UPDATE: Donald Trump Takes Office as the 47th US President
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I thought this was Charlie Sheen.
This bitches middle name is Mercedes and she’s Colombian you just know she’s a whore.
Tones Ashford
Is Trump the only man to experience hair loss from a toupee?
Like the toupee would rather go bald than sit on the top of that narcissist’s head!
Can you imagine the pain those racist feel right now. This cuts deep because they want everyone blocked from learning and he keeps jabbing at them. The weight of being eager to hate a person’s next move has to be soul crushing, then they hear he gave out free books or something and they lose-their-shit. Racism has to take years off their lives; or I hope it does.
Marco Rubio Finally Admits Trump’s Iran Deal Is Worse Than Obama’s
The secretary of state let the admission slip while briefing lawmakers.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
June 30, 2026
newrepublic.com
Peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are once again inching along, days after the two countries exchanged strikes. But even top Trump officials aren’t confident in the burgeoning truce.
State Secretary Marco Rubio reportedly told lawmakers during a briefing Monday that the new peace deal wasn’t of the same caliber as the Obama administration’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
California Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove recounted Rubio’s admission while speaking with MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez outside of the Capitol, claiming that Rubio had said the Obama administration’s setup was a “real agreement with criteria and benchmarks and thresholds.”
“This [memorandum of understanding] is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking,” Kamlager-Dove said. “So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, ‘What are these people doing with our money and our national security?’”
The unpopular war has so far cost American taxpayers more than $1 billion per day (the current total is estimated at more than $113.3 billion). It has also sparked a political rejection of MAGA ideology across the U.S. as the American public becomes more and more disillusioned with its increasingly infirm, unstable, and volatile president…
United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio (R)
The secretary of state let the admission slip while briefing lawmakers.
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
June 30, 2026
Marco Rubio Finally Admits Trump’s Iran Deal Is Worse Than Obama’s
The secretary of state let the admission slip while briefing lawmakers.
newrepublic.com
Peace negotiations between the U.S. and Iran are once again inching along, days after the two countries exchanged strikes. But even top Trump officials aren’t confident in the burgeoning truce.
State Secretary Marco Rubio reportedly told lawmakers during a briefing Monday that the new peace deal wasn’t of the same caliber as the Obama administration’s Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
California Representative Sydney Kamlager-Dove recounted Rubio’s admission while speaking with MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez outside of the Capitol, claiming that Rubio had said the Obama administration’s setup was a “real agreement with criteria and benchmarks and thresholds.”
“This [memorandum of understanding] is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking,” Kamlager-Dove said. “So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, ‘What are these people doing with our money and our national security?’”
The unpopular war has so far cost American taxpayers more than $1 billion per day (the current total is estimated at more than $113.3 billion). It has also sparked a political rejection of MAGA ideology across the U.S. as the American public becomes more and more disillusioned with its increasingly infirm, unstable, and volatile president…
United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio (R)
Bad take on this decision.
The Second Amendment should only apply to those who are in a "well-regulated militia." Militia here isn't any group of overweight rednecks either. It means an armed service that's under command of a state governor and can fall under the command of the President in times of war.
You don’t think Iran knows this? The real question is how are Americans going to respond if/when the discover this administration and possible the political party in opposition want to destroy the American economy?
Is that the bullshit they teach over at Morehouse? When and why were the black hospitals destroyed? If we were to be dropped back into a 1964 America, which healthcare infrastructure do we have that can be repurposed for “Us”? How much does it cost to build a 50 bed emergency room? How are we going to finance that construction? Where are we going to source the material to build these infrastructures?
It’s why my signature with every post is fuck Paul Volcker. The Americans are actively trying to destroy the economy and hike the interest rates because that’s how the country resets black people.
Dr. Carr and Karen Hunter are Booker T negroes. They’re here as lidocaine.
They make it up as they go. I wouldn’t believe anything those losers say.
BLACK VOTERS ARE PAYING ATTENTION.
The contrast is worth discussing.
According to the polling highlighted here, Roy Cooper is polling at over 80% among Black voters in North Carolina, while James Talarico is polling at 67% among Black voters in Texas.
Support from Black voters has historically been a cornerstone of Democratic victories. These numbers raise an important question:
Why is there such a gap?
Many North Carolina voters point to Roy Cooper’s consistent engagement with Black communities—showing up, listening, and addressing issues that matter. If Texas Democrats want to build stronger support, Black voters are signaling that engagement can’t happen only during election season.
Black voters don’t just want to be counted—they want to be heard.
Engage. Listen. Represent. Earn our vote. #BlackVoters #TexasPolitics #NorthCarolina #RoyCooper #JamesTalarico #VotingMatters #BlackPoliticalPower #Election2026
Judge rules Trump abuse protest signs, ‘86 47’ flag are protected speech
Judge Randolph Moss ruled that an activist group can continue to display anti-Trump signage without fear of interference from the National Park Service.
By Julianne McShane
June 30, 2026
www.ms.now
Obama appointed, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Randolph Moss
Judge Randolph Moss ruled that an activist group can continue to display anti-Trump signage without fear of interference from the National Park Service.
By Julianne McShane
June 30, 2026
Judge rules Trump abuse protest signs, ‘86 47’ flag are protected speech
Judge Randolph Moss ruled that an activist group can continue to display anti-Trump signage without fear of interference from the National Park Service.
www.ms.now
Obama appointed, United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Randolph Moss
America at 250, of Thee I Sing
When it comes to America’s semiquincentennial birthday, I feel like someone whose husband has gotten fat and surly and announced he’s going vegan.
substack.com
America at 250, of Thee I Sing
Greg Palast
Jul 01, 2026
Author’s son on his bicycle in a 4th of July parade.
When it comes to America’s semiquincentennial birthday, I feel like someone whose husband has gotten fat and surly and announced he’s going vegan.
You just have to keep reminding yourself of those Good Old Days when he was a promising young poet and not promising riches with something called “financial products.”
So, I close my eyes and think back to those Good Old Days when America was young and handsome and did some pretty impressive stuff.
Let’s begin with, “All men are created equal,” which was pretty damn radical in human history. Yes, you can tell me that America never really lived up to those highfalutin words, but by 1865, we the people proved we meant it.
Half a million Americans died in a war to end slavery.
Can you name one other nation on this planet where white people sacrificed their blood, as a nation, to end enslavement of Black people?
And please spare me the sophomoric cant that the Civil War was about something other than human bondage.
An axiom of historians is that those who know nothing about the Civil War believe it was about slavery; those that know a little about the Civil War think it was about something else like economics; but those who have studied the Civil War know that it was, indeed, about slavery
As my fave progressive historian Eric Foner stated,
“No narrative of the Civil War can ignore the centrality of slavery to its origins, conduct and legacy…. Indeed, the abolition of slavery, an indisputably moral exercise of national power, gave new meaning to Jefferson’s description of the United States as an ‘empire of liberty.’”
How cool. But after Gettysburg, came a century of racial darkness…
…Until the Battle of Pettus Bridge at Selma, Alabama, in 1965. On that bridge, an army of freedom fighters, un-armed and never even raising their fists, were beaten bloody by an army of hatred. Yet, in that Mighty Battle, the forces of all-men-are-created-equal overcame the violence and won Thomas Jefferson his last victory as a civil rights warrior.
Go ahead and take a shot at Jefferson. I know: he kept his baby mama in legal bondage. And at the same time, he was a committed abolitionist. In the original Declaration of Independence, Jefferson listed slavery as an inhuman evil forced on America by King George. (It was the only paragraph struck from the Declaration by the Continental Congress.)
Jefferson educated his Black children in his home but never gave them equal status to his white kids. Notably, one of his Black grandchildren, Col. John W. Jefferson, commanded the 8th Wisconsin Regiment for Abraham Lincoln.
Author keynotes No Kings Day rally in San Diego on October 18, 2025. Flag in case adorned the coffin of Gladys Palast, a Coast Guard veteran. Image: Martin Eder 2025 for PIF and KNSJ Radio.
And that sums up what makes America the Beautiful and America the Ugly at the same time; our internal contradictions, our big-shot words about equality while, at this very moment, the one and only privilege of American citizenship, the right to vote, is truly facing horrific new threats.
This Fourth of July, Trump will hold a deep-fried bacchanal in his pathetic attempt to highjack America’s birthday into a MAGA-bration. They are selling pretzels stuffed with a hotdog and cheese. Now, how do you get a hotdog to wiggle into a pretzel? Only in America!
We can laugh at the rubes who show up despite getting fleeced by Trumpcoin. But here’s why laughing hurts: it’s who is NOT there for this gross display of fake patriotism, who is clearly not wanted at this ethnically cleansed rodeo — you and me.
But We the People are there. From the ground beneath the mullet-haired TrumpFest. From underneath the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool Swamp. From the Navy ships in the Gulf where our kids are waiting on death by drone in a war that we already “won.” From the suburb where a mom is sick at heart because her Affordable Care Act premiums tripled and her kid has MS and she’s ready to do something about it. You can hear it.
You can hear it in the canyons closed to Americans because of DOGE budget cuts. You can hear it if you listen carefully to a sound that’s barely there, barely alive.
It’s the sound of freedom ringing.
A great Jewish poet once wrote: “Send me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door.”
Has any other country on this planet ever raised a Statue of Liberty to that welcome?
Two hundred fifty years ago, a crazy group of outlaws declared No Kings Day. From that day to today. No Kings now and forever.
That’s worth celebrating, isn’t it?
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The SCOTUS decision wasn’t about the 14th Amendment.
It was about POTUS having the power to write an Executive Order to override the U.S. Constitution.
SCOTUS/GOP and Dark Money all know that is too much power for a POTUS to have, especially when they all know a Democrat will resume the White House soon.
And their fear is a Democratic Socialist like Mamdani or others get in the White House and use Executive Orders to override the U.S. Constitution.
Justice Kavanugh somewhat stated that in his opinion saying Congress needs to handle Birthright Citizenship.
And you can only override a Constitutional Amendment with another Constitutional Amendment.
That has happened only once with Prohibition with the 18th and 21st Amendments.
Staffers are trying to hang on to their paychecks.
I was being facetious as that is what MAGAts say when you talk about Trump. But then you talk about the amount of money he made is ten fold compared to what she does. I hoped the eye roll gif expressed that but obviously:
Barack Obama left office on January 20, 2017, meaning his presidency concluded roughly 9.5 years ago. His historic two-term administration began on January 20, 2009.
