The more they don’t understand something the stronger their urge to assume it must be wrong

SO many questions from the Republican-appointed justices so far having little or nothing to do with the law—they're venting their evident frustrations about modern election laws that broadly authorize mail voting and fretting that they're spoiling elections with distrust and fraud. Really bad!

This is legal reasoning?

The removal of a defense attorney has created legal chaos that may make fair trials impossible for two Pinal County men facing the death penalty

You good, Ohio??

Did you see those code pink clowns and this millionaire socialist Hasan Piker are in Cuba to … I don’t know what but they’re all there

🇰🇵 Over the past 2.5 years, the DPRK has transferred from 8 to 11 million munitions to Russia. This is evidenced by documents on the movement of ships involved in the transportation of weapons. Four Russian ships made at least 112 trips to North Korea.

So pleased @garethgore.bsky.social got a meeting w Pope Leo today. Extremely rare for a reporter to get a private meeting. Team Leonard Leo is the central figure in US political MAGA Opus Dei. Team Leonard Leo vs Pope Leo showdown on the horizon.

Bahrain bringing in Jordanian troops to stave off Shia unrest. capitalandempire.com/p/bahrain-im...

Translation: he didn't have enough weapons to fight his war of choice and so he is blaming Ukraine

2022: Ukraine asks to close the sky 2026: Ukraine is asked to close the sky

In North Carolina, Democrat Roy Cooper will face Republican Michael Whatley in a race that's critical to deciding control of the Senate in November. https://to.pbs.org/4aOAFDX

The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Pam Bondi over the DOJ’s failure to make its Jeffrey Epstein records public

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse. Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs. Democrats had two years to fix this.

Even if you share my civil libertarian skepticism of this particular law, Mike is correct. It's fundamentally unfair and anti-democratic for the Supreme Court to fault the Congress of 1968 for failing to foresee Second Amendment principles that SCOTUS would make up out of whole cloth decades later.

AI art will continue to be ineligible for copyright after SCOTUS refuses to hear the case brought by the same man whose previous appeal for patents was also rejected.

Breaking on MS NOW: @alivitali.bsky.social reports the Hillary Clinton deposition has resumed, but that Clinton is asking press be allowed into the room for the rest of the deposition. Comer said NO — despite Lauren Boebert taking photos of Clinton and giving them to a far-right activist.

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Doug Burgum using one of Putin's justifications for invading Ukraine. bsky.app/profile/atru...

If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone too, or are only we allowed to do that?

The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.

I think of this often.

This is my whole career actually :

Hawley is no friend to women. Nor is Howard. Both think women are second class citizens. Hawley wants to remove their reproductive rights, Howard wants to remove their rights to single sex services provisions & sports when sex matters. Men arguing about what a woman is for their own sexist ends.

In the coming months, the Supreme Court will rule on a case that could gut key parts of the Voting Rights Act and radically alter the country’s voting maps Mississippi's Black voters are bracing for "devastation"

The US Drought Monitor this week for California versus Florida. Zero versus 100% drought extent.

Donald Trump told Congress that voting was a privilege. My life's work is defending voting as a fundamental right. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 as a vital tool in the fight for voting rights and free and fair elections. Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Trump administration officials declined to affirm states’ authority to run elections during a private meeting with state election chiefs Wednesday, according to an election official who was on the call. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

www.reuters.com/world/ceo-wo... The president and CEO of the World Economic Forum, Borge Brende, said he was stepping down on Thursday, a few weeks after the forum launched an independent investigation into his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. #Epstein

This thing is, this was obvious the second Trump tore up the JCPOA. Everyone, including me, said that Iran would never sign another nuclear deal. Why would anyone sign any deal with a country as unreliable as we have become?

ICE is struggling to keep pace with vetting new hires during its historic recruitment push, so it's hiring officers before completing standard checks. The agency fired five people after belatedly finding that they had outstanding warrants for their arrest. www.reuters.com/world/ice-st...

The Trump-Vance administration is continuing to use Minnesotans as pawns in their campaign of political retribution against my home state. All they’re doing is hurting hardworking Americans who rely on these lifesaving resources.

Turkey probing reason for deadly F-16 crash on border mission reut.rs/47ea5lg

America is the wealthiest nation on earth. Yet 47 million Americans are struggling to put food on the table. In a nation as wealthy as ours, hunger is not an inevitability. It is a choice. Donald Trump has chosen to defund SNAP by $200 billion.

He’s suggesting the Epstein files involving Trump disappeared because…Democrats are perverts? Certainly an unusual explanation.

It’s known by the name Velvet-Wood, and the project’s Canadian owner got the go-ahead back in May as the first to undergo an “accelerated,” two-week environmental review, during which tribes had only seven days to reply.

Although some Republicans may want their party to rally behind a different type of candidate this time, longtime consultant Paul Bentz said it’s less likely.

thanks for the Mannsplaining, but if you'd bothered reading the thread, I linked to the most comprehensive peer-reviewed study to date from earlier this year and it demonstrates carcinogenic impacts: publichealth.gmu.edu/news/2025-06...

JUST IN: Another #SCOTUS emergency appeal from Trump admin. This one seeks to lift a block a judge in SDNY put on Noem's move to end temporary protected status for Syria. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

See our amicus brief for how this case can be easily resolved by just requiring state/local governments to pay at least fair market value compensation when they foreclose on property for tax delinquencies (minus amount needed to pay the taxes): www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

My assessment of today's frustrating Supreme Court oral argument in the Pung v Isabella County home equity theft takings case (in which I wrote amicus brief for @cato.org & property scholars). The justices seemed to be focusing on the wrong issue: reason.com/volokh/2026/...

🚨 Alert: Insects are vanishing at an alarming rate,up to 76% decline in flying insect biomass over 27 years in Germany alone!a1891c This "insect apocalypse" is driven by pesticides & habitat loss, threatening our ecosystems. We must act NOW to save them! #SaveInsects #NoPesticides

"Across the UK, 62% of seabird species are already in decline – a figure that rises to 70% in Scotland. "

🚨 A surge in seabird deaths in the UK has sparked urgent calls for nationwide action, following reports of hundreds of dead puffins, guillemots, razorbills and divers washing ashore 💔 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/mass-se...

Well, Donald Trump has said one thing so far that is true: We need to ban stock trading in Congress. I’ve been fighting for years to get it done. Just need Republicans to put it up for a vote.

Here’s a gift link to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social’s latest deep dive on the Epstein scandal www.miamiherald.com/news/politic... www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The Dept of Labor this morning. Big Pedo is watching.

Trump and Republicans require nothing of Russia so this is a farce