The competition for fifth place just opened up.

This is not about national security. This is about not liking factual news coverage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...

In the age of AI and Google searches that default to paid promoters, I’m so glad Wikipedia is still going strong. I remember when writing teachers wrung their hands, but it’s still a great place to get basic information in a time when fewer people use encyclopedias.

Is he just going to being spewing #Flockaganda unchecked on his own or is this going to be an actual debate with legal and civil rights experts? Why does Garrett, the CEO of a multi-billion dollar private surveillance technology company, get to say where the line should be drawn?

Anti-Blackness be kicking y’all ass, and misogyny be kicking y’all ass, so when they get to team up into misogynoir it’s like a damn massacre.

You should explain to her what the Democratic coalition in Ohio is before she destroys her own campaign

I suppose when impregnating your wife is experienced as a miserable act that takes great willpower, you're especially pissed at people who just get pregnant on accident cuz they like fucking.

That's what makes this letter from Hawley so telling: Plan C doesn't actually sell abortion pills, it provides *information* about where patients can get the medication. He's not going after an abortion pill provider, he's going after an information hub. This is about quashing speech and community

And just last month, Alabama's attorney general sent cease-and-desist letters to multiple websites—including Plan C, the site Hawley is going after now. In his letters, AG Steve Marshall threatens prosecution and accuses the groups of "exploit[ing] Alabamians for profit."

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley wants the DOJ to launch a criminal investigation into a pro-choice website, calling it a "dark money operation"

This is part of a much broader attack on pro-choice speech, framed as "protecting women" from abortion pills. Earlier this year, Senate Republicans asked the FDA to shut down websites and work to *seize their domains* jessica.substack.com/p/the-gops-p...

6/ “Why The Trump-Backed SAVE America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide *** Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system plagued by security and accuracy concerns…” By Jennifer Cohn, 2/26/26 @buckscountybeacon.com

Kansans already voted NO on abortion bans, so now lawmakers are going with the anti-abortion classic: “if you can’t beat ‘em, trick ‘em.” Plus! The Buzzkills deep dive into the new acting Attorney General-ly Sucks Ass. Read up, rage out, and get in the fight!

Thanks for letting us know you don't have real stakes in ferreting out grifter dirtbags.

Before plagiarizing Shirley Chisholm, Hasan Piker says, “We don’t need those Democrats anymore!” meaning anyone who isn’t a socialist. He is a dangerous, hateful extremist and anyone campaigning with him should be held accountable by voters.

In 3/26 Trump attended the dignified transfer of six fallen American soldiers killed in Iran wearing a white golf cap. It was so disrespectful that FOX used archival, hatless video (unsuccessfully) from a prior ceremony as damage control. Why did 47 wear that hat?

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

matthew always brings the receipts

Matt Yglesias is simply a horrible person.

NEW YORK (AP) — US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again as US and Iran launch attacks.

The UDA has declared war on the far right in north Antrim, firing shots at the home of a notorious racist and issuing a death threat to his friend Self-confessed neo-Nazi Mark Brown has been at the forefront of anti-immigration demonstrations around the north coast. archive.is/2026.07.19-1...

Burnham needs to ride this trend, not fight it.

Spain edited Trump out of its celebratory photo.

Dude. Skills issue. It wasn’t impossible, you just didn’t know how. Learn. That’s entire point of being human. Do not hype the magic beans! AI is fascist, planet-immolating tech designed to deskill you and make you dumber than you already are.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

MAGA-ifying the movies will make them more politically conservative — and more boring. www.salon.com/2026/07/20/p...

“'The unlawful merger of these two entertainment behemoths would lead to higher prices, lower quality, and less content for film and television, harming movie theaters, basic cable distributors,' California Attorney General Rob Bonta said." www.salon.com/2026/07/20/p...

The Ellisons want to MAGA-ify your movies and TV with this Paramount/WB merger. This will make the movies suck way, way more. But they don't care. Experts I spoke with said their goal is political domination, not making movies. www.salon.com/2026/07/20/p...

Telemundo anchor in Spanish: “finally, facing a deafening booing, the president of the United States appears…” 🤣

Crude Oil has 43 days of supply left in the U.S. — the lowest inventory in 45 years @barchart.com ⛽️

Before "the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two U.S. soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out three other strikes ... [that] injured dozens of U.S. service members ... But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage."

Already testing positive outside the recall www.reuters.com/world/fda-sa...

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

OMG THEY HAVE A SECOND CHILD (a son? hopefully a teen?) THAT THEY LEFT ALONE BACK IN THE MAIN CABIN

Nothing says “I should be taxed more“ more than using $82 million to argue that you should not, in fact, be taxed more.

These hate mongers are killing our kids, there was ample warning that this would be the result, and we need to be louder and angrier and more publicly heartbroken about it.

I don't think we should mince words. Transphobia and hatred killed May Pollard. The Idaho legislature killed her as surely as if they'd pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger. Anti-trans laws were the gun. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“The left is going to lose these elections for us,” say the people who lost 2000, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, 2024 — often because they were fixated on the “winning” strategy of punching left and wooing center right voters

Pressure mounted on President Volodymyr Zelensky to dismiss Ukraine’s top commander on Monday, as a growing number of active-duty soldiers and veterans joined the chorus of protesters who have taken to the streets calling for a military overhaul.

Tulsi Gabbard’s brother was arrested and charged after he allegedly tried to lure several children into his hotel room in Waikiki

I just had a twenty-minute phone convo with Mitch McConnell. he said Andrew Tate's outfit was to die for

Seeing some “Tate dresses like a gay man” comments and wanted to say two things: 1. Nothing wrong with being a gay man/fuck homophobia. 2. Y’all need some gay friends because I have many and not one of them would dress like that even for Halloween.

💁‍♀️ People are really fucked weird about disliking Caitlin Clark.

Sure sure sure, ask any women who has DMs about the lack of desperate men.

The Tate brothers situation - and whether the US extradites them - will be interesting to watch, b/c there’s a sharp divide among MAGA world. Trump, Vance, groypers, Tucker etc are big for Tates. Many others strongly anti-Tate. …