Lisa Hoke🗽 @lrhoke

Ken Burns, my favorite documentary filmmaker, has spent 50 years telling the American story, including of the Revolution itself. Nobody alive has looked harder at who we are and how we got here. So when he warns us, we should listen. Burns said the founders would not be surprised by a president’s reach for authoritarian power. But what would leave them completely disappointed is how poorly Republicans in Congress have responded. Article I, the branch the founders built first and strongest to be the bulwark against exactly this, has abdicated its power and handed it to the executive. The executive was supposed to carry out the will of the people’s representatives, not rule over them. Right now a Republican majority is choosing to surrender that authority to Donald Trump rather than do the job the Constitution gave them.  I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a party or a a president. The whole point of this new thing the founders created in 1776, was that we do not suffer under authoritarian rule quietly. We must keep fighting to make Congress do its job. thewrap.com/media-platform…

JFK appears in Superman comic book, 1963-1964:

And I am in a statistical tie with Lindsey Graham. There is more than one path to win the Senate.

Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD

2 days ago

I’m just a girl, running for the U.S. Senate, with a medical degree, a record of service, and a non-problematic past. 👋

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While we celebrated our 250 years of independence from a king here in America, @KenPaxtonTX and his mistress went to London to see what life is like with one.

The moral alteration in an unthinkable expanse of people who call this place home has been stunning in its velocity and stomach-turning in its depths. The worst part is that we can’t reach them in the ways reasonable human beings can be reached. Before Fox News, we could meet the people around us on the common ground of our shared faith in Jesus, our respect for the Constitution, the clarity of objective truth, or shared compassion for vulnerable people. Now, they no longer have use or tolerance for such things. Those of us who’ve lost people we love to this curated pestilence should file a class-action suit against Fox News for thirty years of malpractice and murder: for the relationships they’ve destroyed, the deaths they’ve been complicit in, the betrayal of the public trust, and for purposefully killing the goodness in human beings who will never be who they might have been otherwise. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fox-news-poi…

Can we all agree that both Nazi tattoos and sexual assault are very very bad and should be instantly disqualifying for a Senate candidate

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian from the Pyramid Age. The results surprised researchers... In a landmark study published in Nature in 2025, researchers successfully sequenced the complete genome of an Egyptian man who lived approximately 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, during the Old Kingdom, the era when the first pyramids were being constructed. The remains, discovered at Nuwayrat in Upper Egypt in 1902, belonged to a man who likely lived into his 60s and may have worked as a potter based on wear patterns found on his skeleton. The most surprising finding was genetic rather than archaeological. About 80% of his ancestry traced to ancient North African populations, while roughly 20% showed connections to populations from the eastern Fertile Crescent, including Mesopotamia. This provides the first direct genetic evidence that people moved between the two great cradles of civilization thousands of years ago, confirming long-held archaeological theories about cultural exchange and migration. Scientists believe the man's DNA survived because he was buried in a sealed ceramic vessel rather than being mummified, preserving genetic material that had remained intact for nearly five millennia. #archaeohistories

I’m not sure why it’s been so difficult to field a normal Dem candidate in Maine that is under 70 years old. But if that remains the case, what are the rules for becoming a Maine resident? Asking for a lot of ambitious pols currently wondering…

Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald

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Here’s the relevant portion of Maine ballot vacancy law: Platner would have to drop out by July 13 (one week from today) and then the state party would have until July 27 (2 weeks) to pick a replacement. legislature.maine.gov/statutes/21-A/…

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@algorerhythm_ @katz_morris @RebeccaKKatz @fight_agency @jonfavs @TVietor08 @PodSaveAmerica @BernieSanders I’m very liberal but don’t believe in jumping on the bandwagon of an unknown candidate or one with red flags just because you like their talking points.

@algorerhythm_ @katz_morris @RebeccaKKatz @fight_agency @jonfavs @TVietor08 @PodSaveAmerica @BernieSanders The same group supported a candidate for OK-5 who entered the race right before the filing deadline when we had a good candidate who had been campaigning her ass off for over a year. In spite of far lefties embracing this unknown person, the established candidate won the primary

.@katz_morris @RebeccaKKatz @fight_agency @jonfavs @TVietor08 @PodSaveAmerica @BernieSanders All of you stay the fuck out of primaries from now on, please and thank you.

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 than yelled words ever could. This picture will live for decades.

Happy 80th birthday to my friend George W. Bush! Your friendship—and that of your father and your entire family—has been one of the great gifts of my life. It has always reminded me that long before we’re politicians, we’re fellow Americans and, above all, human beings. And for the next month, I’m especially grateful to finally have someone older than me! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and friendship. Our country is stronger when we remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

This has been called the first time our Declaration of Independence was published in a newspaper—Pennsylvania Evening Post, July 6, 1776:

U.S. farmers are intentionally flooding their fields to revive ancient "prairie potholes," creating temporary "pop-up" wetlands that deliver a huge boost to migratory birds while improving soil health. In regions like California's Central Valley and the Mississippi Delta, innovative programs—most notably BirdReturns (launched by The Nature Conservancy in 2014)—pay farmers to strategically flood low-lying or post-harvest fields at precise times during bird migrations. These short-term wetlands mimic the natural prairie potholes and seasonal marshes that once dotted the landscape but were largely drained for agriculture. By timing floods to align with peak migration periods (e.g., spring and fall for shorebirds, waterfowl, and sandhill cranes), farmers provide essential stopover habitat: shallow water, mudflats, and abundant food for millions of birds traveling along flyways like the Pacific Flyway. The approach has transformed tens of thousands of acres of working farmland into critical refueling stations, with studies showing dramatic increases in bird use and numbers—sometimes 3.5 times higher in these managed pop-up wetlands compared to standard fields. Farmers also gain practical benefits. Seasonal flooding enhances soil structure, boosts nutrient cycling (as bird activity and water help break down residues), recharges groundwater, reduces erosion, and supports long-term land productivity—often without hurting crop yields in subsequent seasons. This win-win model proves that modern agriculture and wildlife conservation can reinforce each other, turning productive farmland into flexible ecological assets that sustain both birds and resilient farming systems. [The Nature Conservancy. BirdReturns: Creating Dynamic Habitat for Migratory Birds. The Nature Conservancy California]

"What we're doing is living in the climate change future that scientists have been warning about for years." - Jeff Goodell, author of "The Heat Will Kill You First," on the record-breaking heatwave impacting millions of people across the U.S.

@BostonWxConsult @singingsox “The Heat Will Kill You First” healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/06/t…

🚨 NEW REPORT: Trump hijacked America's 250th birthday. Here's how:

People are traveling, gathering together, barbecuing, celebrating the 250th anniversary of this nation in various ways. And then we have this… An American service member using his right to free speech, guaranteed in our nation’s constitution. A right given to all of us every day. Regardless of your political affiliation, read or watch Major Jason Watson’s full statement. It’s powerful. He has served and is serving. He is speaking up and out, and for that he was arrested. Free speech, freedom of religion, a free press, the freedom to vote for who you choose, the freedom to love who you choose. These are all things we celebrate on our nation’s birthday. They are what makes us a democracy, among many other things. So as you gather, as you grill, as you plan your day, think of Major Watson, think of the freedoms you hold dear, and don’t just celebrate them, but make sure generations to come will have these rights as well! 🇺🇸

Bicentennial 1976 ad for Radio Shack: