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Grand juries almost never reject indictments. Vindictive prosecution motions almost never succeed. Criminal subpoenas almost never get quashed. It's extremely rare for cases to be dismissed before trial. Stuff like this keeps happening under Blanche's watch. You'd never know it from this hearing.

These stops are not effective at “fighting crime.” They’re effective at terrorizing immigrants. That’s what he doesn’t want to give up.

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"for the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty female Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year'

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Tonight's entertainment : 3rd row seats

Important bit in here -- the Intelligence Community under Trump confirmed before he left office in 2021 that "We have no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections."

The Erika Niedowski Memorial Scholarship has been awarded to Ashley Jean-Louis. Ashley is a 2026 graduate of Cranston East and will attend Rhode Island College pursuing a degree in nursing. Ashley is the seventh recipient of the scholarship named in Erika's honor. erikaniedowski.org/our-recipien...

McConnell’s legacy summed up simply: “He let everyone know that he found Trump personally distasteful, but made sure Trump could get away with anything.” By @paulwaldman.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s latest PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Tell me you know you're committing crimes... #USDemocracy

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

This is footage of ICE handcuffing a 26 year old father after murdering him in broad daylight. We cannot look away. Abolish ICE. Abolish qualified immunity. Hold these murderous thugs accountable.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

They’re basically saying “we killed him because why not?”

In a sane world the findings here would be enough for a unanimous impeachment and conviction: the President attempted to steal nearly 2B from the US

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

"The Trump administration, now Intel’s largest shareholder, has also taken a hands-on approach to the company... This type of state capitalism is unprecedented" www.wsj.com/tech/ai/inte...

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 deportation agenda—detentions without bond—has now lost in court a staggering 15,000 times. And get this: A majority of Trump-appointed judges who have considered the policy have rejected it! The mounting lawlessness on many fronts is alienating even Trump judges. trib.al/MTeZdle

It couldn't have been an attack of conscience... I mean he probably was vaccinated against that.

It's okay to be happy that someone who hurt you can't do that anymore.

Plus, taking readers' money. I was promised the readers who'd crowdfunded Everything Will Swallow You would be refunded. Two weeks later Unbound decided to keep the money instead. They then left me to explain that mess to those readers & ask, "But also can you rebuy the book from my new publisher?"

The TLDR is that they wanted to supercharge their crowdfund platform and sell it to others, and had investors lined up to finance it. Feeling bold, they dipped into author royalties to start work early. The investments didn’t come through and the platform flopped, leaving them unable to pay us.

this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

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Trump’s DOJ trying to intimidate election officials, @risecstate.bsky.social says. “The actions of this administration are intended to undermine your trust in our elections processes,” Secretary of State Gregg Amore said. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/10/m...

Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.

Not only very reminiscent of Renee Good but also Marimar Martinez who was shot six times in her car and remarkably survived.

Late to the party. New cat dad here.

One minor thing that annoys me personally about this shit is that some people romanticize a blue collar white boy aesthetic but can’t tell an actual working class backwoodser from a rich aspiring dirtbag who went to Hotchkiss

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

New in PN: A sentient collection of red flags "When it came to Platner & his supporters trying to push back on the misdeeds that ultimately doomed him, there was never anything of substance or real. He just demanded people accept he was a totally different person than all evidence showed him to be"

The Trump-Vance admin deleted records showing if and when DOGE accessed sensitive data. We will continue to shed light on their attempts to operate in secrecy.

Yet another Flock mistake: a typo by LAPD flagged potentially *dozens* of new Range Rovers nationwide as stolen, in this case a MA car journalist caught up. Only originating PD can fix but they won't always bother. Cop's recommendation: don't drive this vehicle anymore 🤷‍♂️. @riaclu.bsky.social

"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...

Trump derangement syndrome is basically being alive in 2026 and driven to the brink of madness by the constant lies, grifting, bigotry and stupidity. It is actually the only rational response..

POLICE TRANSPARENCY: We submitted testimony to the RI Dept. of Public Safety as they’re considering changing when police officers can see their own body-worn camera footage after a “use of force” incident.

Warwick tries to bar critic from disclosing information obtained in First Amendment suit. @riaclu.bsky.social blasts “unfortunate irony” of defense lawyers seeking an order to prohibit Rob Cote from sharing documents or facts gathered as part of federal lawsuit. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/07/m...

No telling which one Platner is, and frankly I don't care. I don't want "rapist" to be one of the things we're willing to excuse as long as someone says the right things. I don't want to expand the window of acceptable or forgivable behavior to include that.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

As have the Maine Democratic Party, and Ruben Gallego, notable in that he endorsed Platner before Mills dropped out.

Look at this ENTIRELY PREDICTABLE DISASTER!!!

Planned Parenthood and other reproductive health clinics regained access to Medicaid funding on Saturday after a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, defunding the organizations, expired.

The owner of X is embracing an explicitly fascist ideology which is opposed to liberalism, universal suffrage, and racial equality—and yet every Democrat in Congress and most journalists still use his website every day. It’s absolutely disgusting.

The founder we should talk more about is Thomas Paine, who will fuck your shit up every time. Here he is in The Rights of Man just ripping into any ideas of "originalism" and that kind of garbage.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...