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The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”

🚨 NEW: A $121,617 home renovation invoice used by Ken Paxton’s defense during his impeachment trial was dated September 1, 2020. But the file’s metadata shows it was actually created a month later, on a VERY significant date. We obtained the invoice. Here’s what we found:

Is there a place for the F-bomb? Absofuckinlutely. Every damn day. But unless you're quoting someone else, the U.S. Senate Chambers is not the place for it. And *never* to attack a true public servant. This means you, Bernie Moreno.

If you’re watching Fauci’s testimony remember that science isn’t an ideology. It doesn’t lie. It evolves. COVID-19 was a once-in-a-century pandemic caused by a brand-new virus, recommendations changed because the evidence changed. That’s not deception. That’s how it works.

Somebody At The Pentagon Just Cooked The Books: The bodies didn’t disappear. The paperwork did. www.JackHopkinsNow.com

Yeah well hopefully Americans will vote smarter next time. Because what he’s become was predictable.

Don’t let this clip get memory-holed

My goodness. There it is. The once-venerated white-shoe New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell is representing an adjudicated rapist in a case brought by the victim. I never thought I would live to see something like this. Wow. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Trump posted 44 times in just six hours yesterday. The worst part is, he shared a graphic trying to minimize the number of U.S. service members killed in the Iran war.

Members of the Haitian community have built lives here in Florida while waiting for conditions to improve back home — where it still is not safe. Allowing the expiration of TPS status for hundreds of thousands of Haitians is unfair, and represents a broken promise. www.newsweek.com/map-shows-st...

Just listen to Donald Trump. He’s utterly incoherent. He can’t follow the questions, can’t maintain a train of thought. He couldn’t run a lemonade stand at this point.

Yeah, but Trump and Hegseth love watching the videos of people getting blown up on small boats and they provide Fox content.

Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley are the two Missouri senator that harassed the witness and then left the room.

He Should Be Fired Immediately and Investigated…..

⚓ Rear Admiral Amy Bauernschmidt came up through the ranks the hard way, graduating from Annapolis, earning her wings, commanding a helo squadron, then a carrier, and now a carrier group. And because Low-T Peter just pulled her promotion, she'll never get her second star. Proud of you, Shipmate 🫡

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

Canyonlands National Park that could be slated for open-pit coal or uranium mining if der trumple gets his way. Bless BlueSky friends for preventing that from happening.

Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social You, sir, are an asshole.

In case you haven't seen this today.

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

Jack Smith: James Comey, Letitia James, Jerome Powell. There's not criminality here. I mean, seashells?? The only reasonable explanation is the president has it out for these people. He has people who are his former personal lawyers who are going to do what he says, regardless of the facts or law

Her “obscene act”? Kissing. Monsters www.dailymail.com/news/article...

If there was any doubt that Gov Jared Polis’ legacy is freeing Tina Peters, the NYT reports Polis just fired the clemency board members who revealed he overruled their unanimous wishes www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient.

Congress is considering a bill that would stifle free speech online and leave all of us vulnerable to online surveillance. Tell your representative: Censorship doesn’t keep us safe.

The fact that stephen miller is saying the US is closed to asylum seekers from Haiti while granting asylum to white South Africans should tell you all you need to know.

cc: Stephen Miller

But we stopped talking about Epstein and that’s the point. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

MacFarlane: When there was a lawsuit filed to stop the Trump changes to the Reflecting Pool, the plaintiffs argued that it's possible that the Trump team does long-term damage to the pool. Seems they were prophetic.

MacFarlane: You have a smell that's emanating now that is reminiscent of a high school locker room. You have a police force and National Guard presence that is profound. It's like a jewel heist from the muppet caper is going to happen. It seems to be a misappropriation of resources.

He's lying. You know why we know? WE HAVE THE AGREEMENT HE SIGNED!!!! Here's the operative language: "The U.S. undertakes, together with regional partners, a comprehensive plan...for the rehabilitation and economic development of Iran...of at least $300 billion."

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic (El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)

Can we just note how profoundly selfish his going to Madison Square Garden was? The disruptions, the poisoning …

As a World Cup host, the U.S. shouldn't be flippantly barring officials from entering the country to do their jobs. It's terribly backward. It's also counterproductive. Global sports competitions should improve international exchange and relations, not the reverse.

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

Is this big? Because it seems big. www.notus.org/2026-electio...

Can’t be repeated enough…

It seems like identifiable members of the Supreme Court actively helping one political party to choose its voters to maximal electoral advantage should be a bigger scandal

"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.