So now he wants to obscure the judgment of troops and turn them into hyped-up killers. And what of the women? When is it enough? Generals? Former and current. Will you speak? Military doctors? Former Secys of Defense? Former Commander-in-Chiefs? Mothers of active duty troops? Isn’t it ENOUGH??

NEW: GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is suggesting he’s endorsed by former Colorado Gov Bill Owens. Owens tells me that’s not true.

Booker: Do you all know that they were constantly chipping away? I was told we would have 13 minutes for questioning. Then they brought it down to 10. Ten minutes of questioning for the confirmation of the highest law enforcement official in the land has never been done before.

HASSAN: If RFK ordered you to stop promoting flu vaccine during a deadly flu season, would you? S: We have to prioritize-- HASSAN: This isn't a hypothetical. RFK Jr in the middle of a deadly outbreak directed the CDC to do it. So would you? S: I don't speak in hypotheticals-- H: It happened!

The CDC is so underfunded now that it's like: "Just remove the three outer layers of lettuce, so you don't consume any feces, then wash each interior leaf individually, so you remove any hidden feces. Good luck!"

We all know this still stinks to high heaven. Gov. Andy Beshear says he still hasn’t received an official update from Sen. Mitch McConnell. “I’ve had no official response. Nothing sent to our office, no letter, no email.”

KING: Is there a problem w/ voter fraud? CLAYTON: I don't think we can say K: We've had hundreds of analyses C: I would love for Americans to have incredible confidence in the integrity of our elections K: I would too & I'd appreciate it if this admin would cease undermining that confidence

WHITEHOUSE: How long do you intend to put up with Kash Patel? Are you good w/ his airplane jaunts, are you confident he's not drinking on the job, are you sure he knows what he's doing? BLANCHE: That's an extraordinarily obnoxious question. I have full faith in Patel W: Great. You get to own that

Blanche slips! 😬 KENNEDY: Are you and President Trump friends? BLANCHE: I'm his lawyer. Was his lawyer.

Clayton's confirmation hearing was an absolute disaster, so much so that Tom Cotton is crashing out at the end of it

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

Watching Klobuchar do this in real time was a really depressing way to start the day.

Scarborough to Spineless Speaker Johnson: “I’m not gonna mock you, Mike, I’m just gonna call you a liar. Because that’s what you are. You know EXACTLY what happened in Maine.” #AbolishICE

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.

Donald Trump is a stone-cold liar. He lies about his height, his wealth and his golf game. He lies about his accomplishments and his failures. He lies about everything, large and small, important and insignificant. newsletters.democracydocket.com/-the-media-h...

There are times when the big media companies need to outsource their capacity to think. This is one. @oliverdarcy.bsky.social: "The major broadcast networks declined to say on Tuesday whether they plan to carry Donald Trump’s planned primetime address on Thursday night."

VOTE HER OUT!

Pete Hegseth just blocked the promotions of seven senior Navy officers — five of whom are women or people of color — to two-star admiral rank. For the first time in more than a decade, no female active-duty naval officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year.

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”

"A government that conceals its identity cannot demand perfect recognition from frightened civilians," writes @jamilsmith.bsky.social. "ICE mistook Lorenzo Salgado Araujo for another man. He was expected to identify ICE instantly. Only one side was allowed to make an error."

Sen. Ossoff: If the President calls Georgia's senators illegitimate, he is calling Georgia's voters illegitimate. Donald Trump tried to commit voter fraud in Georgia when he badgered Brad Raffensperger to "find" him the exact number of votes he needed to win in a state he had lost.

VFW, our nation’s top veteran advocacy group, called out MAGA for trying to cut veterans benefits for disabled veterans. The response from House Republicans has been one of the most disgraceful and cowardly things I’ve ever seen.

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"

Back to the old "didn't see it, don't know anything about it" pack of lies.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

One of the quiet bright moments of lockdown was Sam Neill serenading us on the ukulele. This type of tenderness feels rare nowadays, how lucky we were. Thank you for everything. ❤️❤️❤️

I know consultants tell Dems to only talk about affordability but it seems like you ought to be able to get voters to care about elementary schools being bombed & people being shot in the streets as Trump pardons thieves, drug dealers & violent criminals while grifting billions.

Ana Navarro: Let’s remember that lCE has kiIIed before, just kiIIed again today. A lot of times has lied about it, has explained it in a way that does not fit the video that we see and, testimony from people on the ground. Over 52 people have died in lCE custody.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

MAINE: “Vote her out! Vote her out!”

NEW: Victor Marx, slammed by other Colorado Republicans as a con-man and a fraud, is quietly circulating a request for signed pledges of support (and no public criticism) from other GOP candidates www.9news.com/article/news...

Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano keeps sending field offices packages of chocolate-covered pretzels made by his daughter's company, Pretzables. Staff say the gesture isn't increasing morale, but it is raising ethics questions.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Trump’s targeting of New York Times journalists and other media outlets is already backfiring … youtu.be/dcQDRcra-zE?...

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”

PSA: Today is the last day to submit a comment on the OMB's proposed rule that would politicize scientific peer review, threaten international scientific collaboration, and turn all federal grantmaking into a cudgel in the culture wars. You can leave a comment here:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assured a judge in Washington, D.C., that it was shuttering a controversial citizenship database, but would make the tool available to four Republican-led states on a different judge’s orders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration intends to “dismantle the ICC” and weaken the International Criminal Court “brick by brick,” as the administration grows increasingly worried about prosecutions after they are out of office.

In my latest for @caregivingmag.bsky.social, I spoke with employees at AbbVie, Argonne National Lab and Google about benefits that help make their lives as caregivers easier. chicagocaregiving.com/supporting-c...

Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. They’re not reporting it.  If I’m Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it.

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in: California Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

My latest: Donald Trump is telling us his plan. This week, the Department of Justice announced that election monitors would be sent to six states — Arizona, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Virginia. member.democracydocket.com/the-week-the...

BREAKING: Deadly bacteria found in major US city's water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg's $800 million, META, data center, per TechRadar

Back to the real issues!!!