I'm not surprised that Georgia dropped this case but I'm disappointed. Fani Willis let us all down by sleeping with a subordinate. If she'd shown more integrity, we might have gotten a successful prosecution before the election, which effectively killed the case.

There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

This is a critical moment. In a purely political and malicious prosecution, the Justice Dept got caught botching their indictment, and their responses are lying and indignation. The court should respond with contempt of court charges and the VA Bar should disbar the perps.

Poor Larry Summers. Who could have guessed that one of the key architects of the crash of 2008 would take a fall over his association with Epstein. I hope that Harvard sacks him and he suffers *some* consequences for his sins.

The Deep South never fails to fail its inhabitants.

Michael de Adder’s latest cartoon, “Captain Hook.”

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes Jonathan Chait. Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in:

I've never been arachnophobic, but this is the stuff of nightmares.

"Smoking on the 'Bill Crackman' tonight" 😂 Jamaal Bowman, Hasan Piker, Tish James, Cynthia Nixon, Mahmoud Khalil, Brad Lander, Jennifer Welch, Zohran's mom Mira Nair, and so many other fun folks stopped by the Zeteo livestream last night in Brooklyn. Here are the bits, in less than 3 mins. Enjoy!

The Democratic wins tonight are great news, but we can't let up. The Republicans have just received a powerful message that they're going to underperform in the next election cycle. They're going to pull out all the stops to steal elections. We must be very vigilant.

Art from July, 2025 🇺🇸 I do believe the Superman just socked this ICE agent in the jaw.

This is a big win. The Trump administration was planning to illegally withhold the SNAP contingency fund, intentionally withholding food assistance from 42 million food-insecure Americans. A federal judge just ordered them not to intentionally starve people. share.google/q9ccbv6N2V3N...

Wells Fargo scammed millions of people by opening fake accounts. The Trump Administration just reduced a former Wells Fargo exec's $10 million fine to $0. Trump is making life more affordable for Wall Street executives — and more expensive for everyone else.

There really is no bottom to the corruption of the Trump administration. Trump just committed the sentence of the most corrupt Representative in US history. He served just three months of an 87-month sentence. And Trump screwed his victims by cancelling Santos' court-ordered restitution.

Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo. zeteo.com/subscribe

Like so many Trump supporters, coal miners are being betrayed by him. The Biden admin set limits on airborne silica, which gets worse as a mine becomes unviable. Trump waived the limits and subsidized financially unviable coal mining, spiking worker black lung cases. But the owners are doing great.

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January * 100s starved to death, including kids * Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel * US citizens murdered in the West Bank I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

New study shows COVID vaccines: 💉Reduced people’s risk of ER by 29% 💉Reduced risk of hospitalizations by 39% 💉Reduced the risk of death by 64% 💉Vaccination was effective in all age groups and “in persons with or without major chronic conditions.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

This is a very intriguing study. Litterbox AI may be able to do early detection of illnesses, such as renal problems, based on the analysis of detailed litterbox usage data. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-c...

This seems like a very solid and we'll-researched plan. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

UPDATE — “Former megachurch pastor Robert Morris, once spiritual adviser to Trump, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a child… 10-year suspended sentence, ordered to serve six months, register as a sex offender, pay $250,000 in restitution…” www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2...

Jim Comey, who quite probably swung the 2016 election for Trump with his BS last-minute, Hatch-act violating hatchet job on Clinton, shouldn't be wrongfully prosecuted in a fascist show trial. Even that election ratfucker who probably ruined this whole timeline deserves his constitutional rights.

I believe the R's will suffer more from the shutdown than the D's. The D's are doing a good job of focusing on Medicaid cuts. Consider this strategy matrix - 1. D's back down. R's claim victory. 22 mil people's healthcare costs spike. 2. D's don't back down, claim victory. 22 mil keep low HC costs.

👀 @ericswalwell.bsky.social bringing it 👇🏽

Is MAGA a fascist movement? NEW VIDEO. You tell me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0om...

Sen. Warnock called Georgia’s Medicaid work requirement program “the real waste, fraud, and abuse.” “This report shows that Pathways is incredibly effective at barring working people from health coverage and making corporate consultants richer.”

This is going to get ugly. I hope that the Congressional Democrats don't forget that the last time Schumer backed down, the Republicans gave away the Congress' right to control tariffs to Trump, which was a disaster and ceded a Congressional power to a fascist president.

The circumstances of Mr. Escobar's arrest are even worse than the brief summary above. He repeatedly tried to tell the immigration officials that he had papers while they were arresting him. In response, a federal agent said "No you don't. You are illegal," and "Shut up, bitch! You're illegal."

Reminder - Anne Frank died from typhus as a result of dangerous and unsanitary conditions in a concentration camp, not from a gas chamber.

Pressure works. ABC/Disney bought into the image of Trump as all powerful, but they found out pretty fast that everyday people hold a lot of power, too. An attempt to subpoena FCC Chair Brendan Carr is being blocked. Tell your representative to demand an investigation into government censorship. 👇

I've got a strategic question for you all. Given that postcard campaigns, phone banking, and door knocking seem to be a whole lot of work for small and diminishing returns, what are some better strategies to move the needle to blue in purple House races in 2026?

The jobs impacted attract the best and brightest from other countries to the US. They pay a lot of taxes and spend a lot of money here. This will drive these jobs elsewhere. Google, Apple, etc. can staff a geographically-distributed team in any of their sites. Why fill these positions in the US now?

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p #TAF25

This song about Charlie Kirk is very powerful. substack.com/@samantha705...

A bunch of chumps in Pennsylvania who bought Trump's lies hook, line, and sinker can't believe that no undocumented workers want to work in a county where 75% of them voted for an admin that harasses and illegally deports them to torture prisons. We warned you stupid rubes about this over and over.

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Resist the false equivalency narrative that left-wing political violence is at a comparable level to right-wing political violence.

RIP, Mark Norell. As somebody who was enthusiastically interested in dinosaurs, particularly in my childhood, I read his breakthrough insights with great interest in the 1990s. The emergence of the knowledge that birds were dinosaur descendants was a great lesson for me about how science advances.

Never assume that shady organizations aren't awful just because they hide behind crosses and shout "jeeezus" a lot.

The circumstances of Charlie Kirk’s killing—an end no one deserves—can’t erase the role he himself played in pushing American political culture toward embracing violence. slate.com/news-and-pol...

As facts emerge about the background and persuasions of Charlie Kirk’s killer, we should be reminded that responsible people wait for facts to emerge…not instantly attempt to incite violence against “the radical left.”

Regarding upholding the rule of law for felonious ex-presidents, Brazil is much more civilized than the US. "Prosecutors said he had started to plot to stay in power long before, proposing launching a coup to military commanders and sowing unfounded doubts about the electoral system." - so familiar

TIP FOR CONSERVATIVES: If you are bereft over the gun shooting of Charlie Kirk, just pretend he was a kid in an elementary school, and you will forget about the whole thing within a minute.

When a Supreme Court decision can be perfectly represented by a Family Guy joke about systemic racism in law enforcement, you've got a problem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I have read Trump’s “war department” EO. This is nothing. He changed nothing. He added pretend secondary titles with no power under the law. He will make the government spend hundreds of millions for vanity labeling purposes. If you’re in the media and you don’t harp on that, you’re failing.

If there is a Hell, there's a special place in it for the nauseatingly hypocritical Republican senators who just pretended to care about the health of the US. Every single one of these sociopathic cowards except for McConnell voted to confirm the most dangerously unfit HHS secretary in US history.