"... These facts lead to the inexorable conclusion that the 'settlement' terms, the individuals who signed the “settlement” as well as the putative beneficiaries of the 'settlement,' demonstrate a shared, unitary interest. And the unilateral revision and renunciation of the 'Fund' component of the “settlement” demonstrate the fact that all Parties were aligned, and ultimately, undifferentiated. This action was never about a party seeking judicial resolution of a legal issue or a factual dispute. The nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the Parties and counsel from its filing make plain that this was an attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not defined in the law. The President may be the functional 'dominus litus' of the Executive Branch, but as a party to a civil suit, he, as well as all the parties and lawyers before a court, are bound by the rules. Ensuring that our courts are used only for the express purpose created by the Constitution is the obligation of every judge and an obligation that this Court must discharge in light of the matter before it.
"In sum, the facts before this Court demonstrate there was never adverseness between the Parties; there was never a case or controversy; and there was never a question as to who would prevail." -- decision by U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams, in President Donald J. Trump, et al. v Internal Revenue Service, et al., better known as Trump's self-dealing $1.8 billion weaponization and J6 seditionist payoff fund. The Judge's order also referred Trump lawyer shyster Alejandro Brito to the Florida Bar Association for possible disciplinary action; she also "ordered that a copy of her ruling be mailed to the State Bar of New
York, of which Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a member, as well
as to the District of Columbia Bar, of which Associate Attorney General
Stanley Woodward is a member.” Steve Benen has a brief history of the bogus, improper lawsuit here.
Monday, July 13, 2026
QOTD -- Trump's $1.8 Billion Steal And His Lawyers Get Smacked Down
States Sue Over Paramount - Warner Bros. Merger
After the deranged and flailing Malignant Fascist's Justice Department quickly approved the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery in June, California has now joined with eleven other states to block the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, which would put more major media outlets under the control of right-wing supporters of the increasingly deranged Malignant Fascist:
"A coalition of 12 state attorneys general is filing a lawsuit in federal court on Monday to block Paramount Skydance’s purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds, imperiling one of the biggest mergers in entertainment and media history.
The effort is being led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who is bringing the case in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, his office said in a statement. The lawsuit comes amid mounting opposition to the deal from Democratic lawmakers, studio executives, actors and others in Hollywood, who argue it would lead to sweeping job cuts and accelerate media consolidation that harms consumers and creative talent alike. [snip]
The prospective deal, which has received regulatory approval in more than 20 countries and is expected to close by the end of the third quarter, would give Paramount Skydance, helmed by CEO David Ellison, the ability to integrate his company’s namesake streaming service with HBO Max to create a new content platform boasting more than 200 million subscribers. [snip]
The merger has raised additional questions because it is financially backed by Larry Ellison — David Ellison’s father and a prominent ally of President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked CNN and said he wants the network changed.
More than 4,000 Hollywood figures, including many stars who work in front of the camera, signed on to a prominent campaign opposing the transaction. 'We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good,' the group has said. 'The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised.'” (our emphasis)
Of course, one of the members of the "small group of powerful stakeholders" is none other than the MF himself, who wants to control not only the Paramount property CBS, but also Warner Bros. property CNN, and to skew its news coverage to be favorable to him like the Fox/ Newsmax / OANNs of the MAGAt propaganda echo chamber, as right wing oligarch Larry Ellison suggested. No doubt the Ellisons will threaten to leave California and will pour their considerable resources into an appeal, as their cult leader the MF applauds from the sidelines. They have to be defeated in their attempted takeover of media outlets in order to turn them into more MAGA propaganda outlets.
Skeets Of The Day
The Epstein-Trump files / stick it to Blanche! --
To be clear: As I say in the post, I don't think Trump fired Bondi to prevent sharing NM files. But I do think the NM files can be a politically damaging point of pressure for Blanche in this week's hearing.
— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
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Operation Epic Fail / "diplomacy" threatened π--
BREAKING: The U.S. and Iran each asserted Monday they controlled the Strait of Hormuz after a weekend of attacks stretching across the wider Middle East, further threatening any diplomacy to end the war.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) July 12, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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Despicable Trump --
Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Another ICE murder today --
Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...
— Steve Herman (@newsguy.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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I cannot emphasize this enough: At ICE, incompetence is the point. That's why Miller and Trump picked a jackass like Mullin to run the place. www.salon.com/2026/07/13/n...
