This from @noupside.bsky.social is sadly relevant again since Trump is going to broadcast his lies and distortion for the entire country (and world) to hear: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/five... He is following a playbook to steal the midterms. I don't know if we're prepared for the aftermath.

If you are just hearing about Trump's Thursday speech about the 2020 election and are confused, my colleague @johnknefel.bsky.social laid out the scheme here: www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

Discussed here

Remember how actual, demonstrated Russian interference efforts were derided as a "hoax" by this guy? On Thursday, let's compare the evidence for 2016 interference relative to what's shown for 2020.

I’ll share it, because I think this rampant anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry is not only accepted by a dying wing of our party but being used to win primaries (see Abdul). It’s on us to see it, shun it, and protect our coalition.

This isn't tenable. Should be a prereq for Democrats: Create a way to hold federal law enforcement officers civilly liable. Make it retroactive. Do the same for policymakers like Noem, Mullin, and Miller, whose unconstitutional directives are predictably ruining lives and wreaking destruction.

One hour before Donald Trump announces the end of the world, please watch InfoWars at 8 p.m. ET. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

but when @jaketapper.bsky.social wanted to ask him a real question yesterday, President Empath said he only wanted to talk about the dearly departed 🙄

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

It’s an obvious but still important reality right now that putting people on your network who represent or defend the current administration means choosing to amplify people who will knowingly, aggressively, and frequently lie to your audience.

Ty Cobb: “[Donald Trump] is crazy. He is a malignant narcissist, he’s demented. It’s all about self-enrichment. I spent hours and hours in the Oval working through things with him. It’s much worse now”

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

The Millers are such lovely people.

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man to understand. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made. steveschmidt.substack.com/p/lindsey-kn...

He never deleted it.

The man is a Renaissance man of hot takes. The Coltrane of remarkable self-assurance in spite total ignorance. He takes bad takes to places even Skip Bayless wouldn't dream of going, where Stephen A. Smith would cower away before entering

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Go Seahawks!

A severely mentally ill man has control of the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, but it doesn't seem that many people care.

I publicly and privately urged the last administration to address the public’s concerns with the former president’s health. I’m calling on Sen. McConnell to do the same and provide voters an update on his own health. Let’s end the crazy speculation. Just tell us what’s going on.

The Bible is a holy, infallible book, the literal word of God Also ignore everything it says and pretend Jesus spent his life getting jacked, beating up kids and selling crypto

Imagine writing this book having never gone to Ukraine. But you could only write this book if you’d never gone to Ukraine.

Abolish ICE, prosecute the murderers, FFS. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office. We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House. 📸: @ms.now @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

Platner vowing to stay in unless he approves replacement is him insisting that losing as an alleged rapist wld be more important than allowing a lib the possibility of winning. That’s not leftism. It’s the same poisonous, masculinist vanity that took him to war & then to crime & then to lies.

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

A new AP poll of Jewish Americans Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable 71% Unfavorable apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

This is what it looks like when you’ve hollowed out your soul and rotted your brain

Cenk turning that ‘Da Joos’ knob

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

credible account, he should drop out immediately www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Batshit crazy POS

Pure sociopathy.

In an admittedly cursory search, literally the only references I can find to the Founders calling America "god's noble experiment" are from... Chuck Schumer speeches. Why is the Senate Democratic Leader carrying water for a right wing Christian lie? And apparently fabricating quotes to do it?

As predicted, the tariffs have created more opportunity for Trump’s naked, unprecedented corruption www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Happy 250th birthday, America 🇺🇸 ! We continue the struggle for a ‘more perfect union.’ And I continue to agree with James Baldwin: “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

Come see democracy in action: With Blanche's confirmation hearing just 10 days away, Lawyer Oyer readers—Democrats, Republicans and Independents, from states red, blue and in between—are making their voices heard. If you haven't yet, find some inspiration here. www.lawyeroyer.com/p/democracy-...

would love to see a hostile audit of Freedom 250. hell, would love to see hostile audits of everything even tangentially related to trump. this will produce endless material. you could conceivably bring the administration to an effective halt!

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

Trump not knowing what’s in America’s foundational texts is very on-brand.

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

"The Founders did not stumble into a diverse, immigrant-heavy society by accident—they lived through it, debated it, and ultimately enshrined it in a Constitution that barred religious tests for office and left the door open to immigrants of every nation and faith" www.cato.org/blog/founder...

Happy Fourth of July from Willie and me!

He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.

Facts have a liberal bias

Beautiful gesture from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, illuminating the Mother Ukraine monument in Kyiv in Stars & Stripes of the American flag. May the world continue to stand firmly alongside the resilient, courageous people of Ukraine in their fight for freedom & liberty. 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🕊️ #4thOfJuly

YES!!!