For all the conservative pundits gnashing their teeth and lecturing us about our reactions to Lindsey Graham's death...

Todd Gentry SEATTLE!

Let's honor the passing of Sen Lindsey Graham by donating to @drannieandrews.com in his name. It is the best way I know to honor his "legacy." Flip the Senate majority and save this nation. Never forget #WeKnowThemByTheirVotes.

Mike Fanone on Graham’s death:

This little boy just watched his father being taken away. We've reached a place where people celebrate moments like this. They quote scripture, talk about God's will, and then cheer while a child cries. That's not what loving your neighbor looks like.

As Republicans mull how to replace Senator Lindsey Graham, national attention turns to Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic pediatrician vying for his seat in the midterms

BINGO

I’m a yellow dog Democrat but I voted for Lindsey Graham when Alvin Green was his opponent. Graham is leaving such a tragic legacy. He sold his soul, cheaply, and now his life is over.

This is such an excellent essay which IIRC correctly I cited in my book

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was horrifically shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. His son, Ronaldo, had to find out via social media. When anyone can be shot and killed in the street by federal agents, no one is safe from gun violence.

1. In President Harry's Truman's remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this: Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.

This is who McConnell is

Are the volunteer’s initials B.S.?

This should horrify all of us! Women in ICE detention underwent invasive medical procedures without informed consent. Senator Jon Ossoff’s bipartisan investigation called the findings “nightmarish & disgraceful” Everyone deserves dignity, bodily autonomy & human rights! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

As usual, I dearly wish I could move to the bizarre alternate universe that other people believe this universe to be

NEW FOOTAGE SILENCED? @ElGritoMedia obtained a critical angle of the fatal ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston from a nearby business plaza. An employee revealed, “Nos ordenaron no compartir el video con nadie” (They ordered us not to share it), before abruptly hanging up.

"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." What will you do ? What have you done ?

New scaffolding has appeared at the North Portico of the White House. Apparently Trump wants to switch out the 200 year old lonic columns for more ornate Corinthian style ones like he has at Mar-a-Lago. Seriously, WTF!?! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

All true

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo worked hard for 35 years to send all three of his American citizen sons to college. He was driving to work through a popular neighborhood when ICE agents killed him. He was shot in the abdomen and lay moaning while no agents helped him.  He had no criminal record.

Wow. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQ_...

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

If nothing else, the #MESen debacle has illustrated the deep inadequacies and pathologies of both the DC establishment and the dudebro iconoclasts. Dems deserve way better than what these two competing factions are both offering and demanding.

David Barton, the self-described "amateur historian" whose debunked work has been central to mainstreaming claims that the US was founded as a Christian nation, says he and his son have been directly involved in the Trump administration's efforts to stop "woke propaganda" at the Smithsonian.

"Shot once in the abdomen by an ICE agent who stood over his body as he bled out." That evokes imagery that is the epitome of cruelty.

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

"Donald Trump is the single point of failure for the West." trib.al/7JXaGBN

I wish the media had the same urgency about the state of Mitch McConnell as they did for Kamala's W-2 from McDonald's in the 80s.

The Graham Platner fiasco proves that the Democrat Party is far too tolerant of sexual predators. by Matt Gaetz, Roy Moore, Pete Hegseth, Jim Jordan, Dennis Hastert, Blake Farenthold, Trent Franks, Herman Cain, Cory Mills, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald J. Trump

"ICE has managed to stay mostly below the radar screen since leaving Minneapolis".... ...because our MSM is fascist-complicit and failing Americans. WE MUST keep making noise about ICE & keep calling Congress! (202) 224-3121 (& subscribe to Civil Discourse 👇 if you don't already)

The WSJ just published two articles in a series on how the US President is in the midst of destroying the Western alliance. Here’s a gift link to #1: www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Cool move: Trump’s sons team up with banned foreign partners, sneak in fine print exempting the family from taxes, & Treasury just shrugs when asked. Scot-free has a new ring to it now. Corrupt Republicans keep protecting their guy. #TrumpRepublicanCorruption

Yet Republicans scream about socialism- which they have been doing since they fought against Medicare and social security

Today’s Republican Party.

WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA! In how many speeches has Trump attacked antifa, or anti-fascists. In other words, he is stating that, under him, our country is the opposite: we are now a fascist state. CONCLUSION: It will soon be too late. We've seen this before. Study German history. ===================

Remember, the besties of trump are Putin, Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping, all communists.

I find myself feeling very sad for our country on this holiday weekend. I think our democracy is deeply wounded.

It’s not just Trump.

The justices that upheld birthright citizenship in 1898 were racist men in a racist era who still could not avoid the plain text of the Constitution. What changed between is that the GOP now sees multiracial democracy as a threat rather than an ideal or aspiration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

It really is unfortunate that the climate change deniers are incapable of any self reflection