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...

Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-p...

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.

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Trump's DOJ is threatening to arrest and imprison Oregon's Secretary of State on the basis of false claims about supposed widespread voting by non-citizens.

The Trump Justice Department has sent a letter to dozens of state and local election officials threatening to prosecute them if any noncitizens are found to have voted in the midterms — sharply escalating the Trump admin's attacks on local election oversight across the country.

Some late-breaking democracy news

The US global dominance in higher ed & scientific innovation was based on strong govt investment and an ability to attract top international talent. Trump is weakening both: "In this century, overall, the émigré fraction for U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent."

The story in a nutshell. 1. Qatar bribed Trump with a large aircraft. 2. Trump spent $400 million in taxpayer money to make it luxurious. 3. It is insecure for use as Air Force One. 4. He intends to keep it as his own when he leaves office. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/u...

We are seeing this in Massaachusetts. There's been an uptick in the courts above the baseline, and also more street abductions. Yet it's getting very little media attention so far and there's honestly little public awareness because it's concentrated at courthouses and immigrant communities.

In rape culture, everything a woman says means yes and nothing she says means no. This seems to assert that though she said not to come over, said no repeatedly, struggled against Platner, an ambiguous prior comment constituted irrevocable consent. Not a shocking breach not to include it.

Actual honest people tend to be NICE, they tend to be FORGIVING, they tend to be THOUGHTFUL and often UNCERTAIN. People who make endless strongly-worded pronouncements with complete certainty, and rip into anyone who isn’t certain, usually aren’t honest - they’re performing being a truth-teller.

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

periodic reminder that the boat bombings are still happening

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

The U.S. exerts control over almost one hundred million barrels of Venezuelan oil worth an estimated $8 billion...but so far, the U.S. has only put forward $300 million in aid after those devastating earthquakes. The U.S. has also not announced a halt to deportations of Venezuelans.

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

Can’t make this up

JD Vance says GOP will close the "loophole" created by birthright citizenship. Johnson is floating a mere "legislative fix." They're deliberately using language designed to make this sound like a tweak, a small thing, when it would be seismic (and hugely toxic). 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2127...

Trump is just murdering people using the military.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

We’re all officially in the business of keeping Trump's biggest donor afloat—even babies.

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

Minimum wage job: 12 hours of delicate, finicky, painful hard work Medium wage job: 8 hours a day of delicate, annoying hard work. With emails CEO of company: 4 hours of gooning to his AI secretary with a suspiciously childlike face, with word salad about quantum physics and how smart he is

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Donald Trump can claim he’s waging a “war on fraud,” or he can keep pardoning convicted fraudsters. To do both at the same time is ridiculous. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

It’s kind of astonishing how mainstream the belief Trump is lying about his “assassination attempts” has become. Could it be because Trump is more interested in investigating made up crimes against the reflecting pool than any of the alleged attacks on him.

“It’s a loss for the nation…When you shrink the pipeline of basic discovery research, you choke off the flow of future solutions, innovations and cures—and you shrink the supply of future scientists.” #highered

“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

Which brings me to the most important point. Using our voice is key. But not to bet on whether we'll shatter global records yet again. Use it to connect what we know (the head) to why we care (the heart) to what we can do (the hands). How? I have new talking points every week right here ⬇️

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If you design cities around car traffic, don't be surprised if children no longer play outside. If you design cities around active transport, don't be surprised if children ask you to go cycling after dinner.

JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Guard members are trained on crowd control in civil emergency situations. Not on urban policing. It sounds like they were being used here for policing.

"Civil society and industry cannot restore the rule of law on their own. But they can refuse to be the means by which it is dismantled. They can decline to treat an accusation as a conviction. They can ask, before they act on a govt charge, whether that govt still deserves the benefit of the doubt."

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

The U.S. military shot and killed an American on U.S. soil this morning

Maybe some mercy for the Haitians, Venezuelans and Syrians.

One of the reasons why the ongoing meltdown about Zohran asking people to set their A/C to 78 bothers me is that it seems to be a symptom of post-COVID unwillingness for individuals to do anything for the common good, and if we don’t have that we’re in a very bad place as a society.

everybody on the right hates immigration until it's time to put together a soccer team

Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

1000 evaluators given identical resumes & told candidate used AI. Only difference on resumes was candidate’s name: Emily vs James. Study found women using AI are evaluated as less competent than men who use AI...To evaluators, women’s AI use signaled inability, while men’s AI use signaled initiative

Birthright citizenship is going to be the new Roe v Wade in the sense that Democrats need to win more elections than they lose in perpetuity to protect it, because Republicans are not making the mistake of appointing another Justice who will uphold it, ever