seeing a lot of quotes from sen angus king about info he's been able to get about this fatal shooting. you'll remember tho that maine actually has two senators and we don't seem to have heard much from that other one.

Yeah, join the ICC and get the whole lot of them rightfully prosecuted

“She was still in her bluey pajamas”

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

Everyone except billionaires wants to tax billionaires, but taxing wealth at the federal level ain't gonna happen. Heck, SCOTUS won't even let Congress touch unrealized gains, the main source of income for the nation's wealthiest families. Allow me to Mikesplain (story link in replies):

Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!

Our report out today adds some interesting context to the Financial Times story from March that Hegseth's broker tried to buy into a defense fund just before the US attacked Iran -- a war that Hegseth aggressively advocated. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

He's attempting international extortion to drive up prices on 1/4 of the world's oil.

Hard to put into words how big of an own-goal it is for the United States to normalize shipping tolls at all, much less tolls at 20%. It's the kind of thing that appeals to someone who has only ever known how to run short-term scams.

Assuming this math is correct, it means that the US plans to charge 15X as much as the Islamic Republic of Iran. So if you're a shipper, whom do you want to do business with -- Trump or the ayatollah?

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge says Trump lawsuit against IRS was filed for 'improper purpose' and refers attorneys for disciplinary action

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

ICE shot and killed another person today in Maine. It’s been a little over a week since the last shooting death at the hands of ICE. ICE needs to be dismantled, it has no place in our society. Every person involved needs to be put on trial!

Japan has perfected a revolutionary process to extract lithium from dead batteries with 90% recovery rate. This brilliant technological leap guarantees Japan's absolute economic security.

Oh great a whole new Tolkien-named horribly dangerous and destructive technology

Planted a couple saratoga trees with my fellow volunteers yesterday for One City Day and they said we get to name them. This is Steve

“Was silence not an option?” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Millers are such lovely people.

This is an excellent explainer. Also yikes.

This is a really useful post about what you need to know about Cyclospora. I learned things. You will too

Re McConnell: so I guess he’s not dead. But have an ambulance show up, cart you and be totally MIA despite nationwide inquiries is not normal behavior. Not for any position, temperament, or generation.

Millions of people do good in their communities every single hour and if we uplifted each example, we would drown out those who spend their time doing evil. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n... - RIP to both of these men.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

i’m sorry but ‘literally died of hard heartedness’ is the most hack writing yet in an already weak season

Thanks to Republicans in Congress and Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill"... An Indiana 40-year old, making $65k per year, who last year was paying $316/month for health insurance, will next year be paying $546/month for that same plan: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Over the last decade, the court—led by Chief Justice John Roberts—has increasingly relied on a fast-track way of making decisions that was once rarely used. It’s known as the shadow docket.

The younger person in this amazing and generous partnership dies of a heart attack and his partner follows him soon after. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

Given that Graham’s father died of some kind of caridiac disease, gotta wonder if he availed himself of all that Senate free health care is reputed to offer www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

this is the perfect use of axios’s bullet point house style

Extreme (10 hr) jet lag has made struggle with higher order brain function but it is seemingly a good state for cleaning out all the bathroom cabinets

Everything Trump touches dies www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Breaking news: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) suffered from an aortic dissection, according to preliminary findings from the D.C. medical examiner’s office. It was caused by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his office said.

Literally holding a newspaper.

Supervisor @bilalmahmood.bsky.social says Connie Chan teamed up with Mayor Lurie on behalf of Amazon to block a ballot initiative that would prevent large chains like Whole Foods from leaving grocery stores vacant. She is not the progressive people want to think she is www.tiktok.com/t/ZTSs7Qp4D/

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

girl WHAT

#1 in a long list of Graham’s dark legacy

Why not both?

San Francisco now has the lowest apartment vacancy rate among major cities. It’s 2.2%, which is unhealthy & driving up rents. We need more housing of all kinds. We need to continue our work to get it built. And we need to stabilize renters in their homes.

There seems to be no barrier in South Carolina law to McMaster appointing himself Senator, ceding his (term limited) governor perch to Lt Gov Evett, an ally to him and Trump…

“Graham was deploying unverified Russian intelligence to back up Trump’s phony claim that there had been no Russian assault on the 2016 election and that the whole thing was a Democratic hoax. He had pulled a complete 180.”

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

Lindsey Graham being hailed as a nat sec hawk. @davidcorn.bsky.social on how he sold America out to Putin www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Mesopotamian Elephant, 3400-3000 BCE

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...

In fairness, it's how he would have wanted to have been remembered, a tool for a much more powerful man.