MAJOR BREAKING: A federal judge JUST RULED that Trump's lawsuit against the IRS was filed for an "improper purpose" and refers attorneys for disciplinary action.

Serrano is blind, and I wonder how much of his iniital pedagogy of offering take home midterms and exams was shaped by a need to make the classroom accessible. But either way, this story highlights how impossible universities, AI companies, and able-bodied students are making accessible classrooms..

ICE is about making private prisons profitable. Like a hotel, a private prison loses money on every empty bed. So imprisoning any warm body will do, to make their 3,000 arrests per day quota. Consider who gets targeted when there are no more immigrants left to arrest.

#TeamPedo and the #GOP must be purged.

🚨WATCH: An Israeli officer dumped on the floor a disabled Palestinian man from his wheelchair for trying to help a girl shot by the IDF. They have no mercy.🤬🇮🇱♾️

"If you're baffled as to why they're murdering health workers in Gaza, it's because they are the people who will testify in court as to what has been done. They are killing the witnesses. Liam Cunningham

Horrific

When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

In 1999 a farmer deeded land for a park for $10 to Taylor, TX because he noticed kids had no place to play. In 2025 the city sold the land to a developer for $10M to build a data center. Now, city says petition to ban data centers cannot move forward. finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...

New: Officials say intel confirms that Trump’s boat strikes aren’t achieving the purported goal of stopping the flow of drugs. Top WH & Pentagon officials know this. And that apparently hasn’t changed a thing — as sources say Trump is now exploring an *expansion* of operations. @swin24.bsky.social

What kind of fascist hellscape is happing on Pennsylvania Ave at the Eastern Market Metro stop? These guys—seemingly all white, all men—have their faces covered, are carrying shields, wearing brown …

The Northern Ireland fire service had 300 calls overnight, attending 51 bonfire related incidents. Two houses destroyed in Antrim, probably by sparks from bonfire www.nifrs.org/11th-july-op...

“You know how you make America great again?” Mr. Graham said in a CNN interview in 2015. “Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

Congratulations to Lindsey Graham for writing his own obituary ten years and two months in advance. The question of who deserves it remains, since the natural world and a whole lot of people in this country and beyond do not deserve it.

"But eventually Graham got on board with Trump’s Russia denialism. He mounted a side investigation that focused not on Putin’s operation but on the FBI’s investigation of the Russian operation and the Steele dossier..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.

I don’t remember if Lindsey Graham or Brett Kavanaugh melted down first, but their back-to-back, angry outbursts are part of the reason Donald Trump didn’t pull the nomination after Christine Blasey Ford came forward.

“Self-Portrait” by Haruka Kawakami

We already know there are witnesses who contradict the government’s story about the death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Now video is starting to come out as well We’ve seen ICE lie-many times-about people they’ve killed. Seems like it’s only a matter of time before this is revealed to be murder

It’s one of the true pleasures of the job - historians get to skip the whole “this isn’t the time” commentary and have at it. Graham was a plague on the Senate, a chickenhawk, and one of the most accomplished hypocrites in this country’s recent history.

The regime’s desire for authoritarian dominance is bottomless, but its capacity is limited. By prioritizing anti-democracy, anti-law abuses, they undermine their own capacity, as people of integrity resign. This effectively makes institutions easier to corrupt, though weaker as they get corrupted.

"You get to live your life the way you want. That's the whole point of not being in a bunker. No one gets to tell you what to do."

"“I saw the arrogance in the eyes of those settlers, 21- and 22-year-olds with guns, laughing that they had detained us." US dollars should not be going to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Related thread. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

NEW: Friday night’s ruling marked the department’s 12th straight loss in lower courts in its legal crusade to force all 50 states and the District of Columbia to forfeit their voter rolls to the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mamdani should declare a random Sunday Sacco and Vanzetti day just because.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

Harry Kane in Dril tweets:

"leaving Iran and Ukraine to non-diplomats because Marco is too busy running Venezuela and killing Cuba" All of these are deliberate choices.

Social media thought the Trump summoned Patel to rebuke him for his jet-skiing adventures. Silly social media! Trump doesn't care about corruption. He summoned him to direct a lawfare campaign against the NYT. Remember friends, this isn't a soap opera. It's fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Wild-grown Ceylon black tea. Comes from a Scottish estate abandoned in 1890. Reclaimed by a Sri Lankan tea maker in 2018, it's now a forest with towering, 150-year-old tea trees. His team uses ladders to pluck the leaves.

Tough talk from a guy in the fifth month of a six-week war

I don’t feel like we actually argue about politics more on here than on Twitter but I do feel like this place is much more apt to have an argument about whether graham crackers are delicious or useless that spirals out of control

It should be a crime to conceal the death of a public official

Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in south Texas home to most critically endangered species — including ocelots, northern aplomado falcons, Kemp's ridley sea turtles, and piping plovers All now on death row if Space X takes their land act.biologicaldiversity.org/Ws09iSNvsE2X...

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

🧵This story is insane in so many ways that others are more qualified to analyze. Can only add that viz US foreign policy, Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, acting as viceroy of Venezuela is derelict, unconscionable, & impeachable. The SecState's time is scarce, valuable, and not outsourcable. 1/

If it turns out Mitch McConnell is dead and the GOP are involved in a coverup to prevent a special election that is mandated by Kentucky law, people need to go to prison. Full stop.

CDC stopped monitoring parasite now causing explosive diarrhea across the country

“The official contractor for the new ICE holding facility will be the company’s nonprofit arm, the LaSalle Family Foundation. However, LaSalle Corrections itself will be involved in operating the holding facility” Former IRS lawyer told me: “doesn’t pass the smell test” apnews.com/article/ice-...

This Christian pastor made it safely from one city to another, but he’s still blaming the crew because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

If the argument here is "Brad Lander is too safe as a Jew in diaspora to tell Israeli Jews how to keep safe," that sits uncomfortably with the argument that a Jewish state is necessary to keep Jews safe.