I think Pirro may have dementia (she's 75) in addition to being a day drinker.

Damn who could have foreseen this?? Anyways here's a random piece I wrote last year: www.burnsnotice.com/you-cant-run...

"The verdict finding Trump sexually abused & defamed Carroll is now final. He's out of courts to shop this to, & he’ll get no more appeals. And since he had to prepay the judgment & deposit it w/the court — along w/interest! — she won’t have to wait for him to cut the check." — @lizdye.bsky.social

“We have more people voting on the ‘Love Island USA’ app than we do in many political elections taking place across the country,” says the show's executive producer. www.wired.com/story/love-i...

Especially as ignorance “algae-blooms” into the reflecting pool that is our country.

A nation of immigrants. This interactive map lets you zoom in by census track on which countries of origin are most prominent where. Super cool. Happy 4th. Gift link 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

As it was foretold: the Trump regime gutted the NOAA and now weather forecasts are less accurate. An atmospheric scientist: “The forecasts I’m able to offer you are less accurate than they would otherwise be.” [gizmodo.com]

voluntarily helping to reduce demand on the energy grid during peak hours is socialism. slowing down in construction zones is socialism. burn bans during exceptionally dry weather are socialism. fishing and hunting permits are socialism. housing codes are socialism. take a penny leave a penny jars a

This story blames a supposed “uptick in violence” on Boston not having 600 more cops. But halfway through the article, you find out homicides are down compared to last year. And two-thirds of the way through, you find out they're down by more than half!

You’ve probably heard of a plan to have the post office refuse to mail ballots in states that won’t turn over voter records. There was a time when I would have dismissed this with “they can’t do that.” But now I need to call the Governor’s ofice in my state to discuss it. “They” will do anything.

By now we should know that “they can’t do that” is not a valid statement. They’ll do *anything* unless an organized opposition takes steps to stop them.

Looks like they’re getting that brand new AI grand-theft auto training… The rest of us are just NPC‘s there as collateral to catch bullets.

The budget for this Gestapo is staggering ($nation state$). The general public simply doesn’t have the resources to be the opposition to this regime/agency unless it’s the entire populous stopping the machine, every second of every minute of every day. His military force is installed.

Earlier this week, Intelligencer ran a piece called "ICE Won." We definitely don't agree with the title, but its gist—that the normalization of federal police violence is accelerating—is proving accurate. ICE arrests roughly doubled in Chicagoland in June over May. Some more thoughts on that:

NEW: This is too much. The DOJ accidentally emailed copies of Volume II of Jack Smith's final report to the lawyers representing a woman they charged with obstruction of justice for emailing Volume II of Jack Smith's final report. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/doj-accide...

The sad truth is this level naiveté is pervasive among American adults - young and old. What's really offensive here is that these people don't see they're supporting the same folks that have been pushing the party ideals to the right. If you can't see it, you have failed political science 101.

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it will never cease to infuriate me how obvious all of this shit is and how ill-prepared we remain, because the shot-callers in the so-called resistance party are determined to keep their heads in the sand lest they have to do something transformative, also obviously necessary and terrifying to them

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

So weird how this keeps happening

As a nation, we are.

This filth was a cop, from Texas who didn’t give a fuck about anyone before he became a congressional representative…that doesn’t give a fuck about anyone in Texas. Way to go Texas!

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A pro-Klan and pro-immigration restriction cartoon of the Statue of Liberty by Rev. Branford Clark, 1928.

Ever the relentless liars….

The Republican Supreme Court just lifted party campaign spending limits — the exact opposite of getting money out of politics… Mad yet?!

Clarence Thomas, limping through the US House, going to collect his bribes in person #scotus #corrupt

The FTC's for-cause removal structure was a deliberate effort by Congress to diffuse power in government, in an agency designed to diffuse power in the economy. It mirrored the separation of powers in the Constitution. Attorney Sean Flaim explains how form followed function, & what SCOTUS destroyed.

See that skyrocketing blue line? That’s the number of times that SCOTUS has been issuing unsigned, unexplained rulings.

Dude you know you were all proud to take your amateur singer-songwriting to the bar for open mic there? And one person was in the crowd & they were super bored? You had a better excuse for that than Trump's performer. You're cooler. And keep making music.

I think if one thing should be absolutely clear to everybody, it's the fact that nothing is sacred. People think "ah well they didn't defend this but they'll defend this other thing". No we won't. We didn't even do the slightest thing to get a notorious circle of pedophiles out of government.

This is about as over as Roe V Wade. Today was not a win.

Three large egg producers agreed to settle claims of market manipulation by donating over 50 million eggs and paying $3.3 million to states. on.wsj.com/4p7f1jJ

That "I'm Gay, Not Queer" article from the New York Times was designed to make you share an article from the New York Times. Resist the rage and never, ever, ever share a link from the New York Times, you might as well be sharing Breitbart links at this point. Screenshot it if you absolutely must.

... in America, at least.

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What have we lost? The Fourteenth Amendment is holding on by what is effectively a single vote, and Brett Kavanaugh provided a statutory roadmap for next time (and yes, there will be a next time). But, you're right, time to stop bitching!

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Wrong take. Pack. the. Court.

I have no clue what to think of the Jeffries and Schumer statements. It's like they're astral projecting from some other dimension of reality. I just can't understand how they see the state of the country. My mind boggles.

My read on the birthright citizenship cert grant was that the court, and particularly Roberts, wanted to use it as a fig leaf—an easy way to buck Trump & distract the public from their cooperation with him. The razor-thin margin of today’s ruling makes me think even that view was too optimistic.

It's already happened.

Without argument, the worst SCOTUS decision of all time, one that led to the Civil War *and* three Constitutional Amendments... and we're thisclose to making it the de facto law of the land again.

Tired: Birthright citizenship Wired: MANDATORY PRISON CAMPS

I am screaming in my heart so as not to alarm the neighbors.

Now have turned to reading fiction: Alito and Thomas’ dissent littered with ahistorical assertions of cherry picked “history “ and texts.

And we have been for a while.

This makes complete sense if you are on a certain media feed

if the point is to terrify trans people into not transitioning, then making an example out of us by making it impossible for us to have even the most basic of joys is a strategy. They can say “transition will make your life worse, so don’t do it son” Us having fun threatens that strategy