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JUST IN: Judge Sullivan has ordered me to respond, on or before July 13th, to Todd Blanche's "I'm not turning anything over" move from last week in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files. Then, Blanche has until July 20th to reply to what I file.

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

It would be nice if we could get some proof at some point that Mitch McConnell is still alive.

Why can’t someone just find out if Mitch McConnell is dead? They have to use his death to steal another senate seat? Can’t someone go to the hospital? Where is TMZ when you need them?

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Happy "tRUMP Must Pay E. Jean Carroll $5.8 Million Dollars" Tuesday to all those who celebrate justice! 💰 👍 #Sexual-Assaulter-In-Chief

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

England red card.. So does the king call fifa now? Is that how this works?

This is what cowardice looks like. Hundreds of masked extremists marched through our nation's capital on America's 250th birthday, hiding their faces while claiming to "reclaim America." But the image everyone will remember isn't them. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Three egg producers will pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits to settle a price-fixing lawsuit with the DOJ. None of the producers have to admit any wrongdoing. Is this really justice? Or just the cost of doing business?

This is Mira. She's a Podenco Xarnego Valenciano. We're not even making that up. Very pretty and very rare. 14/10 would be an honor to pet (FB: Matilda Lindström)

The President of the United States is attacking a group of kindergarteners because of the clothes they wore to school.

shout out to the guy who spent an afternoon on here screaming at me for thinking the tattoo was bad

NEW: The Maine Democratic Party is calling for Platner to drop out. Source: VoteHub. I feel like someone should have listened to us earlier on this.

These kids are all of us. (📸 by evan vucci of @reuters.com ) (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

🇳🇴 Norway manager Stale Solbakken: “Bad bad bad bad bad decision by FIFA that will hurt the World Cup. Not good for the sport. If they beat Belgium it will always have that extra thing about it. What happens with the next Red Card?” (From @bbcsport)

Over the weekend, Democracy Docket tracked its 100th court victory of the cycle! Total Active Cases: 195 Active Voting Rights Cases: 154 Active Redistricting Cases: 41 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 76 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 74 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 28 www.democracydocket.com

Abbott Laboratories donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund. Trump bought around $500,000 worth of shares in Abbott stock last year. His DOJ just dropped a years-long criminal investigation into Abbott for potential deadly misconduct. Everything is for sale.

Trump is now using his platform to attack kindergarteners because they are Muslim

Look. I’m not for one second sorry that I love football. I have so many comment from people telling me to stay in my lane, or that I don’t know what I’m talking about. Football is for everyone. It brings joy and love and community. If that’s not political, nothing is.

oh yeah this is a weekend at bernie’s situation

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

🔥 Ukrainian Fire Point drones just torched the Omsk oil refinery — Russia’s last undamaged one. That’s 1,600 miles deep into Russia. Putin’s “invincible” empire is getting absolutely cooked from farther away than most Russians have ever traveled. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

Now that the MSM flood is also starting, there’s no way they’re going to be able to keep this hidden until August. The rumor mill has been going crazy today. Nothing confirmed yet, but it definitely doesn’t sound good.

WATCH — @mizzwelch.bsky.social: “The Democratic Party has to start listening… We’re not stupid. That moral duplicity does not work with our base... When you're bought and paid for by AIPAC, you're not authentic. You're Benjamin Netanyahu's bitch. Period.”

Platner is quickly losing key endorsements in the Maine Senate race

gooooooo fuck yourself

Deluzio: I introduced this Let Kids Play Act with Senator Murphy and some others to get private equity and vulture investors out of youth sports. Let’s start with the problem: they have turned youth sports into a luxury item. They’ve jacked up the cost for families.

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NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court's term just ended, but there's no time to sit with these rulings. With 196 voting cases pending nationwide and the midterms just four months away, I explain why the pro-democracy movement needs to stay ready. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd-f...

I’m just going to point out that Trump just made a post yesterday saying that he might need a restraining order for the Italian PM because she’s a stalker right before he’s about to fly to the NATO summit and Trump got a bunch of questions about FIFA and zero about Meloni.

Types of Tornado Alert xkcd.com/3267/

Maybe the consultants can do a better job vetting the candidates they recruit. Especially ones who came out of nowhere. Otherwise it looks like you either knowingly scammed us for a grift, you’re willfully negligent, or grossly incompetent. The consultant class sucks. A lot.

Ellman: You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires? Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had tbi, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?

A commendable stand taken against corruption by— … omg

Just a reminder, the “patriot front” is a bunch of scared cowards who are too afraid to show their faces. Absolute little children who would be the first to run if anything actually went down. Little boys.

Washington, DC has never looked as bad as it has in the past few months—and it’s not just the reflecting pool

“This is not ok. We cannot normalize the National Guard killing American citizens. They shouldn’t be in Memphis at all. The family deserves answers.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social reacts to the news 2 National Guard troops shot and killed Tyrin Johnson in MEMPHIS.

Plans for the largest data center in the world have been abandoned. Blackstone-owned QTS has decided not to appeal to the Virginia Supreme Court, giving up on the world’s largest data center. Fierce opposition and organizing from residents of Price William County ultimately beat out Blackstone.

People outside the military don’t understand how there is a serious lack of respect for Hegseth in the ranks.

It is INSANE that Senator Mitch McConnell is virtually brain dead in the hospital, and Republicans are content to leave it that way indefinitely. His wife is in China, just DAYS after he received CPR, so nobody with power of attorney? Something ain't right here

I hate that in the year 2026, we still have this happening

They took her rosary away from her. www.ms.now/news/ice-arr...

Red card for the English!! Maybe the king can make a call?

NEW: Ten members of Congress have warned the secretary of defense that the Trump administration’s gutting of a program focused on shielding noncombatants puts service members in peril, erodes the military’s moral standing and may violate federal law.

Sometimes in life you just need to stop and yell in a basket on the sidewalk. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"

Gallego pulls his Platner endorsement.

If USMNT wins today, it's tainted. Why? Because Trump. He found a way to F up and ruin the World Cup for us.

They say it’s “routine maintenance” and that they’re painting the columns. I’m betting they’re going to demo them and swap to the “orante” style Trump likes. They haven’t followed any of the other rules, why start now?

Tech executives have warned AI could funnel enormous wealth to a handful of people and create a “permanent underclass.” Why should Big Tech get all the profits while we pay the costs? It’s time to tax AI.

UPDATE: CNBC responds, says it only includes the disclosure of their financial relationship with Kalshi when it is "directly relevant to the story" These are examples of stories where CNBC determined it wasn't "relevant" to disclose that the company invests in Kalshi and gets paid for new customers

Trump just said the ballroom will be missile proof. It’s fucking made of glass. There’s no such thing as missile proof glass. The bunker under it will be very secure, but also not missile proof.

Trump dozes during the fireworks show on July 4 (Chip Somodevilla/Getty)

Graham Platner’s history of sexual assault proves he does not belong in the US Senate. He belongs on the Supreme Court. by Susan Collins

BREAKING: Graham Platner has released a video message responding to allegations of "non-consensual behavior." In the video, he thanks Mainers, denies allegations, and says he is reflecting on the best path forward for his campaign.

No frog left straight.

That the U.S. appears to have completely visibly given up after a catastrophic own goal fuck up is a little on the nose.

This is so sick

Obamas live rent-free in this rapist's head.

AF Major Jason Watson understood that he was going to face discipline & discharge for his protest in uniform. But what he did wasn’t nearly as bad as Scheller, who only got a $5,000 fine, a discharge, and later REWARDED with a DOD appointment from Hegseth. taskandpurpose.com/news/pentago...

New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"

Trump starting to look kinda Mitch McConnellish

The White House has released a report accusing the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution (particularly at the National Museum of American History) of being “radical activists” who cannot be trusted. The report is fueling speculation that the

Because he’s so full of piss and vinegar. You know…a high energy guy.

Khanna pulls his Platner endorsement.

