Thinking how at the end of the Star Wars trilogy an entire galaxy celebrates the death of the emperor without a finger wagging coda where a sad-eyed long haired scold in bespoke clothing warns that this reduces everyone to the same level as the genocidal tyrant who got tossed into a laser shaft.

Want to focus on someone's untimely death today? I'd focus on...

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

It's interesting that Laura Loomer and Mitch McConnell both kind of look like the Jigsaw puppet but don't really look like each other.

all these statements make me ill... totally tone deaf to be praising election denier/2020 election thief, advocate of forever wars, enabler of Trump. Can they ever just shut the eff up?

Noteworthy

This is how it should be done.

The regime he actively abetted has killed a million people unnecessarily and may still destroy democracy.

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

Democratic politicians telling us today how sad they are about Lindsey Graham's death because he purportedly had such a "great sense of humor" are why Democrats are currently struggling with a base angry and resentful at the evil agendas promoted by the likes of vile toadies like Lindsey Graham.

Democratic Senators praising their friend across the aisle Lindsey Graham, pretending Mike Lee doesn’t already have draft tweets for every one of them, calling them all pedo traitors

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

Well said by @normornstein.bsky.social; why can't Democratic Senators speak normally and honestly like this? bluevirginia.us/2026/07/sund...

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Someone make sure Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy and Jon Cornyn are all these posts about Lindsey Graham’s legacy. Slim chance they’ll be motivated to do anything in their closing months but at the very least they can wallow in the awareness that this is waiting for them too

There’s a middle ground btw gleeful celebrations of a person’s death and fake tributes to a harmful ideologue. The middle ground is saying nothing.

The acceptance of those in the DC club of evil because its proponents were pleasant to them at cocktail parties is one of the problems with our establishment. Morality takes a back seat to the conviviality of their pampered bubble lives. An evil man who could tell or laugh at a joke is still evil.

[Exit Queen.]

sometimes you get two bags of chips out of the vending machine I guess

Lindsey Graham comes to a realization at the end of his 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell.

Lindsey Graham can’t read your mean jokes about him. But I just spent 20 minutes talking to Mitch McConnell, and he tells me that he can.

rip 😔

This was his post and I don’t want to hear any lectures from those MAGA dirtbags on decorum….

Drawer buddies

Holy crap Lindsey Graham died on July 11, the same day in 2015 that he first called Trump a demagogue who was going to ruin the party. Trump mastered Graham first, on his way to mastering the nation.

Curious: Did Lindsey Graham object or say anything when Robert Mueller died and Trump tweeted something to the effect of, “good riddance”? If not, I assume that means he was OK with celebrating a man’s death. So.

Lindsey Graham achieves lifelong goal of dying in office.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Steinbeck, East of Eden

i stand corrected

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

A severely mentally ill man has control of the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, but it doesn't seem that many people care.

I publicly and privately urged the last administration to address the public’s concerns with the former president’s health. I’m calling on Sen. McConnell to do the same and provide voters an update on his own health. Let’s end the crazy speculation. Just tell us what’s going on.

Schrödinger's Diaspora Jew: Simultaneously existentially threatened as a Jewish minority always on the verge of extermination without a Jewish state to keep us safe, and yet also too pampered in our comfortable homes in New York to lecture Israeli Jews facing constant danger on how to keep safe.

Holy shit, Israeli settlers detained a sitting U.S. congressperson. Their sense of impunity is near-absolute and will continue to be so until they experience actual fucking consequences.

Trump has conclusively demonstrated that no form of threat and of actual violence will advance US interests with Iran. And. Yet. He. Never. Learns. He seems to think if his next social media threat uses more uppercase letters it will finally be effective. Infantile.

The New Mexico Attorney General is claiming that the Justice Department — effectively acting at the behest of Trump — is obstructing the investigation of Epstein's former Zorro ranch.

So hundreds of billions spent and thousands of lives lost and a global economic calamity all to…dig a hole and then fill it back up again? Great work, Marco. You definitely should be our next president.

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.

It’s wild that the party that nominated this guy for Governor of Colorado wants you to believe DSA are the radicals because they want you to have health care and think the rich should pay more in taxes and we should stop dropping bombs on children.

Seattle:

Universal Healthcare isn't far left Prosecuting rapists isn't far left Criticizing politicians and policies isn't far left Demanding laws for equality & civil rights isn't far left None of it is far enough If someone considers any of these ideas to be far left then they're definitely far right

Here's why you may not know that: 64% of Memphis residents are Black. There are other reasons, but mostly that.

Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man.

Here’s a good idea. MN can we make this happen? @peggyflanagan.bsky.social @governorwalz.mn.gov @epmurphymn.bsky.social

History knows what they did and history will remember why DOJ did this.