Beshear needs to do what Mitch would do in his shoes. The law they made to stop Beshear from appointing a replacement violates the state constitution. Make the friggin' appointment!!! Make them prove he's alive or take you to court (which will prove he's not alive).

How I would LOVE this.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

My man looks like his favorite game as a child was called "Papers, Please"

I thought that the French didn’t go on vacation until August.

I know a lot of people have stopped paying attention to labubus which is fine but there is an important update: the newest ones have hair for some reason and look like hardworking divorced mothers from the 90s.

Those are super duper war crimes, so I guess we understand why Rubio was screaming about the ICC.

In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.

Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.

This is fantastic.

Mamdani yes / and’ing the party brand. IMO this is the best way to do it though ideally I’d like to see the party formally change its name and logo at some point.

‘The gnawing loneliness that had pushed Waugh and converts from Newman to Spark into the Church meant they were never joiners.’ @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social on literary conversions. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Trump loves war crimes. He's blockading Cuba right now to instantiate a revolt, maybe a famine too. He loves blowing up dams and roads and hospitals and bridges and power plants and water treatment facilities, because he really is the ugly brute Americans apparently have always wished to be

Preventing some Iranian villagers from getting drinking water does nothing to prevent the IRGC from firing missiles and drones. Water is a red line. I know those of you who hate the US military and US foreign policy won’t care about the difference, but it’s significant, with very bad implications.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Much like in Louisiana, these politicians do not want there to actually be voters in the places they rule

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Olga Skabeeva complained about multiplying drones and wondered whether NATO will ever fall apart. State Duma member Adalby Shkhagoshev said the experts were wrong in predicting that Russia would quickly defeat Ukraine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k05...

🚨BREAKING: The Republican-led North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) approved a plan Thursday to make it significantly easier for county election officials to throw out votes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

“Do people enjoy the hospital food when they are hospitalized for exploding diarrhea because you dismantled surveillance programs?”

NBC: The 2024 election is widely believed to be safe and secure LEAVITT: Because it was too big to rig! There was a massive amounts of votes for this president NBC: There were a significant amount of votes for Joe Biden who won in 2020 (Biden 2020 got more votes than Trump 2024)

This is the funniest fucking thing about all this. These manly men fascists are the wimpiest little suckup brownnose bootlickers in the world, humiliating themselves for a senescent pedophile diarrhea man. Just fucking call them losers already

28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.

Satire is supposed to illuminate something that isn’t immediately obvious, exposing absurdity by exaggerating it for effect. But how is that possible when we’re living in an absurdist satire? The latest at my newsletter: paulwaldman.substack.com/p/we-are-liv...

If you're a constituent of this member of Congress, you might want to call her office and explain the concept of "war crimes"

This article nails it.

Many Americans appear to have simply accepted the indefinite military occupation of our capital, in peacetime, American soldiers deployed against Americans. I do not and never will. It is the opposite of Conservative, the opposite of patriotic, and the opposite of democracy.

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

California is debating legislation right now that would ban all ICE employees from ever being hired by a public agency for life. This is good and next year's Democratic House needs to provide a full roster of ICE employees to help facilitate state efforts like this one.

RFK Jr. and Elon fighting out to be responsible for more deaths.

American Conversations: @justinwolfers.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social 👉🏼"The economy is not a thing. The economy is you and me and Heather and your kids and your family and it's the ways we spend our days and the things we choose to do." www.youtube.com/live/viKrMl5...

This is a very thorough and very informative article about air purifiers and air quality. www.cnet.com/home/kitchen...

the World Cup final will be between two teams that Cape Verde played even through 90 minutes

i’d say “harry kane will now have plenty of time to golf with trump” but golf is for winners

The Battle of the Peasants, by M.D. Hout, 17th c

Trump has been threatening Spain with sanctions all week, so it seems like they're a lock to win the World Cup now.

Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter

Schiff to Blanche: "You were bragging at CPAC about firing prosecutors and FBI agents, getting rid of everyone who investigated your client [while] speaking for the DOJ, but you don't think that's a conflict of interest?"

SCHIFF: The president was convicted in a case you represented him in of falsifying business records for tax purposes. Does this settlement not absolve him of any liability for tax crimes associated with what he's been convicted of? BLANCHE: He can't be audited for that SCHIFF: Of course he can be

To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally unregulated internet

Hot off the press! My piece on Einstein in the latest LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

In Greek mythology Narcissus is brought down by Green reflecting pool 🤔

Todd Blanche is a felon, overseeing the most massive cover-up in American history, and a principal player in the nefarious plot to alter our representative democracy into an Orban-like combination of democracy, autocracy, kleptocracy, and oligarchy, led by a madman as its unitary executive.

"Trump has finally found his Roy Cohn, but with a prodigious aptitude for sycophancy substituted for the personal demons." Everyone should read this piece today It contains a lot of detail about what Todd Blanche has been up to at DOJ This is an important read:

Trump using taxpayer funds to promote pro-MAGA political groups across Europe. www.ft.com/content/e2ad...

This is a fucking WAR CRIME! Are we supposed to just ignore it? Threatening to do it is itself a WAR CRIME! Unthinkable. Madness. What the fuck, homies. What the fuck! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...