They’re trying to deport the men who witnessed the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Hey y’all, I track rural policy news for a living, so I wanted to share a quick and easy explainer about what led to the current Cyclospora outbreak. In a nutshell, Trump and the wingnuts he tapped to lead the CDC are to blame: 🧵

This was within my lifetime— and Stephen Miller, John Roberts and the Heritage Foundation ghouls want to bring it back. 🤬🚩

BREAKING NEWS: Meta rolls back controversial feature that let anyone tag public Instagram accounts and generate images using their likeness—without their knowledge or active consent. @wired.com

Median Household Income by State. In the grand scheme of things, New Mexico is the odd one out, as Democratic states tend to be wealthier than Republican ones. The state that sticks out in the opposite direction is certainly Utah, which would be Dem leaning if it wasn't Mormon.

This should be setting off alarm bells in the Jewish world as well as all those fighting fascism. Republicans are targeting a progressive Jewish nonprofit, hoping to strip it of nonprofit status. This was laid out in the Esther Project, an extension of Project 2025 by the Heritage Foundation.

really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration

The throughline of Rufo's work is that he is liar. He cares about amassing power, and will degrade the principles he claims to defend to do so. When Trump took office, he effectively said, "cancel culture is good when we do it, but bad when it is done to us." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

It is undeniably funny that Chris Rufo - whose whole career is based on the idea that identity politics is so bad that its fine to ruin people's lives over it - is unhappy that Mamdani is not adequately appreciative of his identity

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another crazy unbuilt DC option is this bridge (iirc

JD Vance writing a book about religion is like me writing a book about golf. I hate golf and find the idea of it terribly boring. Would struggle to fake any passion for it. And that’s why Vance’s book is so hard to read. It’s a godless man pretending to be godly. Nails on a chalk board.

I’m kind of convinced that a big part of the Mamdani thing is coming from people on the broad right who think he should be a wedge for Democrats in a way that AFAICT he is not

I promise I am almost done Platnerposting but I want to point out that the establishment hates this man like he killed their whole families. They smear him as often as they can, label him an antisemite, drag him for being Muslim, etc Total rape allegations: 0

This, from Harris, is exactly what you want to see, and I hope it sets the bar for anyone who plans to run. Should certainly make it clear to potential candidates that they can't just ignore structural issues; unlikely she'll let them. Link in next post.

No idea what to do about it, but it continues to cause me great distress that many if not most prominent people on the left-of-center spectrum devote most of their time & energy to factional disputes with other people on the left rather than to fighting the fascists destroying the country.

“I’m on Medicare.” “Trump wants to defund it.” “I don’t believe it. There’s no evidence.” “Well, he already did it.”😕 @waltermasterson.bsky.social valiantly attempts to get through to a MAGA voter that Trump is cutting the programs his life depends on.

President Trump's retail store is now selling $85 hoodies with Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. Trump pledged not to profit off the presidency. In 2025, Trump Store dot com paid him $8.4 million.

By contrast, if Congress is defanged and won’t even defend its appropriations prerogatives, if the Courts are willing to grant a “very special fella” exception to 30 yrs of spending clause doctrine, and if Vought really wants to do this and there is no counterpower mobilized, that’s what will happen

So bottom line: if you drink water from a treatment facility built in last 50 years, if you drive on roads or bridges that need repair, if you live in a flood zone, getting any Fed grant to support this stuff will now depend on your officials’ fealty to the crown.

Here is what OMB rule means for states/local governments (>$1 trillion in revenue at risk): 1) More admin burdens: inestimable amount of new paperwork, allowance for agencies to add vague new “risk factors” in grant determination, vast expansion of E-verify, Buy America provisions on everything…

The fake jobs" complaint is incel code for "women can earn $ for their labor & that enables them to reject men like me." Dissing college is part of that: higher ed must be devalued, bc women are outcompeting men on that terrain. They want involuntary servitude for the majority of the population.

