Nice to see The Onion providing some laughs, restitution to Sandy Hook families and stripping Alex Jones of his website.

#Resisters #Democrats #RedCrew #BlueCrew

Researchers at UCLA and the Barcelona Institute for Global Health projected that the continuing absence of USAID funding will cause 4.5 million child deaths under the age of five by the year 2030 Via The Lancet

Breaking news: Alex Jones has popped like a balloon.

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“The income of the first lady, Melania Trump, surpassed that of the vice president, with her business earnings totaling between roughly $17.3 and $18.2 million last year. She took in less than $1 million in 2024, federal disclosures show.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...

SNYDER: Ukrainians defending one way of living from different, where people can be themselves as opposed to people having to be told who they are. If they had surrendered or weren't defending themselves, we'd be in such a different world, and it would be worse in every respect.

Dereliction of Duty, Incompetently, any one Trump has obviously lost his ability to make rational decisions or he just doesn’t care.

The fair is still open, and people are having a wonderful time. #America250

I teach about the Bicentennial in my public history class so I'd been talking to them about America250 for years, this breakdown about how Freedom 250 was created to be Trump's partisan, corrupt version is sobering & validating. I also keep thinking about how insidious it is to call it Freedom 250..

Some donors who intended to give to the bipartisan, congressionally chartered America250 initiative were instead steered to the partisan, Trump-backed Freedom 250, according to a report from House Dems. The report says that could amount to "potential wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud."

“Platner is running behind the Democratic Party as a whole in Maine. Voters there want a Democratic Senate by 54-42, so his 49 percent support lags that. By contrast, in Times polling, all the Democrats in other red states—Ohio, Texas, Alaska, Iowa, North Carolina—are outrunning their party.”

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June job numbers are dismal. Only 57,000 jobs added. Considering these numbers are surely overstated, we’ve most likely been in a Trump recession for the past 6-9 months.

Based on past performance, I will bet $10,000 they lied to a grand jury yet again.

I am against both corporate welfare and agricultural subsidies. Every time I stick corn juice in my car it annoys me that I'm paying some farmer to grow corn we don't need so we can stick ethanol in our cars and corn syrup in our kids.

Miller just complained about women having babies in jets aloft in US airspace Trust me, he's not hiding anything

This’ll be interesting: And Trump won’t dare sic his DOJ on Smith because “discovery” will expose ALL of Trump’s crimes all over again. And probably stuff we don’t even know about.

“Todd Blanche charged Carmen Lineberger with felony obstruction of justice..and misdemeanor theft..for emailing copies of Volume II to her Gmail and Hotmail accounts. Today, the [DOJ] filed notice to Judge Aileen Cannon that THEY wrongly emailed THREE copies of Volume II to Lineberger’s attorneys”

Students with disabilities are students first. For 50 years, the Dept of Education has been tasked with ensuring students with disabilities have the opportunity to learn & grow. The Trump admin's decision to move that responsibility to HHS & DOJ will only hurt these students. It's shameful.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many.

Correctamundo

Seattle's PBS member station has spun out its internal technology company into a standalone business that helps other PBS member stations across the country develop their own streaming TV apps. They already have partnerships with stations from Arizona, California, Montana and New York.

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AI data centers are buying up memory chips, forcing up the price of virtually all our consumer electronics. It was great to have @papapishu.bsky.social back on the show to understand why this is happening, how’s benefiting, and what people are doing in response.

The media will never stop referring to Roberts, Thomas, Alioto, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett as the “conservatives,“ even though they are the most radical, activist, unbound by precedent, judges imaginable.

While he's flailing:

Modern conservatism is dead. Don’t let them forget it.

It will not, of course, surprise you to learn that much of Trump’s boodle comes at the expense of his credulous marks. He has stuffed his pockets even as the rubes have seen the value of their investments crater. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

What works for them will not work for you. They have a cult, you need a coalition.

this only works if other Democrats say "we are not that"

I already spent days here arguing about why Gaza wasn't a genocide, not doing that again. But if the war in Gaza is your primary issue, you're not really all that concerned about democracy in America, you're just another single-issue voter demanding that the world acknowledge you.

Ohhhh yes it is

I had to chuckle because this is true. But my point remains: don’t force voters into choosing between extremes because they will gravitate toward the right.

“Iowans now view Trump negatively by 13 points (42% favorable vs. 55% unfavorable). Democrat Josh Turek has an early 4-point advantage over Republican Ashley Hinson: 50% vs. 46%. Among voters who say they are extremely motivated to vote, Turek holds a 15-point lead.” www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

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'Fear and obey': Historian warns Trump an accomplices are pushing US to the brink #AlterNet

"A new Washington Post report says President Donald Trump's golf course redevelopment plan would destroy "Washington's oldest grove of cherry trees," the sole survivors of Japan's original 1910 gift to America."

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

⚡️ Ukraine's Brave1 signs first major Western defense industry partnership with Airbus. Airbus and Brave1 will collaborate on research, testing of military technologies on Ukraine's front lines, and modernizing equipment.

AKA, corruption in plain sight.

It's been a year since the Big Ugly Bill became law — and the receipts are in. Higher costs for working families. More tax breaks for billionaires. And a whole bunch of lies. Since Trump and Republicans want to treat American lives like a reality TV show... let's roll the tape.

Didn’t see this coming. Another Senate race to watch closely. Lindsey Graham spent years acting like South Carolina belonged to him. The voters might have other plans. Dr. Annie Andrews is at 45%, and among informed voters, she leads Graham 46% to 43%.

🎵 The wheels on the war are falling off, falling off, falling off...🎵

"Polling on the midterms shows Democrats now have an advantage of about six points. How can that number be increased? Polling also shows that about 58% of Americans now disapprove of DONALD J. TRUMP, with only 39% approving—a net disapproval of almost 20 points." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the Pentagon to temporarily lift the requirement that all journalists visiting the building be accompanied by an official escort. The decision was another rebuke to the Trump admin's efforts to restrict reporters who cover the Department of Defense.

i have been thinking about this a lot. my "left-wing" ideas about government reform mostly amount to trying to make the federal government conform with the vision in the constitution: a strong, active and majoritarian congress

Fuck this prick that said he doesn't think about us, because he only thinks about himself!