— Amanda Marcotte (@amandamarcotte.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism --
New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism "Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of the GOP. Has America ever seen a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader?"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 13, 2026 at 7:32 AM
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A key part of Lindsey Graham's legacy: when he called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
— Taniel (@taniel.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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... and how way too many media and Dems are treating his demise --
Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Russian military know-how. Slava Ukraini! --
The Russian trainee barely missed his instructor.π€£
— Sanho Tree (@sanho.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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Once a weasel, always a weasel --
NEW: Michael Cohen has been meeting secretly with Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/u...
— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) July 12, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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And down goes human scum Conor McGregor! --
MCGREGOR took an L and a blown out Knee! Couldn't have happened to a better person!
— Spicy NurseπΆπΆπ¦π¬π¬π§ (@spicynurse38.bsky.social) July 13, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Ads Of The Day
No, we haven't gone commercial. These are just a few of the many hilarious ads on the "InfoWars" parody website that "The Onion" has set up to mock the vile Alex Jones' original fascist, incel shitshow (h/t Silver Spring Bureau Chief Brian):
There's more where those came from, so enjoy.
Today's Tomorrow Cartoon: Poop Flinger
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We're living in a parallel earth, where a baboon is President, flinging his poop wherever he wishes. Even his supporters will catch some if they get too close and upset him. Tom's not the first one -- nor will he be the last -- to portray the unhinged Malignant Fascist as a baboon.
Please consider supporting Tom's work by going here.
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle celebrated the landmark bipartisan housing bill becoming law overnight Saturday despite President Donald Trump's refusal to sign it.
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act aims to address the country’s housing shortage by increasing the supply of homes and overall homeownership. The legislation loosens regulations to encourage housing construction and limits Wall Street investors from buying homes that could go to families instead.
It passed in the Senate 85-5 and in the House 358-32, both veto-proof majorities, last month.
Trump said he was refusing to sign the bill because the Senate has not taken up the unrelated Save America Act which would make significant election and voting reforms, including requiring photo ID at polling places and proof of citizenship before a person could register to vote. The voting bill has been flatly rejected by Democrats and would require 60 votes to prevail in the Senate.
In a post on social media Friday, Trump said he would not sign "in PROTEST" over the Senate's inability to pass the voting bill.
Since the president did not sign or veto the housing bill following the 10-day window after Congress presented it to him, it became a law midnight Saturday. [snip]
"Donald Trump couldn’t pick up the pen because he just isn’t interested in lowering costs for American families," Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said in a statement Saturday.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., called Trump's delays in signing the housing bill "childish," and touted the law's benefits for Americans.
"This legislation is going to lower housing costs, build more homes, and ensure working families can afford to keep a roof over their heads," she said in an X post.
A failed attempt to hold the housing bill hostage to the Malignant Fascist's election- rigging "Save America My Ass Act." This is also another case of a self-inflicted political wound for the MF, resulting from his extreme narcissism, stupidity, and moronic petulance. Well done, MAGAts!
For the Iranian regime, keeping a chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz has turned out to be more important than the tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief from the Trump administration.
That is because Tehran is playing a long game. Iranian officials believe the country has finally emerged as a regional hegemon, after the U.S. and Israel failed to achieve their main goals in the war they unleashed in February. And, as long as Tehran cements this new status by securing permanent arrangements to control the vital waterway—and dominating the Persian Gulf economies along with it—then the rest, including American sanctions relief, will eventually follow.
“This is the only way: recognize the new Iranian order in the Strait of Hormuz,” warned Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security commission. “The Strait of Hormuz will only open with ‘Iranian arrangements,’ not American threats,” added the parliament’s speaker and the lead negotiator with the U.S., Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
This attitude heralds a rocky future, with regular bouts of violence, continuing uncertainty for global energy markets and a Damoclean Sword of renewed strikes hanging over the Gulf monarchies.
“The Islamic Republic will become even more of a gangster regime. Its takeaway from the war is that concessions are won through coercion—by attacking its neighbors, threatening the Strait of Hormuz and driving up the price of oil,” said Karim Sadjadpour, Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “Like Putin’s Russia, the Islamic Republic believes that its security depends not on the prosperity of its people, but on the insecurity of its neighbors.”
And, just like Russia in its own neighborhood, the Iranian regime views the oil-rich Gulf monarchies as belonging to its own natural sphere of influence—a sphere denied to it by American meddling ever since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Now that America has failed to protect these Gulf states from Iranian attacks, Tehran’s drive to institutionalize Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz reflects its ambition to establish a new Pax Iranica in the Middle East. After all, the Gulf countries, to a varying extent, rely on the strait not just for their oil and gas exports, but also for other vital supplies, from consumer items to food...