ICE did a Kavanaugh stop, murdered a guy, lied about it, threatened to deport the witnesses, and the FBI is running a coverup and smear campaign. Do I have that right?

Forced from Irish dance because a few Republican men are outraged. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

NEW: Dr. Netha Hussain wears many hats: born in India and currently based in Sweden, she is a medical doctor, researcher, and award-winning Wikimedian, contributing in Malayalam, English, Swedish, Kannada, and Hindi. www.thexylom.com/post/dr-neth...

Cyclosporiasis, the parasite causing the current explosive diarrhea outbreak, is at a level 20x higher than its yearly average. This comes just 1 year after the Trump admin removed a cyclospora tracking mandate from the 'Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network.'

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

I learned yesterday that Total Eclipse of the Heart was written for a vampire musical, Nosferatu. Never came to be and was later used in another vampire musical. I had no idea.

What Would and Should Court Reform Look Like? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

ICE is claiming the officers who killed Lorenzo Araujo in Houston didn't have bodycams bc of "two Dem shutdowns." Put aside that the GOP has the majorities. And that the OBBB gave ICE a huge shutdown-proof slush fund. Here's an article from 5 months ago abt TRUMP explicitly slow walking bodycams:

New in PN: A sentient collection of red flags "When it came to Platner & his supporters trying to push back on the misdeeds that ultimately doomed him, there was never anything of substance or real. He just demanded people accept he was a totally different person than all evidence showed him to be"

“.. part of a growing number of similar violent interactions involving civilians and immigration agents. More than 20 people have been shot at since September, nearly all of them in their cars.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

If you’re skeptical of the insurgent tactics that fueled Platner, you should want the Dem establishment to embrace partisan procedural hardball, to regain credibility with Dem voters. And you shouldn’t feign naïveté about what it means to “fight” or about where *opposition* to hardball is strongest.

Faculty and Students Demand Yale Not ‘Cave’ to Trump: Reports surfaced late last month that Yale University is negotiating a deal with the Trump administration, which is investigating the university’s admissions practices. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

you know how tsunamis don’t seem insidious until they surge and destroy everything? yeah that’s basically what sportsbooks and the prediction markets are doing to millions of bank accounts right now

Try to tally all the crimes committed by Trump's secret police agents outside a courthouse in a Chicago suburb over the course of just a few minutes. An impressive list of serious felonies.

“A lot of what I have described here so far, from parental rights to adoption to paranoia about trafficking, is a view of children as a resource—as a kind of national strategic reserve. It’s a commoditized view, yes, but it’s also a security-oriented one.” www.liberalcurrents.com/what-to-the-...

SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...

If you listen to Rupert Lowe, the head of the Restore Party which is now challenging Farage's Reform for primacy on the populist right, you'll hear a perfect encapsulation of the MAGA/MAHA right in the US: gun rights, intern immigrants, ranting against COVID vaccinations, advocacy of Ivermectin...

#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199

New in PN: Trump's red-baiting won't work "With capitalism failing so many Americans, it’s not enough for Trump to just shout 'Commies!' and assume the votes will follow -- especially when, in all his corruption and greed, he is the living embodiment of capitalism's worst version."

readers would’ve been better served with this in the lede, but i appreciate that it’s not very subtle

it’s not like it would make me any more sympathetic to them, but a decade ago, these same billionaires would have at least tried to argue that their wealth allowed them to create jobs and tax revenue and bolster the economy and they don’t even really bother with the attempt now

have you considered showing a backbone and openly opposing a deal that's going to be immeasurably harmful for markets, consumers, and labor

Extremely telling detail from this WSJ piece about Platner's demise: "Women on the campaign told Platner he was being managed by advisers who treated them unfairly and didn’t value their ideas," with one telling him point-blank "Hey, you have a very sexist, misogynistic staff."

Starting to think the New York Post is trying to get this trans woman killed. Also, not sure why it was necessary to include a pre-transition photo of her from high school. nypost.com/2026/07/07/u...