NEW from me: Trump’s crazed lies about ‘communists’ demand media debunking presswatchers.org/2026/07/trum...

Mitch McConnell's fine, honey, he's running and playing on a farm upstate with all the other bigots

I just moved a refrigerator into a fifth-floor walkup with Mitch McConnell. At one point, he held the whole thing up with just one hand. It was a little intimidating how healthy and strong and virile he is.

'She should have come forward sooner' is always the first response like no she was waiting to see if maybe society would do better and she wouldn't have to join the ranks of women who ruined their lives in the hope that their assailants wouldn't gain even more power.

Just thinking this morning about how many women are forced to serve up the most intimate and horrible moments of their pasts because people blast through a veritable thicket of red flags in support of a political candidate, and in retaliation, they are smeared and harassed.

Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He's still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes ... about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history

Doctors Venkman and Stantz say they recently talked to Mitch McConnell.

Let's go, Auger-Aliassime! 🎾

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

NEW: On the eve of our 250th anniversary, Pope Leo defended America’s diversity — a country, he said, that became “a byword for freedom” by opening its doors to “successive waves of immigrants.” He also pushed back against right-wing dreams of Catholic integralism, arguing for religious pluralism.

“A pragmatic conservative” LOL we’re not still doing this, are we? She literally decided that our votes didn’t need to be counted & she could pick the president

Also in our newest Digest: • Far-right pastor is on track to claim GOP nomination for Colorado governor. • Idaho voters are set to decide whether to restore abortion rights to their state. • Amendment for near-total abortion ban in Nebraska collapses for lack of signatures.

Whatever happened to slinking away in shame? Let’s bring that back.

Don’t be sad. 35% of Americans believe we won the World Cup

This is a really moving and thoughtful interview

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

oh yeah this is a weekend at bernie’s situation

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Believe it or not, it was once GOP orthodoxy that the government shouldn't boost specific companies or industries and that Obama in particularly was somehow tangentially corrupt about doing so.

It's mandatory, but it's also a pass-fail course whose grade isn't factored into students' overall GPA. Which means Iowa undergrads have a chance to troll the shit out of this course.

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

On behalf of all USMNT supporters everywhere, special thanks to Donald Trump for wrapping the team in distraction and scandal before their biggest game ever. Really appreciate him getting his grubby tiny hands all over this.

Really feel for Balogun, who didn't ask for any of this, and now must navigate the fallout of our racist, immigrant-hating mob boss of a president intervening on his behalf.

He should argue the law passed by the GOP legislature to strip him of his authority to appoint a replacement is unconstitutional because… it is—and appoint a replacement the moment it becomes vacant.

The Republican Party is a big tent, consisting of people who are pedophiles and people who protect them.

Move over, Ken Paxton.🙄 “Montana Republican Senate nominee Kurt Alme, who previously served as his state’s US attorney, cut a plea deal in 2020 that allowed a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl to serve less than a year in prison & avoid being registered as a sex offender.“

everyone is mad about the wrong thing the problem with trump sticking himself in the affairs of the US mutant ninja turtles this world cup isn't that it's naked corruption, it's that by exposing them to his rancid vibes he's gonna make them lose just like the knicks lost at msg when he was there

Unhinged: Angry MAGA figures are demanding wholesale bans on pregnant women from entering the country, including pregnancy tests on entry. This has gotten *really* widespread. On the pod, @sarahposner.bsky.social brilliantly takes apart this new Two Minute Hate: newrepublic.com/article/2127...

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

I asked Google if a national head of state or government ever tried to directly influence a judging decision in the World Cup, and look what came up:

Well shit now we’re gonna lose bsky.app/profile/tari...

Lying is free

Gonna get ahead of this and say: I bet they didn’t make a single call

Amazing. The irony will be lost on all of them.

Also, A Capitol Fourth last night had the actual Chicago perform. Temu Capitol Fourth has some nice white military woman apparently singing every random Glee song instead of anything slightly patriotic or inspiring?

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

Dear Wall Street Journal, It‘s tiresome when you assign a selfish horse-race motive to everything that happens in politics. Yes, Democrats are “seizing on Trump’s soaring wealth.” But it‘s more than a “campaign opportunity“ — they’re appalled by a crook ruining our country.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Jesus, we can hear them in as a low rumble in Northern MoCo

I shouldn't be able to hear the fireworks down at the Mall from my house, but based on the low rumble it's the only thing I can think it would be. No other person/place would shoot off this many fireworks after midnight. If I can hear it ~9 miles away, I can only imagine what it sounds like in D.C.

"Is America Good or Bad" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 250 years of heated debate

Good morning from DC—where you’ve got to look twice to see if the masked paramilitaries on the street are ICE or Patriot Front.

Happy 4th of July to all who celebrate the most American way possible--protest & critique. 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

Everything Trump touches turns to shit

Curt Schilling could never.

The price of eggs—the thing that launched a thousand vibecession headlines… was a lie.