Me: *looks at the sheer number of food recalls lately* *Looks at the frankly Herculean amount of work it takes to prevent, discover, and stop food borne illness outbreaks* *Looks at Republicans working hard to dismantle the administrative and regulatory state* Uhhh… Huh.

Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

it's even dumber than you think

No hell too hot. www.sunjournal.com/2026/07/13/i...

Are the networks going to carry this Thursday speech that all reports indicate will be one giant lie?

Good god. Kill a brown person besides the one you thought you were tracking and hunting like an animal? Whatevs, the big boss will give you cover and buy time to extract and dispatch you elsewhere. Brought to you by the Sanctity of Life/Rule of Law Party and 4 out of 5 white evangelical voters.

The Pentagon has been playing games with US casualty statistics for months. Someone is dead. Then they're not. 15 people are wounded. Then they disappear. On Sunday, the DoD said there were no new casualties. On Monday, they quietly admitted two new casualties. theintercept.com/2026/07/13/i...

Trump just delivered his first speech after the death of his allegedly dear friend Lindsey Graham, which happened less than 48 hours ago. He didn't mention him once. RIP.

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Our local newspaper, The Portland Press Herald, has lifted their paywall on coverage of the ICE shooting of a man in Biddeford, Maine this morning. They have excellent reporters and will have much more accurate information than natl news as we learn more: www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/s...

I don’t struggle with this at all. I get why a Secretary of State whose government is engaged in illegal murder of random boats would WANT us to struggle with this. But I don’t struggle w it at all. I HOPE for it.

I suspect the muted response to this important escalation of Trump's fascist attack on civil society might have something to do with the fact that—if it were happening to any other outlet—the New York Times's headline would be something like: "Trump Advances Bold New Strategy to Combat Critics."

It does not fail — every time someone goes out on a limb for him, he saws it off behind them.

The most forgotten demographic: men who own $50k trucks and eat sandwiches at diners in the suburbs/exurbs that we've been interviewing about politics for more than a decade

BREAKING A federal judge NULLIFIES the purported “settlement” behind Trump’s $1.776B slush fund, finding there was never a “case or controversy” — and referring his attorney for possible professional discipline. Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Trump's IRS suit was improper because Trump controlled both sides of the litigation. Judge Kathleen Williams also sanctions Trump's lawyers, issues monetary sanctions, and harshly criticizes DOJ's "untenable" conduct. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.

Reminder there is no evidence that any initial statements by ICE or DHS should be trusted — and reporters should state that in all coverage and stories. Every ICE shooting we’ve seen the agency lie about the circumstances.

The platforming of the lies…. is the problem My latest on the emergence of independent media with Heather Cox Richardson ===> youtu.be/8S0z8J0hUbU?...

Incredible. "July 24, Trump is expected to sit among journalists at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. At the same time, his Justice Department is pursuing one of the most aggressive efforts in recent memory to force reporters to testify..." www.status.news/p/new-york-t...

You sell whatever was left of your soul, betray whatever was left of your principles, defend sexual predators, kiss ass, post humiliating tweets about golf, lose all your friends, become an international joke, and when you die the guy you did it for is like "we'll get someone else in there no prob"

A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...

Because Trump lives by the maxim "just say anything." They drafted the vaguest possible MOU, which is a vague construct in itself. Say anything to be able to sign something at Versailles.

Nobody can tell whether the FBI is assisting with the investigation into Lindsey Graham’s death because they actually suspect foul play or if Kash just wants attention. It’s pretty pathetic.

“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.

As Democrats start posting their tributes to Lindsey Graham, we’re about to see the point demonstrated once again that they’re all in a big club and we ain’t in it.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Online).

Maybe we should remember Lindsey Graham the way Fox News is remembering him this morning. For his rabid defense of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing. Never forget: Graham’s speech helped push Kavanaugh across the finish line and onto the Supreme Court.

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

He became a caricature, a complete toady to the man he had eloquently portrayed as a menace, warning the Republican Party that Trump would destroy it. Trump did, and destroyed Graham and decency at the same time. I wish I could say something nice about Lindsey now. I can’t.

My lasting image of Lindsey Graham will always be when he theatrically declared “Count me out. Enough is enough!” after January 6th — and then got back in with Trump more than ever before for Trump 2.0

NEW EPISODE: it has been awhile and we were honored to chat with @jaredstacy.bsky.social on the @vcwpod.bsky.social about his new book Reality in Ruins about Evangelicalism and conspiracy theories. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

This is just an incredible statement from a news org. It's almost like ... ok, hold on ... stick with us here ... CNN thinks Scott Jennings is as unreliable a narrator as a lot of viewers do.

Somehow knew this man would become the face of explosive diarrhea

This Christian pastor made it safely from one city to another, but he’s still blaming the crew because ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Curious how the journalists at CBS News & 60 Minutes feel about their boss belittling their work like this. Puff pieces? Come on. "A CBS News source, describing Weiss’s interest in British journalists, said: “They do the kind of things that Bari is looking for; it’s not puff pieces & kid gloves.”

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Trump took another cognitive test and had another physical at Walter Reed. Has it even been two months since his last physical? There’s a massive coverup surrounding the President’s health happening right now.

There are more than 55 million K-12 students in the U.S., so I’m a bit skeptical of claims that 5.5 million have been demonstrated targets of sexual misconduct by school employees.

Forgot this one. I’m curious why NYT thinks this kind of vile racism isn’t disqualifying for an op-ed writer. I imagine that if an author said something similarly vitriolic about, say, Lutherans, the NYT would face massive blowback for publishing them.

You see this with Republican attacks on assisted reproduction too—the ostensibly pro-baby, pro-family movement wants only a certain kind of baby from a certain kind of family. It’s really pro-heterosexual-white-Christian-natalism. Pretty gross! slate.com/news-and-pol...

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A crisp $100 bill for the first reporter who asks him to define communism.

In the least surprising news ever, the flying bribe is a security nightmare and President Deals is trying to intimidate the journalists reporting on it www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...

Imagine having so little dignity or self-respect that you would sit with these fascists and laugh at jokes while they're targeting your own reporters. That's exactly what's happening in two weeks.

There has never been a more eager bootlicking organization than the White House Correspondents Association

you know what reporters should do? have an event honoring the first amendment and invite him as the guest of honor. call it the white house correspondents dinner. he’d like that.