Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

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.

Is this translated from the original German? www.whitehouse.gov/releases/202...

JFC. Get these thugs out of our cities.

A plainly unsustainable country, sustained by workers who can't afford to live in it.

Hey, Kansas. Why do you keep voting for people who will vote to give fascists even more ways to abuse your communities?

Trump claimed during the 2024 campaign that he wanted to leave abortion to the states. His pick for Attorney General, and his former personal lawyer, just said a nationwide abortion ban is on the table

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.

What a coincidence. I had a dream last night that I was sitting in the audience of a theater having a snarky whisper fest with W. Kamau Bell, and maybe this was the kind of shit we were commiserating about: open.substack.com/pub/wkamaube...

A stubborn inability to read the room, isn’t that what we all like in a leader? /s

Remember it’s not inevitable that every tech has to suck. Deliberate decisions are what make it suck. We can choose to have systems that work, by investing in systems that work.

No freebie here. If the court wants more money for security, they should agree to binding ethics code administered independently and streaming video of oral argument. Yes, this is hardball. And amply justified. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Also, in case you're not following the business of data centers: It's my understanding that Musk built an insane amount of compute but nobody uses xAI/Grok, so Anthropic—which hasn't built data centers much at all, preferring to rent compute—is doing exactly that from Musk. So, Claude pays Musk.

This is one of the primary reasons why billionaires must not exist – they think they can do whatever the fuck they want, laws be damned.

I've already stated my position that firing your weapon, for any reason, should be the end of your LEO career. Thanks for serving. I think going after the wrong person on a warrant should be the same result. Did both? Automatic prosecution for negligent homicide at minimum.

"What is stupid, farcical, at best a trap and at worst a sign of a devastating collapse in American logic, is to purport to give political advice to your political enemies... The only thing that exceeds the uselessness of writing these types of columns is the reading of them."

Looks like there has been another ICE shooting, in Biddleford, Maine, and the victim has reportedly died. Abolishing ICE is the minimum. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/13/p...

Reminder: Memphis is still “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Task force members have reportedly killed at least two people in four days.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Once again wishing I believed in Hell, because people like Lindsey Graham spent their entire lives worshipping power over principle.

Imagine applying for one of the most important jobs in the country and effectively getting the equivalent of 1200 negative job references. This guy probably belongs behind bars more than he belongs in the DOJ.

Jesus.

"You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Davis

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two privately-run detention facilities from the for-profit prison company CoreCivic, the company announced this week, in a move that may serve to shield the facilities from state oversight.

As an American I only vaguely know who Anne Widdecombe was, & most of what I did know came from Googling her after she inexplicably made an appearance on Richard Ayoade's reboot of "The Crystal Maze" where she could barely hide her contempt for him.

"This generates a large pile of money, but the size of the pile is shrinking" vs. "This lights a large pile of money on fire, but the size of the pile is growing." Seems like a large part of the executives out there made a bad call. And I say that as part of the reason the first pile is shrinking!

These cops are a total fucking disgrace, and have no business with a badge and gun.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Is anyone else also really skeezed out by the whole "WE" shit in the Platner video? You did this shit. Sure, your poor wife went along with your aspirations to run for office, but she didn't rape anyone. If I had to stand there & listen to this WE shit after your public humiliation, I'd be out.

Wow. I just heard back from ICE on this. Here's their statement. No comment at all on the claim that the three witnesses in the van with the deceased man are being pressured to self-deport, and ICE refers further questions to the FBI:

72% of voters in June's Dem primary voted for Graham Platner's economic populist message. Maine Dems should pick a person who lines up with that--if not many will stay home. If a moderate Dem had won 72% then that vision would be correct choice. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/maine-demo...

DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."

This morning I just keep thinking back to a time when a manager at my workplace exhibited all manner of suss behaviors & despite trying to get managers above them to see the red flags, they just gaslit me & made excuses for the guy because he was a charming, popular, white narcissist.

For a party doing so much fear mongering about Sharia Law, they are doing their damnedest to make sure religious zealots in America can use their religion to dictate your life choices...

The penalties need to start being more than the ill-gotten gains if any of this is going to change.

Not normal.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

We need to dismantle the police surveillance state.

When you just make the wanking gesture to yourself in my real life, so you don't use it in a reply on Bluesky.

I don’t care if he’s dead or not. I will gladly speak ill of someone who went out of their way to earn it at every opportunity. Good riddance you evil fuckface.

I love when MAGA types publish a list of unambiguously good things as if they're unambiguously bad things. It's such a revelation of what fearful cowardly people they are. We live in times of radical abuses. We should all seek radical remedies. All I can say to this is Hell Yeah.

How it started / how it’s going

The “vibe shift” proclaimed Nov. 2024 - Jan. 2025 was just some elites—in business, media, law, and some higher ed admins—who kinda liked the fascism and gave themselves permission to accommodate it. That’s all it ever was. A close presidential election is not somehow a binding cultural referendum.

Ahh yep, I still fucking hate fireworks. 🤷‍♀️

It's totally normal to go abroad 3 days after your elderly husband needs CPR and hospitalization, right? /s

celebrating the good parts of america today. if you don’t think there are any good parts, just look to all the stuff the fascists are desperate to stifle