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Tonight Americans are going to hear that 1+1=256, that black is white, that a lie is the truth. How they respond to that claim will determine whether democracy and the rule of law will persist in the USA.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The words of the Constitution “mean little if members of Congress do not stand up to dangerous presidential power grabs,” the editorial board writes about Todd Blanche’s impending confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department.

Ken Paxton’s billionaire handlers won’t let him answer questions in public. It’s why he hasn’t debated in over a decade. But I want him to prove me wrong. I’m challenging Ken Paxton to three televised debates.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

I had to look twice. #Cat #Caturday

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Whiny guys whose entire personality is “no one wants to hook up with me because of my shitty views” is such an embarrassing modern phenomenon.

Using “news” and “content” interchangeably here really gives the whole game away, doesn't it?

Something Must Be Done About The Gambling App Industry

More signs of transformation: Almost Half of House Democrats Vote to End Aid to Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...

“‘That is RIDICULOUS,’ one person with knowledge of the planned golf trip said in a message. ‘Pence and Harris never pulled anything like that.’” www.ms.now/news/veeps-s...

Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.

AOC after Trump reversed course on halting ICE traffic stops. “This is the guy that said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, and people would still support him…And now he has an agency shooting people out in the street. And at this point, it's practically a campaign promise from this guy.”

You gotta get mandatory gender-affirming care, if you wanna bomb schoolchildren.

“Sorry, when I said I’m from Chicago, I meant the one in Ontario,” said the ex-commander-in-chief, adding that he had never been to the United States but had heard some “pretty crazy things” about the “stuff going on down there.”

NEW: GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is suggesting he’s endorsed by former Colorado Gov Bill Owens. Owens tells me that’s not true.

Surprise!

Sen. Cynthia Lummis dramatically says "I don't know" when asked by Fox News if Ossoff and Warnock were duty elected

They are going to try what they try. But they are not smart people, nor are they coordinated, and a real plan would be five years in the making. Remember what you're dealing with.

I want to get ahead of this speech tomorrow. You are going to hear a lot of cries of the sky falling. Remember: the President of the United States does not control elections. States and localities do, and even if you say "he has the military," there aren't enough in the 48 states to make a dent.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Onion level satire right here

Hegseth announces testosterone screening for US troops reut.rs/4f5sQvO

are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff

@nicollewallace.bsky.social The ole’ inverse Liar Liar: Truther Truther

Thanks to the calls of constituents and the organizing of advocates, 104 members of Congress made history by voting to end funding for Israel. But our work is far from over! We must keep fighting! Not one more dollar, not one more bomb, not one more excuse for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians.

Pelosi is a YES on the Massie amendment cutting US aid to Israel: “The American people are rightly demanding an end to a perpetual cycle of war, and the Netanyahu gov’t cannot maintain its current course. Therefore, while this amendment is ill-conceived, I vote yes for the message that it sends.”

The dam is truly breaking, at least among Democrats. Though Jefferies and Schumer continue their morally grotesque support for unrestricted military sales and aid to Israel, the caucus is clearly moving in a very different direction.

Megyn Kelly guest on Brad Pitt abuse allegations: “If my dad roughed up my mom, but I still got to fly private, I would probably look the other way”

WATCH: @billmaher tells NPR how much like Mark Twain he is No wonder he and Trump get along they are both so humble and self-aware 😬

Once they're born though, we reserve the right to execute them on the streets of Minnesota.

@philplait.bsky.social so i guess we can ad “they made a bunch of AI data centers that destroyed their biosphere and used all their valuable resources for space travel” as another answer to the Fermi paradox

Todd Blanche: ❌ Masterminded Trump's MAGA slush fund ❌ Arranged Trump's sweetheart deal from the IRS ❌ Refused to release three million pages of the Epstein files This is who Senate Republicans want to lead DOJ—a new low.

@lawofruby.bsky.social that was a pretty epic work of hackery on Morning Joe today. Blanche is a “great guy” if you ignore every corrupt thing he’s done the last 4+ years. Which you intentionally did. Wow.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Oh man, Joe Scarborough had a great criticism of Mike Johnson’s BS at the start of their show today

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/

Intel turns to next-generation ASML tool to help make its laptop chips reut.rs/4aSZMoI

Great pic

Just resharing this because it's clearly needed: Australia's data centre hotspots have nearly twice the grid emissions intensity as America's data centre hotspots.

IBM stock cratered today after announcing it would miss analysts revenue expectations ($17.2B vs $17.86B expected) because their customers cut software spending to buy servers, storage, and memory ahead of anticipated price increases given demand from AI data centers. So much impact from AI.

The gilded age, but everyone gets soma from their phones. A workable arrangement!

OpenAI’s first hardware device is rumored to be a smart speaker with a human-like AI that can control smart-home appliances, play media, answer questions, and respond to messages. It sounds like an Amazon Echo device with ChatGPT instead of Alexa. Hard to see this as a meaningful game changer.

Gosh, I hope Durbin got a pinky promise from him. You can't go back on a pinky promise. Everybody knows that.

The U.S. and Russia have lost four wars over the past 60 years, despite their nuclear arsenals. What do nuclear weapons buy besides the important function of strategic deterrence? Nothing. Maybe we need to rediscover this truth. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A clip from a freight train stopped in a wildfire near Armstrong, Ontario. Thankfully, the crew escaped safely. Wildfire is nothing new but the burning of fossil fuels is making them larger, more frequent and severe.

This is one of those videos that reminds me of that tweet: “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

The combination of Trump’s second presidency and AI has been a mask off moment for billionaires. Elon Musk who once proposed a master plan to eliminate fossil fuels is now a massive polluter given his usage of gas turbines to power SpaceXAI’s data centers.

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL