Senator Moreno objected.

You know, if you gold-plate shit, it's still shit.

BREAKING NEWS: Nirav Shah has suspended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Maine. He is endorsing Troy Jackson. #Maine #MEpolitics

7/21 On the cusp of being Dems' nominee for U.S. Senate, Troy Jackson has one of the most interesting backstories in Maine politics #maine #MEpolitics

Broken record: This administration is a trust fund kid spending down accounts it did not fill, does not understand how to replenish, and naively imagines to be inexhaustible.

Democratic senator proposes expanding Medicare to cover children This is the way! Gift link

Opinion | "Never have I witnessed such systematic degradation, disrespect and dismantling of the National Park Service as I see today under the thumb of President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum."

But also, why is the Treasury Secretary talking about this…?

Wonder where my mutual fund IRA stands on this?

Murkowski: "The War Powers Resolution is not ambiguous. It requires the president to terminate hostilities within 60 days absent congressional authorization. Hostilities began on Feb. 28…Is the administration still taking the position about needing no authorization from Congress?:" Hegseth: "We hav

Joyce White Vance is a legal analyst, Professor of Law, NYT bestselling author, and former federal prosecutor who served as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Vance explores the legacy of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice. #WeAreAmerica250

I know it's hard to police, but the U.S. needs something better than the pathetic "guardrails" we have now. Bravo, France: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/w...

Reuters finally acknowledges existence of Network State: “Concerns have also been raised over Srinivasan’s mission, outlined in his 2022 book The Network State, to set up new decentralised communities separate from existing nation ​states...” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Excellent.

Trump just invoked an arcane legal provision to levy even more tariffs on Canadian imports. Let me remind you: he still owes us all a refund from his last round of illegal tariffs.

State attorneys general have sued over the merger between Paramount and Warner Bros, which is now temporarily paused. But new reporting from ProPublica found that FCC officials have been accepting gifts from Paramount while making decisions favorable to the corporation. Hello?

"I don't think it's proper for Congress to do its most important job."

Excellent Substack post here on what is raw corruption.

Exactly. Extortion is what it is.

Literally extortion by a mobster in a projection racket.

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This is the state of the current Republican leadership in our country:

wingnut DEI

Which is why I've been boycotting Amazon for about seven years now, in addition to their treatment of workers. And Bezos--where do I begin). (And I don't go to Walmart.)

More great news! The 14th Amendment will take center stage this year. variety.com/2026/film/bo...

California has a responsibility to honor the women and men who served our country. That's why I’ve been doubling down on our commitment to veterans with an investment of $10.5B since 2019 to expand services, strengthen housing and benefits programs, and advance long-awaited construction projects.

Claremont has direct proximity to and influence over the government right now. The guy who led the mass deportation campaign for all of 2025 believes this shit. So yeah, this is fringe, racist, batshit nuttery. It's also a serious threat. www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-to-bl...

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

The Smithsonian does not belong to the President or a political party. It BELONGS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE! We will not let them rewrite our history! We will fight back in Congress, the Courts, and in our Communities because this is OUR story!

U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, making history as the first woman and openly LGBTQ+ person to do so, former teacher & state legislator, talks about the Green Mountain Boys, the Vermont militia known for its heroics during the Revolutionary War. From @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/crdly31Cwcw?...

@katiephang.bsky.social is a hero. Brava! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzVZ...

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

I'm so old I remember when he got Ernst's vote by promising DOD would pass an audit.

Nailed it again, Anat.

Well, this is vile: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

@adamkinzinger.substack.com is exactly right. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/the-suprem...

the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it

NEW: My response to Todd Blanche's intentional violations of a court order to turnover unredacted Epstein Files. The short of it: follow the damn law & pay a daily fine until you do. I'll give a detailed breakdown on my YouTube channel tomorrow morning! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Tonight the Senate is voting to start debate on the annual defense bill. It's essentially an Iran War authorization bill. A totally unprecedented 50% increase in spending to fund the war without any meaningful restraints. I'm voting NO.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis defends Trump grifting billions of dollars on crypto schemes while in office with blatant lies: "The president made his money on digital assets *before* he took the oath of office. So we have to make sure people when they are private citizens retain their rights to make money."

Ironic, a cartoon character has more wisdom than the entire tRump clown cabinet combined

"Doctors and human rights experts with PHR and HRC documented 412 verified incidents of the “misuse” of these crowd control weapons, also known as “less-lethal weapons”, from June 2025 through May 2026."

Note: in some of the pictures there appeared to be bullet holes in the car, Windshield. It is against ICE policy to shoot into a vehicle.

yes!

Nice

Another killing by ICE, this time in Maine. That’s twice in one week. How can America keep asking immigrant workers to work as usual if they are being shot dead on their way to work? Stop killing us.

The carnage that Kyiv’s drone fleet has wreaked on Russia's oil assets is without precedent.