Happy #NationalPierogiDay to all who celebrate. Yes, I am wearing a Jalapeño Hannah shirt from the @pirates.com.

My god, this is the most pampered whiny baby shit imaginable. Also tells on him: if FOLLOWING THE LAW is a “terrorist attack” against the regime, what does that say about the regime?

There's a lot going on in this Stephen Miller fascist rant but...there are more local law enforcement officers than their are FBI agents in the field nationwide? That seems...odd. It's like someone fired a whole bunch of FBI agents for some totally unknown reason.

"We have more options than those facing rising oppression in places like Hungary and Turkey, which have faced similar political degradation in the last decade." From this piece!

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants. aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

I'm looking forward to seeing how Fetterman will spin the meeting of military leaders to get a TED Talk on WaRrIoR eThOs from a former Major in the National Guard who is now unaccountably the Secretary of Defense, into something blasé that we shouldn't worry about.

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

A bunch of four-star generals and admirals being lectured on the "warrior ethos" by a decrepit old draft dodger and a smarmball who somehow made it to major in the National Guard.

This is going to be amazing.

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced it is revoking, or proposing to revoke, 52 food standards after concluding they are obsolete and unnecessary.” ~ FDA press release, July 16, 2025

huge deep breath... SCREAM

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

Many of this are left cold by this. I sure am. But this - the kind of performative Andrew Tate cartoon-masculinity, the clumsy swagger, the maundering braggadocio, the needy desperate I‘M A MANLY MAN I’M A MANLY MAN, speaks to a howling void of inadequacy in some people’s souls.

Republicans are preparing to shut down the government just to indulge their bizarre fascination with taking health care away from Americans.

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

what if there is crying in baseball

The video I filmed of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza, a New York City immigration courthouse, went viral. Then, in a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded the officer, calling his actions “unacceptable.” By @tilleckert.com

“The politics of big money and small ideas” is a BANGER

A third of the nation’s climate adaptation centers may close, which would hamper projects aimed to help people, wildlife, land and water react to a changing climate.

Getting ready

INTERVIEWER: As you know, we are a nation beset by myriad horrors. What are you doing to fight back? SCHUMER: I have been reaching out to the horrors, many of which are friends, in hopes of working together on this for all Americans. You demand we descend into hell? Well ok, but let's do it right.

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek in Portland: "I will not be approving utilization of the Oregon national Guard. The President does not have the authority to deploy federal troops on State soil."

They do not have enough popular support. So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition. And that’s where we are. Pushing back has never mattered more.

what the fuck are we doing.

MIKE JOHNSON: We have to ensure that the rule of law applies to everyone TAPPER: Does the rule of law apply to people who stormed the Capitol on January 6? JOHNSON: Apparently there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd TAPPER: They were sent there to do crowd control. It wasn't a false flag operation

I truly do not understand what people like Thomas blah blah don't understand about if I find you annoying or don't feel like hearing about you anymore I can mute you. No one owes you attention. If people are tired of Ezra Klein and what they - and indeed I - believe is his bullshit, we can mute.

Omg this part a thousand times.

it's a great interview, and what's striking is that at the end of the day both klein and coates believe in winning people over. the difference is that coates thinks you do this by telling them the truth, and klein thinks you do it by empathizing with them and recognizing their concerns as Real

Will I cry in front of people? Probably. Come find out!

Yeah, as the literal Rural Dem Caucus of the PA Dems, you're incorrect.

I’m a County Party Chair in a swing district that these folks claim to have a winning strategy to win. They do not. They are grifters who won’t tell you where their money comes from. They say the way to win independents and Reps. is for Dem Candidates to actively alienate Dems. They are wrong.

NEW: @gcnadeau.bsky.social analyzes two ways to read Trump’s “domestic terrorist, antifa” executive order — meaningless messaging bait or a serious threat to civil society. Plus, @jessmarsden.bsky.social has 3 key lessons from the Kimmel reinstatement.

Mission accomplished, time to cash in

NEW: For decades, the DOJ relied on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to foil and forestall attempts to discriminate against minority voters. On Wednesday, the DOJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to devastate and vitiate much of what’s left of the landmark civil rights legislation.

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (Updated Version)

Anyone been raptured yet? Well, have you noticed any raptured?

The thing about a 'muzzle' like this, it doesn't just prevent sound, it will eventually kill the eagle because it cannot sustain itself. I'm not sure if that point was intended, but its a brilliant cartoon by @billdayart.bsky.social, courtesy CagleCartoons. These muzzles are killing America.

'Morning 🌞☕

For everyone disappointed in the @scishow.bsky.social video presented by @hankgreen.bsky.social *This* is the video we deserved. Thank you @jillianeve.bsky.social 😻 #knitsky #knitting #fiberarts

the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet

Donald Trump bringing down prices, just not ones you'd traditionally want to come down.

Powell: "In the near term, risks to inflation are tilted to the upside and risks to employment to the downside -- a challenging situation." (In other words, stagflation)

I'm not gonna share the NYT article because fk them, but also please everyone who think's things like Adam Jentlesen's new think tank are a good idea consider the following... #thread

Via @stephenjcaruso.bsky.social , the fix is in on our healthcare system in Pennsylvania

What the whole entire actual hell.