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“Prosecutors have fled the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago, angry about the cases they’ve been told to bring against protesters and immigrants.” Failed Immigration Cases Leave Chicago Prosecutor’s Office Reeling www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

"the operations are under increasing scrutiny from judges, scholars and defense attorneys, who say they are coercive, risk false confessions, and disproportionately target Black and Latino people." calmatters.org/justice/2026...

NO NO NO TO RAHM EMMANUEL!!! Superagent? Obviously. Secret Weapon in 2028? Maybe. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/s...

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Hawaiian Justice Todd Eddings deserves a seat on SCOTUS.

“The court calls the Constitution colorblind while engineering the dilution of Black votes, the unraveling of hard-fought civil rights remedies, and the erasure of Black history. That is not blindness. That is white sight, by design.”

Adam Kinzinger has Trump pegged. Watch this. Trump promised a “blockbuster.” Delivered nothing. He claimed China stole the 2020 election. His own declassified documents debunk him. #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/ZsrzE...

3/ Two very accomplished researchers, @pettertornberg.com & Juliana Chueri, studied 32 million posts from politicians across 26 countries. What they found: spreading flat out lies is not a both sides habit. It is concentrated on the radical right, and it is deliberate. doi.org/10.1177/1940...

“But what really made it hit so hard was that it came amid a sharp pivot from Canada at least attempting to be an international leader in reducing emissions.”

The stupidity hurts. 🤡🤡🤡🤡 truthout.org/articles/rep...

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals www.propublica.org/article/para...

The Democratic presidential debates need to have spring loaded traps underneath each candidate and any time one of them says "we need to move on" or "I'm focused on the future, not the past" they should be immediately launched through the roof of the auditorium.

Was Hegseth deliberately chosen by Trump to wreck our military, on the advice of Trump's bestie, Vladimir? I wonder this of many of his ignorant, inexplicable decisions. He doesn't listen to any of the unqualified amateurs in his administration. #ProudBlue

“You said the 2020 election was rigged by either Venezuela or China. When you called that fella in Georgia pleading for 11,780 votes, was that part of the rigging, or part of the 6-year investigation? Just one more thing, sir, who was president while all this rigging took place?”

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This is truly shocking. bccla.org/2026/07/coro...

“Trump administration appointees have overruled moves by career attorneys who had proposed suits or launched reviews to assess how the company mergers and acquisitions might lead to unfair price gouging for both consumers and taxpayers” www.ms.now/news/trump-a...

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Newsom is shameless

Sen. Klobuchar asking about warrants and Blanche saying undocumented individuals doesn't fall under the law for warrants and he's dead wrong. VERY disappointed that LAWYER Klobuchar didn't call him on that. The Constitution covers EVERYONE on our soil regardless of thier citizenship status.

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain." - Shakespeare, Hamlet Act 1 Scene 5

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July 14 is International Non-Binary People's Day. YO.

*clears throat* *taps mic* welcome to Schism Watch 2026 I am here to report a new crashout

Three men have died following ICE street operations in the span of a week. Enough is enough. Send a message to Congress and tell them to hold ICE accountable and put an end to the bloodshed.

WTAF!!!

Elon Musk has been referred for possible criminal prosecution after Wisconsin election officials found probable cause that his $1 million voter giveaways violated the state’s election bribery law.

Once again, Hegseth and Trump are resegregating the military along racial and sexual lines. It’s disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

The law makes clear that this is the right of Mexico as parens patriæ. President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that Mexico would be filing criminal complaints in the US for the deaths of more than a dozen Mexican migrants in immigration detention and those killed in anti-migrant operations.

"Hennepin County Attorney [] Moriarty said the evidence turned over by U.S. Attorney [] Rosen’s office included previously withheld hard drives containing statements, police [BWC] video and other materials in the Minnesota killings. Federal prosecutors also turned over Good’s badly damaged SUV."

"The mess in the Maine Senate race argues for more discipline on the left. But millions of rank-and-file Democrats — and anyone else keeping track — can see clearly that the positions, tactics and approach of conventional Democrats have failed." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/o...

A protest group called The Secret Handshake placed a giant gold “Iran war participation trophy” for President Trump on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Sometimes I’ll be chatting with friends and a sentence I’d never thought I’d say comes out. Today’s is: “The nominee for Attorney General was just referred to the bar for disciplinary consideration, but you don’t actually need a law license to be the Attorney General.”

Another hot weekend, another free knit in public event. Our Summer House is bedecked with La Tricolore as we celebrate Bastille Day & Les Tricoteuse, the radical knitters of the French Revolution. All day tomorrow, so bring your knitting and join us. Please note our guillotine will not be in use.