Update: A judge tossed out Trump's attempt to create a $1.8 billion slush fund, while weaseling his way out of IRS audits for good. As we reported earlier this year, the lawsuit was “a stunningly corrupt attempt for the president to take taxpayer money and put it in his pocket.”

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Amazing! ICE kills a man ~7:30 am. 1st news report is an hour later. ~1:30 pm, a group of 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 marches in Main Street and "storms into the Biddeford office of [U.S.] Sen. Susan Collins." Would be hard to do in NYC. Biddeford pop. = 22,000! www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Lindsey Graham was not a particularly strong supporter of Ukraine. He made all the right noises, but ultimately he mostly just contributed to keeping pro-Ukrainian Republicans quiet. He gave them an illusion to cling to, that any moment now Trump will finally get tough on Putin.

So I’m just catching up with the story of how Brigadier General Clint Barnes cowered in a bunker and left his soldiers to die in the ensuing fire from the early Iranian strike on US troops in Kuwait while others ran back into the smoke to look for wounded. archive.ph/2026.07.12-1...

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

Still seeking responses for this callout! Please share by tomorrow if interested in being included.

America has never been susceptible to communism. It has always been susceptible to fascism. Know your history. Know your context. Know smokescreens when you see them. The threat of communism has always been a smokescreen used by fascists in America.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/p...

Interesting project, interesting vehicle.

Markwayne Mullin was rolled out as a "course correction" from Kristi Noem. You, savvy, know that was a lie. But this recent shooting in Houston shows how Mullin, like Noem, weaponizes the incompetence of the yokels they hire for ICE. www.salon.com/2026/07/13/n...

"Graham never criticized Trump for cutting off all US military aid for Ukraine, indeed he said changing aid to loans was a good thing." Necessary corrective here from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Trump’s CDC gutted public health and surveillance programs that could have stopped this outbreak. Now people across the US are at risk… and it could spread to Canada. Public health saves lives. The Trump regime ends them. Buy Canadian produce, meat & dairy if you can!

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

Texas AG Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years. w/ @texastribune.org

"Trump’s Illegal Boat Bombings Are Just ‘Murder for Murder’s Sake,’ U.S. Official Says" Donald Trump’s boat strikes aren’t working – because they’re ‘not actually designed to end the fentanyl crisis,’ a senior administration official tells Zeteo.

TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Speaking of death, Trump's now worried he's next, and that it won't be from natural causes But the real risk is to all of us, as paranoia causes him to widen the war and crush civil liberties, including a shocking probe of the NYT Caligula, DJT, and my new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

When It Happens, no matter where you are or what time it is, the ear-splitting noise of the mass celebrations outside will be impossible to miss.

Stocks at record highs can coexist with a pretty ordinary economy. Why? ⁣ ⁣ A handful of AI-linked firms are driving much of the market's gains. Strip them out, and the rally looks a lot less impressive.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

Welcome back, Lindsey Graham 👶🏻🍼

I'm far past feeling the need to defend people who celebrate the deaths of ghouls. We live under overt fascism. The regime hunts people in the streets. We are talking about political actors so foul that no moral reconciliation is possible. They can only be defeated. Mourning them is a betrayal.

When they go low... Take them out by their knees. You owe Lindsey Graham nothing.

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.

Dave Matthews: "This father and grandfather who was murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas. Then they say he’s not even the guy they were looking for. Well then don’t pull the trigger you assholes. ... I want to send this to the memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo." (h/t @marcofoster.bsky.social)

Amy Klobuchar’s eulogy for Lindsey Graham was 390 words long. This was 390 more words than she has said in support of trans people

If you love your life, and you *ever* smoked, please get screened! Please pass this article on. Too many people dying who could have been saved! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/w...

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

Here's a montage of what Lindsey Graham thought of Donald Trump before he became a lackey and humiliated himself.

this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

Here’s hoping future Americans remember Lindsey Graham as a prophet.

Graham’s epitaph will be: “He Chose Evil Knowing Better”

The war is about US leaders feeling tough and not admitting error. This manifests in airstrikes attempting (but failing) to get back to the prewar status quo of an open Strait of Hormuz, while lying a lot to the press (which mostly doesn't seem to mind) and the public.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

When someone who consistently does and says terrible things dies, it's helpful. It means that they can no longer do and say terrible things. It's a form of cleansing the world. That's a positive thing.

Holy crap Lindsey Graham died on July 11, the same day in 2015 that he first called Trump a demagogue who was going to ruin the party. Trump mastered Graham first, on his way to mastering the nation.

Lindsay Graham sold his soul to the devil and now he finally gets to meet him!

Lindsey Graham won't see you calling him a spineless ass-kisser who sold his soul to a con man, but all the other Republicans will.

Lindsey Graham comes to a realization at the end of his 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell.

Caregiving is a massive economic opportunity or a massive economic crisis in waiting because nearly the entire care infrastructure rests on the unpaid labor of women, especially.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

Georgia SoS Raffensperger recorded the “perfect call” with Trump because Graham lied about his earlier call

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...