We've been led to this strait (pardon the pun) by the complete incompetence of the MF and his tyro "negotiators" ("Javanka" Kushner and Steve "Witless" Witkoff) who were trying to get the semblance of a "win" from the MF's disastrous decision to go along with Bibi Netanyahu's fantasy to crush Iran with American air power. Every day this malevolent moron is in power, America suffers irreparable harm.
A Democratic senator on Saturday alleged that whistleblowers have detailed several problems stemming from rushed or improper reconstruction of the Kennedy Center, adding a new layer to the travails of the arts complex as President Donald Trump tried to seize control of it and its name.
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island said in a release on Saturday that he had received a whistleblower disclosure from the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit whistleblower protection group, alleging that “the Center rushed a series of renovations driven by the President’s aesthetic whims and his desire to star in a series of televised events in December.”
“The Center’s subservience to the President’s desires and its corner-cutting contracting practices have resulted in steel columns that are rusting through fresh paint, a reflecting pool that may have to be torn out and rebuilt, and a brand-new bathroom floor torn out over an offending tile color,” Whitehouse continued. “This is waste, and it treats a national memorial to President Kennedy as if it were a private renovation project.” [snip]
Whitehouse released a letter he wrote to the center’s executive director, Matt Floca, demanding answers by July 23. He said the whistleblower report included “firsthand accounts of multiple former Center project managers, supported by contemporaneous documents and photographs.” He also included an 83-page appendix full of internal center documents, emails and photos of apparently shoddy construction.
The allegations include that the center rushed work before it was authorized by Congress because it wanted it to be complete for Trump to accept the new FIFA Peace Prize that the soccer federation awarded him. In doing so, the letter alleges the center didn’t follow required contracting guidelines and wasted money replacing a bathroom because the president didn’t like the color and inking no-bid contracts. One $8 million contract to replace the concert hall’s floor went to a firm with no experience in concert halls, Whitehouse contended.
Well, well. Imagine that. Shoddy construction, cutting corners, no-bid contracts to unqualified contractors, wasting taxpayer dollars. There's pay-to-play kickbacks written all over this, too. Utterly on- brand for the MF and his corrupt regime. Exposure is the first step toward accountability, and there's so much to be accountable for in this corrupt fascist regime.
Sunday, July 12, 2026
Across The Universe, Cont. -- Centaurus A
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The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky. Note that the relationship between north and east on the sky (as seen from below) is flipped relative to direction arrows on a map of the ground (as seen from above).
The scale bar is labeled in light-years.
This image shows invisible near- and mid-infrared wavelengths of light that have been translated into visible-light colours. The colour key shows which NIRCam and MIRI filters were used when collecting the light. The colour of each filter name is the visible light colour used to represent the infrared light that passes through that filter.
[Image description: Annotated image of galaxy Centaurus A captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), with compass arrows, a scale bar, and colour key for reference. A diagonal image of the galaxy stretches from the upper left to the lower right against a deep black background filled with tiny orange, blue, and white points of light. A band of golden-orange dust cuts across the middle of the galaxy, forming a distinctive parallelogram shape. Just above the centre, peach-coloured ribbons trace an S-shaped structure. The galaxy’s outer edges are reddish-orange. Below the image is a colour key showing which of Webb’s filters were used to create the image and the visible-light colour assigned. NIRCam filters, from left to right: F090W is blue, F187N is blue, F200W is cyan, F277W is yellow, F335M is orange, F444W is red. MIRI filters, from left to right: F560 is yellow, F770W is orange, F1000W is red.]
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI), J. Depasquale (STScI), M. Garcia Marin (ESA Office at STScI)
QOTD -- Weaponizing Political Violence
"... Violence is a tool for disrupting elections. It can create an environment of fear and uncertainty that primes voters to believe conspiracy theories or false claims of fraud.
"We have already seen the Trump administration lay the groundwork: surveillance and intimidation of protestors and physical violence against the administration’s opponents. Violence can also serve as a pretext for the crackdown itself — a rationale for 'restoring law and order' that conveniently expands federal power over dissent. When RenΓ©e Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis, video footage undercut the federal government’s claims of terrorism almost immediately, showing how far the official narrative had drifted from reality. [snip]
"There is a lot each of us can do
to help protect our democracy in this critical moment. Caring for our
neighbors, engaging our communities, and finding ways to use our voices
are all essential. As we confront the dual challenges of political
violence and authoritarian attempts to weaponize it, being clear-eyed
about both the real risks of violence and the risk of its exploitation
is a responsibility we all share." -- Jennifer Dresden and Laura Livingston, in the "If You Can Keep It" Substack, on why it's vital that "Getting the Story Straight" on political violence is critical as head for the mid-terms. The piece offers some advice on questions the media (and public) should ask in instances of political violence, such as the killings of innocent people like Good, Pretti, and now Lorenzo Salgado Araujo -- with subsequent official lies and blame-shifting -- by the Malignant Fascist's ICE/ Border Patrol thugs. Forewarned is forearmed.
