Declassified White House files confirm Russian election interference for Trump, who instead blames China for backing Biden Intelligence reports from 2020 concluded Russia attempted to discredit Joe Biden and help Trump win the 2016 presidential election.

Nuclear proliferation will be one of Trump’s biggest legacies. Accepted North Korea’s nukes and let Iran out of nuclear restrictions in exchange for nothing in term 1. In term 2, made US allies think they need their own deterrent, now authorizing Saudi uranium enrichment without normal safeguards.

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

Hmm, darf man dann jetzt öffentlich sagen, daß der Springer Verlag verfassungsfeindliche Positionen vertritt und fördert? Für mich zumindest klingen Thiels Äußerungen wie „Demokratie und Freiheit halte ich für nicht mehr vereinbar“ nämlich ziemlich verfassungsfeindlich. @derspiegel.bsky.social

Far-right AfD member Noah Krieger announces plans for “German” anti-drone battalion in the Russian army “Everything is official, and there we will be able to defend our German values,” Krieger wrote on Instagram.

Here we go, the full Carl Schmitt Nazi strategy: Steve Bannon calls for a "national security emergency executive order" to rig the election. They have been planning this since day one. Bannon even wrote the foreword to "Unhumans." www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

Trump posts an image featuring a map showing the United States taking over Canada and Greenland

If President Trump says, "The moon is made of cheese!" it would be pretty silly to post: "BREAKING: President Trump says moon is made of cheese." The moon is not made of cheese. The NEWS is that the president either THINKS the moon is made of cheese or that he is deliberately LYING.

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

“Contrary to the claims of Donald Trump and his allies, Europe is not being invaded by migrants. But it is facing an invasion of a different kind from the US far right, storming Europe’s shores with money, platforms, and personnel.” jacobin.com/2026/07/far-...

🚨🚨🚨 "The three men who were arrested during an operation that resulted in the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction." wapo.st/4ydn1Ux

Cartoonists Are The Only Real Journalists Left In The USA.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

When I said JD Vance’s racist lies about Haitians in Springfield, Ohio sounded like inciting a pogrom, that isn’t a word I use lightly.

Evergreen post: He could be impeached tonight and convicted at trial in a few weeks and removed from office immediately thereafter if about 20 people in DC decided to put country over party for the first time in their miserable, self-dealing lives

Of course.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

“Before the Iran war, Hegseth made deep cuts to the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response programs and slashed CHMR staff at military commands by more than 90%. That included removing civilian harm specialists from target development strike teams and reducing the team of 10 at Central Command”

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

"the amount of recovery aid the Trump administration has announced is just a fraction of the estimated $8 billion in revenues from oil exports it has taken out of Venezuela since the United States deposed the country’s ruler, Nicolás Maduro, in January" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/w...

As NATO gathers in Ankara, Erdogan completes the destruction of Turkish democracy giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

So now millions of football fans around the world view the US as cheaters who used political corruption to influence FIFA and we lose anyway. So much winning. When’s the next war?

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

The US abandoning Ukraine in an attempt to facilitate Russian victory has serious consequences. As Ukraine increasingly manages to strike Russian energy infrastructure, Russia bombs Ukrainian civilians hoping to make Ukraine quit, and more Russian missiles get through due to air defense shortages.

Nigeria is now another country Trump started bombing while making grandiose claims, killed some people, spent some U.S. resources, failed to achieve anything real, then quit. But there’s so much of that at this point—Yemen 2025 is a bigger example—that the Nigeria case doesn’t get much attention.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Difficult to be dumber than this. The white supremacists would be Trump’s federal agents if this idiotic conspiracy theory were true. Which of course it isn’t. Because…dumb.

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Elon: “Mamdani…is a taker…” Eriksen: “Elon, this is the moment where you're supposed to wise up & abandon classical liberalism *** Universal suffrage leads to universal suffering.” Elon: “I have wised up.” (What a statement—especially on the 4th of July.) 1/

All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44batiO

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

People's political fantasy does not deserve a sliver of attention simply because they won the lottery of happening to join the right startup at the right time, setting off a cycle from which they emerged choked with cash. And this would be obvious even if they did not constantly demonstrate it.

these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer

Turns out Trump’s market manipulation with a series of tariff announcements and pauses that tormented American businesses was done to enrich himself.

i'm finally going through the dissents in the birthright citizenship case, each of which grafts some extremely broad unspoken exception onto the plain language of the constitution, and every single dissent can be rebutted by asking "if that is what the drafters meant then why didn't they say it?"

Good thing that isn’t happening with capitalism.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

It's @foreignpolicy.com free week: all pieces are free to read, with no paywall or need to log in - on this occasion I'm re-upping my most popular column ever, outlining how the initial US-Russia peace deal last year came with a US$300bn signing bonus for Trump

‘As the Pentagon stays quiet, AP reconstructs a US strike that killed over 100 Iranian children’ apnews.com/article/iran...

Injustice is as American as cherry pie But the outrageous 30-to-100-year sentences for the Prairieland 9 anti-ICE protesters mark a new low in punishing Americans for their ideas Progressives get virtual life sentences. Right-wingers get pardons. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/prai...

"Let's celebrate the nation's birthday as the Founding Fathers intended: by funneling a quarter-billion dollars into my pockets, using the preferred currency of drug dealers and money launderers. God Bless America!"

Excellent thread. Please read

The girl who was killed by russian glide bomb in Kharkiv today came to the city for her university graduation. ​A graduation robe lies next to her body...

⚡️Russian lawmaker threatens to 'blow up half of Finland,' says country turning into 'second Ukraine.' Aleksey Zhuravlyov, first deputy chair of the Russian State Duma Defense Committee, said Moscow would strengthen its military presence along the border and could easily destroy half of Finland.

...and then you tell her she can never see her parents again and send her back to the cartel

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All" 30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.