Greg McCann

@gjmccann.bsky.social

Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

1/ Over the weekend, RFK Jr. was interviewed on CNN, and as I'm sure many of you have seen, he made a number of inaccurate statements. The conversation covered Covid-19, RSV, measles, vaccines, and autism. Let's fact-check some of the biggest claims.

Ronald Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis—and his “dear friend” from Hollywood, Rock Hudson, who asked for help. Dr. Fauci jumped in and helped. Guess which guy the homophobic ghouls in the Republican Party revere today.

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Basically we have to pull a Hungary-level wipeout: win so big they can’t steal the election. Read the whole piece, then make sure you’re registered to vote (and ready to shut the country down when he fakes a “national security threat”). www.againstallenemies.net/p/the-electi...

The MAGA Election Heist Is Here

Democrats have about ninety days to fight back.

RICK WILSON
JUL 10, 2026
What it does accomplish is something much older and much darker: it conditions the country to the sight of federal force deployed against civilians in Democratic cities, and it conditions the agencies themselves to follow orders that would have been unthinkable five
years ago.
Every authoritarian project runs this rehearsal. You normalize the presence of the boot before you decide whose throat to crush with it.
And where they intend to put it is in key states and districts this election season.The MAGA media and tech alliance isn't just writing checks anymore. It owns platforms, it owns cable networks, it owns news outlets, it owns AI models, and it owns the pipes. AI-generated content at industrial scale, synthetic local news sites metastasizing across swing states, deepfakes timed for the final seventy-two hours when corrections can't catch the lie, and something subtler: the deliberate poisoning of the Al information wells themselves, so that the tools hundreds of millions of people now use to ask "is this true?" have been marinated in garbage. You don't need to stuff a ballot box if you can stuff the reality the voter walks in with.
In 2016 this stuff was the product of dipshit Macedonian teenagers and a troll farm in St.
Petersburg. In 2026 it's a vertically integrated influence industry run by the richest men on earth, aligned 100% with the White House, operating at machine speed. Treating it as a media literacy problem is like treating an artillery barrage as a noise complaint.So that's the assignment. Register voters like it's existential, because it is. Bank early votes like the polls might not be open on Election Day, because in some counties, functionally, they might not be. Fund the lawyers, protect the election workers, prosecute the criminals, and run up the score in every district, everywhere, including the ones the smart-money consultants wrote off.
A political war is coming this fall. Not a metaphor, not hype, an actual contest over whether elections in this country still decide who holds power. The other side has already mobilized. They have the Court, the money, the federal agencies, and the machines.
You have the numbers. You have the law. And you have about ninety days.
Win so big the fuckers can't cheat.
There is no plan B.
William Gibson@greatdismal.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you’re a Democrat and plan to vote this fall, please acquaint yourself now with what looks to me to be a highly skilled extrapolation of where that’s headed. Which is by definition not merely a best guess.

IMHO, the Supreme Court is a *bigger* problem than Trump, and it should be the primary target for reform. Trump and Congress would both be very different under a law-abiding SCOTUS, which would have stopped government action clearly animated by racism and racially gerrymandered districts.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

Apparently, you're not allowed to post: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · last mo.

These are the exact words she posted: “BREAKING: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!”

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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I defeated Trump and his allies more than 60 times in court when he tried to steal the 2020 election. When Trump sued me for RICO in 2022, I didn't settle. I fought and won. He and the GOP hate me because I fight. They fear me because I win.

Alright, I’m home now so here’s the Norm update. Yesterday at 4pm, I got a text from a family I’ve been helping who had a loved one abducted a couple of days after Renée Good’s murder. This was the family that Norm Nation kept from being evicted (and you delivered). ICE had released their loved one.

Incompetent courtiers being put in charge of key technical positions and then totally botching them was a recurring feature and major weakness of historical absolute monarchies and authoritarian regimes. Anyway, Bari Weiss,