SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.
We've got some DOGE activity over at USWDS (US Web Design System).
DOGE had kicked existing staff out and brought in a crony by the name of Sam Corcos to take over the systems.
This is actively occurring today. We will get more info to you as we can.
Trump: "They have ranked choice, which is a crooked form of voting. It's totally dishonest. They throw everybody into a hat and somebody backstage that nobody knows picks a winner. It's ridiculous."
✅Check your voter registration status EARLY and OFTEN.✅
The regime knows the only way they can win is through voter suppression and purging voter rolls.
www.vote411.org/
I won’t share the video of the public execution by police of a yet unnamed Black man in Madison, WI.
With four white Madison cops on him, one cop pulled out his firearm and shot the victim in the head at least three times at point blank range.
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So where is it coming from? Are we all just playing Cyclospora roulette?
I’m grateful to have the luxury of space for a home garden so I can have my gazpacho and salads, but what are others without my resources supposed to do?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Sunday that the Taylor Farms lettuce sample that tested positive for the parasite cyclospora was actually a false positive, a day after announcing Taylor Farm lettuce from Mexico tested positive for the parasite. virginiamercury.com/2026/07/20/r...
🚨BREAKING: Senate Intelligence Committee vice chairman Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the real reason for Trump’s speech was to signal the president’s own intentions to interfere with November midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
SCOTUS destroying Voting Rights Act
Trump openly planning to interfere in midterms
DOJ threatening to prosecute election officials
I discussed how all these threats to democracy fit together on @nprfreshair.bsky.social today. Please listen www.npr.org/2026/07/08/n...
Update: Kalshi traders now see a 98% chance Strait of Hormuz shipping returns to normal before Aug. 1, signaling easing supply concerns and improving sentiment for global energy markets.
The emphasis on how autistic kids will "never pay taxes, never hold a job" (which is bullshit) gives the game away. He's a eugenicist who wants you to believe that people with autism can't be productive members of society and are therefore surplus to requirements.
Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat.
The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.
"The League of Women Voters strongly condemns Congress’s passage of the budget reconciliation package pouring billions into ICE and CPB without installing critical guardrails for accountability, transparency, or civil liberties protections.” bit.ly/4us8UHE@lwv.org@lwvva.bsky.social
We need help from the following states:
Alaska: bit.ly/TellMurkowski
Kentucky: bit.ly/TellSenatorPaul
Kentucky-04: bit.ly/TellMassie
Louisiana: bit.ly/TellCassidy
Maine: bit.ly/TellSenatorCollins
North Carolina: bit.ly/TellTillis
Pennsylvania-01: bit.ly/TellRepFitzpatrick
Texas: bit.ly/TellCornyn
This is all utter bullshit. No credible doctor believes handshakes can cause such bruises. Multiple pictures have shown no scarring on his ear. What else are they lying about?
get the fuck out of here
Examination was normal, except for scarring of the right ear consistent with prior gunshot injury.
Examination of the dorsal hands revealed ecchymosis (bruising), consistent with minor soft tissue irritation related to frequent handshaking
"In practice, Trump regularly chooses industry over MAHA, whether that means approving fruit-flavored vapes or trying to increase production of weedkiller linked to cancer. Kennedy rarely pushes back, because his first and really only commitment is to deeply unpopular attacks on vaccines."
This is why it is important to keep fighting the degradation of our country. The title may be melodramatic, but the author has valid points and has citations at the end.
wendy664.substack.com/p/ice-is-qui...
People who fight to defend democracy & people who teach how to protect it want you! Together we power democracy. “Power the Polls” is now recruiting a diverse new generation of poll workers for upcoming elections. Sign up now: www.powerthepolls.org/nea-lwv@lwvus.bsky.social@neatoday.bsky.social
Virginia just joined 18 other states and DC to make One Person/One Vote the way we elect the next president. The League of Women Voters believes the Electoral College should be abolished. As few as four more states are needed to level the playing field. Is your state in? @lwvus.bsky.social
Don’t buy the rhetoric. Voting by mail is essential for millions of Americans—with disabilities or accessibility issues, caregivers, people with strict work schedules, Immunocompromised or crowd sensitive people, military & overseas voters. Learn more: bit.ly/4cFq9zV@lwvus.bsky.social
🚨Fantasy Diplomacy:
The only negotiations with Iran are happening in Trump's head.
Open access, always. Please help me keep it that way by hitting the RP
open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
Four-byline alert: 🚨
“.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.”
www.ft.com/content/744e...
Back to work. Virginia is at peak activity. Tomorrow, we hear our delegates from districts 69 and 71 on it all.
State constitutional amendments.
Data Centers.
Affordability.
Gun Safety.
Environmental policy & more.
There’s a lot at stake in the commonwealth.
Democracy in action!
A wry aside (inspired by @stanveuger.bsky.social): Implementing unconstitutional tariffs ensures you get all of the distortions and costs of tariffs, and (assuming refunds are required), none of the revenue. Lose lose.
The next election is up to women. It’s in the math. More women turned out in 2024 than in 2022 for the midterms. In both elections, women turned out in higher numbers than men. 91.3 million women compared to 82.6 million men. Do the math. VOTE! www.lwv.org/blog/report-...@lwvus.bsky.social
ICE detention deaths are now occurring at a rate of roughly one every four days. Three weeks ago that rate was one every six days. The pace is accelerating, and Congress has not launched a single investigation.
SCOOP: Trump aides are struggling to spend an extra $500 billion on the military, delaying budget
Trump agreed to Hegseth’s bid for *~50%~* military spending boost
Vought & others objected internally
It’s so much $ they can’t figure out how to spend it
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
FIFA HAS PLEDGED $75 MILLION TO THE BOARD OF PEACE, JOINING THE U.S., AZERBAIJAN, BAHRAIN, KAZAKHSTAN, MOROCCO, QATAR, SAUDI ARABIA, UAE IN FUNDING TRUMP’S NEW INSTRUMENT FOR MANAGING GAZA’S RECONSTRUCTION, PER THE GUARDIAN THIS POST WAS VOICE TYPED USING OUR PARTNER . ...