Absolutely bonkers. Everyone is going to be laughing at him. “Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invited ministers from more than 60 countries to a meeting next week about what the Trump administration views as a major peril: the “resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism.””

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo had lived in Houston for 35 years. He was a husband and father of three children and owned a small business. He was shot to death by ICE agents in unmarked cars while he was picking up his work crew. Three other men, including his brother, were detained and are missing.

Again with this. Trump: “We attacked Kharg Island last night. We may take over Kharg Island. There is not a thing they can do about it.” A reminder that that would involve US troops.

Two ships attacked in the Strait of Hormuz today, one catching fire. Looks like Iran really does intend to assert control over the strait, and Team Trump’s plan to pretend Hormuz is totally open, encourage markets to pretend too, and hope Iran is too afraid to derail talks to do anything won’t work.

What Trump is describing is the collective punishment, which is a war crime.

A 41-year-old Maine woman has accused Graham Platner of rape. Her account is corroborated by contemporaneous emails to her therapist, by a boyfriend she confided in about the alleged assault, and by messages she sent to another woman warning her about Platner. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The latest allegations are well documented and read as highly credible in ALL respects. Platner needs to drop out ASAP. (Limiting interaction because this discourse is too triggering. My apologies.)

Turkish activists have hung a huge banner on Istanbul's Haliç Bridge saying “Hide your children—Trump is coming” ahead of his attendance at the NATO summit in Ankara Tuesday.

Important info:

The survival rate for 80-year-olds who receive CPR outside of the hospital is in the single digits. There’s a good chance McConnell is in a coma and/or on life support.

Adding to the weirdness around Mitch McConnell: His wife, Elaine Chao, reportedly traveled to China just three days after his heart attack. She is said to have met with met with Chinese Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing.

Netanyahu doesn’t want the US to supply Turkey—which is a NATO member—with fighter jets. Trump apparently disagrees. Other avenues of communication have possibly failed on this issue, so Netanyahu has taken to Fox to make his appeal to Trump publicly but directly, knowing Trump is likely watching.

⚠️ ‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America “It was almost midnight in Brussels and the leaders of Europe were locked in their fifth hour of an emergency meeting with a single theme for discussion: how to manage a breakup with America.”

⚠️ The US believed Israel was plotting to assassinate FM Araghchi or Speaker Ghalibaf during negotiations. (The leaking and confirmation of this story by unnamed current and former American officials is notable in itself.) Gift link:

man Polis needs to be studied in a lab as an example of brain-cookery

THIS FILLS ME WITH RAGE I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD THE HORMESIS PEOPLE HAVE SOME POWER AND THIS IS REAL CLOSE TO MY "DRIVEN MAD BY EVENTS" LINE!

NBC News - Paramedics responded to a report of a "cardiac arrest" for an "unconscious" person at a known address for Sen. Mitch McConnell on the day the Kentucky Republican's office disclosed he had been hospitalized. www.nbcnews.com/politics/cong...

NYT - Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days, a significant surge amid a new push within ICE to increase arrest rates. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/...

By some accounts, 30 TBMs and 30 ALCM/SSMs do far tonight for Ukraine, primarily Kyiv. One of the worst attacks of the war.

lol

Conservatives having a totally normal reaction to the Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship. This is co-founder of The Federalist Sean Davis:

⚠️ JD Vance did an interview with Michael Knowles in which he admitted he and Trump only did the MOU with Iran to “refill the world’s oil economy” and “refill some stocks.” He further stated “we want to play more games” with Iran and “have more cards to play” at the end of the 60-day MOU period.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Feel like we blew past the SCOTUS decision about campaign finance, but it’s a BAD one from EVERY direction:

⚠️ Right-wing SCOTUS justices wrote the Republicans a playbook on how to do away with birthright citizenship using legislation, and now Trump is following it:

(AP) — More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed. apnews.com/article/earthquake...

Clarence Thomas laughing smugly sends chills up my spine.

This is a BFD. It basically says that your use of Google does not constitute consent to give your location data to the cops. It could make a good deal of the shit Trump is doing problematic.

In Chatrie v. United States, the Supreme Court holds that police access to Google Location History is a Fourth Amendment "search." The Court ruled people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in cell location records. Geofence warrants must meet strict standards.

Iraq’s government has given Iran-backed armed groups operating in the country until September 30 to disarm, its spokesman said during a press conference on Monday.-Iran Intl

The Supreme Court has made the President a king,

The Supreme Court's first opinion is Watson v. RNC. By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS state laws that allow the counting of mail ballots that are sent by Election Day but arrive shortly thereafter. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, 6-3, overrules Humphrey's Executor, giving the president broad firing powers over the leadership of federal agencies and limiting Congress's power to limit presidential firings. In a 5-4 decision, however, the court said the Federal Reserve is likely different.

on eve of july 4 SCOTUS coup rolls on, gutting constitutional separation of powers to establish monarchic presidency

250 years ago: Thomas Jefferson submitted the final draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Continental Congress.

Absolutely no idea what’s going on here.

A Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, the second attack since the 60-day ceasefire accord was signed between the US and Iran. www.ukmto.org/recent-incidents

Trump goes full-on Red Scare:

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship Thursday in the Strait of Hormuz, according to two senior U.S. officials, testing the deal signed last week by the U.S. and Iran to end the fighting and reopen the vital shipping lane.

I remember an America where at a minimum you had to joke about assassinating the president on Internet comedy forums to get a visit from the FBI. Another sign of the decline of America.

I WAS TOLD THIS WAS A NONPARTISAN MILLI VANILLI CONCERT WTF

Exactly what happened to the reflecting pool appears to have been accurately predicted by this thread—before it happened:

Most Americans have NO idea what actual “extremism” on the left looks like because we’ve all been subjected to decades of fear-mongering propaganda in the service of protecting powerful interests over our own. Thread worth reading:

Any suggestions?

So sick of people trying to define what is and isn't, and who is and isn't American.

There's so much WTF in this list. But especially, why should we pay for diplomacy when Trump outsourced all that to his developer buddies? We should get money BACK on diplomacy.

oh this is good stuff

The Guardian - How blue is the Reflecting Pool? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...