There's Nothing Democratic About These Socialists  —  The DSA was formed in opposition to the very thing it has become.  —  The general idea that Democratic Party loyalists seem to have about members of the Democratic Socialists of America is that they're a lot like Democrats, but perhaps a bit more passionate.

Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big  —  President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.  —  President Trump amassed enormous wealth during the first year of his second term …

Fox News Poll: An early look at the Georgia Senate race  —  Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff narrowly won his Senate seat in a January 2021 runoff, defeating Republican David Perdue by just over a percentage point.  New Fox News polling suggests a different dynamic this time …

Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier  —  Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, who tampered with voting machines in an attempt to show that the 2020 election had been rigged against President Trump.  —  Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado …

Trump Bought Hundreds of Stocks the Day Before He Paused Tariffs and Sparked a Historic Rally  —  The trades weren't made public until yesterday, more than a year later than required by law.  —  💡  —  Share this on X and Bluesky!  —  The day before President Trump announced a 90 …

Paramedics responded to a ‘cardiac arrest’ at Mitch McConnell's home on day of hospitalization  —  McConnell's office has not disclosed why the former Senate majority leader was hospitalized on June 14.  —  Paramedics responded to a report of a “cardiac arrest” for an “unconscious” …

Judge Blocks Postal Service From Imposing Restrictions on Mail-In Ballots  —  The ruling, based on agreements the service made in a 2021 legal settlement, was the second time a judge has blocked new curbs by President Trump on voting by mail.  —  A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked …

Trump declines to renew major trade deal with Canada, Mexico  —  The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in its current form.  —  Wednesday marked the deadline to renew the trade agreement, which President Trump struck …

Fireworks on Mall likely to cause hazardous air pollution, documents show  —  Internal National Park Service modeling for the July Fourth show predicts dangerous pollution around the Mall and “very unhealthy” conditions across central D.C.  —  Summary  —  Fireworks for this year's July …

Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks for Order Forcing Trump Administration to Preserve Records  —  Lawyers for John O. Brennan said they want the materials saved in anticipation of bringing a vindictive prosecution motion if charges against Mr. Brennan are ultimately filed.

Trump Pledged No Forever Wars.  Now He Risks Forever Talks With Iran.  —  Tehran has well-worn playbook for putting off concessions that cross its redlines  —  President Trump came to office promising an end to forever wars.  He now finds himself bogged down in talks with Iran with no end in sight.

Capitol agenda: House floor freezes over  —  Last July 4 recess, House Republicans were triumphantly celebrating the massive victory of clearing the party's tax and spending bill.  Fast forward a year and Speaker Mike Johnson can't even get enough votes to open his chamber's floor for debate.

‘We are screwed’: People near data centers dread heat wave pollution … The move highlights the growing challenge of meeting rising electricity demand from data centers as the grid strains to keep the region cool during a period of extreme heat.  —  Many data centers rely on backup diesel generators …

‘All I Have Is the Power to Talk and Be Heard’  —  On a recent afternoon, I drove down a wooded Maine road, past serene ponds with no people in sight, until I reached a big white barn.  I parked, in patchy grass, near a Ford F-350 with a crane bolted onto the back, an American flag, and an idling black SUV.

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down  —  The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year's large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.  —  Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days …

Trump's Renovation Turns the Reflecting Pool Literally Toxic … The multimillion-dollar renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was done with highly toxic materials.  —  The contractor that the Trump administration hired used products by the popular truck bed coating company Rhino Linings …

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don't Have To  —  As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship, a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) in Trump v Barbara and read the entire 194 page opinion issued yesterday, June 30.

Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Top 2 Million, Study Finds  —  Russia has borne the heavier toll, with 1.4 million troops killed or wounded since it invaded in February 2022.  —  More than two million Russian and Ukrainian troops have been killed or wounded in the four years that Russia …

Navy helicopter makes emergency landing in Arabian Sea, one crew missing  —  A Navy helicopter assigned to a U.S. aircraft carrier made an “emergency water landing” in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday morning and one of the four aircrewmen is missing, according to the U.S. military.

Minnesota Pardons Sexual Abuser Who Was Set to Be Deported  —  Tou Lue Vang has expressed regret for abusing a 10-year-old two decades ago.  The Trump administration accused Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat, of shielding an immigrant who committed a serious crime.

DOGE Cut Off Small Town America's 250th Birthday Money  —  A local Ohio historical society had hoped to go big for America's 250th anniversary.  It settled on what it could afford: a limited “passport” project to encourage people to visit and engage with local history sites.

CDC seeks source of parasitic outbreak linked to ‘explosive’ diarrhea in multiple states  —  (NewsNation) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to find the source of a parasitic illness that's spreading across the country.  —  At least 145 cases of cyclosporiasis have been reported across 17 states.

U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People.  That's the Truth.  —  Elon Musk is newly minted as humanity's first trillionaire, but the world's richest man seems grumpy.  And he definitely is not a fan of mine.  —  “Kristof is lying through his teeth,” he announced on social media this week.

Even Degenerate Child Predators Deserve Representation Too, You Know  —  Imagine, if you will, a man who pled guilty to having child s@xual abuse material and was thus put on the sex offender registry, decided to run for office.  In California, where in some areas being a sexual predator is almost …