Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

"We end up arriving at the home of 'Schrödinger’s immigrant,' a lazy deadbeat and chronic welfare abuser who somehow also manages to steal all the jobs of honest whites." www.thebulwark.com/p/whos-to-bl...

The world was forever changed in the early hours of the morning 81 years ago today. In the quiet desert basin near Alamogordo, New Mexico, a plutonium bomb was detonated, launching the Atomic Age with what is known as the Trinity Test.

we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos

Two Minnesota solar farms seeded native wildflowers under their panels, and 5 years of counting revealed native bees had multiplied twentyfold, then crossed the fence to pollinate the neighbour's soybeans

manifesting extremely hard this week

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Protection money

ICE killed someone in Biddeford, Maine this morning, the 11th fatal ICE or Border Patrol shooting since January. Of nearly 200 people detained in Maine's "Operation Catch of the Day," only 11 had criminal convictions. This is an occupation where our bodies fill their quota.

ICE has killed someone else, this time in Maine: www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/p...

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

Please get "KNOW YOUR RIGHTS" cards. It is awful that she was stopped and was relieved that this was the outcome.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Huge crowds of train fans turn out as the 1940s era Big Boy steam locomotive is making a rare trip cross country. n.pr/4pf4Byx

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

Beloved 80s icon #BonnieTyler had monster hits with Jim Steinman's Total Eclipse and Hero. But this anthemic track was always an underrated favorite of mine. It was later recycled into the Hulk Hogan theme 😆 Fire up the wind machines and Rock In Power Bonnie & Jim 🤘 youtu.be/FLARiLacx-s?...

ICE still out here murdering. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Alexis Petridis summing up everything that's magnificent about Total Eclipse of the Heart. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Farewell to a legend! RIP Bonnie Tyler 🌙💜

Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo

Well, we got through the July 4 weekend relatively ok, I'm sure Monday morning won't be some kind of political shit sh---- oh, rats.

Alternative movie poster of the day 🎥😍 Bride of Frankenstein (1935) By Chris Koehler

Every time I think he can't go lower, he finds a shovel and digs.

The irony is insane: Trump reportedly stepped in to save US soccer star Folarin Balogun from a FIFA ban—a player who only has US citizenship because Trump’s birthright executive order was struck down by the Supreme Court days ago. 🤯 ​You can't make this up. Details: 👇 #trump #worldcup

In gremlins 2 when a panicked Pheobe Cates pulls the fire alarm, the fire alarm pontificates “Fire! The untamed element, oldest of man’s mysteries, giver of warmth [etc]” anyway that’s what it’s like when you google something now.

One of RTD's stated reasons for avoiding stories about alien planets and cultures in his version of #DoctorWho is that audiences don't care about what happens on Planet Zog. Which is an odd assertion considering how fandom flocks to the immersive imaginary worlds of Star Wars, LOTR, HP, Avatar etc.

This is a prime example of why right-wing populism slides so easily into antisemitism. You need a populist framing of "the people" versus "the elites," but you can't frame the elites in strictly economic terms, or else you end up with leftism. Hence you need another way to define "elites."

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

“Trump put on a celebration of something he doesn’t believe in. He has turned his back on the principles in the Declaration. In 2004, Trump said: ‘But the phrase that ‘all men are created equal’ is a wonderful phrase, but unfortunately it doesn’t work that way.’” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-aff...

The GOP continues to ignore the large predator in their midst. Surely it won't bite THEM?

icymi @gregsargent.bsky.social on the creedal nation, including some Lincoln: “In Lincoln’s speech, dedication to the proposition that all people are created equal is a substitute for ties of heritage and blood.“ Obama adds “It’s no less strong for being so.“ newrepublic.com/article/2121...

NEW: "We need to combat the perversities of the revisionist right with a revived liberal patriotism. Not a patriotism that obscures our mistakes and our crimes, nor one that pretends we are perfect.... Remember who you are, liberal!" www.thebulwark.com/p/to-fight-f...

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump. Read the piece:

On this 250th Independence Day, join with Abraham Lincoln in honoring the Declaration’s promise—our founding commitment to human equality and freedom—that, in all its complexity, defines who we are as Americans. ICYMI @lkatfield.bsky.social:

the 72-year-old trans lawyer who helped me with my legal name change said something i still think about all the time she started transitioning in the goddamned 1960s, and when i asked her what that was like, she said in her thick Chicago accent, "eh, they just called us all fags"

WTF 😠 😔

“How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal… division is the oldest trick in politics.” Zohran rings in America’s birthday by reminding us our story is one of welcoming immigrants, not excluding everyone who doesn’t look like us. 🇺🇸 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DaVzyL0...

Me: Looks at calendar Calendar:

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

👇🏽

"One of the Declaration’s grievances was that George III had 'obstructed the Administration of Justice.' So much of the second Trump administration is summed up in that short phrase." And wrapping themselves in the flag does nothing to undo it.

Accurate

Who's been spying on me??

"It is the function...of the CIA, with its 50 destabilization programs going around the world today, to keep the world unstable and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms." --John Stockwell (1937-2026) fair.org/home/john-st...