NEWS: Rep. Andrew Clyde owns a gun store. He sits on the committee that funds the ATF, and he's spent years trying to gut its budget. A gun sold by his store just turned up in a federal trafficking case.

Crypto is only used as a currency for drugs, arms sales, murder for hire, CSAM and human trafficking. It has a side hustle helping Chinese and Russian millionaires sneak money out of their countries. If the entire monetary system is the internet, crypto is the encryption pedos use to trade files

There is a good chance that if this had happened to me in this story, I would have died. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...

From investment fraud to sophisticated schemes involving hard-to-trace digital currency, Texans lost more than $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams in 2025. Here’s what to know. bit.ly/4p7d6LU

Texas Rights Group, Officials Demand Independent Probe After ICE Fatally Shoots Immigrant www.commondreams.org/news/texas-i...

Lawrence O’Donnell dismantles the myth of Graham Platner. And warning signs were there all along. Information was publicly available, but ignored. Maybe the U.S. Senate shouldn’t be someone’s first political job. No public office. No real vetting. Hype isn’t a substitute for scrutiny. 🧵

Ken Paxton reportedly voted in six elections using an address where he allegedly did not live, despite warning Texans against illegal voting. #Texas www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...

With the economy, foreign policy and immigration all going poorly for Trump, he’s scrambling before the midterms. But he has run out of cards to play, which is why he’s now talking about the “communist menace." Oh please...

Well let @mikenellis.bsky.social handle this one

Our client Amanda (@catsonacouch.bsky.social) runs a political commentary page dedicated to making fun of Vice President Vance, which is her constitutional right. She was stopped by armed Secret Service agents from attending an official vice presidential event, which she had registered for.

This story has been percolating in local media since last month – credit to Syracuse.com, which appears to be the lead dog on this story — but it just hit the national radar over the last 24 hours or so. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

The Trump regime is ramping up its deportation agenda again. ICE quietly arrested 10,000 people in just 5 days last week. There are now 63,000 people in ICE detention, while deaths in detention are at a record high. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

Ellman: You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires? Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had tbi, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?

JUST IN: Over 1,200 former DOJ employees just signed a letter urging the Senate to REJECT Todd Blanche's nomination for Attorney General.

How is it not fraud?

The Houston Chronicle, largest newspaper in Houston endorse James Talarico! 👏 Writing, “Texans deserve better than Ken Paxton’s moral rot’… Paxton’s documented deeds prove he’s a man of low character, lacking integrity. An extremely very poor candidate for an even more powerful political office.

This is fucking shameful.

Mitch McConnell arriving to the next session of Congress.

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Election deniers are shifting their rhetoric from ‘stolen’ to ‘rigged’ elections. That’s because they’re using “rigged” to refer not to fraud or other actual cheating, but simply to voting policies that, they believe, make it too easy to cast a ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Conflicts of interest? Trump only has one interest: himself My latest for The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/02/trump-crypto-conflict-of-interest

Trumpy’s Reflecting Pool Reno Is So Bad, They Have to Drain It Again, and the same company who phucked it up will get paid again. How much does Trumpy get? Comissions will be in the millions. Almost like it was planned this way. More $ for Trumpy. newrepublic.com/post/212711/... via @newrepublic.com

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated. Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... by @qjurecic.bsky.social #ICE #DHS #DoJ #FBI

It is deeply alarming that a federal agency is using its investigative power to monitor and potentially harass individuals based on their criticism of the government. This is a direct assault on the First Amendment and a desperate attempt to protect the agency from public oversight.

Posted for no reason. No reason at all...

New essay: Companies tell us mass surveillance is inevitable, so we should accept it for our safety and convenience. It's not inevitable, it is a business model and a border enforcement strategy, and the two are more tangled together than many people want to admit. jgcarpenter.com/blog.html?bl...

July 6 marks 10 years since Philando Castile was shot and killed by a St. Anthony police officer. Castile’s death sparked protests, became a rallying cry for police reform and led to the first prosecution of a police officer for an on-duty killing in Minnesota history.

Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.

Investment accounts owned by Trump engaged in 327 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025 — one day ahead of his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his tariffs. The disclosure comes more than 14 months after the purchases occurred.

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal who deserves to be in prison.

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

Dang, pretty good list 👍 How many have you read? 📚 I counted 6 for me, I have some reading to do. 😂 What would you add??

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

NEW: A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the first Trump presidency.

RESPECT Every politician should be doing this. Mayor Coffman has spent every Friday night since February sleeping at Aurora, Colorado’s homeless center, serving breakfast in the morning, and learning firsthand what works and what doesn’t.

Thinking about this scene from the BLUES BROTHERS today for no particular reason.

🚨 Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work We need to restart global tax reforms...

Its about time Americans learned what socialism really is about. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/a-de...

#ResistanceEarth You can't blame the guy for being pissed. The scientist who was one of the first to show that humans are causing climate change says his research was used in the Trump DOE report to claim just the opposite. He wants the DOE report withdrawn. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul water. “That’s what keeps us alive,” Tewa said. Four states stand in the way of a deal to give her community water. with @kjzz.org

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

“Polymarket [Backed by Peter Thiel] Allegedly Paid Influencers to Stage Fake Wins … According to [WSJ], Polymarket & its contractors reportedly built near-identical clone sites — including a domain called poiymarket.com — where creators cld simulate trades without risking real money.” 6/23/26 … 1/

If you're an FBI analyst surging to Atlanta to review records, reach out to me. I'll keep you anonymous. Signal in bio. Please share this post widely.

“Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday.” #ClimateCrisis This should be well understood by now.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Dozens of intel officials have started receiving notice of their terminations under Trump's unqualified acting DNI, Bill Pulte. The individuals are officials "who they believe are deep state" and whom leadership claims have not provided complete pictures of available intel.

NEW: Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility's staff failed to adequately respond. with @texastribune.org