When DHS shot Marimar Martinez in Chicago last October, they also claimed she tried to ram agents with her car. She survived, so they even charged her criminally. They lied. She had done no such thing, and the goon who shot her bragged about it in texts. They dropped the charges against her.

They did the Jimmy Carter thing to Gloria Steinem

NEW: The Associated Press has called the Colorado GOP Gov primary for ministry leader Victor Marx. Here is my interview with Marx in May about his unsubstantiated claims, the number of people he's killed as a civilian, and the exorcisms he performs.

Has anyone written about what the decline in literacy means for Protestantism?

I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.

Evans knows he’s got no chance so he’s setting himself up for a federal appointment next year

Was curious whether GOP Rep Gabe Evans in swing CO-8 would seek to distance himself from longshot/extreme Republicans on the ticket - like exorcist/Gov candidate Victor Marx and election denier/Sec of State candidate James Wiley. Evans is going with full embrace of both.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Breaking: Victor Marx has won the GOP gubernatorial primary, per the AP.

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

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six pack abs, a mane like a lion, bronzed skin from working out in the sun, not a hair on his perfect chiseled body, none of this homo stuff

Video appears to show no damage to the vehicle of the man ICE killed in Houston, who had lived in America peacefully for 35 years, despite ICE's claim that he "rammed" an ICE vehicle and "tried to run over" an agent. These people are not credible.

One story from this: The goal of the initial takeover in 1861 was to remove an obstacle to the secessionist governor's plot to take over the US Army arsenal in St. Louis and bring St. Louis into the confederacy. His plot failed due to Capt. Nathanial Lyon and Wide Awake militiamen.

I've got a new article for the August cycle called Police Takeovers. It centers on the long history of state controlled policing in St. Louis, where the state retook control over the police force last year. It argues that such takeovers are a new and more aggressive version of hyper preemption.

It's funny because in real life manhattan's little italy is just increasingly subsumed by chinatown

Will the people who blamed Krasner when crime went up credit him now that it's dropping drastically? spoiler: no they won't

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Only one student enrolled in West Virginia University’s new Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandated the creation of the program Lawmakers allocated around $3 million to the program in the last two years

Missourians since 2020 have voted to expand Medicaid, legalized marijuana, raised the minimum wage, repeal the abortion ban, and legalize sports betting. Under a new constitutional amendment that'll be voted on in a month, these would ALL have failed. boltsmag.org/missouri-ame...

ah yep there it is. great work dumbasses

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Not every day something you worked on gets on the front page of the print edition of the NYT!

Woman walking her dog by my house on the phone talking very loudly about this and how those ICE bastards are liars and killers

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

Troy Jackson just texted me asking for money

I think this is actually an interesting question because there is clearly something that unites them all (beyond just misogyny) but there are also really big differences between them. (but I don't think any of them can be said to be "the left" currently)

Saw this picture and assumed she was a credible candidate for maine senate

Might put this on my crim final: "Is this manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide?"

Going full luddite this year tbh

Absolutely wild. They desperately want this to go away. It won’t.

Flat out bribery, as usual

Latest: I got records showing how officials launched a threat investigation into an elderly Florida man for sending a postcard to Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia that just read: "You lack values." Ingoglia's office was flooded with similar postcards after the man went public reason.com/2026/07/06/7...

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NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

theyre hiding mitch mcconnell in one of those christian homes for wayward teens because he is pregnant out of wedlock

Together they defeated the Nazis!

🚨BREAKING🚨 More than 600 workers at Hachette Book Group just voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the largest union in trade publishing history! newsguild.org/hachette-boo...

PE in youth sports is a nice example of how the problem with capitalism is the insatiable drive towards market totalitarianism. Market allocation makes perfect sense for many things, but capitalists and their politicians cannot draw the line and leave some realms of life well enough alone

Always a special day when I can pull the box with Walter Reuther’s carved wooden hand. From the @uaw.org’s archives here at the @reutherlibrary.bsky.social. Learn more: youtube.com/shorts/_9o31...

2/ Under Alito's "updating," the more racist a party is, and therefore the more it drives away minority voters, the *less* likely a plaintiff is to be able to satisfy the Gingles preconditions, because it will be increasingly impossible to "control for partisan preferences" as distinct from race.

It really is an issue how many elites are totally disconnected from reality

2/ TL;DR: I built a bunch of highly-modular online simulations you can use with your students. They cover automation bias,¹ the false positive paradox,² competing definitions of fairness,³ disparate impact resulting from machine bias,⁴ and the value of due process.⁵

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

People are saying Trump is the vibe killer

Re: Colorado GOP governor primary: Nothing fundamentally has changed since Thursday, no race call yet. With 98% reporting, Marx is up 1,950 votes on Kirkmeyer (39.8%-39.5%). The deadline to cure ballots is Wednesday, and it looks like we may not get a call from the AP until then.

I stopped doing updates on this, but it looks pretty certain the guy who claims to have killed a bunch of people is going to be the Republican candidate for CO governor

A major structural problem in the US is that you basically have to be a complete narcissist to run for office. Kurt Vonnegut made this point 20 years ago and it's only gotten worse since then.