The Houston Chronicle, largest newspaper in Houston endorse James Talarico! 👏 Writing, “Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot’… Paxton’s documented deeds prove he’s a man of low character, lacking integrity. An extremely very poor candidate for an even more powerful political office.

Everything trump touches dies.

"We are a country of laws and people need to be held accountable for their actions."

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

"Postliberalism" is like the old Dilbert comic where Dogbert tells the boss "I assure you that this program has a totally, totally different name"

On this Fourth of July, and just a few weeks after the death of Carlo Ginzburg (Z''L), I am thinking of Ginzburg's statement that "The country one belongs to is not, as the usual rhetoric goes, the one you love but the one you are ashamed of. Shame can be a stronger bond than love."

Honestly, I’m just not feeling the 4th of July this year. Hard to celebrate America when SCOTUS is out here crowning a convicted felon and rapist king; especially one who openly plans on never leaving the White House. Anyone else struggling to find the spirit today?

Happy Independence Day

Some people think it's wrong to speak ill of the dead, so while he's still alive, let's all agree that Mitch McConnell is shit wrapped in skin.

Baby got back

This is in Jackson, Mississippi. Not Seattle, or Los Angeles, or Manhattan, or San Francisco. This is in Jackson, Mississippi. The pendulum swings.

Dance in the Country, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1883 (flipped)

I would kill or die for Larry

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #BribeForceOne

"Four conservative justices on the Supreme Court believe Folarin Balogun shouldn't be a U.S. citizen. Something to consider as he carries the U.S. team on his back in the World Cup."

If the Bible is going to be taught in school then science needs to be taught in church.

“There was zero plan, except causing pain,” said one U.N. official about the Trump administration’s decision to stop funding the group with no notice or communication. “And that is not forgivable.” (Published Dec. 2025)

This man makes me wish I lived in Georgia so I could vote to reelect him to the Senate. I guess I'll just have to wait to vote for Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social when, hopefully, the Dems draft him to run for President! 🇺🇸 #AwesomeOssoff2028

Increased scrutiny of Supreme Court finances could have a chilling effect on future Justices' ability to take free luxury vacations with right-wing billionaires.

Don't cry for me, Allemagne...

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

“From this moment despair ends and tactics begin.” Hold fast and remember that action is the antidote to despair. #ABetterWorldIsPossible.

"Citizens United was the most destructive court decision in modern American history." Sen. Jon Ossoff

It's funny because it's true.

Ossoff: "The president was so humiliated in Hormuz he threw his toys out the stroller & refused to sign the affordable housing bill. That's after he gave some felon donor a no bid contract for the reflecting pool & it filled up with algae, which for some reason required the deployment of the Guard."

Coming from the most corrupt Administration in American history, this is an honor I'll treasure forever.

As Trump announced his whimsy war in Iran, I was reading about another imperial campaign, long ago, against an Iranian people. I found a perspective on the wars of today, & a sense of why, beyond his obvious incompetence in military matters, Trump had to lose his. snyder.substack.com/p/of-stoicis...

Make him pay it all back, with interest.

"I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from."

"At every turn, he has confirmed the adage that everything Donald Trump touches dies... Narcissus, unmoved by the painfully mortal, misshapen truth of his own reflection, buries his pond in shit, builds a fence around it, and erects a gilded statue atop the manure."

One fucking fool after another...

New, from me: The stakes of the Reflecting Pool debacle seem simultaneously low enough to laugh about, but significant enough to gin up outrage. The mismanagement reflects seven broader themes of the Trump administration: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-r...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Free Popehat! @bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

Our new national motto, "Everybody knows this is bullshit."

This is the only thing anyone should ever say about Elon Musk. He deserves to be talked about in the same category as Mao and Stalin as one of history's worst mass murderers.

“One of Italy’s leading newspapers, Libero, devoted its entire front page to Trump’s false claim that Meloni “begged” him for a photo at the G7. The paper’s massive headline reads: “TRUMP È UN COGLIONE.” The vulgar Italian word coglione is commonly translated as “idiot,” “moron,” or “asshole.””

Trump The Peacemaker: " It's quite a feat to give the Iranian regime the moral high ground, but luckily, Donald Trump shattered the illusion of American morality a long time ago." youtu.be/ndkFtUKLNZY?...

Why Trump’s Iran War Was ‘Doomed From the Very Start’ “The U.S. president desperately wants out of the bloodbath he started. It took months to get here, but the fate of the war was sealed in the first 72 hours.” Read here, by @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

This!

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

If he doesn’t win something soon, I wonder whether Nigel Farage will retire to spend more time with other people’s money.

Brutal community note

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"