sometimes i try to think perhaps i am being hyperbolic about everything, but it just is inarguably true that, after essentially winning an outright, sweeping victory for income inequality and a police state light on anything approaching services, the superrich are now attempting the coup de grace

trump wasted a ton of money and equipment in iran with nothing to show for it and more is coming but this fuckin guy can not just come out and say it was trumps doing so we get this bullshit

Not mentioned in this: Trump is planning this speech AFTER the confirmation hearings for Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton, and that Kash has dedicated 160 Feebs to participating in this crime, to finish Monday. Blanche is likely to avoid questions about this crime.

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

Not about American politics and yet actually about American politics.

TOFU -> Trump Only F*¢ks Up❗️🤬

Trump’s formal notice to Congress that hostilities with Iran have resumed could lay the groundwork for broader military action. This action restarts Trump's War Powers timeline, allowing further escalation and the increasing probability of a US ground invasion.

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

(AP) — A federal judge said Monday that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns was filed for an “improper purpose” as she referred attorneys for disciplinary actions. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back."

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the quote “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure” is from Clarence Darrow and not Mark Twain

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

Love that the White House is slowly turning into a Cheesecake Factory. Very cool.

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

BREAKING via Punchbowl The Maine Democratic State Committee voted overwhelmingly in favor of a 600+ person nominating convention to replace Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race.

Of course.

Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

We did WHAT

Excerpt from my Mentor, Ohio speech at James A. Garfield statue dedication, Jul. 3, 2026: "Initially apathetic to politics, Garfield underwent a transformation in the 1850s while a student at Williams College. He became vocally anti-slavery while the nation was tearing itself apart over the 1/4

Assuming he is dropping out, which I believe is imminent, whoever replaces Platner in the Maine Senate race is going to need a fuckton of our help. We can flip that seat! We HAVE to!

El Niño continues to grow, with sea surface temperatures clearly at record high levels for the time of year... 📈 Sign up for our next monthly briefing to learn more, including Q/A: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi.... We'll also have an update on 2026's U.S. billion-dollar disasters so far.

If Platner is to withdraw from the US senate race, he'd better do so ASAP, because under Maine Title 21-A M.R.S. § 374-A, the deadline to withdraw and let the Dems choose an alternate by committee is 5 PM on July 13... legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-...

Other than this one? Regardless, he is trash and should be replaced on the ballot immediately. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

i clearly missed something

The second person that ICE "warned" about their protected speech has filed a First Amendment lawsuit. The complaint, linked in this story, does a nice job making ICE look both menacing and incompetent www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

NYT confirms: Trump personally asked FIFA to review a U.S. player's suspension. Now he's eligible to play. The reversal of Folarin Balogun's World Cup suspension is highly unusual. It was the first time since 1962 that FIFA has nullified a suspension for a red card received during the World Cup.

Did they catch the vandal who did this?

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

Toxic plume from the fireworks barrage has poisoned the air around DC. Check air quality carefully this morning before going outside. Highest reading is 256 for PM2.5 #freedc #america250

In 2024, ProPublica and @documented.net obtained 14+ hours of videos from Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy, intended to train the next conservative administration’s political appointees “to be ready on day one.” Check to see how Trump 2.0 is deploying this playbook:

History will laugh at Trump’s voters but judge Trump harshly. He has been the primary driver of American decline, a traitor who will have robbed his supporters in the process

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,

It remains striking to see, counting from whatever year this disparity first struck you, who gets a police escort and who gets police truncheons.

2/2 And while I'm at it: Reminder that DC has more residents than two entire states w total of 3 Reps and 4 US Senators (WY and VT, closing in on ND). We pay *more* federal tax per capita than any other jurisdiction—really, top even NY and CA. And have zero vote in Congress. Statehood for DC.

Why did conservative justices begin to ignore the constitution? Because it had become too woke.

People forget or just don’t know that in his *very first appearance* (1938) Superman takes on a politician corrupted by a lobbyist. Issue. One. And people wonder why I love him so much.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Trump's whole presidency: Tired: bothering to be President of the whole country, including people who didn't vote for you. Wired: the sole purpose of government is to reward your loyalists and punish everyone else

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

Dems now only have to sweep the 4 toss-ups (and win all Lean-D or better) to get to 51. Huge change since a year ago. Obviously no sure thing - they're toss-ups! - but yet another indication that the Senate majority has gone from impossibly uphill for Dems to 50/50.

NEW: Dozens of innocent motorists have been pulled over, detained at gunpoint or jailed due to AI license plate camera errors ij.org/dozens-of-in...

in their forthcoming book, @nikobowie.bsky.social and Daphna Renan make a very persuasive case that Lost Cause-ism was a powerful influence on Taft’s views of judicial and executive power. It was important, IOW, to push back on the radical Reconstruction congresses.

Trump's gonna LOVE this SCOTUS: Trump can't summarily fire Fed governor Lisa Cook, BUT he essentially has the *constitutional* right to fire other agency heads even if Congress created the agency to be independent and limited now leaders can be fired. A gobsmacking expansion of presidential power.