A new vaccine to tackle Ebola will now be tested on people after the UK regulator gave permission for trials to take place. Scientists at the University of Oxford started developing the vaccine eight weeks ago when a public health emergency was declared on 17 May. www.bbc.com/news/article...

July 12, 2026

He NEVER went up his own ass, and for a global Hollywood superstar this is a rare thing. A visibly moved HARRISON FORD — 84 Candles 🎂 today — accepting his AFI Life Achievement Award in L.A this year.

After losing in courts across the country, the Trump administration has successfully steered nationwide litigation over gender-affirming medical care for minors to a single Texas judge in a single Texas district court. In "One First," me on how this happened (and why it's allowed but shouldn't be):

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

@petebuttigieg.bsky.social reflects on Lindsey Graham's passing with @timmiller.bsky.social: "I did not agree with him on much. But I will say, he was the kind of senator who figured out how to do deals. And one of the deals he worked on was the infrastructure bill, which I appreciated."

Seems like a good day to support Dr. Andrews. secure.actblue.com/donate/persi...

The cat did it…

For all the conservative pundits gnashing their teeth and lecturing us about our reactions to Lindsey Graham's death...

“Even though we disagreed on much, Rest In Peace, Lindsey Graham.”

One of the legacies of Lindsay

"Critical thinking." 🙄 This platform doesn't need an age filter but it sure does need an intelligence one.

Big story here. What an admission by the FBI re: Epstein! More details live on today’s episode 👇

Israel has repeatedly targeted doctors, nurses and healthcare workers as part of their ongoing genocide in Gaza. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been held without charge for the past 18 months, repeatedly tortured in that time. Israel must release him NOW.

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

How it started How it's going

Explain to me who's deranged again.

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

"If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." -- Anne Lamott

If you were wondering who owns our government.

I went to school with polio victims. It was a childhood scourge until the vaccine was invented. People who think they know about vaccines would do well to learn the history of communicable diseases.

Beshear on McConnell: "I'm concerned. I get that we all have a right to privacy for our health, but when you run for an office like mine or Sen. McConnell's you answer to the voters. If you're in the hospital for an entire month, you owe it to the people who elected you to give them an update."

Beautiful shots from the Stavropol region. #russianLosses #UkraineNews

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

trump: "I said, 'Lindsey, you're gonna live forever.' And he was gonna have a big victory. He was scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled." Scheduled? Scheduled to win by a lot??? The ONLY way someone is 'scheduled to win' is by cheating. Congress needs to do their fucking job right now! WTF

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling). Will you join me? Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls #MMIWG #cdnpoli

Microsoft to lay off 4,800 employees, hire 2,273 foreign job seekers on H-1B visas. “Microsoft is the sixth-largest beneficiary of H-1B visas.... ‘These companies... are abusing these immigration programs to replace American workers...,’ said Rep. Riley Moore..." www.foxnews.com/politics/fur...

🚨🚨 Another wave of U.S. strikes is underway in Iran. CENTCOM says the attacks began at 5 p.m. ET, with explosions reported in Qeshm Island, Sirik, and Bandar Abbas.

The president wrote this at 3:16am. “Instead of writing inaccurate, false articles, for over 10 years now, shouldn’t it be time that they say, ‘We give up, we can’t beat him, there seems nothing we can do.’ The pressure seems to be working, keep it up. He's starting to crack. He knows he's losing.

Quick Tip: "Don't speak ill of the dead" means dont demean, or spread lies, or speak malicious untruth about dead people, who cant defend themselves Accurately describing someone's life and legacy is not "speaking ill" It's the truth - which is self justifying in that it is the truth!

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Taganrog’s oil terminal had anti-drone nets. The drone still got through. ㅤ A Ukrainian FP-1/FP-2 strike drone hit a terminal that moves about 1.2 million tons of petroleum products a year onto ships in the Sea of Azov. ㅤ Ukraine is cutting into Russia’s fuel routes.

It's cool, the world deleted him.

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So, Mr. Tiny hands claims that there are 1,700 known Iranian sleeper cells in the us. So, Why is ICE wasting time, money, & resources to round up nannies, farm workers, gardeners, daycare workers etc? B/c it wasn't about stopping illegal immigration but about using a fear tactic to stay in power.

Well, that makes sense.

Buttigieg: You can see it in the carnival of corruption that is Washington, D.C., today. The leader of the free world flying around in a secondhand jumbo jet from a foreign country while he makes a billion dollars on crypto deals propped up by foreign leaders.

The Defense Dept. has a rule: Only U.S. citizens or permanent residents can handle sensitive data. Then Microsoft created a workaround that seemed to violate the spirit of this rule, leaving computer systems vulnerable to Chinese government sabotage:

Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. They’re not reporting it.  If I’m Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it.

The reporting that the Times journalists have been subpoenaed for is exactly the kind of journalism the First Amendment is designed to protect: matters involving national security and taxpayer dollars. Reporting that embarrasses a president is protected speech.

for anybody who doesn't know, sirens are not used when transporting a dead person like McConnell's ambulance didn't.

If ghosts really existed there’d be hella spiritual retribution going on.

Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich