The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8

The total cost in salaries, benefits for up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel in Memphis could reach $26M annually, according to a federal memo filed in court, reports @awadwhani.bsky.gmail.

Grateful that Lee Harris, the county mayor, brought this lawsuit questioning the state constitutionality of calling up the National Guard. Millions spent to have them stand around at tourist spots and not where crime occurs

For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.

Citizens get arrested when they are targeting people based on skin color and accents

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is insane. Pure megalomania

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings

In Mississippi, thousands of people are taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration today in Corinth, Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Hernando, Jackson, Oxford, Starkville and Tupelo. Here's what you need to know about today's rallies. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippia...

🎯 SEN. YARBRO: “Historically bad decision by Gov. Bill Lee to voluntarily sign up for whatever in the hell this is.”

So disappointing

👀 Just Now -- President Trump in the Oval Office said a government shutdown gives his administration the power to cut benefit programs, which include Social Security and Medicare. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

And after 40 minutes of cringe-Thunderous applause from the generals! Just kidding. Total silence. 👀 🦗 🦗

Today @annamerlan.bsky.social and I have a piece about Trump's autism announcement, along with its weird connections to wellness people who are obsessed with folate deficiencies (and selling supplements for this supposed problem, naturally): www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Experts say the FCC commissioner's conduct—testing how far the agency can go to limit speech without ever quite formally censoring it—is flatly unconstitutional. That won't make it stop. www.wired.com/story/brenda...

Late night hosts criticizing the president isn’t new. Having a thin-skinned dictator wannabe who can’t take it is.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Phil Williams sharing some data…

OPINION: "Many Americans still picture the antebellum South through the lens of popular culture—a romanticized vision shaped by novels & films like 'Gone with the Wind,' with its iconic Tara plantation. This 'Tara effect' continues to influence how plantations are remembered," Betsy Pudliner writes.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

B of A: Data-center electricity demand is contributing to the jump in your electric bill — a 5.8% increase in electricity prices year-on-year, more than double the overall CPI increase of 2.7%. @mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Who could have foreseen that pursuing a lawless terror campaign against the majority of farm laborers would raise the cost of the vital goods they produce for the country

The most important thing to know about Trump’s manufactured crisis in DC is that his administration is still covering up what’s in the Epstein files.

The lawlessness of ICE is making us all unsafe

Kennedy claims that the money will be spent on “better technologies”. mRNA vaccines are estimated have prevented 18.5 million hospitalizations and 3.2 million deaths from COVID19 in the U.S., and saved the country $1.15 trillion. abc7.com/amp/post/rfk...

Pandemic preparedness in the US has been leveled a crippling blow with the cancellation of multiple #BARDA contracts to help develop mRNA vaccines. No other vaccine platform produces vaccine so quickly; without mRNA, Americans will have a long wait for pandemic vax. www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

A massive regressive national sales tax imposed upon every American by a president with no constitutional authority to impose a national sales tax. The reason why the founders gave this power to Congress is because this would never pass any Congress- even this one.

Of course they did.👇

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I’ll watch Stephen Colbert wherever he lands.

Call it the Colbert Test: how healthy a democracy is can be measured by whether its comedians are allowed to make fun of its leaders or not. The US just failed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought." h/t @msnbc.com

Today marks the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. What's happened since? A record number of women have been prosecuted. Pregnancy loss is now considered extremely suspicious, even when it has nothing to do with abortion.

Seven experts weigh in on what could happen if the US goes to war with Iran.

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.

CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

No Kings Memphis www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjttV5eG/

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

Taking healthcare from millions just to give billionaires and corporations tax cuts. Call your reps www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-tak...

Donald Trump took us from the leading economy in the world to our bond rating being downgraded from ‘AAA’ in just four months. So, to answer their stupid question…it can get worse.