nobody saw it coming

The AI industry is spending big to buy supportive candidates in the US midterms. But with public opinion turning against AI and data centers, will it make a difference? Always great to chat with @molly.wiki!

BREAKING: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission now has no commissioners after President Trump terminated two members and the agency’s remaining Republican commissioner resigned. The bipartisan agency was formed to help states administer accurate, secure elections.

Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms

Platner is, I believe, hoping that Maine voters will flood the Maine Democratic Party over the next few days urging them to keep him on. I think that's the strategy here. He wants enough "feedback" to point to the "will of the voters" and justify staying on the ballot. This guy is a sociopath.

California might not, but I’d bet heavily that a majority of winery owners voted for Trump. We don’t need your wine, Senator.

FEC is without a quorum to act. EAC is without a quorum to act. DOJ is under Trump's direct control. This is a very dangerous time for elections. My advice and request is to sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

so ICE did a kavanaugh stop and murdered a man www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

he should be humiliated by taking flawed graft

I wore what I wore.

You could definitely give these people a Trojan Horse and they’d be like “wow a big horse thank you” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

This is far from the first incident with James Woods of this exact scenario.

have you considered showing a backbone and openly opposing a deal that's going to be immeasurably harmful for markets, consumers, and labor

they mispelled obstruction as self deport

Credit to Bluesky, “Nazi tattoo bad” managed to nail the litmus test on the first go-round.

oh we’re not falling for this again, are we?

The official announcement wasn't supposed to be till next week, but fuck it... Racket is starting a local newsletter in New York.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

Every newscast should begin with, “Good evening. Once again, we are reporting that the Trump administration is little more than a glob of criminally driven fuck ups. In sports, the…..”

Thinking about today's GameSpot layoffs and how many outlets rely on affiliate links in the wake of the PS6 digital only news.

So not only did an ICE agent shoot an unarmed man in the back of a van and lie about it, they’ve detained three eyewitnesses and are pressuring them to self-deport so they don’t testify. This is horrifying shit.

Platner is clearly an asshole and a sex pest and it’s good that he’s gone.* But this — that he won the primary by shitting on other Dems — I think accounts for like 80% of why the consensus against him was immediately much fiercer On Here than vs other asshole sex pests, genocide supporters etc.

Axios is reporting that Platner has said he won't file paperwork to withdraw before Monday, which is the final day he can do so (and four days from now). www.axios.com/2026/07/09/g...

All the greatest hits.

New plaintiffs, all identified as “Jane Doe” in a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company, SpaceXAI, allege that the company's image-generation model was used to create child sexual abuse material. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...

Finally got a chance to listen to this. Best take in the pod comes at the end from Dimitri. Paraphrasing- if Björk works at 2C and clicks with Perfetti and unlocks him it’s like 2 birds with one stone

It sounds like a historical anecdote: Russia, whose economy has always been geared towards energy exports, is now trying to find fuel somewhere and increase its imports, says President Zelenskyy.

James Talarico raised over $30 million in the second quarter of 2026, according to his campaign — more than triple Ken Paxton's sum. Talarico's haul is a record for a U.S. Senate candidate in Q2 of an election year and is nearly three times what Beto O'Rourke raised in the same period in 2018.

I guess I’m weird because I don’t like it when the president of my country addresses the leaders of our allies the way an abusive father menacingly addresses his children.

Please stop calling it a post-literate age, as if we’re “beyond” or “after” literacy. It’s an illiterate age.

This man risked everything to speak truth to corruption. Please support Major Watson. His actions are the epitome of bravery and strength of morality. This is a good read. Thank you, @moberzan.bsky.social for posting. I stand with #MajorJasonWatson #DOOR #Blues substack.com/home/post/p-...

Breaking News: Syrian Interior Minister officially announces the arrest of the cell responsible for the terrorist bombings that targeted the Syrian capital, Damascus, two days ago during the visit of the French President to Syria.

They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

The surface of the earth is approx 70% water. None of it is carbonated, thus proving the earth is flat.

sometimes you need to protect yourself

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

Lmao sick, I just got laid off from GameSpot while on paid medical leave recovering from a gunshot wound.

I know the person that did the orientation for the new & not yet sworn in reps back in 2011, which was when Duffy went through it. One morning I get a call from that person who immediately starts to vent about this one new reps who's on his last nerve for being a complete ignoramus. It was Duffy. 1/

Apparently the Leafs have fired a bunch of people from their analytics and amateur scouting department including their director of amateur scouting Mark Leach. If the Jets are truly interested in bolstering and investing in development they should try to bring in some of those people IMO

Could the fuel crisis in Russia break the back of the Russian war economy? It has already evolved from a problem into a systemic vulnerability. Strikes on oil refineries have put at risk the domestic infrastructure essential to the day-to-day functioning of the Russian state.⤵️

Put 3 kids thru college w/ a blue collar job. Worked dawn to dusk, building homes. Loved his wife of 30yrs & John Deere. Lived here longer than I've been alive It doesn't make a life more valuable. But so many immigrants detained, deported, dying bear the trappings of "real America" we mythologize

It’s a well known fact that communism was the Lord’s fifth plague sent to the Egyptians in the Bible. Glory!

I think people have a hard time intuitively understanding that this method of inquiry is far more effective than debating fascists. They're all bad faith crazy talkers. You gotta uno reverse that shit.

GODZILLA MINUS ZERO | Official Teaser www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmy-...

Anyone see Graham Platner's campaign filing any paperwork yet?

The FTC's repair settlement with John Deere is actually good, and much better than other agreements and settlements that were slaps on the wrist, largely maintained the status quo, or actively helped Deere. Actual good news. Here's what's different about this one: www.404media.co/farmers-fina...

That's Count Binface thank you, not some common street trash receptacle.