Steven Stull

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Houston Mayor John Whitmire has just announced a full independent investigation into the ICE killing of Salgado.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 95% of the time.

I will vote with Maine 100% of the time.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: "If we were to lose the midterms heaven forbid these Democrats y'all impeachments not even the big concern They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they'll go after the president's family the cabinet his donors and friends."

This is exactly WHY Democrats need to win the midterms! Thanks for selling it @MikeJohnson.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Free on Substack!
https://t.co/6b0xfEKmUh

[Tom Cruiser™ @thetomcruisr]

Remember when Elmo MuskRat posted this gem a year ago today?

Yeah, the internet NEVER forgets. @elonmusk deleted it so let’s share it like HELL today! 🚬😎

#SmokeRises

[MrBentliii @Iofthebholdr]

@BLaw @mehdirhasan Oh? 🧐🥹

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent.

Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

CONFIRMED:

Trump’s DOJ has settled Trump’s own lawsuit against his own IRS by creating a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization” fund for people who claim they were politically targeted.

Trump sued the government he controls, then his DOJ agreed to create a billion-dollar fund that can benefit his political allies, paid for by the American people.

If spread across American households, that is roughly $14 per household to fund this disgusting program.

So while families are being told there is no money for health care, schools, child care, disaster relief, or lowering costs, Trump’s government somehow found $1.776 billion to compensate the people in his political orbit.

This is CORRUPTION!

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

Goodnight and FUCK @CBS

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Your hat says ‘Trump was wrong about everything’ — it should say YOU are wrong about everything.”

“That’s adorable. Burn! Pam Bondi wrote that for you?”

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

There's an obvious reason why the Republican Supreme Court Justices sound so nervous. During their confirmation hearings, these justices sat under oath and promised that Roe v. Wade was settled law. They lied. They told us they were independent. Then they quietly accepted luxury mega-yacht vacations from right-wing billionaires, flew insurrectionist flags outside their homes, and used shadow dockets to dismantle decades of worker and environmental protections.
Now, trying to persuade the public that a Republican-controlled Court issuing Republican-friendly decisions is not a Republican body has never been more difficult.
Now that their public approval has cratered, they are showing up to fancy think tanks to complain that Americans are being unfair to them. They are desperately demanding to be treated like impartial umpires who simply call balls and strikes.
But, ultimately, you do not get to strip away the bodily autonomy of millions of women, pocket millions in undisclosed gifts from conservative mega-donors, and then cry about a lack of respect.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A new investigation reveals Republican officials in Georgia covered up a massive forever chemical leak for nearly 20 years.

The state ignored warnings of "staggeringly high" PFAS levels in drinking water in 2008, 2023, 2016, and 2019, refusing to warn the public or punish the companies responsible.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

The craziest thing about gas prices going up from $2.89 to $4.50 in the US in just 6 weeks is that Donald Trump raped a 13 year old girl.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

I asks one question on CNN…

now Trump’s FCC chair is joking about me getting slapped on air

Grown men, btw.

[Clamhat Cornblow @kneurotnik]

@IsaacHayes3 @adammocklerr @ScottJenningsKY @MichaelEDyson

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

The Trump administration tried to hide the contract facilitating the fundraising for his $400M White House ballroom.

Well, it’s not secret anymore. And what’s clear is that the contract allows wealthy people with business before the government to contribute—often anonymously.

That means a wealthy donor that needs help from the Trump administration on a business matter could contribute to Trump’s ballroom and receive favorable treatment.

It’s a system ripe for corruption.
https://t.co/aHnchYIcxa

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

@mtgreenee The White House took down this video, but we still have it.

Trump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.