MAGA: 2016 was fair! (Obama was President) 2020 was rigged! (Trump was President) 2024 was fair! (Biden was President) They’re going to rig 2026! (Trump is President) Why is Donald Trump so fucking bad at securing elections according to MAGA?

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

I watched this last night, the first of ten lectures by Timothy Snyder on "Hitler and Stalin Today." snyder.substack.com/p/new-lectur... If you every wanted to take a course with him, here it it. As you will see. The first lecture is an intro to the course. It's about what history really is.

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

New in PN: "Trump’s gaseous Greenland blather seems like a minor monstrosity next to his murderous bombing of Iran. But they’re part of the same phenomenon — a foreign policy driven by ego & inflamed colonial malice, in which US sees no allies, just territory to be won & glorious carnage to commit."

Trump diarrhea brought by ↘️ “Trump administration’s health policies deserve far more blame for why public health investigators are flailing in the dark. And the individuals who have to spend this summer doubled over with diarrhea blame White House OMB Director Russell Vought for their pain.”

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

Santa Monica Goebbels is doing his weird and creepy gyrations while delivering a speech smearing Democrats as violent radicals

i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer

I know a lot of the focus here has been on the Dems who voted not to cut aid to Israel but I think “the majority of the caucus voted to cut aid” is a monumental sea change in Dem politics and the movement here is only going in one direction this is the most Dem support Israel will ever see again

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Trump publicly asked China to interfere in the election! He asked China to investigate Joe Biden. Per John Bolton, he also asked for China to interfere in other ways.

this guy wants as many americans as possible to die of preventable diseases. he views that as preferable to vaccines or long term medication. makes us “stronger”

RFK Jr. asked the National Institute of Health to dedicate $5 billion (!) to finding a link between vaccines and autism. "That would have dedicated more than a tenth of the NIH’s annual budget to investigating a hypothesis already refuted by scientists worldwide."

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

Completely—and utterly irresponsibly—unhinged.

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

the "who won the 2020 election" question is the world's easiest litmus test to determine if a Trump appointee is going to be a hack, because every single one of them can't answer the question and every single one of them is, inevitably, a hack every Dem should vote no on all of them

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

The storming of the Bastille was the opening act in a century-long upheaval that broke with the premodern world and finally put ordinary people in charge of their nation’s destiny. That’s the legacy of the French Revolution.

The choice is not ICE or chaos. Khury Petersen-Smith writes that border enforcement can be replaced with a humane system of open borders, centered on safe passage, legal counsel, family reunification, housing, and the right to work as a concrete way out of violence.

We now get near-daily reports of insane new corruption that would have brought down previous administrations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

“RFK Jr. has been my professional arch nemesis for decades, and there are thousands of pediatricians across the country who would say the same thing.” trib.al/uQQy8Vy

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

This is complete insanity. But it’s their new apocalyptic talking point: that we are somehow on the brink of a communist takeover and we need them save us. And they use these end-times warnings as a pretext for power grabs.

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”

New York Times reporter Annie Karni says she is hearing that as many as 150 House Democrats could vote for a measure to cut all U.S. aid to Israel. The vote would be symbolic, but that level of Democratic support would mark a dramatic shift in decades of American foreign policy.

NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.

Has there been a more pathetic and ineffective leader of the House Democrats in our lifetimes? I can't think of one.

Person is eaten in Dahmer-involved gastronomy

Elon Musk has been referred for possible criminal prosecution after Wisconsin election officials found probable cause that his $1 million voter giveaways violated the state’s election bribery law.

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

THREAD. Given the news that Trump is planning to deliver an Oval Office speech tomorrow night to abuse his office to spread lies about the elections, we've updated our Executive Override Report to show what we've been tracking over the last few months. protectdemocracy.org/work/executi...

After a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.

"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...

Companies that can afford to make millions in donations to the president's pet projects are rewarded with support, access and influence. That is textbook corruption: www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

Now that ICE has killed again in Maine, reupping: The creators of this horrifying new reality are Trump and Stephen Miller. They pretended to want it done quietly this time, but that's just spin. The whole project is intrinsically geared toward exactly this outcome. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Even if it's clownish & won't lead to anything real happening, it is *incredibly dangerous* for the president to declare his political opponents illegitimate.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

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Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

Meanwhile in Mexico their Supreme Court is popularly elected under a constitutional reform and they proudly go out into the public and publicly explain their reasoning lol apnews.com/article/mexi...

This is the direct consequence of Trump's policies to move resources from Medicaid to tax cuts. When RFK Jr. and Vance say they are eliminate fraud in the healthcare systems, these are the types of families affected.

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll just received Trump's $5 million — plus interest. Despite Trump's repeated attempts to block Carroll from receiving the money, $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll's legal team this week. www.ms.now/news/e-jean-...

Four years ago, Biden gave a speech warning about the dangers to democracy and the networks refused to air it because it was "political." I wonder if Trump making a partisan case for relitigating the 2020 election and calling for his political opponents to be jailed is going to be "political" too?

An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning

Electability according to centrists: