Necrocracy. Rule by the dead. We have members of Congress dropping dead in office, running while dying, signing bills while nearly comatose, vanishing for months at a time, and now a president who is "leaving instructions" for what to do if he passes.

“For years to come, there are many people on the right, in the media, and voters at large who are going to have to explain and justify how they fell into the trap of supporting Donald Trump.” — Marco Rubio, 2016

Breaking News: The Trump administration moved to open the habitats of imperiled animals to farming, drilling, mining and other development. Environmentalists characterized it as the most severe erosion of protections for wildlife in half a century. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/c...

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.

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇

This is one of the outcomes of Slaughter. While Slaughter did not allow this, it told Trump to keep pushing his power grab by firing people he has no right to fire, on the assumption that SCOTUS would probably bail him out.

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself… (1/3)

In the Wake of Supreme Court Rulings, Trump Purges Federal Election Agency The move leaves the Election Assistance Commission unable to act as the president seeks to reshape voting rules. ...

These kinds of laws have an invisible ripple effect across the country. A good number of corporations will just change their policies instead of making a NYC-specific protocol. A lot of the consumer protections we have started in one state or big city.

Lorenzo’s Salgado's brother Victor told his lawyer that the agent who pulled his brother out of the vehicle and cuffed him on the ground as he bled out asked in a mocking tone “Se querían escapar, verdad?” which means. “You wanted to escape, right?” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office. We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House. 📸: @ms.now @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

Congresswoman Summer Lee told Daniel Moraff during a staff conference call that if he continued to treat her staff in abusive way that he would be banned. After receiving at least 3 sexual misconduct complaints against him, Lee banned Moraff from her campaign. paydayreport.com/platners-dan...

Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Daniel Moraff from her campaign over sexual misconduct complaints that Lee received about Moraff. Moraff is being ridiculed for not properly vetting Platner, but our investigation shows Moraff was hiding his own sexual misconduct issues

What do the cases of Davey Hearn, the Olympian charged with damaging the reflecting pool, and the shooting death of a Mexican immigrant, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, have in common? Read here: joycevance.substack.com/p/doj-not-do...

Five officers in Albany, Georgia have been charged with using Flock license plate reader technology for personal reasons, according to GBI.

Man killed by ICE agents not intended target of immigration arrest, DHS says Agents seeking different person when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Mexican who had lived in US for 35 years ...

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.

catching up with stuff and i’ll just say that if this report is to be believed then this campaign was more grift than actual effort to win a senate seat

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump Thursday dismissed all remaining commissioners on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), a bipartisan federal agency created to help states administer elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Fascism is harder to pull off when everyone is running around with little video cameras in their pockets, and can easily share the footage of bad deeds with the world. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...

Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.

they mispelled obstruction as self deport

USDA had to revise its late June U.S. beef export numbers DOWN 90%. Quite the "error."

Q: You've called for repealing women's right to vote, which is protected by the 19th Amendment. Why? Pete Hegseth's Pastor, Doug Wilson: Because it's a good idea. A lot of women wouldn't agree. I don't want women voting as individuals

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Juan Proaño on the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo: There were three others with him in that vehicle. Those individuals are now being pressured to sign self-deportation orders. They’re trying to get rid of them as witnesses as well.

The people who screamed about Mamdani proposing a handful of government-run grocery stores in NYC are now bringing us a handful of government-run gas stations and, no, shut up, stop asking questions

Looks like the Trump administration’s latest solution to high gas prices is … a handful of government-promoted gas stations? Called “Freedom Fuel?” Is this socialism? 🤔 @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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“It's a very dangerous environment if this all unwinds. The potential for an accident is increasing.” www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

Damn.

More craziness going on at the White House.

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

WSJ details how RFKJr struggled hard over many weeks to give cover to a woman who murdered her children, because he thought her claims that COVID vaccinations killed them would be useful for his anti vaxxer movement. The word for both is morally depraved. www.wsj.com/us-news/a-mo...

The post-murder clean up: a familiar pattern unfolds. After recognizing that it was a homicide, government officials scurry about to eliminate physical evidence and to remove potential witnesses to the crime. The cover up is underway.

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

I've got the names of the three men who were in the van with the man who was killed by ICE. LULAC's Juan Proano is demanding access to them to get full eyewitness accounts, and he charges that the pressure to self-deport is a cover-up: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

MS NOW Exclusive: Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees.

The son of the man shot and killed by ICE: I am Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. He should've been picking up the last of his guys before heading to finish up construction. Unbeknownst to all of us, my dad had been shot inside his van by ICE agents in unmarked cars.

Social Security is a nonpartisan program, with overwhelming support from Democrats, Republicans, and independents. By using it for political purposes, Trump and Bisignano are betraying the American people, writes Alex Lawson of @socialsecurityworks.org.

Social Security works because people believe it is neutral, safe, and focused on benefits—not a surveillance weapon for ICE to use against American citizens.

40 times and counting… The President’s war of choice, which he continues to claim is almost over, has already cost Americans over $100 billion — more lives lost, more chaos, and more pain at the checkout for folks at home.

This isn’t an academic exercise. The whistleblower—whose brake lines were cut and his airbag tampered with after he filed a complaint—has raised concerns about DOGE exfiltrating data. NLRB data would include sensitive and proprietary business information, the identities of whistleblowers, and more.

NEW: A whistleblower said DOGE operatives had more access to NLRB systems than the CIO did. Records of what they did with their access, though, were mysteriously deleted at least once—something experts can think of no legitimate reason for. @telliotter.bsky.social reports:

A lot of Trump Cabinet members are evil and corrupt, but Sean Duffy just seems legitimately stupid.

How has the Supreme Court, a once revered institution, transitioned into a blatantly political entity? Expert panelists @nikobowie.bsky.social, @anthonymkreis.bsky.social, and Deuel Ross will discuss this pressing question and more at our event on Thursday, July 9. RSVP: https://ampr.gs/4wjiAFR

The Platner collapse confirms my one immutable rule of politics and running for office: Your first campaign should not be a federal one, especially a high-profile race.

A Washington fountain that the Trump administration restored this year is now running brown.