The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.

Earth is not an unlimited resource. It is not a product, a factory, or a disposable meal. We are not watching a natural disaster unfold. We are watching human decisions turn a living planet into a toxic recipe. The heat is already on. The question is: when will we turn it off?

Good Morning #BlueSky “You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.” "Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order." “The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.” ~ Samuel Beckett

Few things are more tiresome in this world than a guy sitting around talking about how he didn’t lose a game we all watched him lose like we weren’t there Anyway, i think i can up with a better idea for tonight than watching the president speak

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Unearthed records just revealed that Ken Paxton owns 15 homes on a government salary. This includes luxury real estate in Hawaii, Utah, and Florida.

How cool that soccer greats Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal met when the latter was 5 months old. Messi was a young Unicef ambassador and Yamal was, er, having a bath. Now Yamal is also a Unicef ambassador. Two soccer giants helping the world's kids!

No matter which conspiracy theories Trump peddles tonight, we know he's just trying to come up with an excuse for unprecedented election sabotage. Trump is desperate, and the GOP will do everything they can to cling to power. The way we stop them is by getting into election protection formation.

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In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

Thanks for the dot. So the story will be: 1. Foreign interference in 2020 (remember they’ve still got Maduro) 2. Therefore election results invalid, including runoffs 3. Some claimed basis for EO or other executive branch interference/control in elections

Reupping this clip since I feel like it might become relevant in the next 48 hours

I would just like to highlight here that even bags of meth (or any other drug) do not create justification for the use of deadly force. Even if the subject is fleeing.

Good Morning #BlueSky “The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures – is a definite symptom of maturity.” ~ Paul Tillich “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone, and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” ~ Paul Tillich

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

The US is not a member of the ICC. But, now that you mention it, Marco, we should be. We should have been for a long time. And I hope the next US administration makes us one.

This is howling at the moon. Won't happen.

Maine is in absolute outrage! Protesters took over Senator Susan Collins’ office chanting "VOTE HER OUT" after an ICE thug brutally executed a 26-year-old Colombian man. We demand immediate accountability for this state-sponsored murder! Enough is enough!

We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.

Taking this as confirmation McConnell is dead or incapacitated and they’re down 2 senators.

Obama was totally incompetent when it came to addressing Russian interference in the 2016 election, and we’re all living with the consequences of it every day.

There are hundreds of millions of bats in the United States and yet sometimes I wonder if Trump & Co. are actually exhausting our national supplies of bat shit for their non-stop batshittery.

I watched the videos of the aftermath of ICE agents killing a man in Biddeford, Maine. I’m absolutely outraged and so many of my colleagues are silent. Do we really want our country to be a place where federal agents can gun people down in the streets with no accountability?

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Trade used to be simple: find someone you want to do business with and make a deal.⁣ ⁣ Today, many firms first have to ask whether Washington approves.⁣ ⁣ What happens when government moves from referee to player?⁣

This is next level bad

The Trump Regime is humiliated because Felon Trump’s $400 million luxury jet/corruption gift from Qatar isn’t safe for him to fly on. So the Trump DOJ uses the Trump FBI to deliver federal grand jury subpoenas on NY Times reporters AT THEIR HOMES. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.

Good Morning #BlueSky Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. ~Rumi

No paywall — please watch! open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

I had forgotten about this. Pres. Obama should not have caved. Mitch is a vile man.

"I don't "believe" Jung or "believe in" his ideas. His ideas are valuable because they are so good to work with and against. Good ideas, like Jung's, allow the widest play for thought."~James Hillman, Inter-Views

More denunciations of the Justice Dept sending agents to the home of reporters ===>

Is there blasphemy more potent than claiming that vulgar, petty, and incompetent Donald Trump gets his “wisdom” from your god? This is lunacy.

If Trump is worried about cheating during elections, why is he firing the entire elections commission? Reporters, do your job.

Three witnesses were in the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Per their attorney: no ramming, no danger to agents & no reasonable basis to open fire Unreasonable force opens these agents to liability This is becoming another national outrage & it should be👇 -TN

Why we don’t know what food is spreading the parasite sickening thousands www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

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ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Absolute BS; DHS got $29.9 BILLION in July 2025 for enforcement purposes, specifically including funding for information technology used for enforcement, which absolutely could have been used to purchase body cams.

Your retirement could be at risk. Why? Donald Trump and his Administration are granting private equity’s wish to weaken the protections for YOUR 401(k).

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

Expand and reform the Supreme Court.

Good Morning #BlueSky “The Pueblo Indians told me that all Americans are crazy, and of course I was somewhat astonished and asked them why. They said, ‘Well, they say they think in their heads. No sound man thinks in his head. We think in the heart.’" ~ C.G. Jung

Thank God, it's Frida! #FridaKahlo

How French goalkeeper Maignan spent his day