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WOW. The Trump admin just barred the FBI from investigating cases where DHS officers get into confrontations with immigrants or citizens. ICE HSI will lead all investigations, yet HSI has no jurisdiction to investigate civil rights violations. The fox is guarding the henhouse.

Ahem

Angus: MAGA politicians are threatening our sovereignty, saying they’ll cross the border if we don’t solve the climate crisis. We’ve always crossed the border to help each other. Today we’re mourning a Canadian firefighter who died helping fight a wildfire in Aspen, Colorado.

Flock cameras—solar-powered, automated license plate readers, weighing less than 3 pounds and designed to be unobtrusive—can be found on 80,000 street corners throughout the country. Now, dozens of reports are emerging of police using the cameras not to solve crimes, but to stalk people.

In an angry, divided world, this is a great image from last night's France-England game 👏

Hey folks: I can't beam in right now -- at my normal History Matters time. Last night, I recorded some comments for this morning. You can find them here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jRS...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

Trump had one of the worst weeks he's had in months. His own judges, his own donor, his own IRS deal—all of it came apart. Corporate media barely noticed. We counted all eight.

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

Climate change/planet burning in one photo last night in NJ. (The party is asking us not to believe our eyes, noses, or lungs.)

All the salad apocalypse chatter reminds us that the normal work of government to maintain the commons—good roads, regulations, food inspections, public health etc—is what allows economies to prosper and businesses to plan and compete and make money

I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.

Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

At least 75 career federal officials who’d played important roles in elections have left, been fired or been reassigned. In their place are roughly two dozen people Trump has installed in positions that could affect elections. Ten of them actively worked to reverse the 2020 vote. (Published April)

FYI: The Farm Bureau is not a small farmer’s organization or union. It’s an insurance company and lobbyist group. It’s evolved into an arm of the Republican Party.

Two Utah nonprofits and their founders have sued Fox and celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary — alleging they were defamed when O'Leary repeatedly claimed on the network that they were operating on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

Rosie living it up in her deluxe apartment in the sky.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... New $1 coin featuring Trump in production at US Mint, treasury says Coin commemorating 250th anniversary will be released this fall and marks first time a living president appears on currency How very dictatorish and less hair more jowel

vance? a grifter? i’m shocked

I would just like to highlight here that even bags of meth (or any other drug) do not create justification for the use of deadly force. Even if the subject is fleeing.

"By voting to confirm him, Republicans are putting their stamp of approval on a DOJ that investigates the president’s enemies & treats every Q of law as a question of loyalty. It’s a grotesque perversion of the legal system, & it’s beyond anything Roy Cohn could have imagined." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sure as hell is.

Umm…. There are going to be several hundred early American historians in Philadelphia, beginning tomorrow. Maybe some of us will have something to say. They supposedly did this last night because of the All Stars game. They goofed.

Novo Nordisk charges $1000 a month for Ozempic in the US. A Yale study found that it costs $.29 to manufacture. It could sensibly be sold for $.89 to $4.73 with a reasonable profit margin included. The disposable pens cost ten times more than the medicine, about $2.00 ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THAT?

Blanche refuses to agree with Blumenthal that ICE agents shouldn't fire weapons into cars

July 14, 2026

Sen Blackburn complains that during the Biden admin, she couldn't subpoena Epstein files. The difference? DOJ was involved in ongoing prosecution/appeals of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell & the records could not be released until her appeal was finalized. It's disingenuous, at best.

@ejeancarroll.bsky.social: "I don't understand how people can be afraid of a fat elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds and sits in a court room and moans and groans and complains”

830 wildfires burning across Canada right now. And you know what’s going to make it worse in the future? More oil pipelines. This is why our voice and our vote matters.

at this point i think we can stop calling it “highly unusual”

the International Criminal Court was created to ensure that no one is above the law: no president, no prime minister, no general. It draws from one of the core lessons of the Second World War, as formulated in Nuremberg: Crimes are committed by men, not by abstract entities (states). Think about it

Sen. Cynthia Lummis defends Trump grifting billions of dollars on crypto schemes while in office with blatant lies: "The president made his money on digital assets *before* he took the oath of office. So we have to make sure people when they are private citizens retain their rights to make money."

Ironic, a cartoon character has more wisdom than the entire tRump clown cabinet combined

Nice

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."- Sir David Attenboroug

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Tell me you know you're committing crimes... #USDemocracy

President Trump signed orders to reduce the size of two Utah national monuments: the Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by more than 90% to allow for grazing, motorized recreation, logging and other resource development in the region, the White House said.

THIS

A scalding, blistering judicial opinion calling out Trump’s sham litigation, striking down his corrupt IRS immunity, and holding his sycophant lawyers to account. That’s a good start. Impeachment is next.

AOC: I said this a couple of weeks ago: I would not be surprised if, when ICE funding started up again, we would start to see more civilian deaths at the hands of ICE. And that’s exactly what has happened. We didn’t see things like this happening with the same degree when we froze ICE funding.

We cannot accept the reckless use of deadly force by federal agents as normal. There is a pattern of this administration misleading the public and withholding key facts after these killings.

Thomas Massie: “It’s ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we’re yelling ‘election fraud’? We won all the damn elections.”

And if anyone needs Jan 6 footage, or a review of all Trump's bullshit lawsuits and maneuvers in 2020, feel free to reach out. (The Jan 6 Big Timeline has the whole buildup other than some legal stuff.) Again, please! You have 3 days. Enough to write an article, not just transcribe a speech. 2/