"The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark". A gift link here: lnkd.in/dAYq6ydz

The American legal system is being abused in order to pander to the president's fantasies and make them seem real www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

The last paragraph of @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu piece on what patriotism means ahead of our 250th Independence Day. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself—not anymore. @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu argued in The Atlantic’s “Unfinished Revolution” issue last year. theatln.tc/U0uQ1sWg

Today we beat Stephen Miller’s lawsuit mill in court! For 3 years I’ve been a defendant in a case filed by America First Legal on behalf of Gateway Pundit & a random antivaxxer we’d never heard of until she sued us. The plaintiffs claimed we “censored” them. It was a lie. They just lost.

this will be a big story: the mythological "censorship industrial complex" was partly based on this case

"Because they believe that only their clan represents America, that only people like them deserve to be considered “real” Americans, and that the American government exists to serve them alone, they need to undermine anything that tells a more unifying story." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Because they believe that only their clan represents America, that only people like them deserve to be considered “real” Americans, and that the American government exists to serve them alone, they need to undermine anything that tells a more unifying story." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

It's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you undermine independent judges, media and civil service, shroud decisions in secrecy and let it be known that government is for sale.... Then corruption is what results. America and Zimbabwe in this sense are no different.

It's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Why are the Trump administration's 250th celebrations so feeble? Because it's hard to celebrate the ideals of the Declaration of Independence if you don't believe in them www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

No previous president has ever manipulated American foreign and domestic policy in order to make himself a billionaire. Unprecedented www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

No, I am not going to read your article about how Germany's/Italy's soccer team's failures illustrates something deeper about their national psyche

BREAKING: The Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote UPHOLDS birthright citizenship, affirming the default rule that all persons born in the United States (with narrow exceptions) are U.S. citizens at birth. A total LOSS for President Trump and the effort to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

Dozens of Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow last night, again www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/w...

So....it wasn't vandals www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/u...

Fantastic footage from Russia 🤩🚘⛽️

Fascinating - one of the things that drove the declaration of independence in 1776 was the colonists' fear of being partitioned...like Poland wapo.st/4xODIp1

In 2023, Jeffrey Goldberg and I wrote, among other things, about Ukrainian plans to liberate Crimea in @theatlantic.com. With road and ferry connections to the peninsula now cut off, they seem suddenly more plausible www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

he is not wrong

"No other world leader can claim to have survived and thrived on the enmity of both Trump and Vladimir Putin" giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Senate Democrats are investigating a firm with ties to the Trump family that benefits from the lifting of sanctions on Venezuela giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

queues for gasoline in Russia

GOPers were shocked when Trump declared he wants mass voter suppression rather than passing a bill on housing costs. But they were only shocked because he said this openly, screwing *them.* On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is so good in dissecting this moment: newrepublic.com/article/2123...

Britons! time to put air conditioning in your airports...

Congress is getting ready to remove the requirement that shell companies register their real owners. The bill "will restore America’s status as the leading offshore haven"

Republicans trying to make the world safe for kleptocracy newrepublic.com/article/2118...

Hey, maybe if every single national leader ends up immensely loathed for reasons that people can't really consistently articulate, almost irrespective of their actual policies or ideology, it points to a larger mystery about politics that we should solve

He was, in part, another victim of Brexit

In 2023, Jeffrey Goldberg and I wrote, among other things, about Ukrainian plans to liberate Crimea in @theatlantic.com. With road and ferry connections to the peninsula now cut off, they seem suddenly more plausible www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Crimean authorities have stopped selling fuel to individuals and businesses as shortages become acute. Ukrainian strikes are slowly cutting access to the peninsula, hitting fuel trucks and ferries. www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukr...

So @jonswaine.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com has seen hundreds of documents containing evidence that Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump's Director of National Intelligence, was directed throughout her career by the leader of the cult she grew up in www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Took this video of a guy getting detained and a citation for putting his hand in the water an hour ago.

I do so love that this projecting on Russian embassies thing is catching on! I am happy to consult with anyone who wants to do it—in whatever location you might be. So many Russian diplomatic facilities. So little time.

"Cancer misinformation is directly linked to higher rates of death, yet we still treat it as something for individual patients to navigate and individual doctors to address in brief appointments, while platforms nominally flag content as their algorithms continue doing the opposite."

a constitutional violation the size of a jumbo jet

One for @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org

Fire Point branding was projected onto the Russian embassy in France after the Eurosatory 2026 arms exhibition ended in Paris. Photos show the Ukrainian arms maker’s name and a green targeting-style symbol resembling the marker used in FP-2 drones. #France

She is not wrong giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

On the state of the Russo-Ukrainian war — very sound and in accord with what I see. By @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ukrainian drone strikes on the Moscow refinery didn't happen by accident. That billowing black smoke is the result of years of planning, plus European money. I wrote about Ukraine's long-range drone project last September: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There are thousands and thousands of cases of the event that she can't prove ever happens

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ukrainian drone strikes on the Moscow refinery didn't happen by accident. That billowing black smoke is the result of years of planning, plus European money. I wrote about Ukraine's long-range drone project last September: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Clips are going viral of the new $14M paint on the Reflecting Pool peeling off just 12 days after the pool reopened.

Again, need to say it - if Biden, Obama or any other Democratic President publicly endorsed Iran having ballistic missiles after launching an ill advised war to essentially eliminate Iran's missile launching capabilities - Congress (even a Dem led one) would launch impeachment proceedings next day.

madness

"War has instead done what it usually does: empowered the powerful, rallied the faithful, and allowed an apparatus of repression to present its imperatives in terms of national security" Read Laura Secor on the abandonment of the Iranian people www.theatlantic.com/internationa...