My little town in Red Kentucky had 1000 people attending today. Much joyful honking from cars and only a couple of ugly comments.

Puffins return to Maine after half a century of absence. Eastern Egg Rock now hosts the only puffin colony in the United States, restored through decades of painstaking work after the birds were hunted out a century ago. buff.ly/RB0Ibz0 #ShareGoodNewsToo

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Portland

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

I often feel like my commentary on current events, even bookish ones, is superfluous, so I don't post about them but sometimes you just gotta yell WHAT THE FUCK into the void

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Everyday trump does horrible stuff that erodes democratic norms and also the administration should release all the Epstein documents

important to reiterate from time to time: "artificial intelligence" does not exist. there is no sentient artificial being. no threepio. no demerzel. no terminator. what the tech publicists call "a.i." is just big, crappy databases and mindless and often incorrect autocorrect.

Lots of people are about to be really mad that price of eggs goes up but they can’t get a 2nd job because they can’t afford childcare and when they do finally get the eggs they get E Coli because there’s no FDA but can’t go to the doctor because they got kicked off their health plan. #FAFO

The GOP plan for 2026/28

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

This is the proud work of some lovely Alabama Democrats!

ah yes that den of crime, the national mall

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

In 2016, Ghislaine Maxwell falsely stated, under oath, that she was not aware that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls for sex (you know, the ones she was actually recruiting on his behalf). She was charged with two counts of perjury for this. Remind me why we give a shit what she says now?

do you think they’re enjoying the main course yet at the Epstein Strategy Dinner or still sort of milling around

“The reason for the move is listed as a “lesser security transfer” (code 308), which is completely inappropriate for inmates who are in the early stages of serving their sentences. ‘This is such obvious corruption. I have never seen this before.’” open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

It's telling that Donald Trump's takeaway from Jeffrey Epstein hiring Virginia Giuffre away from Mar-a-Lago is to feel sorry for Donald Trump because he lost an employee, not to feel sorry for Virginia Giuffre because she was trafficked and raped.

2/ Some receipts: - www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/05/07/f... - www.budget.senate.gov/chairman/new... - www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the us government spends roughly '$646 billion every single year' on oil and gas subsidies but go on....

The call has always been coming from the inside…

MULLIN: There was a sweetheart plea deal that was struck in 2009 under Obama TAPPER: No. It was 2008. The US attorney was Alex Acosta. He was a Bush appointee. He went on to become Trump's secretary of labor M: Who was in office at the time? T: Bush M: No. Obama was in office TAPPER: Not true

The same Republican Party that impeached Bill Clinton over a consensual sex act with another adult is now protecting Donald Trump for alleged nonconsensual sex acts with underage girls. #WWJD?

Trump and his pedo defenders have completely ignored the survivors - going all the way back to the Alex Acosta non-prosecution agreement (they violated the law by not informing the survivors), to the motions for grand jury materials, to the meeting with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

1926

People keep asking "what do you expect Democrats to do???" I expect Schumer and Jeffries to hold a press conference and say: "Donald Trump is conspiring with his personal attorneys he corruptly installed at DOJ to cover up his close friendship and possible horrific crimes with Jeff Epstein." /1

me the morning after a drunk post

Read my original reporting on the pregnant mother in Tennessee who was denied prenatal care for being unmarried, now republished in @nashvillebanner.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/07/20/d... #tnleg #reprorights #womenshealth

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%. Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7 #medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

Just a reminder: Acosta, as US attorney in Miami, gave Epstein a suspiciously favorable deal, ignoring the complaints or victims and catering in an unseemly way to the privacy rights of Epstein's clients... then one of those clients, Donald Trump, appointed Acosta to his cabinet as a reward.

Bondi reportedly put 1,000 people in 24-hour shifts for two weeks in March to review the Epstein files. She made them flag mentions of Trump. And then ... She decided she couldn't release anything. 😯

These Coldplay concerts are getting out of hand.

EXCLUSIVE: DeSantis diverted disaster prep resources during hurricane season in the rush to build the "Alligator Alcatraz" detention camp talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/co...

Life comes at you fast

We seriously need a crowdfunding campaign to put a billboard up like this everywhere

“But it turns out that there was another factor not revealed publicly by the company: Grok was also instructed to consult Elon Musk’s Twitter feed.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

Only 7 percent of the people they've arrested recently have violent convictions

“In the past, FEMA would have swiftly staged these teams… But officials realized they needed Noem’s approval before sending additional assets. Noem didn’t authorize FEMA’s deployment of Urban Search and Rescue teams until more than 72 hours after the flooding began.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

The richest family in the United States, the Waltons, made money by not paying Walmart employees enough. This forced employees to seek government assistance for food and healthcare. Republicans’ response is to take away that assistance because the Waltons aren’t rich enough.

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

They were supposed to be deporting “gang members” and “criminals.” So far, they have kidnapped people working their day jobs and folks lawfully showing up for their immigration court appearances… It was always a lie.

Marco Rubio needs to be asked whether he believes his grandfather who remained in the U.S. after receiving a deportation order from our govt should have been treated the way the father of 3 Marines was treated by ICE this weekend in California. ASK HIM. Make him confront his lack of character.

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered

Dear Kristi Noem, #NoKings

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time