The way.

OSSOFF: On day 9, you assured us of Iranian surrender. Does that remain your prediction? HEGSETH: Iran will never have a nuclear weapon O: So to review, you will not answer whether your statement that Iran's military was 'destroyed' was truthful as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more?

🚨 #CALIFORNIA: 187,000 hav already lost ACA coverage in spite of CA partially backfilling lost federal subsidies. This year the remaining ~1.8M are paying ~$800 more in premiums apiece. NEXT year unsubsidized enrollees can expect rates to go up 9.9% more on average: acasignups.net/26/07/21/202...

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer: "We have always had trade issues with Canada. It has always been the most contentious part of our relationship." (I'd say trade is less contentious than Trump threatening to annex the country and make it the 51st state ... )

There's an alternative universe where you're not only penalized for fraud (states don't need incentives to find it; they're picking up a lot of the bill) but penalized for denying benefits to eligible recipients.

This was predictable. And it was by design. Republicans ensured that many states will effectively cut benefits with burdens--and the states will take the political fall for it. I wrote this a year ago. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Absolutely everybody who knows anything about labor demographics saw this coming miles away. The last 18 months have been a steady stream of “nobody could have predicted” things every minimally knowledgable person loudly predicted.

Oh how the cultists used to cheer at his campaign rallies when he said this.

just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

as discussed, anti-zionism, while perfectly legtimate on its own functions for many as a gateway drug for anti-Semitism. so many scenes like this, flypaper for the world's most morally hideous people.

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

It's so awful.

Todd Blanche says there are no investigative leads left in the Epstein case.That simply isn't true.   The FBI never questioned key figures tied to Epstein, and survivors continue to say critical records remain missing.   He is unfit to lead the DOJ.

We do conduct, write up and publish with our doctoral students. But in 18 months you don’t have time to understand the existing literature, and make a significant contribution to knowledge. 18 months is a Masters, not a PhD.

Once again under Trump the EPA is shunning science and promoting pollution. This time they are chucking EPA commissioned research to enable them to continue use of PFA contaminated sewage slush as fertiliser.

The legal system used to allow people to defend their legal rights. Then the conservative legal movement stepped in.

New in PN: Trump’s latest public health initiative: explosive diarrhea "Cyclosporiasis is teaching us a painful, embarrassing, and fairly obvious lesson: when you launch an all-out assault on public health, you get explosive diarrhea — and worse than explosive diarrhea."

While it’s understandable that price sensitive Americans are focusing most closely on oil & gasoline prices-they are back above $4 per gallon-it is the increase in the cost of diesel that poses the greater risk to the inflation outlook. #Econ #EconSky realeconomy.rsmus.com/market-minut...

This is why gender affirming care and abortion are part of the same fight for bodily autonomy. You ignore what's happening to trans people at your peril.

Liberty University MUST start hiring Marxists. My latest at the Washington Post.

Sean Hannity tries to gas up Darlene Graham's thin resume: "You've had your own life and success. You have been the commissioner of South Carolina's commission for the blind. You've held this position since 2019. It's a 130 person agency, $90 million budget you ran... you've got a lot of experience"

just tumble down degenerate bullshit. Rubio's face here just captures the decay and diseased mentality, the soul ennui of fascism.

Not a single living soul believes Cuba is menacing the US, and I don’t think they even expect you to. They just feel like they can do anything and no one can stop them

Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories

Getting spicier. 🌶️ @nikkei.com #$META #$ORCL asia.nikkei.com/business/tec...

Delete and repost to clarify degree of uncertainty: Today there is substantial uncertainty racing through academic channels about how this atrocious rule will be interpreted and enforced. Apparently some current visa holders have received notice, so it may pertain to existing visas as well.

He’d rather mourn the dead ICE agents in his imagination than show an ounce of sympathy for the people his agents have killed. Also, if an ICE agent ever needs to be buried, I’d give it even odds that it will be because they were mistakenly shot by another agent.

Unlike my landsman @brianbeutler.bsky.social, I am old enough to be on Medicare. It works *so* much better than private insurance. So much less hassle for the patient. So much less overhead paid to insurance cos. So much more straightforward, like VA. Medicare For All (who want it) as the goal.

a good example of the thinking. manages to say "Jews" "tacitly support genocide" (slogans gone wild) and also that it's understandable that people are questioning the holocaust since Israel is committing a holocaust. a good illustration of how anti-zionism, while completely legitimate ...

Just a reminder that the guy they put in charge in Minnesota is now speaking at white supremacist conferences in Europe.

Every single day this guy loves talking about everything ICE is doing. But not this particular question. I wonder why? bsky.app/profile/atru...

🎥 NEW: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin just admitted it: Real ID doesn't prove citizenship and isn't acceptable voter ID. Marc Elias explains the 15-word slip that exposes the goal of Trump's voter ID push and why only two documents — which many Americans don't have — actually prove citizenship👇

Proposed grant recipients have included a free-speech organization that has fought against bans on “gay conversion therapy” and an Afrikaner group that promotes self-governance of the white ethnic minority within South Africa.

🧪 #climate Trump has ordered a probe of the National Academy of Sciences. If the timing on his post is Eastern Time, and he actually types his posts himself, then I guess this was on his mind during the World Cup final.

As the country hits heat records this summer Republicans in Congress are working on a bill to block OSHA from creating a heat standard to protect American workers jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

THAT IS NOT HOW THE AMERICAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS SUPPOSED TO WORK! THE PENALTY FOR “FAILURE TO COMPLY” IS NOT A FUCKING DEATH SENTENCE!

"don't make me hurt you"

Trump's $4 billion Presidential windfall is unprecedented in scale & source. Obama's wealth grew from royalties from books written before office, and Bush's largely came from a sports‑team stake from over a decade prior. Trump's new billions are from deals made in office.

Trump Comes to Terms With the Fact That the Entire SAVE Act Can’t Be Stuffed in Budget Bill  talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-c...

They're not even waiting for a new case to take up Thomas's reactionary requests any longer, I guess. I normally think such writings as Higginson's below veer between pointless (to the public) and damaging (within the court), but this might be a scenario when flagging this for the public matters.

when you're "diaspora", you carry many lands & many homes with you; always incomplete in time/space. a part of you is always missing; pining for smells & foods & the settling that comes with belonging: claiming as much as you are claimed. i yearn for india every protest, the longing to be one.

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

My Latest: It was only 15 words. And it wasn't what the legacy media focused on. But in his Friday address, following up on Donald Trump's deranged speech the night before, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin gave away the game. newsletters.democracydocket.com/markwayne-mu...

Welp

This Getty photo is one for the ages

This week, TPS for Haitians is expected to end. No state will feel the impact more than Florida, home to roughly 350,000 -- many of them healthcare workers. “The workers are suffering, but the patients are going to suffer more.” My latest for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Roger Marshall has really been gunning for the title of Dumbest Senator lately. Might have to wait for Tuberville to retire but he's in the running.

I feel we could talk more about the scope of the AI/robotics fantasy; it represent's Capital's ambition to dispense with Labor entirely. I don't think it will work, ultimately, but ultimately is a long time (see Keynes: in the long run etc) and in the meantime it will do a lot of human damage.