Today's newsletter is about Ronald Reagan, AI, and the "liar's dividend" www.readtpa.com/p/the-liars-...

Okay, but what if Janet Mills *also* has a giant Nazi tattoo?

No Kings, Phoenix

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

We must end the death penalty, once and for all. On this World Day Against the Death Penalty, add your name to the growing number of people calling for an end to capital punishment.

Diddy’s attorney to Judge: “He touched many more lives than I can cover in the next minutes…” Yeah, we know that’s why your client is being sentenced.

A new KFF study reports: 24 million Americans will see their health care premiums under the Affordable Care Act DOUBLE. Further, 15 million people will be thrown off their health care entirely.   Unacceptable. We can’t subject millions of Americans to this unnecessary suffering.

NEW: TX is asking NY courts to declare NY's reproductive health care shield law unconstitutional in an attempt to enforce its abortion ban across state lines. @law.ucla.edu's @lindsaywiley.bsky.social lays out a legal case for why NY (and other shield states) can and should reject such overreach.

Senate Republicans just voted to shut down the government — blocking our bill to fund it responsibly, protect health care, and stop Trump from getting a blank check for his lawlessness. They’d rather please their Dear Leader than deliver for the American people. Shameful.

Senator Elissa Slotkin, who is fond of bringing up her national security expertise from having worked for the CIA, says she hasn't had a chance to read Trump's NSPM-7 directive. It was signed a week ago! www.courthousenews.com/dems-condemn...

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

Very good Two Cheers for Solidarity piece from @jvl.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

If this sort of language is included in the senate version of this, Democrats have an obligation to filibuster it. This provision would be absolutely massive and hurt trans people of all ages.

The birthday letter I wrote to Jeffrey Dahmer where I said “Jeff — love what you’re up to. In fact, I love all that stuff too. We are kindred spirits with the same hobbies, if you know what I mean!” is being taken out of context

she said that “black” with a hard r

We are very far off the cliff here folks. 🇺🇸

Chef John from Food Wishes dotcom

Murphy: Kamala Harris ran a campaign asking people to defend democracy, when a lot of people looked at this version of democracy and said, if this is the version of democracy that you're defending, I don't want it. Democrats need to be for a version of democracy that’s clean and not corrupt

As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.

Mullin blocking Gallego resolution calling for release of the Epstein files: What we’re simply trying to do is give [Trump] cover

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/histori...

I am so used to former President Obama not commenting on President Trump’s statements and social media posts that I was shocked to see his spokesman issue this statement:

Rabid RFK Jr. Bites Foreign Dignitary

If you work in media and have evidence of editorial pressure against reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's relationship, text me securely via Signal at 202-510-1268. My DM is also open. Your anonymity will be protected.

I will never, ever, under any circumstances vote for Rahm Emanuel. Ever.

Anti-LGBTQ orgs have explicitly stated they USE sports as a "gateway drug" to undermine trans people's rights. They've also said this is how they eventually roll back all progress on LGBTQ rights. Newsom falls for it hook, line, and sinker.

"We found the moderate position with flat earthers. Earth is now a cylinder."

Are concentration camps a bad thing? We spoke with two Grok users at a White Castle in Toms River.

I am really glad—truly—that more outlets are covering FEMA’s unacceptable response in Texas. But for my original reporting to receive ZERO acknowledgement (especially when I know many of these outlets originally declined to cover this story) is simply maddening. I would literally never do that.

It’s rich seeing major outlets who originally declined to write about FEMA’s shitty response in Texas just now publishing stories and without crediting my original reporting.

I Love Fireworks

Freedom from kings. Freedom from fascism. Power to the people forever. ♥️ Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

This seriously looks like this was taken at a Little League picture day

Trump now has his own Gestappo in the form of ICE. His own army. Who stops them? I really dont know.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Cops love to do the "if [left of center politician] becomes mayor, we're all gonna resign!" thing and then not resign when it happens www.nbcchicago.com/chicago-mayo...

We’ve reached the “building concentration camps and funding secret police to arrest enemies of the regime” phase of America fascism. It would be super useful if the nominal opposition party would say that to the American people!

I simply cannot. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Have been losing my mind all morning at this absolutely bowel-crushing Franco-Ethiopian jazz-funk cover of War Pigs. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kVY...

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"I’m sorry if I’m not adequately sympathetic to Lisa Murkowski’s plight, but she understands the consequences of her actions. She says the vote was difficult– she voted for it! That’s not difficult. You don’t get credit for doing the hard thing when you don’t actually DO the hard thing."

This is completely disgusting. UPenn was afraid of losing funding, and they've decided humiliating Lia Thomas is a worthy price to pay to save themselves. Lia Thomas did nothing wrong. She followed the rules and competed fairly and honorably. UPenn's leadership are cowards.

Riley Gaines will always be a 5th place swimmer.