Today's Cartoons
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(Daniel Boris, @danboris)
(James MacLeod, MacLeodCartoons, Facebook)
(Bill Day, caglecartoons.com)
(John Cole, The Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA)
(Monte Wolverton, caglecartoons.com)
(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Dennis Goris, @DennisGoris)
(Ratt, caglecartoons.com)
(John Darkow, Columbia Missourian)
(Benjamin Slyngstad, @slyngstad_cartoons)
(David Sipress, @dsipress)
Sunday Reflection: Quiet Desperation
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..” -- Henry David Thoreau (7/12/1817 - 5/6/1862), from his naturalist book "Walden: Life in the Woods" (1854).
Also famous for his 1849 work "Civil Disobedience and Other Essays," Thoreau was noted for his acts of civil disobedience toward the government in protesting the Mexican-American War and the abomination of slavery.
The One Big Beautiful Bill (For Billionaires) Act One Year Later
A little over a year ago, the Republican party/cult passed Public Law 119-21, which the Malignant Fascist had named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." A year later, we can survey the damage of the One Big Beautiful Bill (for Billionaires) Act so far:
One year after President Donald Trump signed the law he dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” on the South Lawn of the White House, it has begun reshaping the country — altering who gets help from the government and who goes without.
The most consequential legislation of Trump’s second term reaches into nearly every corner of American life. It supercharges immigration enforcement, pouring billions into border security and deportations. It rewrites student loan rules. It dismantles tax incentives for electric vehicles and clean energy. It creates a national school-voucher tax credit.
And at its core is a seismic shift: extending roughly $4.5 trillion in tax cuts disproportionately benefiting corporations and the wealthy over 10 years while cutting about $1.1 trillion from healthcare and food assistance programs serving poor and working-class people.
It ultimately adds a projected $4.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade.
Historians say the law represents a watershed moment in a decadeslong conservative effort to shrink the social welfare system built during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and expanded through Great Society legislation of the 1960s. To Chris Howard, a professor of public policy at the College of William & Mary and an expert on America’s safety net programs, the result amounts to “Robin Hood in reverse.”
“It deliberately targets some of the most vulnerable members of society,” he said, “while providing huge windfalls to the richest individuals and to big business.”
Supporters frame the act as a long-overdue correction. They argue it’s reducing dependence on government programs, rooting out waste, encouraging work and making American businesses more competitive. They point to larger tax refunds for many households — including the middle class — and an uptick in business investment as early evidence.
But many health policy experts, economists and antipoverty advocates see it as something else: one of the largest transfers of resources from low-income Americans to the rich in U.S. history.
Once all of the law’s major provisions are fully phased in, Congressional Budget Office estimates show, the poorest households will end up with roughly $1,200 less each year on average, while the wealthiest Americans will gain about $13,600. [snip]
The law is also the legislative engine powering Trump’s mass deportation agenda, pairing an unprecedented expansion of immigration enforcement funding with cuts to healthcare and food assistance for many immigrants living in the U.S. legally.
Yes, billions to the ICE thugs, while taking health insurance and food out of the mouths of millions of Americans. A few charts from the article:
The linked article goes on to explore, in greater detail, the shredding of the healthcare safety net, the "reverse Robin Hood" effect of the regressive tax cuts, SNAP cuts and growing hunger, and the racist immigration enforcement operation spearheaded by the murderous thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol.
It couldn't be clearer that the Malignant Fascist and his Republican party/ cult have been benefiting the Epstein class oligarchy (most particularly the epically corrupt MF and his family) and making the rest of America suffer. Meanwhile, while he builds gaudy monuments to himself with taxpayer dollars, the MF says"affordability" is a "hoax." He also says "I don't think about Americans' financial situation." Except, of course, his and his oligarch supporters.Lindsey Graham Dies
Most people would be betting on Mitch McConnell going first, but Sen. Lindsey Graham (MAGAt-SC) beat him to the punch:
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in Congress and a longtime advocate of direct confrontation with Iran, died Saturday evening after a “brief and sudden illness,” his office said in statement posted on social media...
He was 71. It's best not to speak ill of the dead, so we'll leave it right there.
