It got muddled b/c it was mostly seen as incidental to getting at Trump himself, but Graham didn't just vaguely lean on Raffensperger. He told him to falsify the tally by not counting ballots. Straight-up criminal election fraud no different from telling a poll worker to go dump votes in the trash.

ICE shot someone in the fucking face in Biddeford, Maine this morning fuck ICE forever my heart goes out to their friends and family. maine is like a big small town and i’m from that area. there’s a nonzero chance that someone i know was affected by this. i’m just so mad. ACAB and FUCK ICE

Lol, how was ICE "involved" here, you cowards?

NEW: Illinois is rebuilding the state’s largest women’s prison outside of Chicago. I spoke with incarcerated women and employees about the 140 mile move. news.wttw.com/2026/07/13/l...

"If ... someone gets into legal trouble ... they will blanket the court with all these motions, and then a prosecutor drops the case," Sarteschi said. "That to them seems like a win, so if that's brought back to other people that have similar ideas, this method really works."

Have you noticed it can cost hundreds of dollars for a family bowling outing? Thank private equity. @spettypi.bsky.social reports. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

With this addition, 36 books are now banned from public school shelves statewide.

"The biggest difference between Mullin and Noem is that he’s male and she’s female, though both are bizarrely committed to cartoonish performances of their gender, with him pretending he’s going to fight people on Capitol Hill and her apparent cosmetic transformations."

Paranoia, the destroyer Like mad kings from Caligula to Putin, Trump's growing fear he'll be assassinated endangers everyone - behind new tensions with Iran, civil-rights abuses like the NYT investigation, and a DC bunker mentality A downward spiral: My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

A massive marine heat wave in the Pacific, spanning an area 8x the contiguous US, is expected to intensify storms, exacerbate heat waves on land, and raise sea levels, particularly along the California coast. Climate change will increase the frequency and intensity of marine heat waves.

The owner of X is embracing an explicitly fascist ideology which is opposed to liberalism, universal suffrage, and racial equality—and yet every Democrat in Congress and most journalists still use his website every day. It’s absolutely disgusting.

I often hear proponents of industrial carbon removal justify their expensive, long-delayed, underperforming DAC and CCS plants by saying we need them to address "hard-to-abate" emissions. For example, emissions from making cement, steel, and so on. But is this the only way to address them? Hardly.

A University of Iowa professor has received an international statistics innovation award after decades of work on a statistical computation system used by millions around the world, Brooklyn Draisey reports via Report for America. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/07/03/u...

I can’t describe how big of a deal this is. For years, #ActuallyAutistic women got ignored because of this stigma and #ActuallyAutistic men were seen as not having empathy.

Wow!! Simon Baron-Cohen, the Cambridge Professor who coined the term “extreme male brain theory” now says the term is “unhelpful.” “There’s a kind of myth that autistic people lack empathy.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

My upcoming book is absolutely packed to the brim with em dashes—more em dashes than any well-adjusted human being could possibly need or want—and if any of you tries to claim they are the result of some soulless LLM rather than my own unhinged compulsion I will fight you.

"Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India, a BBC Eye investigation has found. The ads...use terms including 'rape video' and 'child video' and link users to channels on the messaging app Telegram, where they can buy the material for as little as ₹99."

In fact, as Karp himself relates, Habermas came to reject him. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I believe that we should all have the right to change sex, freedom from discrimination for changing sex, and access to the means of changing sex socially, bodily, and legally, without being subject to pathologizing regulatory regimes enforcing patriarchal law and mandatory heterosexuality.

seconded 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏻 everywhere.

Dear AG Sulzberger and Joe Kahn: when might words like corruption be appropriate for @nytimes.com? Seems like deliberate avoidance in this headline. Why? Care to explain to your readers?

the president’s biggest supporters in town for the celebration it looks like

Trumpsky rejects the Stalinist paradigm of "socialism in one country"; embraces internationalist strategy of permanent revolution ✊️🚩

🎼saturday, in the park, i think it was the fourth of july 🎶

Not so much a "signature" as something now indelibly tattooed on all of humanity and the natural world ...

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday—and not the sitting president—let’s remember what true patriotism looks like. trib.al/xBD3WDe

Ireland's great hypocrisy: supplying alumina that Russia smelts into aluminium for manufacturing military jet bombers, attack drones and missile bodies it uses in attacking Ukraine. #Ireland #SpeirGorm

Victoria Cruz, Veteran of the Trans Rights Movement, Dies at 79 www.nytimes.com/2026... archive.ph/J0Csv #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Flying within Africa can cost more and take longer than flying from the continent to Europe. Despite decades of reform, it remains one of the world's most challenging places to travel by air. Read more: bloom.bg/4oYtEpk 📷️: Getty Images

Orange Menace blames Red Menace

So TERF is only a slur when it’s convenient…?

America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate

Trump pushes denial about climate change. Climate change just pushed back. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/w...

Their event is shut down due to climate change but they still won’t believe in it www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...

Well Done. Newsday.com/matt

Thousands of opponents of Germany's far-right AfD have taken to the streets of Erfurt and blocked roads to the party's annual conference ahead of regional elections that could see it take power at state level for the first time. (RTÉ News)

🔥🤩 Residents of St. Petersburg enjoy the view of a burning oil terminal.

This is the VP of the center-right Searchlight Institute dismissing historic heatwaves as “it’s hot in July.” No wonder he’s telling Democrats to climate hush — on a basic level he doesn’t seem to recognize climate change as a phenomenon.

3 July, 2005: On this day, same-sex marriage became legal in Spain. At the time, it was the third country in the world to allow it, after the Netherlands and Belgium.

WPATH has just filed a late night emergency motion for a TRO against the FTC with Judge Boasberg in DC. They accuse the FTC of ambushing them and abusing previously agreed on scheduling.

Carl Schmitt - Nazi Catholic and patron saint of Leonard Leo Roberts Court. forward.com/opinion/8353...

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

oh look. yet another study that the entire policy platform of @darrenpjones.bsky.social and @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is pure science denialism. transgender women are physiologically distinct from cisgender men. we are not cross dressers.

example of how i already know andy burnham and his bestie @lucympowell.bsky.social are doomed to fail as hard as starmer. they're making the same mistakes as starmer: implementing policies that are designed to keep our reactionary press happy but that have no grounding in evidence-based reality.

Ukrainian woman named as main suspect in Monaco bomb attack, prosecutor says

Oh NO.

The air conditioning at the Delaney Hall concentration camp failed today, so now people are roasting inside as temperatures rise above 100 degrees. It's so hot they can't breathe.