Welcome to the Midwest, where both the air and the vegetables are trying to kill you.

- Wildfires in Canada - Catastrophic flooding in Texas - Smoke-filled skies from the Midwest to New York - Super Typhoon Bavi in China, Philippines, Taiwan - Heat dome in Europe - Extreme monsoon in South Asia This isn’t a hoax/scam/con job. This is climate-fueled July. #wildfires #climatecrisis

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Excellent thread on the topic of elections: states run them, fraud is rare, and fraud charges must be backed by evidence. The thread fleshes these points out with specifics.

For those watching Canada and wondering how a firestorm could possibly happen, I warn you that Western North Carolina is currently suffering through a historic drought, two years after a hurricane felled tens of millions of trees throughout the mountains. The place is, unfortunately, a tinderbox.

Have any Texas outlets written about Ken Paxton's latest mistress? Seems like she's going to be a big part of his life if he's elected senator, I'm sure the voters would love to know who she is, what he hobbies are, what other luxury properties they secretly own together out of state, the usual.

Public lands belong in public hands.

Gosh if it’s true maybe Trump didn’t win after all in 2024

NYT nails it.

Dave Kendall, who as the taste-making creator and former host of the long-running MTV music video show “120 Minutes” introduced alternative rock and underground music to a generation of fans in the 1980s and ’90s, has died. He was 63.

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov: “Here’s what’s gonna happen tonight — the world’s most famous sore loser will deliver a primetime presidential sour grapes 🍇 address to pursue his 6yo grievances about the 2020 election while his war spirals out of control and the cost of living continues to rise.”

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

All made possible by the tacit consent of Congressional Republicans. Every candidate this year should make that point every day.

As alway, our cartoonists nail it. #USDemocracy

Talarico: "It's funny because I'm the eighth-generation Texan in the race. I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans. That's what great about our state."

breathe

When history is written, this will be the most corrupt Administration since the Roman Empire. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

If you're wondering, "hey, is climate change implicated in this horrible wildfire smoke event?", the answer is yes.

I think a lot of people are responding to this with surprise because they’re interpreting it as “the 5th Circuit did a good thing,” rather than “the 5th Circuit hates criminal defendants”

Todd Blanche personally REFUSES to meet with the 10 Epstein survivors who are present at his Senate Judiciary hearing within the next 30 days. Instead he wants to punt it to who he claims is the head of the trafficking division. Blanche waffles about notifying the committee if he meets with them.

A caddy pulled off a hole in one in front of golf legends. A 1 in 12,500 shot that most pros never achieve in their entire career.

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

AOC: This is an inhaler pump. Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic.

Everybody! Please let’s always remember to keep digging shit out of the ground to burn, even though it has never been necessary. And more data centres, please! The top is a fiction map used in a video about global warming and its affects on France. The bottom is a recent French weather forecast.

“On Thursday last week, Secret Service agents groused among themselves as they prepared to deliver another perk to Vice President JD Vance’s family: join a military helicopter crew to fly his young son to his golf lesson.”

Kash Patel uses government jets to attend concerts and sporting events. JD Vance asked that a $16,000+/hour helicopter take his young son to a golf lesson. These people are supposed to SERVE this country, not treat it like a personal luxury for their own frivolous use.

Your taxpayer dollars and our military members are being used to treat “Hillbilly” Vance’s family like European royalty. In any other Administration, this alone would be grounds for resignation.

I live in a state where it’s safer to eat McDonalds than it is to eat a salad. #LifeUnderTrump

It me, dad

Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, who is facing his Senate confirmation hearing, previously shut down DOJ crypto investigations while holding more than $150,000 in crypto investments. From our Dec. 2025 investigation:

Classic Trump. Of course it has to be “gold-hued” & also the gold has to be fake.

ICE kills two people in vehicle stops within a week including a 26 year old father authorized to work in the US and their response is a quiet “pause,” not accountability. 1/2 #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/213072/...

This graphic showing the extraordinary increase in the UK average temperature over the last 65 years tells its own story

the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it

Trump has occupied an ethics vacuum with gusto, monetizing the presidency with an unprecedented, insatiable appetite, writes Timothy L. O’Brien.

"President Trump has paid the writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million that was owed to her as a result of a jury’s finding that he was liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and then defaming her." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...

A White House report has defended the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, pushing back against its characterization by a Smithsonian Institution exhibit that the law was racially motivated. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

A new Met Office report: "more extreme weather is becoming the normal now in our climate" Climate change is here. Where is the national conversation about the urgent need for adaptation in the years ahead? Instead what we get is politicians demanding billions more for bombs

⚡️ Ukraine expands drone campaign to Black Sea, hits 20 Russian vessels, including oil tankers, Madyar says. "The first round of the maritime battle is over. Now it's the Black Sea," Robert "Madyar" Brovdi, commander of Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces, said on July 15.

Ah. Well.

AOC on Susan Collins touting the money she got for body cameras and ICE training in the DHS bill. “Senator Collins wrote the blank check to allow these officers to conduct themselves in the way that they have in Maine in the first place, and she's the one who's poured resources into it.”

U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, who previously ran a company that provides aircraft for fighting wildfires, has proposed ending Forest Service inspections of those aircraft. One of the company’s aircraft failed an inspection because of a crack in its wing. (Published June)

Welcome to the new normal

This is both funny and brutal.