RCP: Bill Maher endorses Graham Platner for US Senate in Maine Maher on Platner: “I would still urge the folks in Maine to vote for him, for two reasons.” “One, we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that.” “And two, get used to it, America is a country filled with a lot of broken, horribly educated, phone addicted, sort of nutty people, and as long as we live in a representative democracy, we are always electing our reflection in the mirror.” Link to article: realclearpolitics.com/video/…

A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. newsmax.com/platinum/screwwo…

Me right before we start taping Breaking Points. @emilyjashinsky can confirm.

BREAKING: Iran directly rejects Trump's new claim of a deal being signed tomorrow, saying the insistence on signing the deal on specifically Sunday is engineered around his own birthday, calling it a "propaganda event" that Trump is trying to turn into a unilateral "symbolic occasion" for himself, along with his UFC White House event, per Fars. The Iranian negotiating team says it "will not permit such a media and ceremonial manoeuvre," explicitly stating that the memorandum of understanding has not been finalized and no signing will happen.

“Israel has the right to defend itself, Lex!”

Brother you got rejected from the Second Trump Admin. There are 19 year olds whose only qualification is saying the hard r on camera that are technically above you.

Turns out there *is* a tweet of Nydia Velázquez affirmatively endorsing Joe Crowley in 2018.

Scoop for @VanityFair: Three former DOGE employees, including the Pentagon's outgoing chief data officer, are raising $130 million for an AI defense startup focused on selling tech to government. 👀 Investors include Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. w/ Margaux MacColl

How many elected NYC politicians are renters? I think the answer would surprise you

She is happy to vote against democrats and support conservative Zionists because she herself is a conservative Zionist

Adam, you just don’t get it. Barack’s job as a journalist isn’t to “speak truth to power”. His job is to help the powerful speak their truth, regardless of whether it is true or not.

“A reporter’s job is to uncritically parrot what people in power tell them” is a defense of sorts i suppose

If his defense is that the people in admin are telling him things that aren’t true repeatedly, then his job as a journalist is to communicate to the public 1) who those people are and b) their motivations to lie, not just repeat the lie

Look who I ran into at the Congressional Progressive Caucus retreat! I can't wait to serve with @BernieSanders and fight alongside him to unrig this economy.

She’s the best presidential candidate we have for 2028, but ironically being a carefully calibrated power broker makes her a lot worse of a candidate, I’d be way more excited if she ran as a bold populist instead of mimicking the dems triangulation logic but from the left

I much prefer AOC as a risk-taking stalwart and vanguard legislator to her new look as carefully calibrated broker with delusions of national office

Policy still matters but Zohran is speedrunning King of New York by constantly showing up places and always appearing on people’s feeds. He is seen as energetic and accessible and people love a politician like that, especially when they’ve grown accustomed to stuffy geriatrics.

NYT: Sanders to Rally With Mamdani to Support Mayor’s Congressional Slate Senator Bernie Sanders plans to join a rally for three New York congressional candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. nytimes.com/2026/06/12/nyreg…

Just so angry, in my bones angry, at the continued lack of fight in the Democratic Party. No other way to say it notus.org/2028-election/trum…

In new reporting for @TheProspect, we detail internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2)