotic branding on gas stations partly owned by a company the president has a financial stake in, and is selling fuel at a loss nobody can explain, timed precisely to blunt cost of living anxiety before the midterms. The White House says there's no subsidy and no connection to Blue Owl. Maybe that's true. The appropriate response to "trust us" from this administration, on a financial question this specific, is to ask for the paperwork.

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

POTUS made a poor choice by starting a war based on bad assumptions against a terrorist dictatorship that is willing to pay for its own survival and control of the Strait with the lives of its own people.

I assume we'll sort this out this round before the markets open Monday.

[Forrest Bennett @ForrestBennett]

This parasite affects fresh produce. The screwworm affects livestock. Both vital to our food supply. Alpha-gal is a tick-borne disease that makes us allergic to meat and dairy. The Trump admin cut programs that protected us against all of these things, and they’re all worse now.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A Delaware company that didn't exist a month ago is selling gas fifty cents under market at stations partly owned by Blue Owl, a company Trump holds over five million dollars in. Nobody will say who's covering the loss. Ask for the paperwork before you call it patriotism.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Notice what this administration didn't do. It didn't argue the food insecurity numbers were wrong. It didn't publish a competing methodology. It just canceled the survey and, in its own words, called three decades of USDA data collection "fear mongering."

That's the tell running through every example in this piece. Not correction. Deletion. A pregnancy risk tracker the CDC used to fight infant mortality, made inaccessible through staffing cuts rather than any stated policy change. The CIA World Factbook, gone. Weather balloon launches quietly reduced in the western United States until meteorologists themselves started saying their confidence in the models had eroded.

Jerome Powell called it "driving in the fog" last year, when a government shutdown delayed jobs data the Fed needed to set interest rates for the entire country. That fog isn't an accident of budget cuts anymore. It's becoming the operating condition. When the public can't see the data, the public can't check the claims, and an administration that doesn't want its claims checked has just found the cheapest way to arrange that.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Mark Zuckerberg built a COLOSSAL data center in Georgia — literally hundreds of yards from families’ backyards.

Water pressure has tanked. Faucets barely drip. Toilets won’t refill. Houses shake nonstop from the vibrations and blackouts are now routine.

One billionaire gets his servers humming at full speed… while working families get crushed.

This is straight-up unacceptable.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I wrote a year ago, watch the actions of the Trump admin through the eyes of someone who has watched democracy turn into autocracy. Centralizing election authority, expanding federalized troops and putting them in the streets, cracking down on the press. It's not original.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump's approval stands at 35% with 61% disapproving, per @TheEconomist @YouGov poll. His net approval of -25 is lower than Biden's at this stage of his presidency (-14) and lower than Biden ever reached (-23). https://t.co/INLmjvoVV9

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects," says @davidmccraw https://t.co/fv4OaHF14Y

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So military troops under the direct control of Trump and Hegseth will be on the streets of our nation’s capital for the rest of Trump’s term. The rationale—they’re here to help with a crime emergency—is laughable. But of course the real reason is ominous.

https://t.co/Wx9ZWmTRcP

[Reuters @Reuters]

New Mexico says US Justice Dept hindering probe of former Epstein ranch https://t.co/b3tO3UfuYp https://t.co/b3tO3UfuYp

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016

Courtesy of @RpsAgainstTrump

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

According to Grok, the explosive diarrhea outbreak rapidly spreading across the United States, was brought to you by DOGE…
💩 🤔

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Sources told CNN that Trump has been fuming at the reports of security concerns surrounding the $400 million gift from Qatar, and was embarrassed and angry when it became public that that the plane was not equipped enough to be flown directly from the NATO https://t.co/l9gllkC9mO