Allen

Proud Progressive from the great State of Georgia. Let's work to make Georgia Blue!

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Turmoil, scandal: 2 top Collins aides gone in less than 2 months after:

Campaign resources were used to harass a rape victim

Collins’ office worked to support a Holocaust denier, and updated Hitler admirer Nick Fuentes on its efforts

And Collins is under federal investigation

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Eddie Glaude: “Stephen Miller is a racist. He’s a white nationalist. White nationalists have seized the federal government. Great Replacement Theory motivates this immigration policy. We need to call them for what they are. This is a white nationalist agenda and Stephen Miller and all of these folk are just simply rabid racists”

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

When I was Ethics Czar, we decided Obama wouldn't even refinance his house to save a few hundred dollars -- & lobbyists couldn't gift us a PENCIL!

Trump is monetizing the presidency for BILLIONS

The American people won't stand for it

I discussed with @AC360

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Mike Collins, currently under federal investigation for illegal misuse of tax dollars, opens 2026 General Election campaign in Georgia by insisting Trump won 2020 election

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."
…
"In holding otherwise, the Court gives the President a power unknown even to the English Crown against which the Founders revolted, elevating him above his once-coequal branches by transforming a duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed into a license to act in defiance of those very laws."

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Peter Thiel is funding a plan to build privatized city-states everywhere from Gaza and Venezuela to small towns in California.

The goal is to replace governments with for-profit companies.

We investigated how Thiel's scheme is already reshaping democracy across the world.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

If I told one of my Republican friends this would be the GOP policy in 2005 they’d say I was a crazy conspiracy theorist. We do have actual white nationalists making policy in America now.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

What a hellishly cruel and stupid mess SCOTUS has enabled.

Most or the 1.3M legally resident people they’re letting Trump deport have lived here 15+ years. Average age 42. They’re parents to 273,000 U.S. citizen kids. 30% have mortgages.

1/3

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

We hold the power of the purse and a Congressional appropriation is a federal law. Thus the president must take care to faithfully execute all budget appropriations. Trump has violated the Constitution by shutting down USAID and now withholding $19 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. His refusal to write the checks for USAID’s lifesaving global programs against malaria, HIV/AIDS and hunger is a deadly form of law-breaking.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted Katie Phang’s motion for a preliminary injunction in the Epstein files case, ordering the Trump administration to take additional steps toward transparency.

The ruling requires the administration to defend its redactions, produce additional records, and publish the disclosure log required by law while the case moves forward.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

Independent analyses estimate that your actions to dismantle USAID and drastically reduce lifesaving foreign aid have already killed 700,000 people. Here are some of those people. 🧵https://t.co/aKdQpk9QTW

[MikeBates @MikeBates]

@atrupar Get into Trump’s head? Reminds me of Lindsey Graham in 2016: “I'm not going to get into the mind of Donald Trump because I don't think there's a lot of space there. I think he's a kook. I think he's crazy. I think he's unfit for office...”
Then Graham sold out.

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

"Money is nothing more than a form of debt, which is to say a commitment to pay money at some time in the future. The whole system is therefore fundamentally circular and self-referential. There is nothing underneath, as it were, holding it up."

-Perry Mehrling

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SWEET KARMA! Viewership for CBS News COLLAPSES after MAGA hatchet woman Bari Weiss fired “60 Minutes” icon Scott Pelley for daring to stand up to her regime.

The people have spoken and they are furious...

According to media watchdog Status, "CBS Mornings" averaged 1.59 million total viewers in the days immediately following Pelley's termination. Before he was forced out, it had been averaging 1.8 million. That's an 11% drop and CBS officials are reportedly "alarmed."

And that's not even the best part.

Disastrously for CBS, viewership among the 25-54 demographic has dropped off by 28%, falling from 313,000 to 225,000. That viewing bloc is highly coveted by advertisers, who will now be willing to pay far less for CBS's programs.

Pelley was fired after he said that Editor-in-Chief Weiss — who has intentionally pushed the network's coverage to be pro-Trump in service to her boss David Ellison, a close ally of the President — was "murdering the show." He accused the new executive producer Nick Bilton, who was installed by Weiss, of having "slender qualifications" for the job.

Viewership has slowly, slightly ticked up since that initial crash but the damage is done. From June 3 to June 14, it was still down 6% compared to the year-to-date average. The reason is obvious. Americans no longer trust CBS News because it has been revealed to be a festering hive of reactionary politics.

"Once those viewers are gone, it is very difficult to win them back," network executives confided to Status's Oliver Darcy.

On top of that, "CBS Mornings" is on track to log its worst-rated June in history, a stunning indictment of Weiss's evil, incompetent leadership. This woman has failed her way up through life by flattering the most powerful people in the world, leaving a trail of wreckage in her wake.

“The morning show’s ratings troubles are yet another sign that CBS News is grappling with a broader brand image problem under Weiss," wrote Darcy. "Her editorial overhaul and never-ending series of self-inflicted public relations disasters have alienated the network’s core audience, driving viewers away not only from the programs she has directly reshaped, but from other corners of the news division as well."

Please ❤️ and share if you no longer trust CBS News!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

lollllll -- Ossoff proposes a motion that would ban senators from trading stocks and crypto, prompting Sen. Lummis (who loves crypto) to immediately object

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum amount a person can donate to a candidate is $3500.

Miriam Adelson just donated another $25 million.

Citizens United didn’t give corporations “free speech.”

It let billionaires buy elections and legally bribe politicians.

End Citizens United.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Surrender document being signed at Versailles

1919 2026

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here are Italian PM Meloni's remarks about Trump, translated to English:

"So certain things deserve an immediate response. Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly stunned.

I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. It's not the first time this has happened. After all, I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.

But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg. "

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Imagine Trump ever being invited to join a photo like this — not in a million years.

Four presidents. Zero drama. Just smiles, respect, and a shared love of country. 🇺🇸

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Almost five years ago I was declared an “unreal economist” for proposing that the return of inflation had something to do with a sharp rise in profit margins.

This was the beginning of a tireless research effort. @EvanWasner and I wrote a paper explaining how emergencies coordinate corporate price hikes causing sellers’ inflation. Our work has been discussed widely and cited by central banks, the IMF and OECD.

Now, Evan just became Dr Wasner with a brilliant dissertation on inflation, critical inputs and inequality.

Could not be prouder of my first ever PhD student graduating! Onwards! 🍾🍾🍾🍾