Michael Welch

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...

I routinely watch the Sunday morning political interview shows and find them in general to be a very low calorie affair. That's largely a function of the debased nature of political dialogue in this country. But Jonathan Karl's interview of Adam Hamilton, the Methodist minister seeking to replace

**Lights Out Alert Sunday & Monday Nights** Birdcast is estimating 300-400 million birds will be in flight.

If Democrats want to regain working people, they must disavow Big Money. They must hammer economic populism — and have a laser focus on the cost of living crisis in America. There’s no way the party can speak for or represent the working class in America if it's beholden to corporate interests.

My daughter says I’m “so pure.” (?)

424.86 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 12-Sep-2026 keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

A Far-Right International Is Assaulting Democracy MAGA and the AfD are united in a struggle against democratic pluralism that transcends national borders. It is an alliance of extremists defined by aggrieved revanchism. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

Eight billion people, one shared thought: “Could you not?”

After 18 years of litigation, the Fourth Circuit just wiped away a $42 million jury verdict against CACI for its role in torture at Abu Ghraib—a verdict the same court had *affirmed* earlier this year. Why? Because of #SCOTUS's 6-3 June 23 ruling in Cisco, which eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute:

Data from the Pentagon shows that more than 750 US troops have been wounded during operations against Iran. 580 are Army, 86 Navy, 64 Air Force and 19 Marines. Do you know how many injuries could have been avoided if we didn’t go to war with Iran? All of them.

Pete Hegseth Orders Military Blockade Of Woman Attempting To Walk Away From Him https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-orders-military-blockade-of-woman-attempting-to-walk-away-from-him/

For the record: the Pentagon can continue to lie about our reporting regarding the USS Abraham Lincoln all they want. We will continue to tell the truth and bring receipts. Join us at MeidasPlus.com and let’s keep growing this movement.

NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

“Ah shoot, that was the last one of those,” Doug Burgum added as he fumbled a juicy thigh from the world’s only remaining Laysan duck and it fell in the dirt at his feet. “Well, I suppose I can still make some kabobs from that ivory-billed woodpecker we found.”

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Trump 2 has shown that the bulk of federal, state, and local "law enforcement" don't perform any useful functions at all. If they did, it would not be so easy to re-task them to brainless gestapo work like rounding up whole neighborhoods and waiting outside public buildings.

I know I have RTd this several times, but: the WHOLE POINT of the State Department is that it’s supposed to be full of people who deal with other countries, and who could therefore be expected to look at that map and know IMMEDIATELY that it was wrong.

This is a good example of the fear that ICE has engendered in so many. A man here completely legally with nothing (on paper) to fear from ICE took off running when they showed up at a gas station and was struck by a passing truck. Awful.

If Andy Beshear doesn’t call for a special election before August 3rd and force Mitch McConnell to prove he can speak in a video, then Andy Beshear becomes the new Merrick Garland. I’m sorry but I make the rules.

“FUCK ICE” - Boston, Massachusetts #AEWDynamite

Need to be super clear to folks that there is a growing class of “progressive” political consultants with elite backgrounds that are cashing in on antiestablishment sentiment amongst voters, and their payday isn’t at all about your concerns. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Nice

**** Argentina

GOAL!!!!!!!!!

Meta Glasses are like, a Cybertruck for your face.

It's subtle but I noticed while watching old Star Trek TNG episodes that whenever Christopher Columbus is mentioned, Picard never says "discovered" and instead says "travelled to." And I love that.

ICE flights. Saturday, July 4, 2026. At least 85 flights on 28 planes. At least 12 removal flights, 6 to Mexico alone. One year ago today, ICE sent 8 men to South Sudan. Only 3 have been released. Still jailed: Enrique Arias-Hierro, Kyaw Mya, Nyo Myint, Thongxay Nilakout & José Rodriguez-Quiñones.

Patriotism isn't about building walls, punishing immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, attacking the press, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."

Unreal. beyond parody.

During the weather delay they should play Alexi Lalas's albums so Thierry and Zlatan can roast them

Cancer patients, pregnant women and people with life-threatening chronic conditions were all denied adequate medical care, according to medical records and court documents reviewed by The City Reporter.

You know who else is at the Knicks-Spurs game tonight? Jared Kushner. About him...

Kennedy Center should sell tickets to them removing Trump’s name from the exterior.

NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.

Here’s 30 years of Bibi Netanyahu claiming that Iran is days away from nuclear weapons.

OK, I checked and yes this is real