Screw it, the Maine shakeup means we gotta do new Senate rankings. #NCSen: Lean D #MESen: Toss Up #AKSen: Lean D #IASen: Lean R #TXSen: Toss Up (CHANGE FROM LEAN R) #NESen: Lean R #OHSen: Toss Up #MISen: Lean D #MNSen: Safe D #FLSen: Safe R

😱 HOLY HELL: The Pentagon just admitted that nearly 100 US troops were injured in the last two weeks alone. Why has Pete Hegseth been keeping these casualties hidden? Do their families know? And where is Trump hiding them? This is beyond F'd up. November is coming...

the core problem is that Ds (rightly) think that Israel's current policies are immoral and evil, that the Netanyahu govt is an enemy of Democrats (which it is), and that (as Pritzker says) AIPAC is a MAGA front. 1

this is significantly worse than even Newsom. She's using bigoted slurs against trans people, completely embracing right wing framing, misgendering, and dehumanization. 1

“.. Tropical storm poised to hit basically every major US LNG export plant this week.” @bloomberg.com #TropicalDepression2

BREAKING: A judge just granted a temporary restraining order against the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. This means that the merger is officially PAUSED. That's a WIN thanks to the state attorneys general who stood up and pushed back. Let's keep up the fight.

On my way to Taco Bell to support good corporate citizenship. Not confident enough to order anything with lettuce, mind you, but still.

What in the world is happening www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

JFC

If you think this battle for the soul of mankind ends when Trump is gone, I have sour news for you. The people waiting to replace him are openly Nazi. This fight for decency will go on and on until these corrupt bastards are made to face severe consequences for their blatant acts of evil.

The Ohio Democratic party is censoring its own members from criticizing Amy Acton. This even includes the Pride Caucus chair who has to criticize her from their personal capacity. They've threatened to kick caucuses out that formally criticize Acton over her transphobic positions.

Very good news. Also apparently Troy Jackson was polling better against Collins even before the Politico story on Platner? drive.google.com/file/d/1D7on...

The Tate brothers situation - and whether the US extradites them - will be interesting to watch, b/c there’s a sharp divide among MAGA world. Trump, Vance, groypers, Tucker etc are big for Tates. Many others strongly anti-Tate. …

The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

my only anecdotal data point is that a trans friend of mine worked for their marketing department for years and they fully covered his top surgery with paid time off to recover and it sounded like everyone was extremely cool about it, so that has always given them a gold star in my book

New: Late last night, Taylor Farms quietly posted an official recall notice We now know that the parasite-linked iceberg lettuce was shipped to Walmart & food distributors in 27 (!) states It was for some reason still being sent out up until Thursday July 16 www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Escorting the nine-year-old to a friend’s birthday pool party, I told him I wasn’t going to swim in part because I’m dressed for work. He told me I could just jump in like Mamdani did. This is what socialism does to our children.

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

Next week keeps trending towards a more serious escalation.

It just shouldn't be this…sh-hard…

“US executives are selling shares at the second-fastest pace in more than 20 years, a classic red flag to some investors because it suggests people with the most corporate knowledge are wary about markets.”

Dang they really got a category for everything

Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...

“Joy and connection should not be scarce resources. Every New Yorker deserves to have their dignity affirmed.”

Could be worse, could be diarrhea smoke and wildfire lettuce

Oh fuck that's good

big mistake here, hoss

a) ossoff's whole "bring it, dipshit" attitude is exactly the right response to trump's election shenanigans b) good lord has he ever leveled up as a political communicator, I continue to think he's a very serious 2028 contender if he wants it

What I don't think Trump realizes is that declaring Ossoff as "illegitimate" immediately positions him as the 2028 front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He'll be doing more to help elect Ossoff than anything a political super PAC would ever dream of achieving.

The national diesel prices have just hit $5/gal again. diesel powers the trucks that move nearly everything you buy — groceries, goods, supplies. higher diesel = higher prices down the line.-GasBuddy

i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish

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 Susan Collins giving the most feckless response to ICE killings possible. She mastered the art of saying almost nothing while people are dying. The only proper response to the killing of Joan Sebastian Guerrero is outrage. VOTE HER OUT

he needs to be ousted as leader immediately

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Oil markets and Middle East producers appear to be aligning around a new reality: The Strait of Hormuz is no longer expected to return to a prewar norm.

Xi Jinping once admired Vladimir Putin. Now he manages him. Four years of war and economic isolation have reduced the Russian president to a supplicant in a relationship growing more imbalanced—and at times tense. www.wsj.com/world/x-puti...

E Jean Carroll's atty has $5.62M for the Carroll II verdict. ...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can EVADE the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

Go after the lawyers and a lot of Trump world falls apart.

24-hour Hormuz traffic rolling over sharply ... now at just 3. - Schwab

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the Trump administration intends to “dismantle the ICC” and weaken the International Criminal Court “brick by brick,” as the administration grows increasingly worried about prosecutions after they are out of office.

Mask up, Bay Area friends.

This is Lillia, a North American porcupine born at Dallas Zoo in May 2026, finding treats hidden in her habitat as fun surprises to encourage her exploration. "Porcupine" is from an Old French word 'porcespin' which means THORN-PIG, from Latin 'porcus' (pig) + 'spina' (thorn). 🌹🐷 (📷: Dallas Zoo)