the country. Those attacks injured dozens of US service members and damaged several helicopters, according to several US officials… But the Pentagon did not disclose the earlier strikes, nor the casualties and damage they inflicted.

Why did it take NYT so long to report this? Because the Pentagon has a "the public does not need to know" policy. Last week, leading up to the Iranian attack on Friday that killed two US soldiers and left one service member missing in Jordan, Iran carried out 3 other strikes against US forces in

Are you sure you want to endorse countries paying climate damages sir

Troy Jackson has effectively secured the Democratic nomination in the crucial Maine Senate race — winning the support of a majority of the state delegates who will officially nominate a candidate next weekend.

Well, this will be fun in a few minutes

Focus also on the way that Fox News isn't reporting any of this.

This puts the total KIA for the US in this war at 18 through this evening.

lmao

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

When Trump and Infantino present the trophy on July 19th, raise your red card to the field. One world. One game. No place for corrupt politics on the pitch. The trophy should be for the players, not politicians. #redcard #worldup bit.ly/3TcwLhJ

ICE is officially lawless. Racist thugs with a license to kill and the full backing of the American government. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/u...

Accountability isn't optional in a democracy. The FBI has just issued a license to kill to Trump's goons who can now murder whoever they want with no consequence. Our constitutional right and freedoms under assault by the very people sworn to uphold and protect them.

the media, cautioned that the expansion of US operations will be limited by dwindling stockpiles of air defense and long-range munitions and constraints on the ability to surge more troops and aircraft into the area because of battle damage.

Trump and Infantino met with loud booing.

They’re REALLY trying to drown out the boos by cranking the music

These are excellent! Strongest endorsement

A perfect summary of how US allies have reacted to Trump's pleas for help in the Iran War.

WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.

The fox is guarding the henhouse and we're the hens

“.. The U.S. is planning for a wider war,” said one U.S. official familiar with internal administration discussions, adding that the Pentagon was increasing the number of military aircraft in the region. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Insisting that proximity to respect and approval bestows respect and approval is the story of Trump’s life from his days growing up in Queens.

Trump on stage with the World Cup Winners

Once again thinking about this @theonion.com article:

He won’t leave. They are trying to get him out of there but he won’t leave. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Pathetic

Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.

"DOGE has evolved with some of its members and agenda embedded across the government, continuing to reshape the federal bureaucracy behind the scenes." They are not being held accountable to the public, nor are they working in the public interest. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

And yes, I have been collecting all the news articles in a little folder, waiting to unleash this thread, because this series of events is so wild. I felt like a crazy lady for just saying: the Trump Administration suborned the Romanian justice system to free two violent sex predators.

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

What 'moderation' really means is adopting the views of a very small group of loud, centrist writers and their big business backers, and is increasingly out of step with (a) the big problems in the US and (b) the polling on what Americans say are the biggest problems they want government to fix.

Your daily reminder. You have a sexual predator in the WH.

You might have to consider the possibility that Trump lied. I know, hard to believe that might be case.

To anyone considering helping President Trump interfere with our election or our count: You will be prosecuted. That’s why I’m moving forward with new legislation that would make it a FELONY to seize ballots before the vote has been certified by state and county officials.

Because nothing else is going on in the world, roughly half of this CNN program today is devoted to Democrats in Disarray

one woman started the dominoes tumbling. one. if you ever think you're powerless in the face of today's such overwhelming adversity, take some heart.

Iran’s regime entered the war weakened by economic stagnation, collapsing infrastructure and widespread unrest. But Eric Edelman tells @monacharen.bsky.social the conflict may have given it a temporary lifeline, making protest harder while reminding Iranians how far the regime will go to survive.

"There are two ways a food source gets contaminated. We don’t know which one it is yet. I hope we get answers soon. But it does trace back to human fecal matter hitting our produce, and then us eating it and making us sick." This won't be the last time.

What would a normal administration do before taking the country to war? Eric Edelman walks @monacharen.bsky.social through the basic process: define the objective, weigh alternatives, establish legal authority, and consult Congress and allies. None of it happened before February 28.

An undocumented immigrant gets in her car. She drives past the local college on her way to work. When she arrives home, ICE agents surround her. The cameras on the college campus was feeding the data to law enforcement. This is real life.

Susan Collins is beatable because of Susan Collins. ICYMI @jilldlawrence.bsky.social:

We didn't previously integrate wildfire-smoke costs into the supposed cost of climate change for the US, and it turns out to be bigger than all those other costs combined. Oops! Gosh I wonder if we're underestimating anything else. Probably shoulda done something about this. Ah well.

As I keep saying, the big winner of the Iran War is China.

Virtually every country in the world *except* for the US is responding to the Iran War in a rational way -- ie, trying to reduce their reliance in imported fossil fuels.

Gosh, all those journalists & pundits who went around saying "the war is over now, everything should return to normal" must feel SO STUPID. I'm sure they're going to face all kinds of consequences for being so pathetically gullible in the face of an inveterate liar. Soooo many consequences.

As I've said so many times, this -- not about any glorification of Republicans or conservative policy -- has been the true goal of decades of RW propaganda: to smear Democrats so badly that they are insulated from the consequences of their own repeated fuck-ups.

This is the real fruit of the 60-year RW propaganda war against Democrats & RW domination of media: no matter how bad & obviously a Republican fucks up, no matter how low their approval dips, people still don't like the other party, the one that keeps repairing the country after GOP fuckups.

🔥 TIM DILLON: “J.D. Vance talks about this like he’s just a guy I grew up with on Long Island… It is now THEM. I don’t want to hear about the Deep State anymore. You’re playing everyone for a fool. You have to be one of the stupidest people in the world to fall for this shit at this point.”

UPDATE: “$257 Million Global Fuck Yous” @karaswisher.bsky.social points out Elon and the right-wing whining about the Odyssey casting Lupita Nyong’o — a beautiful Black woman — as Helen of Troy, did not hurt the movie’s box office (again)