Leaving this here, in case anyone is wondering why we have screwworm in the US for the first time since the 1960s. The DOGE stupidity from Trump and Rollins will end up COSTING taxpayers money.

Donald had a temper tantrum on national television and walked out of an interview simply because Kristen Welker presented him with a basic fact. Note to other journalists: now is the time to pile on. He won't be able to handle it.

Trump Previews Fall Strategy With Baseless Claims of California Vote Fraud nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/po… via @NYTimes MAGA Americans and their cult leader are just pathetic. 🤣

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it. No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it. The public was never told. Here is why that matters. Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant. The department never disclosed the connection in court. Justice Alito did not recuse. The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That is the test. Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face. And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too. This is exactly why the honor system has failed. The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review. Congress holds the power of the purse. We should use it. notus.org/us-news/samuel-phi…

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention. The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean. And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them. Record-breaking temperatures. A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse. The response? Yank out the instruments and walk away. That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency. For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives. The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first. cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/o…

The Trump administration will auction off 689,000 acres of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling today.

The timing of the @NYT article about Platner is ridiculous. And if Kavanaugh and Thomas can be Supreme Court justices Platner can certainly be a senator from Maine. Not to mention that the accuser is an acknowledged GOP operative. 😆😳😳 This interview is worth a listen and rings true for me. Stop falling for their traps Democrats! @TheDemCoalition @SenSchumer @TheDemocrats #Platnerforsenate podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

Trump's corrupt son-in-law Jared Kushner is now under investigation.

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family. That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know. I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina. Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes: - zero regulation on AI development, - a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability -a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules. The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

Elon Musk and the modern far right love to gaslight the public by claiming their views were considered normal a few decades ago. Do not fall for it. There is absolutely nothing normal about their corruption, lies, and pro-Russian treachery. The idea that today's far right represents traditional, moderate values from twenty or thirty years ago is a complete fabrication. They are pushing a radical, post-truth ideology rooted in racism and dishonesty, desperately trying to normalize positions that any sane person would have rejected in the past. Look at what is happening right now under Trump: no mainstream conservative decades ago wanted to dismantle NATO, grant the president absolute legal immunity, eliminate basic checks and balances, or allow a leader to make billions of dollars directly from holding office. These are not traditional positions. They are a direct assault on democratic governance that would have been completely disqualifying thirty years ago. The shift in foreign policy is equally alarming. No one with a functioning brain in the West would have tolerated a pro-Russian stance during the Cold War or its aftermath. Today, the far right openly acts as a mouthpiece for a hostile foreign dictatorship, treating Western alliances with contempt. This is not conservative nostalgia. This also has nothing to do with common sense. It is a dangerous, modern extremist movement designed to erode the rule of law. Reject the gaslighting and recognize this ideology for what it truly is, a toxic departure from sanity

Republicans: Abortions are murder! Also Republicans: Children dying from malnutrition, lack of vaccines and healthcare is perfectly acceptable as long as we can lower corporate tax rates by 1%.

Nearly 60 people in Idaho have contracted bacterial infections after drinking raw milk.

The way Pelley was fired by CBS after 22 years by Executive Producer who has been at 60 Minutes for one day ⬇️

You can't solve problems you refuse to measure. Yet this month, 900 ocean monitoring instruments are being physically pulled out of the water. A $368 million system. A decade to build. Designed to run 15 more years. Gone. This network tracked hurricane intensity, coastal flooding, marine heatwaves, and sea level rise. The data was free, public and used in over 500 scientific publications. Congress tried to stop it... twice. They got overruled anyway. For a coastal community like FL-13 that just lived through Helene, this isn't abstract. This is the difference between an evacuation order that comes in time and one that doesn't. Florida deserves a representative who fights for the science that protects us, not one who looks the other way while it gets dismantled. #LeelaGrayforCongress #LeelaJGray apnews.com/article/climate-o…

Grift all day and night, year after year after year. At our country’s expense. Banking on their kids surviving in bunkers when climate change threatens the lives of ours.