Blackmailing or holding hostage with threats of Trump coming to get you is just shocking.

Newsom: They did not expect California. They did not expect all of you. They thought we were going to write an op-ed, have a candlelight vigil, maybe do a rally. They poked the bear and the bear is poking back

Catholic nationalists are on a collision course with the Vatican on.ft.com/3X31ufG | opinion

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

An important thing that is often ignored about Mamdani: he's cheerful! Taking the city's (and country's) problems seriously doesn't have to mean projecting nothing but darkness and rage. His positive vibe is an unbelievably effective way to make the tent bigger. As is fun/dorky stuff like this.

And ... scene.

Back to back “free speech” headlines this afternoon.

New video: "Joe Rogan TURNS ON Trump as Kimmel RETURNS"

click below to WATCH👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Ip1hPaeAA

Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, is on video allegedly taking a $50,000 bribe from undercover FBI agents. But as soon as Trump took office, that FBI investigation was DOA.

The Trump Administration is just a gift to grift, but Democrats are fighting back.

youtu.be/ClPGl9hHi40?...

Starvation. Mass displacement. Slaughter of innocent children. A siege of Gaza City.

This is wrong.

The U.S. should not send one more penny to fund Netanyahu's war machine.

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

California Fish and Wildlife officers said they busted about 45 Dungeness crab poachers at Thornton Beach, seizing hundreds of crabs and issuing about 15 citations.

Seth Meyers closed out Thursday night’s "A Closer Look" with a pointed—and personal—message about Jimmy Kimmel’s sudden suspension and its implications for free speech in America.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

The first Black mayor of a tiny Alabama town has overwhelmingly won an election, four years after White residents locked him out of the town hall and refused to let him serve. https://cnn.it/4p0fkwn

To be fair, he doesn’t say it was today.

It’s so sad.

Democrats just picked up a seat that was +11 pts for Trump in 2024 to break an Iowa supermajority.

Trump wants to appear indomitable. But he's also a lame duck and those winds can shift quickly. www.the-downballot.com/p/iowa-democ...

This is worth reading

Shame on you for posting this with this clickbait caption. I thought you guys were better.

Investors pile billions into New York office market on.ft.com/3HD1zmv

Bolton’s home raided, Gen. Kruse fired, Epstein coverup proceeds, seizure of 10% of Intel another step towards state capitalism. Just one day in the somewhat chaotic but directionally purposeful march towards…despotism.

Does anyone think they’re doing all this so they can hand over power in 2028?

Russian state media posts the Vance clip because what he is saying is exactly what they want Americans to hear.