BONUS: Never gets old:
2015: “[Donald Trump] is a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.”
— George Conway ⚖️πΊπΈ (@gtconway.bsky.social) July 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
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BONUS II: Here's an opinion of Graham that we share.
(Photo: all you need to know)
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Today's Cartoons
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(Drew Sheneman, Tribune Content Agency)
(Pedro Molina, Tribune Content Agency)
(Kevin Kallaugher, The Economist, UK)
(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator, Canada)
(Rick McKee, caglecartoons.com)
(Ward Sutton, @wardsutton)
(Bill Day, caglecartoons.com)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Marian Kamensky, caglecartoons.com, Austria; context here)
(Joel Pett, Tribune Content Agency)
(Michael de Adder, The Contrarian)
(Dan Misdea, @dan_misdea)
QOTD -- Ruining America's Leadership In Scientific Research
"... Last month the administration released a sneak preview of another frontal assault on American research excellence, all under the innocuous-sounding plan to 'revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government-wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, cooperative agreements, and other forms of assistance.'
"Even a quick scan of the proposed regulation rewrite, however, reveals where this administration is coming from. It claims that, 'Federal awards were often used during [the Biden] years to promote a "woke" policy agenda that did not reflect the values of the vast majority of the American public' and 'far-left activists hijacked the critical work done by the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which was established to respond to the AIDS crisis in Africa. Due to wasteful spending, PEPFAR became a left-wing foreign aid entitlement that attempted to promote abortion and gender ideology.' The latter claim relies on a Heritage Foundation argument that the hard-working staff here at Drezner’s World called bullshit on about three years ago. [snip]
"One of the genuine difficulties with observing the second Trump term is that the assault on state capacity and impartiality has been so multipronged that it is difficult to keep track of everything going on. But these proposed rule changes are monumental and catastrophic. Unfortunately, 'monumental and catastrophic' are the perfect adjectives to describe what Trump will bequeath his successor, as well as the rest of us." -- Daniel W. Drezner, Distinguished Professor at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, in this Substsack "Drezner's World." Drezner calls this under-the-radar plan an "existential threat to scientific research," one of many existential threats we face with the Malignant Fascist. The plan is getting hammered in public comments, not that that's ever deterred the Malignant Fascist and his goon squad of America-destroyers. Congress -- especially a Democratic Congress if we elect one in November, can also stop the changes. We've got to make sure that happens.
Skeets Of The Day
Operation Epic Fail: the Malignant Fascist's losing it, a side-by-side --
Oh cool, he's doing the thing where he mocks Muslims by saying "PRAISE BE TO ALLAH" again.
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) July 11, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.
— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Someone needs to overlay this timeline with the stock market.
— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) July 11, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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The Epstein-Trump files coverup --
Why does the Trump DOJ continue to hide the unredacted Epstein Files? Todd Blanche won’t even cooperate with the New Mexico Attorney General @nmdoj.bsky.social
— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Our broken corporate media still wants their party with the Malignant Fascist --
you know what reporters should do? have an event honoring the first amendment and invite him as the guest of honor. call it the white house correspondents dinner. he’d like that.
— shauna (@goldengateblond.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Maybe the press corps can ask Trump about it at the correspondents dinner.
— John Robinson (@jrobin.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 7:46 AM
What up with conniving human-turtle hybrid Sen. Mitch McConnell?, cont'd. --
We don't even have to speculate what the right would be doing if this were a story about a missing Democratic senator. It would've been the Paul Pelosi insanity times a thousand.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 7:09 AM
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Shocked, shocked! that Jared and Ivanka's Albania resort deal involved corruption --
Land sold for Kushner-backed Albania resort suspected of forged deeds https://aje.news/uai5zb
— Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) July 11, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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"Brainworm" Kennedy's latest gift: explosive diarrhea --
Fuck Around Find Outhouse
— Dan Silverman (@dmsilverman.bsky.social) July 11, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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The Malignant Fascist's DOJ drops cases against his brown shirt army leaders --
NEW: A judge reluctantly erased the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case against the Proud Boys tonight, concluding he had no power to get in DOJ's way. But Judge Kelly, a Trump appointee, made clear he disagreed — and underscored the gravity of the attack. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) July 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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From our Decorator-In-Chief --
We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.
— ππ¦ππππ πΎπ¦π£π (@sundaedivine.lol) July 11, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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Nothing like a great nap --
When you take a nap so good that you wake up thinking you're late for school but it's Sunday and you're 59.
— Paul Bronks (@slendersherbet.bsky.social) June 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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