🚨NEW: FEMA is threatening to withhold terrorism-prevention funds unless states adopt Trump’s anti-voting demands — including citizenship checks and paper ballots. Trump can’t run state elections, so he’s trying to use public safety money as leverage.

But Iranian military has already been annihilated 17 times, by my count.

Donald Trump is a racist.

“Palantir is not a company that is pro–public interest or welfare, or public health, or sort of traditional obligations of democratic institutions and states. Its vision of civic accountability is non-existent.”

"Long after Hegseth has left his office, the echoes of his decisions and unexplained actions will still be reverberating in the leadership of the military." ICYMI:

"Lorena" says "We harvest piece rate so we work fast. Bosses come around and arbitrarily check our buckets to see if we're harvesting correctly. If they find a soft cherry, we get a warning. They check again later in the day and if you have a soft cherry you're fired." #WeFeedYou

what a fucking asshole

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

the average price of gas when Biden left office was $3.12. Trump wants to throw a parade for himself over one station where it's $3.47.

The justice’s rhetoric is dehumanizing and unscientific. slate.trib.al/lrZU2Wc

He fought alongside US troops …

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We're building a list of every prominent Republican credibly accused of a financial crime since 2000 with over 275 added so far.

This is the voter fraud they warned us about

NEWS: Federal judge in Georgia quashes DOJ grand jury subpoena seeking information about election workers who volunteered or worked during the 2020 election in Fulton County. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PSA: Tips to reduce stress on our power grids: - set thermostats to 75F - run major appliances later at night - unplug Mitch McConnell

Seems like if the National Guard are going to be allowed to shoot people they should be required to wear body cams. #Memphis #TyrinJohnson www.sfgate.com/news/article...

A federal appeals court for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit struck down Florida's "Stop WOKE Act" as it applies to higher education, ruling that the classroom censorship law is an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. The 2-1 decision... www.fire.org/news/victory...

KLEPTO DEMENTIA DONNIE "Medical EXPERT Pathologist Hilary Shae who specializes in NEUROLOGICAL REHABILITATION wrote, "It seems like Donald😵‍💫Trump has become a little bit of a KLEPTOMANIAC recently. But quite honestly, it actually looks more like a SIGN of DEMENTIA." Mirror 📜Trump's😵‍💫UNFIT⚖️ #Pinks

One year ago today: An unsigned memo from the Trump Administration's Justice Dept argues it "found no basis to revisit the disclosure" of the Epstein files Congress didn't agree. Within months, they passed a bipartisan bill requiring Trump Admin to do so

Trump is hiding reports on how to reduce gun violence. Release the reports ... and the Epstein Files! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

July 10th is the anniversary of the brutal and deadly Glass House Farms ICE raid. We're not halfway thru the 4 year term of terror the Trump admin is raining down on immigrant communities. Your donation will help us keep fighting for immigrant farmworkers. act.seiu.org/a/glasshouse...

NEW: We just filed a complaint urging the DOT inspector general to investigate whether Sean Duffy violated ethics rules and federal law by promoting his wife’s new book.

The individuals releasing statements saying they spoke with McConnell all say they spoke with him for about 20 minutes:

SCOOP: Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law. by @zachdespart.bsky.social w/ @texastribune.org

New, for @talkingpointsmemo.com, my look at the history of the term "remigration," a euphemism for ethnic cleansing (a euphemism in of itself); & how Thomas Rousseau, leader of Patriot Front, used it in private Nazi chat 8 years ago. Now it's official US policy. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-yo...

DHS recently called for “Remigration” in a post featuring a video of immigrants being put in chains & escorted aboard a “removal flight” The video - set to Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” - included a glamor shot of a tangled mass of shackles stored in a milk crate talkingpointsmemo.com/news/when-yo...

Americans are now so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many of them seem genuinely not to understand why the world was rooting for Belgium.

“The war with Ukraine. Or whatever you call it. It’s not even a war. It’s a special military operation.”

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

Looking for a great podcast? Check out Defending Democracy with Marc Elias. Available on Spotify or wherever you listen. open.spotify.com/show/30Bsx0J...

A conclusion around the world that the US under Trump and Hegseth is simply not a reliable supplier of arms has consequences... Canada has picked German shipbuilder TKMS to build a new fleet of submarines in an important defence contract that is set to draw Ottawa closer to Europe.

Four states are standing in the way of a water rights deal that tribes say would help them build more housing, grow sustainable economies and better protect public health. “It’s a fundamental human rights issue,” said one law professor. w/ @kjzz.org

The ACLU is making our largest investment ever, focusing on underfunded down ballot races and ballot measures that will create a firewall for our rights. This election, we're fighting where it counts. Join us.

Some Florida students put on a short, silent, completely nonviolent protest during a panel featuring the college president, and now, in the Free Republic of DeSantisLand, they’re being ordered to do Stalin-era confessions

“A group of students sat in the audience while FIU President Jeanette Nuñez held an on-campus event with Alex Rodriguez. “A half hour into the program, students stood up and unveiled shirts that said ‘ICE OFF FIU’ and stood silently for a few minutes. They then left” www.wlrn.org/government-p...

The Trump administration's sweeping effort to slow down the rate of legal migration has affected a group traditionally immune from such efforts: spouses of U.S. citizens. Link: www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...

Donald Trump allowed the man he is sitting with to shell American troops in Syria Wouldn't it be something if anyone in American media had the courage and ethics to ask about this today, especially as Trump speaks of rewarding his Turkish business partner with sales of American military goods

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(WSJ) - A group of Democratic lawmakers is seeking information from Cantor Fitzgerald about how the firm may have benefited on a deal from its ties with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/dem...

Your 'moment of doom' for July 7, 2026 ~ Seven-headed monsters! “Nationally, extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, surpassing floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes combined.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Without realizing it Fox News showed what the Great American State Fair could have been when it featured a carnival at Ft. Campbell, KY. The military event was a colorful collection of rides, cotton candy, funnel cakes and games. I've included clips from both.

President Zelenskyy: We have completely eliminated the very idea of Russia having a strategic rear. And you know this country. And for a long time, Russia believed it had a territorial advantage no one else possessed - a deep rear where it could safely keep military production, military equipment,

Hormuz crossings, rolling over. @bloomberg.com

NEW: For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations. The new rule, which governs ranching across 155 million acres of public lands in the West, would heavily favor the livestock industry.