In the seventh month of the second year of the second term, the heat will become unbearable, the skies will turn red, and bowels will loosen across the land.

This is Ender. He pressed the belly rub button and assumed the position. Now it's time for your end of the deal. 12/10 (TT: enderthehavanes)

one good thing, please.

had questions about the explosive aspect and as usual sabrina did not disappoint

FINALLY! @ejeancarroll.bsky.social so happy to see this. 🥳🎉🥂

Another killing by ICE, this time in Maine. That’s twice in one week. How can America keep asking immigrant workers to work as usual if they are being shot dead on their way to work? Stop killing us.

Trump, in his latest lie, claimed the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall had been “vandalized with 300-yard slashes,” but after it was drained, photos show tire marks instead of the alleged cuts and the faded blue painted surface from his “renovations.”

When discussing the House 20-week abortion ban, which would deny survivors of rape access to safe and legal abortion, Senator Lindsey Graham publicly told his colleagues: "I’m going to need your help to find a way out of this definitional problem with rape." Anyways he's dead.

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

sigh

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

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

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.

Senator Lindsey Graham has died. His death was preceded by the death of his longtime friend and colleague John McCain in 2018, and by Graham's supposed principles shortly after. Known for saying "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it," then enthusiastically backing him.

I missed this a few days ago. Trump tried to put his name back on the Kennedy center during his appeal of its removal! (Judges wisely told him to pound sand.) apnews.com/article/trum...

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Despite Trump "stalling this case for years," it appears that E. Jean Carroll is about to get paid. More than three years after a jury's verdict, Trump is running out of options to avoid paying the woman who, a jury found in 2023, he had sexually abused and defamed. Tonight, at Law Dork:

This woman has been the subject of three NYT pieces in 2025-26

No explanation required.

THEY MADE CARTER SELL HIS FARM

This is nearly 1:1 what Alex Jones is doing. He was denied cert in the Supreme Court, which ends all appeal avenues for $1.35 billion in judgments, and is now delaying payout based on a second judgment he owes to a separate set of families. All the same playbook to never pay victims.

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

do u think bezos personally apologized to trump for this

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

He who laughs last, laughs loudest.

If you are a beloved team on a magical run and Donald Trump tries to stick his nose in it: prepare for the worst.

Local activists displayed this large protest sign on the iconic Haliç (Golden Horn) Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey. The banner features a silhouette of Donald Trump alongside a partially obscured phrase that reads "He is an Epstein associate" and references unsealed documents.

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.

Whoa just heard from a friend who was there, there was a shooter at the PVD fireworks tonight. Hoping everyone is ok.

Lightning photobombs DC's fireworks show. Remarkable images shared with us by Russell Moy.

There is exactly one thing that needs to happen on Independence Day. One tradition The only thing that absolutely had to happen was fireworks, and Trump fucked it up because he couldn't stop talking

The most important thing you need to know is that, by my watch, the fireworks began after midnight There were no fireworks in Washington DC for our 250th Independence Day

happy 9th anniversary to this unintentional bit of improv comedy

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.

The “direction” part of this message makes me wonder if he overrode safety concerns from the groups that evacuated the Mall in the first place …

they are saying the gates are going to reopen at 9:45 and the president is going to speak at 11:00 and so many people are simply not going to make it back in time and are going to be Big Mad

They seemed a lot scarier when they were first starting out. Now? Stagnant group of baby fascists doing the same tired shit for the length of time it would have taken them to go to college.

I wrote about them a couple years ago. They haven't meaningfully expanded since then. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This is what Patriot Front does on 4th of July. This is normal for them. They cover their faces so you don't knownit's the same 40 of them everywhere because their numbers are small. They're a single fascist flash mob traveling the country.

I appreciate the @theguardian.com’s willingness to call this group what it is. Neo-fascist group Patriot Front parades Confederate flag in Washington DC on Fourth of July www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Alexander Hamilton, in re Political Demagogues, 1792. Happy Independence Day.

- Reflecting pool algae - Heat-related parade cancellation - Storm-related National Mall closure Mother Nature: 3 Trump: 0

“Salute to America Immediate Evacuation” is an instant classic.

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"

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Wow well this is fantastic. They did the same in NYC.