Just saw The Odyssey and my dad energy is cranked to 11 right now. I’m gonna go home and fix some plumbing.

I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING

Any day I can catch up with @jacobtlevy.bsky.social is a good day.

Trump v. United States is the most important Supreme Court decision in my lifetime, and it was wrong the minute it was issued. It will be the end of constitutional rule, and it must be overturned and utterly repudiated as soon as possible, even if the tool to do that—Court packing—is bad.

David French at LibCon 2026 on reining in executive power: "The Insurrection Act has to be reformed." No president, he argues, should be able to deploy active-duty troops into U.S. cities on criteria that aren't in the statute. #LibCon2026

Just ask its neighbors, they’ll tell you that Russia is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful country on Earth.

This this this this THIS!

i was on a bus the other day and someone fully shit themselves. in case you're wondering how the lettuce thing is going

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

What a graphic. @cnn.com #$NVDA #$TSLA #$AEO

That moment when you drive by the Kennedy Center and are reminded yet again that in response to a court order Trump removed his name from the building but then obscured the building entrance so no one could see that he’d lost. 🙄

the degree to which they want to destroy one of the jewels of the American republic—our exceptional research universities—is just gobsmacking

Judge rules OMB can’t retroactively nix grants based on new rules

You say that like they're five different products.

Well let’s see if Ezra Klein and Danielle Allen say anything interesting….

“Since the cease-fire first took effect, Iran has been able to restore or reconstitute much of its ability to project power, two senior U.S. officials said. That includes Iran’s ballistic missiles and missile launch sites [and] armed droned launch sites...” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

see also screwworm

The Jewish left is often accused by other Jews of being so focused on hating Israel that it leaves them indifferent to antisemitism. I usually think that is an unfair charge, given that Israel doesn't keep American Jews safe right now. But this conference seems determined to vindicate that charge.

He’s two days away from proposing an actual dome isn’t he.

This dude has been cold-calling journos for years to proclaim his innocence, but when he has to be under oath….

Huh.

Not that we didn't know this already but having ICE - whose jurisdiction has absolutely NOTHING to do with elections - investigate voter fraud gives away the game. ICE is no longer a legal entity bound by laws and norms, it's Trump's personal force, focusing on whatever he wants.

And then the coffee murders began.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

A little tired of the ubermensch nonsense from a guy who would get his wallet run by a husky middle schooler bsky.app/profile/peip...

My latest at MS NOW on the cyclospora outbreak. There have already been a lot of articles out there describing the symptoms and prevention, so I wanted to look at why it's so challenging to figure these outbreaks out, and where the CDC has been in all of this.

This is why, speaking as a reporter who has covered a lot of this stuff, I find it bizarre that a lot of the commentariat don't see where anti-trans stuff is going. Gaines et al are pretty clear about how they see sports as a way to win battles that bathroom stuff didn't like a decade ago.

That’s me in the NYT, talking about Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, charisma, and the future of the GOP www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/o...

Also seems like for a whole variety of reasons the government *buying* lists of citizens’ “ethnicities” should be illegal!

This is my take as well but the vibes On Here is much gloomier about how this plays out.

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

Interestingly, Trump did very little in his speech to put pressure on Senate Republicans, whose refusal to nuke the filibuster is the key obstacle to this bill. He asked viewers to contact their Members of Congress, but it was very brief and he didn't explain that the filibuster was the issue.

Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

Behold the awesome power of Elon Musk to influence The Culture. variety.com/2026/film/bo...

A pretty important note here imho especially for lot of reporters and decision makers in DC who continue to misread the outsized influence of Musk’s fascist friendly platform. Outside DC’s corrupt bubble it often fails to land any real impact.

Honestly, it's very lazy to make a movie about an odyssey and name the main character "Odysseus." What will they come up with next, a quixotic protagonist named "Don Quixote"?

Don’t give Trump the lottery idea.

Dang they really got a category for everything

I stopped short of marrying Salma Hayek.

Yes, the chapter on his short attention span.

So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story

Trump is really going hard on the theory that the intelligence community hid crucial information from him in his last term. This really feels like a pretext for purging the IC (which Bill Pulte is already doing)

Big if true.

OMG HE IS EXPLAINING BURN BAGS (this is for my fellow ex-intel friends) 🤣

This is a good barometer of the truthiness of the rest of the speech.

The Steal Dossier

Statement from Annie Farmer on meeting with Todd Blanche: "After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. "I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors."