Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

This is a disgusting thing to publish in the wake of Louisa Gag's death. Yes, safety education is important for bicyclists. But Louisa is dead because of unsafe infrastructure and because of dangerous blind spots on trucks. Why does this piece not even mention steps the trucking industry could take?

ICE has killed another person, this time by depriving him of life-sustaining medication for a known medical condition. Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva was detained on Thursday. He was dead by Monday. Per @detentionwatchnetwork.org:

🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"[A] consistent theme has emerged from the Roberts Court’s jurisprudence: a determination to ignore, rationalize, or misrepresent the explicit animus of government officials—and the president in particular—toward the groups that have been targeted." @adamserwer.bsky.social

This you? “Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars. Still more, it should not be used ... to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers.” Trump v. Slaughter (Sept. 25, 2025) (Kagan, J., dissenting) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A new roundup from @peoplefor.bsky.social highlights decisions from Trump-appointed appellate court judges that harm civil and human rights. It's not just Trump's Supreme Court appointees. Judges across the country are undermining rights and freedoms. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/trump-appo...

"I’ve had debates with members of different political persuasions on whether we should eat the man we caught in a net... Those aren’t the types of discussions you’re likely to have in public, especially when much of the media is ready to pounce on celebs for stepping out of line."

This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.

"Roberts’ genial demeanor and careful rhetoric in public may have earned him a reputation as a cautious institutionalist, but he is using that reputation as camouflage as he systematically shreds the well-established institutional web of the United States, including the separation of powers."

Trump's DOJ just filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia's new assault weapons ban as unconstitutional, and their argument is basically "AR-15s are too popular to be illegal" this is clearly absurd Clarence Thomas & Brett Kavanaugh are also clearly already into it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

The Portland Press Herald has released footage from the deadly ICE shooting in Biddeford, Maine. Bystanders described the shooting as an execution.

This is a video of ICE agents pulling a man out of a car and handcuffing him after shooting him in broad daylight in Maine — just days after killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. (1/2)

My first time having United Healthcare and all I can say is that in a society with any kind of half-functional regulatory state it would not even be legal to call this insurance.

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

Driving directions on a phone are one of the best technological innovations of my lifetime. From 2004-2009 every time I drove to the VA suburbs I accidentally ended up in the parking lot of the Pentagon. Since I got an iPhone, not once. it’s magic

Five living writers you’ve read five books by each Tana French Ann Patchett Curtis Sittenfeld Kathleen West Kate Atkinson

On Tuesday, an ICE officer shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. Today, the government is pressuring the only three eyewitnesses to sign self-deportation orders. I spent 15 years as a public defender. If anyone else did this, we'd call it witness tampering. youtube.com/shorts/-1mtg...

It’s New Foods Day for the Minnesota State Fair and this, to me, is the promise of America www.mnstatefair.org/new/food

#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199

Five living writers you’ve read five books by each Tana French Ann Patchett Curtis Sittenfeld Kathleen West Kate Atkinson

Ronaldo Salgado relayed his panicked search for his father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, as he joined local legislators and activists in calling for a full and transparent investigation into the killing on Tuesday in Houston. https://wapo.st/4vUxMt9

"As time went on, [Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's son] Ronaldo remained in the dark. He did not learn about his father’s final moments from a hospital or law enforcement. Instead, confirmation of his death came in the cruel form of videos on social media." 2/

They lied about killing Silverio Villegas González in Sept too. They think, with good reason, that it's easier to get away with summary executions of Mexican men. If you were enraged by the executions of Renee Good & Alex Pretti, you should be enraged by the execution of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. 3/3

NEW: CWA Canada president Carmel Smyth has told me that around a dozen employees have been laid off at Bethesda Game Studios Montreal. All were union members. She said those impacted—including studios veterans—were informed during a 3 minute call in which they were barred from asking questions.

What is Platner waiting for?

Glad you asked!!! Look for The Book of Notable Sandwiches: A Lunchtime History of the World next summer!!!

Just got off the phone with Sen. McConnell. He’d like to pack the court with 7 more justices, all of whom must have served in senior roles at the ACLU. He also wants statehood for Puerto Rico and DC and give them each 5 senators for 99 years, to make up for the time they lacked representation

The idea that a woman is not a “credible” accuser if she has different political views than the perpetrator is no less heinous than that she’s not credible bc she’s had sex before

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Prediction: the US loses to Belgium, Trump calls FIFA to ask them to reverse the outcome, they don’t, center/right legal scholars say FIFA has proved they’re independent and incorruptible

“In FIFA, as in the Supreme Court, the rules on paper and the rules in practice are not the same thing.” 🔥 @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app

I hope USMNT has a decisive win tonight against Belgium. But I have to speak out about something here, and my silence would be simply unacceptable. The Ghent system is a great way to structure labor relations and it originated in Belgium, and America should consider adopting it!

Politico reports this afternoon that a woman who dated Graham Platner says that he sexually assaulted her: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Wow the royal family are major assholes

Today, we remember Saint Paul Public Schools employee Philando Castile who was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop on this day 10 years ago. Rest in power, Philando 💔

This passage from @davidlat.bsky.social perfectly captures the false dichotomy you see so often from the Supreme Court's defenders: The Court is held out as "independent" because it doesn't *always* rule for Trump. That whitewashes (1) how often it *does*; & (2) its bad behavior in non-Trump cases.

After 17 years without an increase, the federal minimum wage has lost nearly a third of its purchasing power. It's long past time to restore a meaningful national wage floor. Our CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and @epi.org’s @hshierholz.bsky.social explain how in @thehill.com:

1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:

Sitting on my porch watching my neighbors‘ fireworks and reading about the Mall getting evacuated, as God intended

Ugh I do not enjoy takes that are like “this famous woman didn’t correctly navigate society’s impossible to navigate expectations and judgments for women”

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

This makes me sad

Kavanaugh really, really wants people to think that trans sports bans and his decision upholding them are strictly about sports None of that is true! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/west-...

oof, Trump’s potential SCOTUS nominees are bad news