John Reeves
@reevesjw
Author of the forthcoming book "Grant's Betrayal: Power, Corruption, and the Theft of the Black Hills."
The City had been trying to preserve this tree at the end of our block in DC, but Mother Nature had a different idea.
I believe the old Soviet Politburo was more capitalist than this corrupt and demented old man browbeating American businesses into carrying out all of his impulsive whims.
Americans were deeply implicated in supplying vast numbers of slaves to Cuba even after the slave trade had been made illegal. — from Ada Ferrer’s “Cuba”
It only just occurred to me that France is playing Spain on...Bastille Day! How can they not win?
A great response to Trump’s lies and election interference by @ossoff.bsky.social
Dems in disarray! If a Republican combat veteran with drinking issues and credible sexual assault allegations made against him was up for an important office, they'd...confirm him as Secretary of Defense.
"I just examined Senator McConnell by phone during a 20-minute conversation. In addition to his health, we talked in depth about the Ukraine War. He's fine." Dr. Harold Bornstein
Wondering if it’s unwise for the governing body of the World Cup to be listening to the most famous cheater at golf in the world about rulings on the field.
This is funny to me. The poll asks who should be the face of America’s 250 celebrations and Obama, Trump, Lincoln, Washington and many others are among the top choices. I don’t see the one person who has THE greatest claim: Thomas Jefferson, the intellectual architect of the American experiment.
Is Belgium implying that FIFA doesn’t have the highest ethical standards?
Caleb Williams of the Chicago Bears gave former Chicagoan Pope Leo an autographed jersey:
This is what the air looked like in DC on the morning after the fireworks.
Laura Ingraham works for a network that had to pay $787.5 million for lying to its viewers about the 2020 election. Yesterday, Laura lied to her viewers about the white nationalist group Patriot Front marching in Washington, DC. It’s her business model.
Why do Trump and Stephen Miller like using Mt. Rushmore as a backdrop for their white nationalist messaging? My forthcoming book “Grant's Betrayal: Power, Corruption, and the Theft of the Black Hills” provides a clue.
It’s 102 degrees in Washington, DC, today. But honestly, it’s not that bad. There’s surprisingly low humidity for us. I’ve been outside quite a bit already and it’s fine.
It's utterly insane how blase most Americans seem to be about this: "Across President Donald Trump's first year back in the White House, his investment advisers made more than 21,000 securities trades.... Trump's investment accounts grew to at least $858 million."
"The president raked in cash by issuing new assets—World Liberty tokens and memecoins. But those who bought them at high prices had to suffer as their value went belly up." Trump has been a scam artist his entire life, so it's no surprise he used crypto to fleece his biggest supporters.
"Elon Musk’s SpaceX has developed a prototype for a handset-like device designed to reshape how humans interact with artificial intelligence." People carrying around devices programmed by the richest man on the planet sounds like a bad science fiction movie.
One cool thing about the World Cup is that it gives former colonized countries the opportunity to settle all business against the Europeans.
Their fear of Catholicism is one reason they hated the Quebec Act of 1774 so much. Hamilton said that Parliament “may as well establish popery in New York and the other colonies, as they did in Canada.”
On this day in 1876—150 years ago today—George Custer and 268 U.S. soldiers were killed by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors at the Battle of Little Bighorn or the Battle of the Greasy Grass as Native Americans call it.
Trump is in the Oval Office telling the most outrageous lies about the Reflecting Pool. They used to commit folks to the Insane Asylum for this level of madness. How can we possibly survive this insanity over the next two and a half years?
It's maddening that we have to continue to "fact check" Trump's endless lies and gaslighting. Literally everyone knows that vandals aren't responsible for the problems at the Reflecting Pool. He should be forced to wear a scarlet L on his lapel for the rest of his administration.
Washington Post: “I emailed [Gabbard], her press secretary and her chief of staff. I let them know we planned to proceed with a story about her association with Butler. … Two days later, Fox News reported that Gabbard…would be leaving the position of DNI this month” via @lkrozen.bsky.social
What’s the deal with Meghan McCain? She instantly responded to the devastating WaPo investigation of Tulsi Gabbard, repeating Tulsi’s line that it’s somehow “anti-Hindu” to raise questions about the mountain of evidence presented. Remember when Meghan tweeted MAGA talking points about the ballroom?
Tim Walz: “Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.”
Obama’s discussion today of Reverend Theodore Parker’s observation about the arc of the moral universe offered such a positive and hopeful view of American history: