From a voter in 📍 Chillicothe, MO https://resist.bot/letters/e65f8036-f673-42d7-807d-fef39794888b

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Top fossil fuel Republican donors in 2024:

Proud owners & operators of the most corrupt Supreme Court, Congress, & President in history.

1. Koch Inc $47,816,086
2. Crownquest Operating $35,776,196
3. Energy Transfer LP $$10,874,865
4. Chevron Corp $9,675,320
5. Energy Transfer Partners $8,358,671
6. Occidental Petroleum $7,670,161
7. Vitol Inc $6,946,595
8. American Petroleum Institute $6,913,867
9. Continental Resources $6,056,955
10. Devon Energy $4,691,402

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/

@Strandjunker

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/18/how-to-contain-the-oligarchs/

Never forget the names of the oligarchs who bought an election for a felon & rapist as a president.

They've bought a corrupt Supreme Court, a coup-plotting Congress, & kneecapped agencies meant to protect people from abuse & civil rights violations.

Many aren't even American oligarchs, they're Chinese, Saudi, Qatari, and Russian oligarchs

https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116817720953235336

https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116819681970264434

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From a voter in 📍 Chillicothe, MO https://resist.bot/letters/7eaf97ac-a4b2-4354-afdd-0dda7b719ae8

From Rep. Jamie Raskin:

Happy 4th to President Trump, who can effectively pursue his new anti-Communist campaign by not sending any more love letters to Kim Jong Un, the “top of the line” Communist dictator of North Korea with whom he has “great chemistry”; not lavishing praise on President Xi, the “top of the line, brilliant” Communist dictator of China;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D1NNQEaljw&is=O-_5H97gnwK-earw

#Communism #RedScare #McCarthyism #tRump #Politics #Lies #Propaganda #Panic #Policies #Affordability #Power #Absurdity

Boston's Aroldis Chapman sets MLB record for strikeouts as a reliever with his 1,364th K
https://apnews.com/article/aroldis-chapman-red-sox-b3654df8918078095adfbaad9798c991?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Sports @sports-AssociatedPress

How long will MAHA hold together?

However long Kennedy lasts in government, his
"Make America Healthy Again" coalition already lies in shambles,
its catalog of achievements short.

What happened?
At present, there is no confirmed head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
or of the Food and Drug Administration.
There is no surgeon general and no head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Disease,
effectively the government’s lead scientific position for Anthony Fauci’s nearly four decades in the role.
There is also no confirmed boss at the F.D.A.’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
which regulates vaccines,
and none at its Center for Drugs Evaluation and Research,
which oversees drug therapies.

Last year, staffing at the Department of Health and Human Services was reduced by 25 percent, leaving huge deficits of personnel and expertise.
The agency looks less like an army of acolytes than a barren bureaucracy.
This is not an overhaul;
it is an evacuation, a disemboweling.

If you knew one thing about Kennedy upon his confirmation, it was probably his vaccine skepticism.
But even his experts haven’t significantly altered America’s vaccine policies,
making changes only to federal recommendations that parents could easily skirt
and states quickly override.

MAHA has been steamrolled on food and pollution by business-aligned Trump appointees elsewhere in the government,
forced to concede longtime crusades against glyphosate, mercury and other airborne toxins.
It endured another setback from the Supreme Court, in a case described as MAHA v. Trump,
in which the administration backed the company manufacturing Roundup, not the plaintiffs arguing that it gave them cancer.

The administration just signed off on more forever chemicals in pesticides and drinking water.

A much-hyped report trying to link autism with the use of Tylenol in pregnancy was quickly disproved by larger studies,
and a memo linking 10 childhood deaths to Covid vaccination was contradicted by the agency’s own review of the evidence.

The biggest effect of the new regime on research hasn’t been a major turn toward MAHA priorities but major cuts to science funding overall.

You could see this all coming.

Kennedy’s team of contrarians arrived in Washington already divided on some big questions:

Were drugs overregulated or underregulated?

Were vaccines rushed to market or too slow to get there?

Did “gold-standard science” require randomized controlled trials or just compelling anecdotal evidence
— of, say, a diet that supposedly alleviated someone’s A.D.H.D. symptoms or a regimen of cod liver that supposedly protected against measles?

Should we embrace medical miracles like GLP-1s
or treat obesity as a morality tale in which fat people deserved to suffer more and die earlier?

Do chronic disease, disability rates and skyrocketing mental illness reveal a medical system designed not to cure people but to treat them for profit?

Or were they projections of safetyist hysteria, the way liberals made meaning out of anxiety while dreaming of a world without risk?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/magazine/maha-movement-survival-rfk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

@maxleibman
This has been going on in my neighborhood for the past week. I genuinely thought maybe it was a gun thing the first evening, not thinking of the upcoming date.

It doesn't keep me up, and I don't have pets or kids, but if I was in any ( or multiple) of those boxes I would be livid, instead of vaguely irked.

If you detonate big, illegal fireworks in a residential neighborhood in the middle of the day the day before Independence Day, you are an asshole.

You’re also an asshole if you do it at night.

You’re also an asshole if you do it *on* Independence Day.

Basically, fuck off with your fireworks.

Zohran Mamdani was surrounded by naturalized citizens like himself as he listed the waves of immigrants who shaped the city.

“Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty,” Mamdani said.

“Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown.

Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island.

Jewish people escaping pogroms,
Italians fleeing poverty.
Syrians seeking economic opportunity.

“Despite laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry” and other hardships,
“immigrants made homes here in New York City,
and they helped to make New York City”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/zohran-mamdani-america-250-new-york?CMP=bsky_gu

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The plot to subvert the midterms is getting stranger and more dangerous
Right-wing media figures including Steve Bannon, John Solomon, and Cleta Mitchell appear to be weaving together a narrative about interference by China in US elections to justify a national emergency to curtail voting rights

#uspol

https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/plot-subvert-midterms-getting-stranger-and-more-dangerous

Pirro said
“There was an effort,
a violent effort, to rip up the sealant from the pool,
and irrespective of whether or not we think that there is some situation that preceded it,
we can state, and prove beyond a reasonable doubt,
that he caused damage, and that damage is worth over a thousand dollars”.

When asked how she could prove that,
Pirro said,
“With an expert,”
and urged the reporter who asked the question to come to the trial.

The reporter incredulously asked if Hearn used his bare hands, to which Pirro affirmed yes, both hands.

The reporter then asked if the pool wasn’t already damaged before.

“Oh, he damaged it.
He damaged the pool.
He damaged this pool,” Pirro repeated.

When the reporter brought up videos showing that the pool’s paint was already peeling, Pirro said,
“Well, good.

I’m glad you got that evidence.
Come on in the grand jury and you can testify.”

Hearn is clearly being made a scapegoat to satisfy Trump,
who is blaming nonexistent vandals rather than admit he messed up the pool.

https://newrepublic.com/post/212691/pirro-reflecting-pool-indictment-us-olympian-sham

America should offer asylum for the persecuted—not persecute those seeking asylum. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/america-should-offer-asylum-for-the?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon