The confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo have reached 2,011, including 754 deaths, in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on record. Contact tracing remains a challenge, with coverage of those exposed still at 67%.

Ossoff makes an important point here that accurately frames Trump’s election fraud lies as racist. Trump’s 2020 election lies and efforts to overturn its results always target Black voters as illegitimate. The localities Trump challenged were disproportionately majority-Black.

Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 

Fox: Shipping data shows that just 10 vessels passed through the Strait on Monday, less than 10% of what normally goes through. When you say the strait is open, what do you mean? DJT: It’s open if people want to go through it. We're coming up with great alternatives, incl Texas and Alaska.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

Most popular novels feature murder of a woman. But weirdly, most murder stories feature a woman as the killer, often a serial killer. In real life, there are 17,000 men in prison for sex and murder crimes and 100 women (some used to be men). www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j....

Imagine a country being so bigoted that nobody can safely eat lettuce

@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”

🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

Oh no, the ITV commentator just did the Mr Burns meme for Infantino

The Zimbabwean government says nearly 100 000 of its citizens have returned from South Africa since late May amid heightened tensions over immigration in South Africa, where groups such as March and March called for foreigners to leave the country.

I don't watch the world cup but it would be funny if Spain won and the orange man had to give the trophy to a country he currently seems to really dislike.

Other countries can do it apnews.com/article/sout...

O hope 🇺🇸 is taking notes. "The amendment also removes Constitutional Court judges who are over the age of 70, and forbids deputies who have served three terms in parliament from standing again - which applies to more than half the current Fidesz deputies."

Hungary’s new government also passed this constitutional amendment to “remove Constitutional Court judges who are over the age of 70.”

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Colby and the entire American right consider American power to be a naturally occurring consequence of their whiteness, not something that has had to be carefully created and cultivated.

Roads, rooftops and pavements absorb and release heat. Mature trees break this cycle by shading surfaces before they heat up. More canopy cover means cooler, healthier cities. 🌳🏙️ Kate Moore explains.

The top 1% hold 31.6% of the wealth in Q1 2026 while the bottom 90% holds 32.1% of the wealth. So it's quite plausible that the middle 60% is less than 31.6%.

I can't find a link to the data in this chart or the chart itself, but here's the trend for 1989-2026 for share of household wealth by percentile: fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?id=WF...,

The revenge of the aristocracy. We are in a class war, the rich know it and are fighting accordingly, the rest of us have yet to fight back.

I prefer the term "holds more wealth" over "is worth". No human is "worth" more than another, especially by merit of pecunitary wealth.

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

Almost nothing about Elon Musk’s business empire can be understood in the language of shareholder capitalism. Register for free to learn why

Semiconductor Stocks now account for 20% of the S&P 500, an all-time high 🚨 🚨

New: Our visual analysis of the ICE shooting in Maine, from the available video and audio available. There is no footage showing the shooting itself, but we obtained audio near the scene from immediately before the vehicle rolled into an intersection. 🎁 Free Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

FOX NEWS: Do you still intend to take Kharg island? TRUMP: So I can't say that to you because if I did it'd be foolish. But it'd be nice, it'd make a little headlines. FOX NEWS: Are you ruling out a ground campaign? TRUMP: I'd say no, if it's appropriate. Sometimes you need a ground campaign.

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Tuesday designed to shore up Social Security's finances in the coming decades and prevent future benefit cuts for the 70 million Americans who rely on the program.

🚨 👀 HEADS UP. Democratic Senators Dick Durbin and Tim Kaine looking to team up with MAGA Republicans to cut social security.

Q: Will this change on vehicle stops lower the rate of deportations? HOMAN: No. No. I'm sick and tired of reading about how the administration has lost their guts with mass deportation. Do you know that ICE last month arrested more aliens than any month in the history of the agency?

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is under the microscope at today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Senators are focusing on DOJ politicization, staff turnover, and the scrapped 1.8 billion dollar fund. With a tight GOP majority, his confirmation is facing a difficult path forward.

God: I'm testing you. You: When does the test end? God: Never. But there will be brief moments of respite when you mistake less than utterly disastrous results for progress. Take comfort in them.

Speakers emphasized that the current system preys on the labor of migrant women of color, particularly Chinese women, who easily become locked into lifetime careers without any kind of mobility. This particular fight, to end the 24-hour work day in NYC, has been underway for over a decade.

Tuesday marked the launch of a two week sit-in outside NYC council speaker Julie Menin's penthouse, over her refusal to pass the original "No More 24" Act (Intro 303) to end the legal 24 hour work day for home care workers in New York

Ossoff: In my view, he's obsessed with Georgia because he can't get over the fact that it was black voters and black political power who were instrumental to his defeat in Georgia and in a number of crucial battleground states.

But I hear he's number one on Tic Tac Toe.

Now that the Reflecting Pool is drained, it is obvious that there is no long cut down the center. Instead, there is significant tire damage from 10,000 pound armored vehicles driving on the fresh coating at Trump's direct order. Time for a 10-year prison sentence?

It's galling to see this Court majority hang its argument on a claim that "only the holdings of this Court clearly establish federal law"; they've issued an unprecedented number of UNREASONED orders in the past year & want those orders to carry weight below. www.scotusblog.com/2026/05/how-...

Note that this is a distinctly different reason for refusal to answer than the normal line that it would be inappropriate to discuss the Court’s work (which she also said).

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.

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.

Do not fall for this, @durbin.senate.gov.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

Btw, the White House still won’t say whether Beckman is Melania’s talent agent. His appearances have been getting increasingly outlandish

“Everyone brings a different dish, then I’ll splatter them all over the floor.” - Jackson Potluck

SOLAR IS WINNING 👀

Ossoff: "Privately, most elected Republicans in this building think the president has lost it and is dooming them to dismal losses this fall"

Ossoff: "We understand the president may be threatening to declare sitting senators illegitimate. If that's the course of action he pursues, he's calling GA voters illegitimate...he was humiliated as a committed lifelong racist that it was Black voters in Georgia who were instrumental in his defeat"