Chris Frashure

9th Circuit rules Trump illegally federalized National Guard in LA last year. Ruling has little immediate effect, but sets precedent on judicial review of executive invocation of emergency powers for domestic use of military, and on the meaning of “rebellion.” reason.com/volokh/2026/...

BREAKING: Judge Reyes has issued a preliminary injunction over the golf course and begins with this: "Rarely, if ever, has the United States Department of Justice urged a federal court not to believe the sitting President." ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Flávio Bolsonaro calls for Brazil's election results to be 'annulled' after loss to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. @apnews.com

These racist, festering lesions don’t get to dictate what it means to be an American.

Free speech isn't just a right for the person talking. It's also a right for the listener.

Government and society are not the same thing. Skepticism of the state is not skepticism of human cooperation. It's the opposite — it's believing people can solve problems without being forced to.

In November, voters in Portland & Multnomah County, OR will use ranked choice voting in their local elections. It will be a first for Multnomah County. Check out this great comic from @multco.bsky.social and the Portland City Auditor, showing voters how to fill out their RCV ballots ⬇️

As I figured, Acton was telling the truth the whole time, and Vivek Ramaswamy remains the worst person. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Political Consultant: Voters believe the GOP is the Party of the Epstein Files. Donald Trump: I believe Amy Acton's Child-Rapist-Loving Mother.

literally illegal

GOP Ohio Governor Mike DeWine slams Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's abusive mother: "The ad is deeply troubling. But when you know the rest of the story, it just makes it more wrong. It's wrong to run this."

It really needs to be emphasized that the woman Vivek is featuring in these videos fled with an accused & indicted child rapist and successfully helped him avoid trial for 20+ years.

BREAKING NYT: A billionaire wanted a Trump pardon. His family gave Alina Habba a $50 million deal. Julio Herrera Velutini, a prominent Venezuelan, was seeking clemency. He got it not long after his daughter gave Habba, a lawyer close to Trump, an extraordinarily lucrative job.

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

The right suddenly stopped being concerned about the mental state of the president in record time. Ironic, given the overwhelming evidence.

This is quite possibly the most vile, despicable political attack ad I have ever seen. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

* ZELENSKYY SAYS TRUMP IS PUSHING UKRAINE TO CAPITULATE TO RUSSIA @bloomberg.com 🇺🇦

A candidate might disavow, for example, another member of their political party, or a position taken by one of their allies, or something they had said themselves in the past. But it's not a disavowal if you never had any actual connection to the thing in question.

In an incredible example of Republican cluelessness, what they think is a "gotcha" moment is actually making El-Sayed seem more palatable to people.

Last week, FairVote published a new report on the 2026 primaries. It finds 128 candidates who won congressional & statewide primaries w/ less than 50% of votes. That’s the most since we began tracking. Learn about this report and more in our latest News Update ⬇️

Because of the huge breadth of data AI agents like Muse are ingesting, this also means that users risk leaking not only their own sensitive information, but the information of everyone else they’ve had digital contact with. www.theverge.com/tech/1011938...

The whole Meta-No Kings debacle is further proof that the genpop left lends almost as little credence to free speech as does the right.

COOK, after shifting 18 races toward Dems this month, moves 11 more. “.. Republicans’ troubles this cycle are particularly pronounced in Midwestern red states, where voters are frustrated by both the federal and state governments’ handling of economic issues.” www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...

This is nothing less than a battlefield intervention by the US in favour of Russia.

1,000 years from now, teachers will struggle to explain to their students how at this time in history, we found literally the most despicable human being in America and made him the most powerful person in the world

Trump on Ossoff: "I don't think he's a good looking man. I actually think Mike Collins is a good looking man. And he's all man. I'm not sure about Ossoff. And I think Rick Jackson is a beautiful-looking guy."

NEW: Tempe just became the first city in Arizona to ban automatic license plate readers like Flock and Axon. Every city in Arizona and across the country should follow suit.

In its 2026 World Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders ranks the United States 64th, behind Botswana and down seven places from 2025, citing Trump administration actions in the decline. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-falls-t...

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

Oh.

Critical vulnerability in podman: CVE-2026-94603 The `podman run` command can be instructed to disable almost all sandboxing by image annotation Images being pulled should be scanned for the io.podman.annotations.checkpoint.runtime.name annotation, and rejected if it is present.

Wrong Portland. @nbcnews.com #MEsen www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

PARCL LABS: “.. 43.3% of all US homes for sale are now undergoing price cuts. This is up 93 basis points since Wednesday. This is up 20% since April.”

We've updated our forecast for Hurricane Isaias's remnants, arriving in the DC area tonight. Rainfall totals have ticked upward, and there's a risk of strong tstorms and perhaps an isolated tornado Sunday pm The latest: www.capitalweather.com/isaiass-remn...

What would your ballot look like under proportional representation? @leedrutman.bsky.social explains an open-list system that lets voters choose a party or a candidate. #ElectoralReform

The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

BREAKING: Longtime Chicago Bear and NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has died at 86.

This would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

It is remarkable how many Dems in competitive races are not doing the squishy bipartisanship tapioca routine and are instead just letting rip with these guys are a bunch of evil goddamned nazis who want to take all your rights and are also corrupt as fuck. It’s reading the room, I suppose.

A man was shot at through his car windshield multiple times by ICE goons despite having his 5-year-old son in the vehicle. Despicable.

What the actual F

CBO Director Swagel: There's a structural fiscal deficit of 6%.