NEW: The feds have turned over evidence in the Renee Good killing to Minnesota authorities, including the SUV she was driving. It’s unclear whether the evidence is exhaustive or tainted. www.startribune.com/renee-good-a...

Not just GREAT NEWS. WONDERFUL NEWS!!

@heinrich.senate.gov @lujan.senate.gov @repgabevasquez.bsky.social @fernandez.house.gov @repstansbury.bsky.social When is enough enough? When do you call Mullin in for questioning? When will this STOP?!?

The U.S. is now officially the new Barbary Pirates. Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.

When you spend your political career wishing death on people around the world as a total warmonger, you cannot expect people to show compassion when you die.

Trump promised jobs and factories would “come roaring back into our country.” Since then, over a MILLION people have left the job market. Inflation is sky-high. The Global economy is tanking. And Republicans have completely abandoned working families. It's time for a New Deal for America.

Unusual peppers from the garden this morning. On the left chiltepin chiles and in the right xochiteco chiles. Trust me; both of them pack a lot of heat for their size. The chiltepin are VERY hot and the xochiteco are medium to medium-hot.

President Abraham Lincoln signed legislation creating the Medal of Honor on this day in 1862. It’s the nation’s highest award for military valor. Here’s an article I wrote several years ago about the Medal of Honor’s history and meaning.

This is huge

Important statement from the New York Times

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.

Going to be wild when we inevitably find out McConnell is in coma (or dead) and all of these top Republican Elite (including Senate Majority Leaders) confidently claimed they had coherent conversations with him. They justifiably assume Corporate Media will once again fail to hold them to account.

As an older model, Mitch McConnell will sometimes spontaneously deflate. Right now they are pumping him back up with all that blood they just spent a month draining from Tom Kean.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

Envy is poison to the workplace. The university employees most likely to be targeted with exclusion & sabotage are the highest performers, and the driving emotion is envy. High performers who were identified with their work group got targeted far less open.substack.com/pub/toddkash...

Properly invoking his legal authorities and obligations Houston Mayor Whitmire vows "an independent and transparent” investigation by his office and District Attorney into ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Says FBI is "tightly controlling" evidence Houston Police Dept would normally have.

On July 4, the White House slammed the Smithsonian for failing to deny the connections of “America’s Founders and Founding” to slavery. Trump & company have been refuting and censoring the facts of slavery, engaging in slavery denial. My latest @theemancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/07/10/i...

Yesterday (July 9) was the anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification. @hcrichardson.bsky.social explains why the Amendment was necessary, what it does, and why, in an era when some seek to undermine/ignore/destroy it, the Fourteenth Amendment still matters.

“[B]roadcast licenses are not sacred cows.” Nor are power-obsessed Trump glazers named Brendan Carr.

Ah, yes, the days of a AAA triptik, restaurants without online reviews & gas station coupons for hotels

I think @govandybeshear.bsky.social should just appoint a Dem to fill McConnell’s seat. It would force proof of life, and the state law that stripped him of that power should be challenged in court. I’m sure Thune would refuse to seat the appointee, but I think it’s a fight worth having. BE BOLD!

“against forced labor” … that’s rich! What do you call it when you bilk contractors and never pay them for work they did? What do you call it when you force people to hold more than one job just to reach subsistence level income?

💯

A large part of me really hopes Charlotte’s theory is wrong. But there’s a voice in the back of my head saying, “You know she’s right.”

I just want to thank all the men defending Platner for pointing out who we shouldn’t leave our drinks alone with. We see you. You’re not special. Every woman has encountered you. We appreciate the heads up.

Is logic now dead, as well? When did they call open season on logic?

Sez the pine-head who’s never fought anything short of a tough, overcooked steak.

I just finished an op-ed about how the DOJ latest fraud letters aren't really about fraud. I hope you subscribe to Democracy Docket. Even better, become a premium member. bit.ly/4qmEiFz Goodnight.

I like it! NM should get a week in September designated “Aroma of Roasting Chile” week.

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge declined to pause a ruling that blocked the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order targeting mail voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Maybe you are ok with Gebbia’s private views if he brings a lot of value to government. I looked into the National Design Studio that he runs. It is mostly building single page websites, not fixing govt services. There is no “there” there, it’s all hat and no cattle. H/t @waldo.net.

Reading the list of very bad candidates that they voted for.

Uttered with a complete lack of self-awareness. From Wikipedia: “His tenure was the third-shortest for a speaker of the House in United States history […] the first speaker to ever be removed from the role during a legislative session. McCarthy resigned as a member of the House at the end of 2023.”

There’s never been anyone whose involvement more completely and immediately poisons vibes and destroys joy. No good thing survives contact.

Time is running out to provide comment and contribute to the effort to keep Russell Vought’s greedy mitts off of Public Health Research. The tools provided in the post/link below will help you do so.

Years from now, the term "oysterman" will be shorthand for a hastily-pushed and unvetted political candidate

A federal appeals court declined Monday to put three DOJ voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

VERY unsettling news.

There is an opposition in Israel. SUPPORT IT instead of calling for the genocidal eradication of the state.

“I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” ~James Baldwin, 1955. Image: Ulf Anderson/Getty Images.

As always, these clowns have trotted the corpse of irony into the middle of the public square and killed it. Do they not HEAR themselves? The lack of self-awareness is appalling. At least it helps expose them for what they are.

In the biggest voting news of the week, the Supreme Court rejected a Republican attempt to restrict mail voting by barring states from accepting ballots that arrive after Election Day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sigh 😑

#SilentSunday #Photography

The hope and possibility of a full multi-racial democracy that America could be.

This opening of the 1619 Project has long been the most ringing sentence for me about this country, its founding, and its founding document. Its truth could apply to everyone who sought to broaden and deepen equality and rights.

Pets improve people's mental and physical health. They are also expensive. This is sound public policy--not just a feel-good story.