A federal appeals court declined Monday to put three DOJ voter roll appeals on the emergency timeline the department requested, slowing its push for sensitive voter data from Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island before a key federal deadline. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

quiet part out loud -- Ted Cruz thanks Trump for "getting rid of that ridiculous red card," then tells him, "there was a reason the FIFA trophy sat here for as long as it did"

"Trump pardoned a business partner of infamous Jack Abramoff, kingpin of the massive corruption scandal that rocked DC in the 2000s. The man, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and mail fraud conspiracy, has donated nearly $4 million to GOP campaigns..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“I did believe the election was stolen and the rioters were patriots - until I turned off Fox News.”

Trump is a rapist who partied with a pedophile and is covering up the Epstein Files. Republicans worship him. Swalwell had credible sexual assault accusations, and he's gone. Platner will be gone as well. Huge difference. No "both sides." Oh, Paxton let a pedo go free, because of course.

More examples of victim blaming I’ve seen today: “Where has she been?” “The timing is suspicious” “But she had consensual sex with him before” “Why didn’t she call the cops?” STOP IT

The Belgian players seem furious for some reason.

CLARKSVILLE: “The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has launched a full investigation into the death of Darius Chappell, a 44-year-old man who died four days after being bitten by a Clarksville Police Department K-9 during an arrest…” www.wsmv.com/2026/07/04/t...

Did you see this picture? A black woman surrounded by members of the racist group called “Patriot front” on a metro train, completely calm amidst their cowardice. Her silence speaks louder than the racist scum, she’s refusing to be intimidated…the quiet resilience that challenges fear more anything

Assuming he is dropping out, which I believe is imminent, whoever replaces Platner in the Maine Senate race is going to need a fuckton of our help. We can flip that seat! We HAVE to!

If we want to clean up Trump’s mess and prevent future Trumps from taking power, we must make major changes to our broken political system. Here are the 10 reforms necessary to get anything done.

Trump on USA-Belgium: "If they beat us, they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we'll say -- I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won't get into that."

Heather Cox Richardson for Maine Senate. If she is willing to do it.

SENATOR @ossoff.senate.gov: “At the 250th anniversary of our country’s founding in rejection of kings and monarchs, we have these events being hijacked by the narcissism of a president who styles himself most like a king.”

Now they want to open a new for-profit Trump prison camp for children: apnews.com/article/ice-...

Ken Klippenstein should never live this down.

BREAKING: Graham Platner said he is “taking the time to reflect on the best path forward” for his candidacy minutes after POLITICO reported that a woman who dated him said he forced her to have sex with him, which he denies. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on House Oversight, just put the Trump sons' Pentagon windfall on the record: "his sons are cashing in on defense contracts funded by hardworking taxpayers." He's forcing an inspector general to investigate. 🔗 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/one-fired-...

Caving to MAGA hardliners, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the U.S. House will pass the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s massive voter suppression bill, “one more time” through a budget reconciliation process. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Genuinely don't remember soccer being as interesting as this game.

“Maine Democratic Party leadership is calling on Graham Platner to withdraw as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate.”

Trump let crypto fraudsters off the hook. Meanwhile, he cashed in on crypto business to the tune of $1.4 billion. The Grifter-in-Chief knows no bounds.

Trump gets involved with the world cup and corruptly gets a suspended player reinstated. Now, the US team is being humiliated by Belgium. Everything Trump touches turns to shit.

“Can I put my finger in it or am I going to get arrested?”

blah blah the terrible communists blah blah blah

The First Amendment affords us the knowledge that we’re likely free from imprisonment from expressing our freedom to speak. This is a compelling and beautiful idea. But we’ve had to fight to keep it alive from the beginning. Read more: www.theverge.com/policy/96180...

Live your life so that your Nazi tattoo is not the least problematic thing about you Also don't get a fucking Nazi tattoo

Elon Musk’s DOGE officially ended over the weekend. Never forget the damage and chaos DOGE left behind.

George E. Johnson, the pioneering Black hair care entrepreneur who created Ultra Sheen and Afro Sheen, has died

Not wrong, possibly understated www.nme.com/news/music/t...