ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...

ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say

Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.

charlotteobserver.com

White House letterhead doesn’t make it true. The new “fact sheet” identifies no altered votes, no evidence any foreign actor changed the 2020 election. Now agency heads have enlisted their institutions to discredit an election the President lost. I spoke with the Washington Post:

Trump’s claims of election interference in doubt after release of declassified intelligence

Declassified evidence points to Beijing seeking personal data for espionage, not election interference.

wapo.st

One man protest the street preachers (who are saying really hateful things) at comic con in San Diego

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

This is what you get when ICE has been ordered to hit quotas; the “re-arrest” and detention of people doing absolutely nothing wrong and simply waiting for the government to hear their case. It’s despicable.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3w ago

A human rights lawyer who fled China, applied for asylum in the US, and was delivering packages for Amazon when ICE took him this week:

What a graphic. @cnn.com $NVDA $TSLA $AEO

ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission.

FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals

Accepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

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Greg Bovino threatening to tell all about the pesky establishment that want him silenced at a “heritage rally” is objectively funny.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · 3w ago

Heads up, Indiana folks www.heritagerallies.com

lol

The Weeknight on MS NOW@weeknightmsnow.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Trump's Justice Department has just subpoenaed law firms it previously cut deals with at the beginning of Trump’s second term, according to new reporting from the New York Times.

We now get near-daily reports of insane new corruption that would have brought down previous administrations www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/u...

Trump Paid $2 Million by South Korean Company Facing Trade Investigation

The payment illustrates the minefield Mr. Trump has created by maintaining personal financial ties with foreign businesses while he is in office.

nytimes.com

It’s Opposite Day

Justice Connection@justiceconnection.bsky.social · 3w ago

Senator Tillis: “I've got your commitment that there will not even be a whiff of an investigation that appears to have a political motivation to it.” Todd Blanche: “I commit to that.”

Flash forward to now.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11mo ago

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

Update: Houston's local police are calling BS on the FBI's claims. www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/u...

DA says he doesn’t believe that drugs were found in van involved in Houston ICE shooting, countering FBI suspicion | CNN

Prosecutors in Texas’ Harris County believe the substances collected in the van in which Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an ICE agent in Houston last week were not drugs, the district attor...

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@davidkurtz.bsky.social: There's a misimpression that the FBI is working to get to the bottom of ICE shootings + charge immigration agents criminally, if warranted But the FBI is not only ~not~ investigating ICE, it's actively investigating the people ICE shot talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

What Happened Outside the Blanche Hearing Was More Important Than What Happened Inside

The Bizarre Todd Blanche Split Screen Perhaps never before has a nominee...

talkingpointsmemo.com

Staying away from fresh fruit and veg to avoid the super diarrhea? Try some glass-filled crescent rolls.

inthefade@ihavethatonvinyl.com · 3w ago

just gonna stop eating www.chowhound.com/2216260/pill...

lol

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from Trump, the company said

The promoter of all these Venice events privatizing the beach — including events that aren't showing World Cup matches but are still apparently working closely with certain local officials to make them all happen — is a DJ who moved here 18 months ago

Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Venice fan zone organizers handed out these fake city flyers using the official FIFA typeface. A few vendors I talked to yesterday were given these flyers and did end up moving out of the way of the main gates, but most didn't move. Here's CM Traci Park celebrating how much of the area is fenced

This is a video of ICE agents pulling a man out of a car and handcuffing him after shooting him in broad daylight in Maine — just days after killing Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. (1/2)

Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. As a reminder, we've got a database that allows journalists, researchers and others to more easily search these organizations’ finances:

527 Explorer — ProPublica

Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars flow through little-known political organizations called 527s. Use our database to explore who funds these organizations and how they’re spending their mone...

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The Pentagon has been playing games with US casualty statistics for months. Someone is dead. Then they're not. 15 people are wounded. Then they disappear. On Sunday, the DoD said there were no new casualties. On Monday, they quietly admitted two new casualties. theintercept.com/2026/07/13/i...

Iran Claims to Kill 3 U.S. Service Members in Kuwait

The Pentagon said there were “zero reports” of deaths over the weekend — then announced a new death on Monday.

theintercept.com

"When the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told the @theguardian.com.

Trump administration subpoenas New York Times journalists over new Air Force One reporting

Outlet said journalists subpoenaed to testify before grand jury after story detailed security concerns with Qatar-gifted plane

theguardian.com

Journalists often cite medical journal articles in news coverage of everything from outbreaks to drug recalls to promising new treatments. When they’re censored, so is the news that reaches newspaper pages and the public.

Censorship of medical journals infects journalism too

Why are government quacks like RFK Jr. grading doctors’ homework?

freedom.press

stop. if you think the existence of a warrant is part of the conversation in any way, you cannot, by definition, argue that it makes any difference whether the guy they killed had a warrant or not. because right guy or wrong guy, an arrest warrant isn't a death sentence.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: BIDDEFORD, Maine (AP) - Homeland Security secretary said man killed by ICE in Maine was not the target of warrant, Maine Sen. Angus King says.

BREAKING: A federal court stopped the DOJ from illegally seizing the personal and private data of voters in West Virginia. Courts have prevented the Trump administration from unlawfully accessing voter data 13 out of 13 times.

Agree with this. They are not the judge and jury. And that’s on top of the murders, lies and cover ups.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 3w ago

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally. n.pr/4w1lkb8

Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care

NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.

n.pr

Does anyone know what is happening at Daily Dot?! A bunch of my older articles are now 404. 😥

This deputy police chief was California's highest-paid public employee in 2025

This deputy police chief was California's highest-paid public employee in 2025

A former Redlands deputy police chief topped California’s public payroll in 2025, taking home $1.26 million in total compensation — more than the combined salaries of the mayors of Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, state compensation data show.

latimes.com

"There are times in the middle of the night when I wake up thinking I’m back in that same place, because it's terrifying," the Glass House Farms worker and mother tells L.A. TACO, one year after the raids. The full story: lataco.com/glass-house-... By Izzy Ramirez and Aisha Wallace-Palomares

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits a whopping 12 points higher in net favorability among Jewish Americans than Benjamin Netanyahu

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4w ago

Interesting bit from the new AP-NORC poll: Favorability among Jewish Americans: D. Trump: -41 J. Shapiro: +20 Z. Mamdani: +5 B. Netanyahu: -27 apnorc.org/projects/dem...