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During my 50 years in this supposedly “evenly divided” country, we’ve had a liberal-majority SCOTUS for exactly 0 years. The idea that America "swings back and forth" is just right-wing marketing BS. What we’ve seen in the US is a relentless 75-year erosion of civil rights and public power.

so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

Objecting to the destruction of USAID is a pretty clean litmus test for being a serious person and not evil a surprising number of otherwise bad people pass this test, and a shocking number of people who pretend to care do not

In a 2012 divorce deposition RFK, Jr. described cognitive problems, including telling doctors and lawyers about a possible parasite that "ate" part of his brain, and he used those ailments as part of an argument that his earning capacity was diminished and therefore alimony should be reduced. #USPol

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record: The Resistance Libs Were Right.

It's almost like when you gut food safety regulations, staff, and enforcement to give billionaires tax breaks, all the stuff breaks. Weird.

Does any awful, terrible, unprecedentedly shameful political news even matter anymore? craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...

ICYMI — Trump just made history, becoming the first 🇺🇸 president to be edited out of a World Cup team’s celebration photo 🏆

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Found this from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social OTD 2021:

I worry about the narrative on this stuff because young people are so impressionable and not going to college is just such a huge mistake over your lifetime earnings. It’s deeply immoral to see Ivy-educated conservatives argue against college because they know they need angry, undereducated voters.

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

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.

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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.

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

JUST POSTED: An updated tally is in, and the count of Trump followers turned financial losers is even bigger than first thought. Much bigger. 988,905 buyers of $TRUMP memecoin have lost a total of $3.81 billion. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

He’s worried about those Texas and Georgia U.S. Senate races

A grim reminder this 4th of July: The US has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth, making it a leader in mass incarceration. Far too many people are locked up in the “land of the free.”

All told, 321 diamonds, 56 sapphires, 13 emeralds and six rubies encrust the watch-sized gold ring presented this week to Bill White, the U.S. ambassador to Belgium, to give to U.S. President Donald Trump. https://to.pbs.org/44batiO

I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden gave a speech at about protecting Democracy at Independence Hall flanked by two Marines - pundits lost their minds & TV networks refused to broadcast it live. Now here we are: a taxpayer funded Trump rally on America's 250th. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/04/t...

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

Watching this Administration start and lose a war of choice with Iran for reasons they still have been unable to articulate hammers this point home. It’s stochastic terrorism and internet grievances dressed up in a trench coat pretending to be a government.

This point can’t be stressed enough. Just as Musk bought Twitter to try to make himself seem popular, he bought Tesla to make himself seem smart. The only thing he’s actually invented is a mythology about himself

A wee group of angry balaclava and mask-wearing anti-immigration guys tried to stop the good people of Glasgow showing solidarity with migrants and standing up to racism and fascism. Well, the far right are far outnumbered... #RefugeesWelcome #MigrantsWelcome #NeighboursNotStrangers #Glasgow

"Cutting $1 trillion out of Medicaid is the antithesis of the Christian faith. I stand by that... and I said it to him directly." Sen. Raphael Warnock tells Tim Miller why he confronted Mike Johnson over cuts to Medicaid, and the meeting between them that followed.

“…something happened on the evening of June 9 that needs to be understood and, hopefully, deplored by all Americans. The USA seems to have deliberately and with foresight, committed a war crime as an act of policy.”

Across most sectors of the front line, the advance of Russian occupying forces has nearly come to a halt. There are only a small number of areas where the enemy is still able to make gains, but overall activity has decreased

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Just sent out. The USA seems to have committed war crime deliberately and openly, by destroying civilian access to water as summer approaches. It is strategically idiotic and morally repulsive--and needs to be acknowledged if the US has a chance to recover. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Every business action by members of the Epstein Class is an attempt to steal money and agency from you.

The Coolidge coin is actually quite a rare collectible precisely because the public didn't like it and the Treasury eventually melted most of them down. As a result, the rule against living persons on coins was instituted soon thereafter.

Not only is the affordability crisis not a hoax, but it's actually worse than you think... and accelerating.

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

"Paxton's Corrupt Adam Hoffman Pedophile Pardon" and then you start shortening it to "Paxton Pedo Pardon" or "The Corrupt Hoffman Pardon" or any other variation you can think of on subsequent mentions in the same appearance. bsky.app/profile/dext...

Ya, that's good. You usually need to have reporters play along with this for it to work and I doubt they would but who knows bsky.app/profile/kelp...

Every republican man looks like they aren't allowed within 500 yards of a school zone and in 70% of cases, they legally aren't.

Conservatives are terrified of Dems finally understanding that the people yearn to tell Republicans to shut the fuck up

“The reforms I’m describing do not come naturally to me. It’s something I resisted for a long time, but I think if you look at what's necessary to reinforce democratic self-government in the United States, you simply can’t do that with the filibuster and this Court in place.” — @joshtpm.bsky.social

“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

This is Bill Kristol endorsing the socialist mayor of NYC's budget management. Man, this lithium is amazing!!