Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.

So Trump has posted about 20 photos of the refurbished Lincoln Bathroom, which should satisfy the needs of the unemployed and hungry. In addition to looking pretty crummy, I have some questions about this toilet, which will have a great view of the new ballroom and vice versa.

A lightning-packed eye spins ferociously at the center of Hurricane Melissa.

the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction

The mayor of Waukegan stepped in after Border Patrol reportedly arrested an American citizen near city hall.

Chipmunk. Cornell Botanic Garden.

Legit post at ABC News...

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

@govpritzker.illinois.gov 37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois. This is assault.

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

does it end well for societies to elect a deranged, unaccountable, corrupt grifter to the nation's highest office, I don't know much about history or life

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Here's a good overview of what I'm up to... www.stevenspointjournal.com/story/news/p...

I'm running for something... spmetrowire.com/olson-to-ann...

BREAKING: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has fired Britain's ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, over links to Jeffrey Epstein.

So, my profile name gives up the ghost but it hasn't been official until recently and I'm formally announcing on Monday that I'm running for elected office for the Wisconsin April election. You can help...

No wonder Republicans keep voting against releasing the Epstein files…

AOC: If anybody says “this isn’t fair, I'm gonna have to divest all my stocks if I run for congress” maybe you should stay home.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens - The Onion share.google/YIM9k5qTkkaS...

Of course he wants to treat 14 year olds as adults, that’s what he did with Epstein

nothing's aged better than the thing so many people said would age poorly newrepublic.com/series/37/tr...

Amazing www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...

We're continuing to report. Are you a current or former federal worker with information that you can share about Russell Vought? Reach out to our reporter @andykroll.bsky.social on Signal at (202) 215-6203.

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced. I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share. These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it. Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

The greatest trick the authoritarian right ever pulled was convincing polite society that calling them what they are is “partisan.”

Mamdani: I would say that for the former governor to have spent an entire day speaking almost exclusively about me and barely about the New Yorkers who have been killed is indicative of the very politics New Yorkers want to leave in the past.

The NYT has a heavy house style that prevents me from using more, shall we say, colorful, language to describe Hulk Hogan but I think I still got my central point across here www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/o...

In response to White House staffer Stephen Miller’s comments, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said: “If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t. Also, Minneapolis is great.”

Republicans can issue a subpoena tomorrow to get the Epstein files. If they don’t, they’re facilitating this cover up.

Further context: If you’ve never dealt with FEMA after a disaster I can tell you they answer within 30 seconds. No hold times. Real live wonderful people who help while you cry and can’t even figure out what questions to ask. They walk you through it all. Every call. NOEM STOLE THAT $ FOR ICE

ICE abduction in front of immigration court San Francisco — they run over protestors 🤬

She concludes with a passage on the potential consequences if the Supreme Court is wrong and what it would mean for our system of government and the implementations of laws enacted by Congress. 7/

I don't mean to sound hysterical but there are some pretty clear historical examples of "force the urban-dwellers to the farms," and none of them are great.

In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021. They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

DOOCY: So what happened to the Epstein client list that the attorney general said she had on her desk?  LEAVITT: I think if you go back and look at what the attorney general said  DOOCY: I've got the quote. She said, it's sitting on my desk right now to review.

It looks like some 18 year old Doge bro designed it with clip art images.

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The economy got half a percentage point smaller last quarter

NEW: Read Mr Abrego's account of unthinkable torture inside CECOT prison in El Salvador. My latest: content warning: www.muellershewrote.com/p/mr-abregos...

they ask politicians like Mamdani if they are communists but they never ask anyone if they are a fascist and that's all you really need to know

Florida tent city, hurricane season coming up, what could go wrong?