As Trump-friendly “media capture” continues with the Ellisons’ fast-tracked bid for CNN, it’s heartening to see MS NOW keep getting better at telling the ugly truth about MAGA fascism. My latest Stop the Presses newsletter.

Graham Platner must drop out of the race to become Maine's next U.S. Senator. The Democratic Party should continue to stand with all survivors of sexual assault.

My son, just now: “Well, at least the US went the farthest of any team that calls it ‘soccer.’”

“Dobbs overruled Roe” “Democrats failed to codify Roe” Does anyone stop to think about what actually happened to women four years ago? Men took a settled federal constitutional right OUT OF OUR HANDS, AS WE WERE USING IT. Here one day, gone the next. WE WERE FREE, and then we weren’t.

I don't argue with MAGA dirt-clods because it's a complete waste of time. Nothing you present to them, fact or evidence, will ever get them to stop riding Traitor Trump's tiny dick.

THIS THIS THIS!! The networks we built in Jan 2025 for the LA Fires are what snapped into place when the ICE raids started. The infrastructure and people were already in place. Minneapolis I suspect experienced similar, with their groups stemming from the George Floyd Uprising.

Perhaps Mr. Platner has forfeited any ability to specify terms and conditions.

George E. Johnson, the pioneering Black hair care entrepreneur who created Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen, has died

“The Republicans in Congress are more loyal to Trump than they are to their own institution so there are no checks and balances occurring across the branches,” Thomas Laehn (the Libertarian candidate for #IASen) told Douglas Burns last week. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/07/05/n...

I talked with Democratic strategist @joetrippi.bsky.social about key races in Iowa, especially the campaigns for governor, U.S. Senate, and three of Iowa's four Congressional districts. #IAGov #IASen #IA01 #IA02 #IA03 www.lincolnsquare.media/cp/205659173

Actually, Kevin, to take but one example, you went to Mar-a-Lago three weeks after the January 6 insurrection to help begin Trump’s restoration process.

Donald Trump? George Santos? Ken Paxton? thebastionusa.com/criminal-sca...

Anyone who's listened (as I have) to Kevin's "White Flight," about the straight line from southern segregationists to today's GOP, or Joanne's "The Field of Blood" about members of Congress beating each other to a pulp, often over slavery, knows how absurd this argument is

Scary days in America !

OK Maine Democrats. Let’s have a talk. You guys fucked this up. In fact, you’ve been fucking up so badly that you haven’t elected a Democrat to the US Senate in 38 years. Only MS, KS, WY, UT, & ID have gone longer But you’re going to get yet another chance to get this right Do Not Fuck It Up

Abusers sabotage their own agenda and betray those who share it while placing the burden on victims to come forward and be punished, blamed, shamed, disbelieved, or not come forward and suffer in silence and let an abuser hold power. Abusers demonstrate radical selfishness.

Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Ruben Gallego withdraw their endorsements of Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner following recent sexual assault allegations. Khanna publicly demands Platner drop out of the race, while the embattled candidate evaluates his next steps.

“This is not ok. We cannot normalize the National Guard killing American citizens. They shouldn’t be in Memphis at all. The family deserves answers.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social reacts to the news 2 National Guard troops shot and killed Tyrin Johnson in MEMPHIS.

nothing more profoundly symbolic of this era that a dead mcconnell is more powerful than 47 live democratic senators

Mary Moriarty, the county attorney for Hennepin County, told me that her office expects to decide in a few weeks whether the county has enough evidence to bring charges in the Good/Pretti cases, even absent the evidence withheld by the federal government

Look if you think it’s fine for Trump to corruptly get a red card revoked (or “suspended”) bc FIFA is already corrupt, maybe you understand the MAGA mindset better than you think. “All politicians are corrupt so it’s ok for Trump to be corrupt” is a very common maga rationalization

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.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

lardass did not renew the USMCA trade agreement which was centerpiece of his first term. Impact on consumers? higher prices, lost jobs and a hit to GDP. 😡😡😡 Neither Canada nor Mexico are going to put up with his bullshit. time.com/article/2026...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #news

QUESTION: "Do you think that public health, and faith in public health, can be restored?" ANSWER: Absolutely not while Trump is president and RFK Jr is HHS secretary.

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From today, and every day that traitorous rapist sack of shit is corrupting our country, I will post #TrumpWillNeverBeMyPresident

Now that the fireworks smoke has cleared back to this.

Over 11,000 Kentucky children have lost food assistance since October because the KY GOP values giving tax breaks to billionaires over making sure kids do not go hungry.

Burdick & Lederer, THE UGLY AMERICAN, 1958.

Looking at the week ahead, Elias Law Group is litigating 80 voting and election cases in 40 states (plus DC). This is a lot of work for a small firm of 60+ lawyers. When we fight we can win!⚖️🗳️💪

This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect

This is sobering, sobering shit.

*****! Arguably, the only progressive Congress of my lifetime (now early 70s). Think young pups! Think how much of a stalemate we've been in since 1977. REALLY think. Think about how 90% of our social justice improvements since '77 have come through litigation including much damned personal injury.

36 days. Still marching. Albanians are done watching their coastline get sold off to Kushner money and their government answer with silence. Tirana's streets glow with flares, flamingo balloons, and one demand on repeat: Rama, resign. 🇦🇱🦩

The Trump administration is scrapping more than three dozen firearms regulations, abandoning a crackdown on illegal sales, restoring gun rights to some people with mental illness and loosening oversight of private weapons transactions. nyti.ms/4aALj0u

mech.eng.world For more than a century, these massive animals were divided into small, isolated groups by roads, fences, and human cities. But recently, something amazing has happened. As artificial boundaries have been removed, the bison have started joining together again completely on their own

Vibe time! BLACK MUSIC SUNDAY goes dancin' in the streets! Thanks to Denise Oliver-Veez for this great week series! Be sure to follow @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social . www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The heatwave that shattered European temperature records would have been "virtually impossible" 50 years ago, according to @wwattribution.bsky.social. This week, it’s North America’s turn. And the story is the same in Asia. More heat is coming — and civic-minded journalism can literally save lives:

This feels right to me. He’s dying and desperately trying to build up a legacy, quite literally.

Last 4th of July, a dad had a kid run up to us and ask why I supported Hamas. During a parade. I’m Palestinian, I’m used to it. But goddamn, be better.

Meta got banned like a kid taking a shit in the public pool

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Jim Acosta says all the Trump vanity projects should be torn down: This is like the end days of Saddam Hussein that we’re seeing right now, with the way he’s trying to build things and take over projects down in Washington, D.C. It does not speak to somebody who is at all healthy.