The documents Trump cited don't even make his case - and actually refute much of it. But that didn'tg matter. No foreign regime, no spies, no saboteurs have yet matched the damage that America’s own president just did tonight to faith in U.S. elections. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Our elections are free, fair, and secure. Every single one of the President’s unhinged, fabricated conspiracy theories about our elections were thrown out of court. Sixty. Four. Times. Poisoning trust in our elections is an attack on all Conservatives & all Liberals. On democracy itself.

Conducting assessments of voting systems’ vulnerabilities is not the same as those vulnerabilities being successfully exploited Uncovering adversaries’ plans for interference is not the same as successful interference happening Voter registration data is public Trump was president in 2020

Trump's big document release tonight, supposedly meant to prove China stole the 2020 election, includes this classified intel graphic making clear that Russia was the only country trying to meddle in American voting systems.

PSA: If Trump isn’t threatening to pull your broadcast license you’re doing it wrong

Literally every part is rotten apnews.com/article/trum...

I’m old enough to remember when people tried to hide corruption. www.cnn.com/2026/07/16/b...

In advance of tonight: we are going to hear long-debunked claims about “rigged elections”re-aired alongside declassification theater. Here’s how to understand the facts vs the playbook: open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Would anyone like to take a wild guess what this Christian pastor's "solution" is in response to... the existence of Muslims in Maine?

“…the odd thing about the far right’s hatred of intellectuals is that so many in the movement have intellectual pretensions of their own. But you can only get so far when your main purpose in using ideas is to fortify your own fragile sense of superiority.” www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-to-bl...

We haven’t even gotten to the big lockup expirations yet. #$SPCX

"The public-health-informed approach...allows us to think about shared risk and protective factors for violence, and start to think about interventions that weren’t indexed on ideology.” PERIL's Bill Braniff in the New York Times on prevention-based approaches to targeted-violence. 🔗 bit.ly/4fpoQoW

Another non-consensual porn site taken down by Bellingcat. If you want to see more of that happen be sure to support our work www.bellingcat.com/donate/?utm_...

every 5 months you hear "Joe Rogan is turning on Trump" from people in the media who don't actually watch rogan and take the bait like it's susan collins casting a line when in reality this is literally what he says almost every single day about democrats including fucking yesterday

X has suddenly banned an account documenting Trump's corrupt stock trades seemingly without explanation.

"...Lynch’s presence at the Capitol that...day has not been publicly reported until now, more than five years later. In the meantime, Lynch remained at DOJ & under the 2nd Trump admini, received a big promotion: He’s now running a national task force to prosecute left-wing..." Jfc we are pathetic.

Oh he was *AT* at Jan 6.

Trump’s EPA wants to remove public participation and transparency from certain air pollution permits. Those permits cover the large diesel generators that help power data centers — and pollute the air. Trump is selling our right to breathe clean air to enrich his Big Tech donors.

"Trump cut the Grand Staircase out of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument" is quite a headline www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

$3mil a day forever

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals www.propublica.org/article/para...

"Trump ballroom donor to lead state department’s $200m Armenia fund Konstantin Sokolov, who gave undisclosed sum and has not held government job before, to chair Tripp+ trade project" @catebrown.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

"Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation" @ericlipton.nytimes.com, John Yoon for @nytimes.com

Wanna hear something crazy? The bougiest, private, bilingual, Montessori daycare in the best neighborhood in Paris is €3,150…PER YEAR. And there’s not a cyclospora outbreak related to the perfectly fresh produce… And a near 0 risk of a school shooting…

Busy month.

The Senate's Attorney General confirmation hearing is such a farce. Blanche is blatantly opposed to rule-of-law and aims to abuse the office. The GOP majority will likely confirm him anyway. And even if they don't, he can exercise all the same powers as Acting AG for an indefinite amount of time.

The next time these guys tell you they just want "merit," not discrimination, remember what they actually did. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Social networks drove more than 5.7 million visits to nudify sites between December 2025 and March 2026. The top driver of this traffic was YouTube, followed by X, according to a report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. www.wired.com/story/youtub...

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

@gilduran.com am seeing new Thiel-backed start ups like Objection dot ai and State Affairs… it’s fvcking creepy to see the world’s richest misanthropes strengthen their position to shape legal arguments and normalize right wing narratives so they can increase their control over how reality is framed

Constantly amazing to me that other stupid wealthy people are just cool with letting this guy shape absolutely everything — and that there is no one with stupid money who thinks Americans deserve real media www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I'd bet next month's salary that an ethics staffer pushed back on this and got overruled by a political appointee. Truly destructive to faith in the SEC

No just “call it out” — if congress can’t act like it is in fact the most powerful branch of government and finally constrain the executive, we are lost

We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.

The President—who won the election in 2024—is going to claim he won the 2020 election, so that he can steal the 2026 and 2028 elections.

lol the fuck it does

bad faith is the governing principle. brilliant judicial marker.

Until Trump, no president in US history: -Tried to unilaterally rewrite federal election rules -Tried use the USPS to limit who gets to vote -Spread false claims that elections are rigged -Replaced officials who didn't back their conspiracy theories This is a systematic effort.

Pin this. It will be a pivotal moment in Trump's move to steal the 2026 and 2028 elections. It will present lies that will be used to justify illegal actions to selectively disenfrachise voters. The next four months look like a historic threat to our democracy.

You mean when Rudy Giuliani colluded with a Russian agent to smear Biden? That will be interesting.

I've written a bit about why Trump may be doing this: www.thewayfinder.net/p/why-is-the... Seems like they're moving the timeline up...

I see I’m going to be writing another “here is how they IC leaders are lying to you” article this week. There was interference in the 2020 election. China, Iran, Russia all messed around at the margins. It was not even close to what happened in 2016 bc platforms, researchers & govt were vigilant.

Does your AI say the 2020 election wasn’t stolen? The free speech enjoyer administration is coming for you. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

You have not heard anywhere near the level of news media yelling about Jared Kushner corruption since the first regime compared to what you heard about Hunter Biden.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

Crypto finally has a real use-case (besides crime and terrorism): overt and unprecedented political corruption.

I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the Trump administration clearly approved the Ellison takeover of WB/Discovery in part so he could manipulate the news and push CNN (more) to the right.

One of the legacies of Lindsay