About Pete Hegseth’s talk about testosterone for service members … Rep Becca Balint (D-VT): “There are so many people in this Administration that have some weird, intense homoerotic feelings toward men, while also being homophobic”…

#ELB: What to Expect, When You are Expecting the President to Lie (Again, About Elections) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157403

It's a terrible rule tho retroactively the rule would have been nice, it would've gotten Elon Musk expelled from the country before he could do much damage. (And in any event he should be denaturalized and deported; he lied about his immigration status history to obtain citizenship.)

In the realm of questions posed during Senate hearings, this one from Ossoff -- "Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this?" -- ranks right up there with "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?"

The ACLU has just detailed hundreds of cases of misconduct by immig agents: -kneeling on necks 52x -Agents choking people 10x -smashing car windows 47x -ramming cars 14x -Hit people w/ car 6x Report repeatedly cites ProPublica's reporting B/c transparency takes a village--when the govt blocks it

The Pentagon is rolling out annual testosterone screenings for service members over 30. @samsteindc.bsky.social and @saletan.bsky.social react to Pete Hegseth's truly bizarre “Cialis commercial” announcement and the administration’s increasingly weird fixation on masculinity.

If I’d used this justification (or the other — I believe it was something like, “he’s getting away and might potentially hurt someone!” — one that was cited by ICE) for any kind of use of deadly force when I was on patrol, I’d rightfully have been strung up by IA before I could finish the sentence.

It’s like I forgot I wrote this: www.zocalopublicsquare.org/21st-century...

It has been that way since 1985, Tennessee v Garner, USSC ruling ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenness... ). Most police follow this ruling, but it seems to have been left out of the Noem/ICE training academy. Just cause you can’t keep up don't mean you can shoot him.

Hillbilly Excellency. God forbid his kids take an armored SUV to their golf lessons instead of a military helicopter. Operating the helicopter costs taxpayers between $16,000 and $24,600 per hour!

NYC Bar opposes the nomination of one of its own members, Todd Blanche, to be attorney general, saying he lacks the basic professional integrity that the position demands. A stinging and very detailed assessment. www.nycbar.org/reports/oppo...

I would just like to highlight here that even bags of meth (or any other drug) do not create justification for the use of deadly force. Even if the subject is fleeing.

In TIME - Which Side Are You On? Swift, Trump, and America's 250th - Swift and Trump are entertainers, multi-billionaires, unrelenting self-promotion machines. Yet one stands for honest, self-made success... The other for inherited wealth, anger, divisiveness, corruption... time.com/article/2026...

"It's woke's fault that ladies are repulsed by me!!"

Reupping this clip since I feel like it might become relevant in the next 48 hours

Thanks for the dot. So the story will be: 1. Foreign interference in 2020 (remember they’ve still got Maduro) 2. Therefore election results invalid, including runoffs 3. Some claimed basis for EO or other executive branch interference/control in elections

So @profsanderlinden.bsky.social wrote about the concept of "pre bunking" in his book FOOLPROOF, and this is exactly the right time to do it. Not just media. Us mortals, too. Grab a copy and at least scan it to get the gist. Then do it.

How Regimes Rely on ‘Loyal Losers’ New research sheds light on how low academic performers with poor career options tend to be assigned the most brutal tasks, including torture and murder. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

E Jean Carroll's atty has $5.62M for the Carroll II verdict. ...

trump is a longtime eugenics guy! constantly talking about how his genes make him superior

WHOA indeed. DHS is *not* saying that the officer feared for his life. That is VERY notable in comparison to other shootings.

Well, @asharangappa.bsky.social saw this coming…

Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...

What’s sad to me… is that Lindsay Graham probably thought he could outlast Trump and then reconcile his morality after that. There is no after that now. It’s a good reminder… always do what you know to be right, right NOW. And when you recognize you crossed a line, that’s ok, but come back.

“Prebunking” has been found to be very effective in neutralizing disinformation

so, I went semi-offline for half a day and came back to find four stories any one of which could have been a weeks-long banner headline story in the before times.

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

DOJ now 0-13 in its lawsuits to force states to cough up voter election rolls to which it has no right. Fed court in WV rejects suit w/ some very harsh words for the DOJ. Judge writes: "Given the lack of an adequate basis or purpose, one is left to wonder what the real purpose" of these actions was

If this is accurate, even a "Trump says this, but evidence does not support it story" will be insufficient. This speech is part of an explicit threat against democracy, to overturn and control democratic outcomes. If we can't call this out clearly, we are lost.

Issa Kohler Hausmann at Yale Law School. "What’s missing from the news coverage, and from universities’ capitulation, is that the legal rule supposedly compelling this surrender doesn’t exist. The whole campaign rests on invented law and distorted statistics." news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

The Bluesky content police are truly insufferable

Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

"Trump’s Illegal Boat Bombings Are Just ‘Murder for Murder’s Sake,’ U.S. Official Says" Donald Trump’s boat strikes aren’t working – because they’re ‘not actually designed to end the fentanyl crisis,’ a senior administration official tells Zeteo.

"'And my immediate reaction, on reading the story that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale — with its $44 billion endowment — does not,' she continued."

What a tremendous interview with former FTC Commissioner Becca Slaughter and the Yale Daily News. President McInnis and the trustees come off very, very poorly. An administration that will live in infamy. yaledailynews.com/articles/alu...

In an exclusive interview, Leonard Glenn Francis — the legendary con man better known as Fat Leonard — revealed for the first time, in cinematic detail, how he bamboozled U.S. authorities in 2022, his wild escape and his bid for a presidential pardon.

holy smokes

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

Todd Blanche fired the DOJ pardon attorney for refusing to restore gun rights to convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson…as a favor for a friend of Trump Then he sent US Marshals to her home to intimidate her into silence This man cannot be AG Full story @contrariannews.org 👇 -TN

Todd Blanche wants to be Attorney General. So we checked his résumé. The Epstein file redactions? Just the beginning. That's why we're running a version of this ad on primetime Fox News this week. Tell your Senators to vote no on Blanche.

If you want to UNDERSTAND why Trump wants access to your state's voter records watch this video. It's worth your time. If you don't have time, watch it on 2.0x

👀👀 @hcrichardson.bsky.social This interview with Marc Elias is an eye opener. So much conversation about people seeking to suppress the votes by accessing voter files, but not much explanation about HOW those files can be used. This is it. right here. 👇👇 bsky.app/profile/asha...

This was his post and I don’t want to hear any lectures from those MAGA dirtbags on decorum….

Curious: Did Lindsey Graham object or say anything when Robert Mueller died and Trump tweeted something to the effect of, “good riddance”? If not, I assume that means he was OK with celebrating a man’s death. So.

Holy crap Lindsey Graham died on July 11, the same day in 2015 that he first called Trump a demagogue who was going to ruin the party. Trump mastered Graham first, on his way to mastering the nation.

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0