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Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

“Around noon, about two dozen protesters marched into Collins’ office, but were shooed out minutes later as police arrived,” the Portland Press Herald reported. “‘This is your fault Susan!’ one man shouted.” americasvoicecnn.substack.com/p/as-communi...

SCOOP: A 28-year-old man running from “an encounter” with federal immigration agents at a gas station in St. Augustine, Fla., was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on Tuesday morning, according to a state highway patrol spokesman.

If this is true, the lesson should be not be to declare victory (ok, take one minute to enjoy the victory), but to redouble pressure on the whole indecent mass deportation regime

Mackenzie Scott is out here like, give effectively? Like it’s hard?

More people should read up on Sue Ann Arnall, who got the billion dollars rightfully owed to her by her ex-husband, Harold Hamm, and turned around and started giving it away to spite him. www.arnallfamilyfoundation.org/who-we-are

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Arendt: "Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow."

Is Taco Bell growing their own lettuce? No. They get their lettuce from companies like Taylor Farms (that has 1/3 of the market *including hospitals*). This is deflection on the part of the federal government, which specifically cut funding for food safety screening/testing.

Inadequate here should be interpreted as: “If its government provided &/or paid for I can’t be sure my actions, which everyone knows are shady as fuck to outright criminal, won’t be officially documented. A gentleman of my status requires very expensive private security to ensure confidentiality.”

‘The head of Reform UK refused the security, which was a similar level to that received by the leader of the opposition, because he considered it inadequate’

What would happen if we decided to seriously tackle corruption? What if the anti-incumbent voter sentiment is really "I will keep voting against incumbents until someone puts some crooks in jail?"

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

Trumps father had dementia

Nothing has changed from months ago. This is an untrained goon squad murdering innocent people in our streets with no accountability.

US pedestrian crash deaths fell 7% in 2025 but remain 5% higher than pre-COVID. Lots of variation among states: CA, MD, NJ, and NY fell 20%+ while ME, NC, and OH rose 10%+. I'd like to see research unpacking the stats. Is it reversion to pre-COVID trends? www.ghsa.org/resource-hub...

Haley Stevens In “Oh, Mary!”

Nothing is gonna happen to the ICE agent who shot a random guy today and I think that's the thing that you can run on and you need to change that thing when you win the election

again, just like when they stole TikTok, they're going to make a big fake protectionist stink about national security and privacy in order to box out smaller, open source and foreign competitors and lock you into big tech's walled gardens

Second time in just about a week when a man not targeted by ICE was killed by them

If ICE can simply execute anyone at any time, none of us have any basic rights.

Today, for the second time in a week, ICE officers have killed a driver in the streets and the federal government is again saying the officers were not even wearing body cameras. This is absolutely insane. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Judge Williams, an Obama appointee, also accused Blanche of misleading testimony to Congress and suggested he could face discipline for his role in what she described an abuse of the court system. And she sanctioned two of Trump's personal lawyers. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Trump's proposing a 20% surcharge on traffic through the strait of Hormuz. It's another calamity that Americans will play off but the rest of the world won't forget--and it's exactly what he proposed in 1989: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

"[W]hile a donor may only give $7,000 directly to a candidate's campaign committee per cycle (if maxing out to both the primary and general election efforts), that donor also may route more than $600,000 through a matrix of committees. ... Now, the candidate may direct how every penny is spent."

I wrote about the silence around Alexander Zverev on the BBC's TV broadcasts of Wimbledon, which has left UK viewers without the whole picture. Why do the BBC avoid this topic on television when discussing it elsewhere? Free at Bounces: www.benrothenberg.com/p/bbc-wimble...

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

Only 71?

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

My quote of the day All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. Clarence Darrow

2021: “Graham asked the Georgia secretary of state whether he had the power to toss out all mail ballots in certain counties, Raffensperger told The Post. “He said Graham appeared to be asking him to improperly find a way to set aside legally cast ballots.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lin...

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Norway pay their female international players the same amount as their male players and have done since 2017.

He just popped right back up. I hope that gets clipped

Again. This is the author. What are we doing here?

In other words, Rubio could order new elections, the return of the exiled opposition leader, and reformation of the government and reestablishment of civil rights. He simply chooses not to. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

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"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

Under the hood of LegiAlerts This is the spreadsheet the front end yoinks data from. It, in turn yoinks data from a couple dozen spreadsheets organized year by year, as well as a few other summative analysis spreadsheets. I hand copy the laws & auto pull the bills docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Only one student has registered for courses at West Virginia University’s new Washington Center, an academic program mandated by Republican lawmakers for the campus. ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/one-s...

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.

They're headed to the future.

I don’t think people really understand how bad the OMB proposed rule is going to be for state and local govt. We’re talking about putting a full third of state budgets under the explicit control of Russ Vought. (1/2) www.bondbuyer.com/news/cities-...

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

The building will be completely disassembled if this keeps up. This construction mania really becoming a theatre of the absurd, and it would be nice if the media started reflecting the bigger picture of the Developer in Chief's deranged attentions.

god, please grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and also a billion dollars