Trump should be praised because if he isn't he'll keep throwing tantrums, demanding attention, firing people, and generally making everything worse. His black hole of an ego demands constant praise, adulation, and credit for everything good or bad things start happening.

"She remembers the guns they held, and how the sight of them caused her to...turn on the spot and run as fast as she ever had back into the safety of her apartment, back to her daughter. When she shut the door, she didn’t leave again for nearly three months." 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

Just like this. Refuse to comply. Our organizations are made of us. If we don't participate when they choose hate? They adjust or they are replaced.

I don’t really understand what the point of lying about climate is anymore. The dire predictions are no longer predictions. It’s just shit we are currently living through.

1. In major news, the Ohio Dem Party has banned the Progressive Caucus from criticizing candidate for Gov. Amy Acton's transphobia. It has now applied more pressure to quiet criticism of anti-trans politics than it has on its own nominee to stop embracing them. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

It's amazing that Trump have a speech dedicated to pushing his election fraud lies, still get in weird comments about trans people, and pundits will be like, "Are DEMOCRATS too focused on trans issues?" No, dummies. There's only one side that's obsessed with trans people, and it's certainly not Dems

“Like a form of torture” Higher bills… polluted air… noise… barely any job creation… Everything critics of Musk’s xAI push into MEMPHIS warned about has come true. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/e...

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Oyer: "2 days after Blanche was confirmed as deputy AG, he fired me from my position as DOJ's career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a favor for a friend of the president, and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche's office had asked me to restore the gun rights of a convicted domestic abuser..."

It sounds stupid, it is stupid, but its deadly serious because they are trying to blame an impoverished .5% of the population for EVERYTHING, no matter how ridiculous. Very much the same as how Germany blamed .5% of the population for everything, and you know what came next.

angie craig voted against the amendment to cut military aid to israel today. unconscionable to vote to continue funding this disappointing to see other minnesota dems betty mccollum and kelly morrison just mark themselves as present ilhan omar voted for it

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

ICE actually took a step to reduce the likelihood officers kill someone—not enough, doesn’t address other problems, but a step in the right direction—and Trump intervened to reverse it. Killing innocent people isn’t a problem the White House seeks to avoid, it’s apparently a goal of their policy.

The only mistake I think Amnesty made, which I've seen other allies and orgs make as well, is underestimating the level of hatred and organization of the anti trans side. Cis people really don't understand just how bad it is and are often caught unprepared for the attacks when they become the target

It really is just so disgusting how much Republicans rub their lawlessness in our faces. Todd Blanche nomination hearing??? The guy who is blocking the Epstein files and cut a deal with Ghislaine? That guy??

Utterly useless press corps. Our top news orgs are accepting Trump's bullshit excuse for his TACO flip-flop on his bullshit toll plan at face value, instead of reporting that he's deranged, impulsive and utterly irresponsible.. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

“merit” means illegal gender discrimination because women in command make pete hegseth’s dick feel soft www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Donald Trump is set to announce Thursday in prime time that he’s the only President in US history who couldn’t keep our elections secure. If this were true it should be followed up with a resignation. He’s essentially saying he’s a victim of his own incompetence.

We stand with @omarfatehmn.com today and every day against these disgusting attacks, and invite @dfl.org Party leadership to join Stonewall in doing so.

The All of Minneapolis crew used their substantial newsletter today to send out a wildly inappropriate and racist attack on Omar Fateh this morning, comparing him to Graham Platner, and calling Fateh a fraudster. The email also repeats the lie that Fateh cheated to get the endorsement.

ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Preparing to steal 2026 and 2028 and potentially declare martial law.

Nobody can tell whether the FBI is assisting with the investigation into Lindsey Graham’s death because they actually suspect foul play or if Kash just wants attention. It’s pretty pathetic.

Teen pregnancy used to be one of the right's top bogeymen. It's now fascinating to watch how their nativism - falling birth rates which now can't be solved by allowing foreigners to join us as Americans- has led them to bemoaning its decline. They're now shifting policies to help teens get pregnant.

You're laughing? Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham are in hell being sewn together into a human centipede and you're laughing?

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.

The NYT obituary of Lindsey Graham makes no mention of his effort to overturn the 2020 election by calling Georgia’s secretary of state to intimidate him into manufacturing votes for Trump. The Times, like all news media, is GOP propaganda erasing Republicans’ history as election deniers

the extent to which Callais is a green light for Jim Crow just cannot be overstated

game recognize game.

Fuck ICE. Abolish and prosecute them all.

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

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Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

I'm predicting right now that this is *still* not the worst thing that's going to come out about him if he doesn't drop out, btw. Collins is saving that for September/October.

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

I cannot explain to you how deeply terrifying and anger-inducing it is to have cops and national guard marching down your street after dark and despite constantly posting about occupied Memphis no one gives a shit. yes, I mean my actual street where I live. I live posted it.

Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

Happy 4th of July….

"Abolitionists, suffragists, labor organizers, civil-rights leaders, immigrants, veterans, disabled Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and countless others have insisted that “we” should mean more people than it did before," writes Bree Fram. www.advocate.com/opinion/maki...

nothing says Freedom 250 like “welcome to the capital city, enjoy our many state booths which highlight thDO NOT TOUCH THE PRESIDENT’S PERFECT POOL. ANYONE CAUGHT DISRESPECTING OUR LEADER’S PERFECT POOL WILL BE IMMEDIATELY ARRESTED FOR STREET CRIME”

A friendly message to MAGA folks on this 4th of July weekend: you are the most traitorous, unpatriotic, anti-American, insurrectionist pieces of shit walking the earth right now. Fuck you.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

We now have cancer risk maps for both Twin Cities and it’s patently evident that living near a freeway leads to negative health outcomes. Ironically, both of these maps came from fights to close stationary polluters, HERC and the St. Paul Foundry.

Legacy media never fails to ask politicians, “Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?” You’ll never hear: “Do you believe Palestine has a right to exist?” They scream antisemitism at criticism of Israel, while their goal is to prevent a Palestinian state. These receipts prove the hypocrisy.

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right