1) Corporations and the super-rich spend billions on elections 2) Elected officials rewrite laws in the donors' favor, enact huge tax cuts, and deregulate industries 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat If we want to talk about "integrity" and our political system, let's talk about this.

I always had a suspicion that things would end badly—I just never would have guessed that they'd end so stupidly.

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

The detail I can’t get out of my head here is how he told his ex-wife that he had been hired by ICE, but she thought he must have been having a delusion, because how could ICE hire someone who had such a long history of family violence?

July 16, 2026

AOC Makes Life Harder For The Supremely Corrupt Grifter 6.......

Brouillette, 37, told his ex-wife last year he had been hired by ICE. She said that because of his long history of psychiatric issues, she thought he was having a mental health episode and she didn’t believe him. She didn’t realize he’d been telling the truth until this week...

6 years later and the orange felon still can’t provide any factual tangible credible evidence of the 2020 election being rigged except for the fantasy he creates in his psychotic head.

Anyone else find it suspicious that the White House is releasing a bunch of “newly discovered” findings concerning the 2020 election weeks after they conducted mass firings of career intelligence officers? 🙋‍♀️

He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.

Sen. John Fetterman says he would leave the Democratic Party if it “officially” becomes “the anti-Israel party.”

Republican Senator Thom Tillis, a key vote on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he would not vote to advance President Trump's nominee for attorney general unless the nominee, Todd Blanche, meets ‌with victims of Jeffrey Epstein and their lawyers reut.rs/4feS2i8

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

July 15, 2026

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Ben McKenzie is very cool & smart www.everyoneislying.com

This Administration is engaged in the largest criminal cover-up in American history.   Todd Blanche cannot serve as AG. Full stop.

Sen Blackburn complains that during the Biden admin, she couldn't subpoena Epstein files. The difference? DOJ was involved in ongoing prosecution/appeals of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & the records could not be released until her appeal was finalized. It's disingenuous, at best.

Focus on whether Blanche has the bare minimum “qualifications” is a head fake. The dealbreaker should be Blanche’s willingness to be Trump’s lawless hatchet man.

Blanche claims that 3 million documents remain in his custody and possession, but they are "non-responsive" per the Epstein Act so he won't release them.

A 3-year-old girl watched ICE murder her father yesterday. We all watched Sebastian Guerrero’s final moments through our phones. We can scroll away — but Sebastian’s 3-year-old daughter cannot.

E. Jean Carroll receives the first of Trump’s millions vist.ly/5b94v

Who lies about election results? Who refuses to accept an election loss? Who purposely sows distrust in our elections process? A coward does. A sore loser does. A sociopath does. And a traitor to this country does. That’s who.

Quick Trip is a better road trip stop than a Buccee's.

Daily reminder: israel funded & armed hamas since the 1980s, Palestinians fought Nazis in WWII, Palestine’s roots go back to the 2nd century, genocide has raged since 1948, ethnic cleansing is evil🇵🇸😢 Hart28.com

This is Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the 26-year-old Colombian father and husband murdered by ICE fascists in broad daylight in front of his 3-year-old daughter. He was NOT the target of the ICE warrant. He was documented. He did everything right. ICE murdered him anyway. And yet… 1/2

EXECUTED BY ICE IN COLD BLOOD IN FRONT OF HIS 3-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

"Iran seems to be playing Donald Trump at his own game," writes Stephen Collinson. "The president complained Monday that the Islamic Republic can't be trusted to honor an agreement, rebuking its rulers for one of his own signature moves." | Analysis https://cnn.it/453jv1u

"There was a time in American history when Lindsey Graham would have been an exemplar of how politics should work in a healthy society. Instead, he is a cautionary tale. That is not a fate I would wish on anyone. May he rest in peace."

#FascistFluffers and #OligarchyFluffers in #Media, #Australia - #auspol

I do not believe democracy is compatible with billionaires being able to spend unlimited amounts of money on politics.

Trump clean energy policies linked to $83 billion in delayed or canceled projects reut.rs/4wyWmQq

Trump is still saying Zelenskyy should hold an election, even during a war. Zelensky is such a “dictator” he offered to resign in return for peace with Russia. Trump never conceded the 2020 election and incited the January 6 rioters.

July 13, 2026

Says the guy who, after losing in a free & fair election, incited an insurrection against his own country: the very definition of treason. #ImpeachConvictRemoveImprison

US consumer inflation likely increased at a slow pace in June as gasoline prices retreated reut.rs/4w4kdHV

We can’t all be as talented or famous as Sam Neill, but we can all aspire to be kind enough that people happily tell stories like this about us one day.

It is a carnival of corruption. Congressional stock trading. First Family crypto schemes. A secondhand jumbo jet. These are not academic concerns. They hurt all of us - and they are related to the reasons we can't have common-sense outcomes that most Americans actually agree on.

Susan Collins is beatable not because of whoever will run against her, but because of her.

Re: speaking of the dead: it always the right time to speak truth, especially truth to power, and the truths about Lindsey Graham are ugly, and that's his doing, not ours.

Cyclospora, the parasite that appears to be causing an outbreak of diarrheal disease in the U.S., is most common in tropical climates—but America seems to have a homegrown-parasite problem on its hands, @nicholasflorko.bsky.social reports:

Reaction to the death of New Zealand actor Sam Neill at 78 reut.rs/4ynsoAE

Sam Neill, Jurassic Park star, dies at 78 reut.rs/4vrCVbg

We can’t be expected to mourn the perpetrators when they die.