The court took a break after another plaintiff, Samantha Casiano, vomited while describing what she went through when she was denied an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with anencephaly. She said she had to watch her baby die after giving birth.

“One woman could barely get words out through her tears. Another ran to the restroom as soon as she was done, wordless, wretched sobs wracking her tiny body. A third threw up on the witness stand.” texastribune.org/2023/07/19/tex…

The latest Trump indicment consists mostly of stuff we knew but is still well worth reading just to appreciate the appalling enormity of the scheme it describes in detail. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

We understand Trump and his supporters are unhappy that a trial will take place in DC. But that's where the crimes took place. That's the law. If you wanted to avoid a DC trial, you should've avoided DC crimes.

Breaking NYT: The purchase of Clarence Thomas's $267,230 R.V. was underwritten, at least in part, by Anthony Welters, a friend who made his fortune in the health care industry. He provided Thomas with financing a bank would have been unlikely to extend. nytimes.com/2023/08/05/us/…

Opinion | Members of a president’s family should never use their positions to enrich themselves. by Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Horrifying. Burning Man was briefly trending earlier due to masses of pathetic right wing/blue checks cheering what sure looks like a massive overreaction by the cops.

Heart warming story on so many levels

This is @satireAP, who absolutely rocks.

Most important message in Jeffrey Goldberg astonishing profile of Mark Milley: Donald Trump's own top military appointees feared that left to his own devices, Trump could start a nuclear war out of brute stupidity. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Annual reminder to keep an eye for these next month!

Fascists: Western Civilization is collapsing. US Senators are now wearing hoodies. What’s next, drag shows on the Senate floor? We’ve completely abandoned Greco-Roman decorum. *harrumph* Me: cc sententiae antiquae

This isn't a hard question. Journalistically, when one side is provably lying, you say they're lying. If you don't say a liar is lying, you are lying. This is a crisis in our industry. We're not in the business of protecting powerful liars. We're in the business of what's true.

There are people on this website comparing Palestine protesters peacefully outside of the funeral of Rosalynn Carter to the Westboro Baptist Church. Let me remind those people about the funeral of Shireen Abu Aqleh.

Today is a very good day.

Trump says that Israel is the capital of Israel

Anyone who’s responding to college kids peacefully protesting by deploying hundreds of militarized cops or threatening to send in the national guard is escalating the situation and making EVERYONE, Jewish kids included, less safe. 1/

In case you're wondering what causes earthquakes, "Science Made Stupid" (Tom Weller, 1985) clears things up.