Underwear will be worn on the outside www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_g5...

Capsule summary of billionocracy from Paul Krugman open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Hey, remember that video Trump posted showing him shitting all over the country? prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...

Taking a moment to grieve that the U.S. federal government is putting forward this lifelong charlatan as my personal health guru.

"Backtracks" on "plan" -- LOL. It's all explosive diarrhea.

And, um, forcing Iranians to die for it.

Is he going to purport to believe this Trump toadie? What is Durbin, an aspiring Sue Collins?

Well, goodbye to someone who may have once had some shreds of decency but then disgraced and abased himself to an unfathomable degree. May his biography be a cautionary tale to all who take on this mortal coil.

"No one wants to hurtle in a metal tube to the suffocated corners of the world with shackled, weeping people, whose only crimes were yearning to breathe free..."

And if Rubio weren't a Bible-thumping murderous fascist

What if one side won't play by the rules?

Termination of TPS for Haitians has been pushed back to July 24. www.uscis.gov/save/current...

N.B. Sargent does not feel compelled to relay ICE's circumlocutions: "Asked for comment, ICE emailed a statement that didn’t address the three men’s status and referred questions to the FBI." More reporters/publications should exercise this kind of editorial discretion.

The ICE detention surge is not just in major cities -- it's all over the country. 24 people detained in Hackensack, NJ July 5-6. Happy fascist 250th!

If this country ever recovers from Trumpist fascism, there should be reparations for all the wrongfully detained.

No one should believe a word of this. Transparent lies, over and over again

In case you didn't already assume everything DHS says is a lie

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

If you're a Democrat.

Ominous: Congressional scholar @normornstein.bsky.social thinks there's a real chance GOP will cave to Trump's rage and pass SAVE Act via reconciliation by using a twisted process that overrules parlimentarian. On the pod, Norm is so good on this and everything else: newrepublic.com/article/2128...

Kinda cute that a Minnesota publication brands Bob Dylan as a "Minnesota folk legend."

Oh, and those extra out-of-pocket costs triggered by millions down-shifting to bronze plans? Don't let Republicans convince you that the downshift is evidence of massive fraud. xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/on-writing...

“The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.” open.substack.com/pub/thecause...

Estimate: the ~19.2 million Americans who managed to hold onto [ACA] coverage through February of this year are paying over 50% more in total healthcare costs...or a whopping ~$1,500 apiece on average. open.substack.com/pub/charlesg...

Secrecy surrounding executions in Florida has left victims’ families, prisoners and lawyers searching for clues about the governor’s selection process. “He could be deciding who is next to die by throwing darts at a list of names,” one lawyer said. with @nytimes.com

Happy birthday, America, from Phil Ochs: Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of the poor, Only as free as a padlocked prison door, Only as strong as our love for this land, Only as tall as we stand.

Brit spectrum seems reasonable.

Thing about Franco is, he ruled for 36 years and killed/imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Spaniards. As we struggle to shake off Trump, I often think of what it must have felt like to oppose Franco and lose.

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"

Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over...

It is now de rigueur for federal judges to “do history” via originialsm or textualism. But the craft of history involves years of reading and immersing oneself in the secondary and primary literature, which a law degree doesn’t train for and the haste of writing an opinion does not allow.

the politics of white racial innocence are emerging as a theme that ties together different policy areas.

As millions drop ACA coverage, a close look at how Republicans are writing off the newly uninsured as "phantom" enrollees open.substack.com/pub/xpostfac...

The entire Republican Congress is complicit in this fascist surge.

10,000 people kidnapped in five days. My God. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Would that the U.S. couldn't build a man like this.

This may not be strictly relevant, but Milan Kiros looks like Olivia Hussey.

It is such common practice to precede a statement of belief/experience with a modifying phrase beginning with "As," with no "I" as subject in the main clause, I think we have to bow to usage and not consider these dangling modifiers erroneous.

My wife had me watch a bit of a docu on Chris Evert/Martina Navratilova. The ball was moving so *slow*, and I realized: It's the rackets. Is there any movement to play retro tennis with 1960s rackets -- like musician playing classical music with retro instruments?

My response to Paragon's "Obamacare fraud" claims (adopted by CMS and Republicans in Congress), Part 2: Switching to bronze to avoid premiums is not evidence of mass fraud.

Elect a fascist lunatic and bad things happen

GOP Gov. Mike DeWine: "It is not in the United States' interest, certainly not in Ohio's interest, to have people who are working every single day, who are supporting a family, buying houses, and really are contributing, and yank them out."

This is dumb. Free soda refills won't save us. Right, Americans are not more xenophobic than most peoples. But addled by disinformation & fettered by a less-than-democratic Constitution, we've allowed a fascist takeover that will *change* our national character if we don't manage to throw it off.

Oy, all those coverage losses we thought had been logged as of April were actually as of February...CMS is writing off all the uninsured as "improper enrollments." Gaba has a quick overview: acasignups.net/26/06/26/bre...

I remember Om Malik. Sorry to read of his passing. talkingbiznews.com/media-news/r...

I see right through him! "He will be fully transparent on the 30th,” Mr. Neely wrote in a text message www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/n...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

If Tulsi Gabbard was controlled from childhood by a megalomaniac authoritarian cult leader, she has more integrity than most Trump cabinet members.

They've screwed up their perceived interests so badly, they're driven to unprecedented break-the-glass measures: saying true things.

I'm sorry, it's disgusting.