Dem Rep. Cleo Fields, whose majority-Black #LA06 was just dismantled by Republicans and turned into a heavily white, Trump+30 seat, will not seek reelection. Instead, he'll run for the state Senate. If successful, it would be his fourth separate time serving in the body.

this is why we can safely laugh off this line of attack. mark warner is about as "generic moderate democrat" as you can get. if you're saying he's a red, then the word has zero meaning (like when they said same about obama, biden, both clintons, kerry, etc)

Earlier today, Sen. Eric Schmitt called centrist Dem. Sen. Mark Warner a commie and now he agrees with Benny Johnson's bonkers claim that the left is preparing "a mass slaughter event." (Remember, Johnson was one of the MAGA influencers who were paid millions in secret funds from Russia.)

He was impeached for being corrupt. His own office of lawyers resigned en masse because they thought he was a criminal. He was under federal indictment until Trump dropped the case. Did he think he could run for Senate and just…. Not have to talk about that stuff?

SENATOBIA, MISSISSIPPI: “A white officer involved in the shooting that killed Kohen Wiley, a Black toddler, and injured a Black woman, called a co-worker a ‘Black motherfucker’ 2 days prior.” The cop who filed a complaint resigned because it was ignored. mississippitoday.org/2026/07/18/s...

#WATCH | Horrific attack on the village of Jaloud tonight by dozens of terrorist settlers. It only happens because no on stops them. The State of Israel is complicit to this terror. (Herd of Justice)

Super excited to read this book on ICE and community defense: Great excerpt on people in Maine. inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

AOC: Ask Peter Thiel. Ask Elon Musk. Ask Mark Zuckerberg if they want one of these data centers in their own backyard. Ask any one of us here on this committee. If anyone wants to live right next to one of these centers, please raise your hand.

“My brother is just a vessel. It’s like they have to have a body to put in jail. And unfortunately, that happens to be my brother.” Much more here from Ana Bell, brother of Prairieland defendant Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada, who spoke with me not long after the anniversary of her brother’s arrest:

I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:

“The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory…”

ICE raids continue to escalate in Maine and legal aid groups said young people are increasingly the target. Last week’s deadly ICE shooting in Biddeford of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a young father on his way to work, has only heightened the terror people are experiencing.

Crockett: "Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing"

Most people—even many Republican voters!—understand that climate change is worsening wildfires. And yet, we cannot do anything about it, because fossil fuel money is choking both Republican and Democratic politicians, preventing them from even having a *conversation* about solutions.

#WATCH | Far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is marching towards Gaza, escorted by illegal settlers, Knesset members and police officers

The latest ridiculous coordinated Republican talking point on the SAVE Act is all about Olive Garden.

Coming soon to a SPH near you

If only the Court could order him to wipe that smug look off of his face.

Troy Jackson really has a plausible path to defeating Susan Collins and avoiding the debacle of Sara Gideon in 2020. Great stuff here from @emmarjanssen.bsky.social. Check out @newrepublic.com's debut newsletter! You should subscribe! newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?ac...

Things are going great bsky.app/profile/retu...

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Tenure is earned within an employment agreement. It *confers* privileges. Saying tenure itself is a precarious gift that can be removed capriciously is a fundamental upending of the concept of tenure.

Okay this is overly general. It’s not “administration policies,” generally, it’s THE MASS TERMINATION OF EXISTING WORK PERMITS due to TPS terminations. That’s the imminent labor shock here.

1. ICE is lying about body cams and I have the documents that prove it. On July 14, Tom Homan, who oversees ICE's immigration crackdown at the White House, said that ICE purchased body cams as soon as Democrats approved funding for DHS in April. That is a lie.

The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.

* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com

Oh look, DOJ's getting ready to lose a lawsuit again, all at the cost of a few hundred thousand dollars or more in taxpayer funding to be paid to the states for their in legal fees!

Very bad draw for Mr. Mahdawi at the 2nd Circuit. Decision by Judge Livingston (Bush) and joined by Nardini (Trump) and Menashi (Trump) finds no jurisdiction. Except this to be taken en banc, especially as a motions panel of the 2nd Circuit previously ruled that the court DID have jurisdiction.

Russell Vought should be impeached The two-time director of the Office of Management and Budget has been two-timing Congress, making spending cuts that lawmakers rejected.

On this day in 1913, 35 Black men at a segregated prison camp in Mississippi burned to death when the neglected dormitory they were locked into at night caught fire.

I don’t talk about real life on Main but my comment requires credentialing: i was at food banks 4x times last month, trying to support etc. Food insecurity is off the charts & I just don’t see anything on the horizon to help people. It’s terrifying. I just come home and sulk and cry and dissociate.

Absolutely everybody who knows anything about labor demographics saw this coming miles away. The last 18 months have been a steady stream of “nobody could have predicted” things every minimally knowledgable person loudly predicted.

For #BlackWomenEqualPayDay, @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I in @bostonglobe.com discussing why the attacks against workers begin and end with Black women. There is no world where workers are valued, and Black women workers are not. Either the economy serves us all, or it serves no one. #blacksky

Steve Scalise is bemoaning the evils of Communism. Remember when he said he was David Duke without the baggage and spoke to a white supremacist group

His grandfather was even worse. www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Take 20 seconds , read the whole thing.

An internal government file obtained by Al Jazeera shows how Israel collected data on groups it suspected supported BDS.

I'm not sure granting anonymity to let the Blazers management have better bargaining positions is really in line with best journalism practices.

If you’re picking fights with Canadians, you don’t have a friend in the world.

It’s in replies—there are 147 picked because they sponsored pro-ICE bills popular.info/p/methodolog...

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.

The report frames organizations like the National Lawyers Guild and the DSA as fronts for Cuban Communist infiltration with the intent of destroying Western civilization. This is just conspiracy-addled McCarthyism as official State Department policy.

State Sen. Rick Bennett’s independent campaign for Maine governor is being supported by Republican donors and operatives, including allies of former far-right Gov. Paul LePage. #MEpolitics #MEgov #Maine #RickBennet #LePage #I-hate-politics

Palestinian-American student Sama Safi is now being wrongfully detained in Damon Israeli military prison and has been enduring horrific conditions and abuse after a temporary release for medical treatment.

Cuba was behind the George Floyd protests? And more bunk from the drumpf clown administration: Free article. wapo.st/4fL8kRi

Bizarrely, the State Department's Report on Cuba is mostly about the Democratic Socialists of America, insinuating that this group is a front for the Cuban Communist Party. Reads like something from the peak McCarthy period. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...