The Republican Party is not our enemy because we intend to kill them, but because they intend to kill us--and already have killed a great many of us. Your friendship ought not to have survived that; it is to your great discredit that it did. Our anger, born of discouragement, is real and abiding.

when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.

To Democrats and their eulogies: If you say that democracy is under attack by the Republican Party—and it is—and you say that the Republican Party represents an authoritarian threat—and it does—then civility and comity have already been murdered, and shows of comity are utterly incoherent.

Carrigeen head emerging from cloud shadow on a wind flecked sea. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Trump Fired Pam Bondi the Day After DOJ Agreed to Share Epstein Files with New Mexico emptywheel.net/2026/07/13/t...

Israel continues to block international journalists from Gaza, despite a "ceasefire". Israel ignores its own Supreme Court's ruling to allow Red Cross visits to prisons – deemed "torture camps" by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. Does Israel have something to hide?

Federal agents and local cops are inking thousands of deals to collaborate on immigration law enforcement, while stockpiling historic amounts of military-grade weapons. prospect.org?p=140865

“I know for a fact that there’s a lot of consultants telling their clients that you don’t want an AI super PAC to spend millions against you, so just don’t touch the issue at all,” Casar said. “We absolutely cannot let the AI money silence us.”

Bridge over troubled waters... Sandbanks as far as the eye can see: aerial footage shows the dried-up bed of the Loire River near Varades, in Loire-Atlantique, as France experiences its third heatwave in two months #climate Sponsored by ARAMCO

Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”. But critics say this rule is the whole reason energy companies bother keeping radiation levels as low as possible in the first place. futurism.com/science-ener...

Some of the biggest marine No-Take Zones on the planet, bearing the most *phenomenal* gains for wildlife, fisherpeople and tourism, will now be wrecked by Trump, an act of mind-blowing pigheaded stupidity. If you truly care about the wellbeing of the natural world, getting political is imperative.

#ICYMI: We found that a recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations. But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

A mob boss takes care of his crew: Trump-Appointed Judge Reluctantly Grants Dismissal of Proud Boys Case www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

I can't stop thinking about Prairieland.

Babies who don’t get the vitamin K shot are 81x more likely to develop a type of uncontrollable bleeding than those who do. But no federal or state agencies track refusal rates or subsequent bleeding. Following ProPublica’s report, two lawmakers are demanding CDC action.

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

Interesting. McConnell’s “proof of life” photo dropped shortly after this segment. 🤔 Gov. Beshear says Republicans changed the law to stop him from appointing a U.S. senator if a vacancy occurs. He argues the Kentucky Constitution gives him that authority and says he’s ready to fight it in court.

Atlanta officials claim this wasn't really an encampment, so trashing unhoused people's belongings & medication was legal. (This from the city that destroyed a forest to build Cop City because it supposedly wasn't really a forest) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

UPDATE: today, the governor threatened to do the above. Then a couple hours later we get the photo of Mitch. Interesting. @govandybeshear.bsky.social - that photo doesn’t prove that he’s fit to serve. I’d go ahead and fill that seat. bsky.app/profile/cweb...

Texas AG Ken Paxton vowed to “stop at nothing to uncover and stop any illegal voting activity.” But experts say he may have violated state law by using an address where he no longer appears to live to vote in six elections in two years. w/ @texastribune.org

Preparando el ataque al dedo del pié. 👣🙀🙀🙀😹😹😹😹 Preparing to attack the toe. 👣🙀🙀🙀😹😹😹😹

🔴 This video was deleted from X by #ElonMüsk. They all knew who Trümp really was. You know what to do ‼️

Very well done and very important to repost!

NBC News shared footage of a visibly shaken Sister Letty being released from ICE custody and embraced by Sister Norma Pimentel, a Catholic Charities leader. “She was very distraught and scared, and didn’t understand what was happening,” Sister Pimentel said: youtu.be/a-h-bmkaxfw?...

“Defending human life also includes welcoming, protecting and assisting immigrants,” Leo wrote in his July 4 letter. Just days earlier, Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was abducted by mass deportation agents while on her way to Mass. They even confiscated her rosary: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Just living out the Nathan Pyle cartoon.

For a second morning in a row, Southeast Side Rapid Response is reporting ICE activity in their neighborhood. Two people snatched so far this weekend. This is the same area where federal agents wrecked a car last fall before calling in backup to brutalize and tear gas residents:

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

Also: the reaction of Dem senators to Graham's death helps illustrated a point I've made many times, which is that the people closest to the creeping rise of fascism understand it *least*. Being in "the room where it happens" does not give you insight, it blinds you.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Flock Safety cameras are tracking and sharing our data without a warrant, but local communities across the U.S. are fighting and winning against this gross privacy violation. Get involved in the nationwide movement to say Get the Flock Out at aclu.org/gtfo_

This is so true! ⬇️

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

🎥 Report by Maysa Mustafa (X: @maysamustafa) in the occupied West Bank with Congressman @rokhanna.bsky.social

I have always appreciated Marc and his team but even more so since he broke down why the voter file is the holy grail of election manipulation for my Substack. Link to my discussion with him in nect skeet 1/

History can often give us glimpses into our potential future. The Soviet Union’s history with politicizing science under Stalin and Trofim Lysenko shows what our future might be like under Vought’s proposed OMB rule. www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

The NYT has now significantly expanded its obit of Graham, including his many policy reversals, and his attempts to undo the 2020 election. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

As Waymo tests its autonomous vehicles in Boston, there’s debate about whether the cars can navigate the city's unique conditions, the threat they pose to existing jobs, and whether they will create greater mobility for underserved populations. https://bit.ly/4f5cOkl

Nuclear is impacted by draught and extreme heat.

Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

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A website dedicated to securing the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya has been launched. It includes information about his life, the latest updates on his case, and a timer tracking how long he has been held in Israeli torture prisons. ➡️ savedrabusafiya.com

“There are those who still measure belonging by surname, place of birth, or skin color. Others measure it by our roots in a country and our will to contribute to it. Spain belongs to those who love it and work for it. Not to those who shame it with xenophobic statements.”

Congratulations to Lindsey Graham for writing his own obituary ten years and two months in advance. The question of who deserves it remains, since the natural world and a whole lot of people in this country and beyond do not deserve it.

Shocks me that there isn't even one hawk demanding Hegseth be fired. They always believe every war is winnable (rarely true), but there's a ton of evidence that the absolute bumbling of Hegseth, inevitable in the way Trump gutted government, blew this war in a humiliating fashion.

Elias Law Group has defeated DOJ lawsuits to access state voter files in: California Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Wisconsin DOJ has not won a single case. It is 0-12.

A major win for accountability and human dignity! After more than 3,000 complaints of medical treatment, food, water quality, and other conditions, a federal judge has ruled that WA health inspectors must be allowed inside Tacoma’s immigrant detention center.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

“If this can happen to an American member of Congress, imagine what life is like for Palestinians who have no smartphones, no security, and no national platform.”