Cockroach Janta Party supporters wave Indian flags a day after the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, in Mumbai, on July 26, 2026. (Photo by Punit Paranjpe/AFP via Getty Images) “Don’t mistake the beginning for the end,” said the Cockroach Janta Party, which vowed to press for further reforms and… Continue reading
Election workers process mailed ballots in Riverside, California on June 1, 2026. (Photo by Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNews Group/The Sun via Getty Images) A majority of the three-judge appellate panel called part of the president’s March executive order “an unprecedented federal incursion into states’ exclusive power to determine voter eligibility.” Brett Wilkins… Continue reading
Texas pastors Nepthalí Zozaya Saucedo and Cinthia Saraí Cardona Otero were detained by US immigration authorities on July 23, 2026. (Photo by Nepthalí Zozaya Saucedo) “This is a terror campaign with the mission of traumatizing our neighbors,” one pastor said of the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown. “We don’t need… Continue reading
Troy Jackson speaks as he became the Maine Democratic Party’s nominee for US Senate in Bangor, Maine on July 25, 2026. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) “We are not from the left. We are not from the right. We are from the bottom. And we are rising,” the longtime labor… Continue reading
Anti-ICE protesters carry cardboard coffins through downtown Los Angeles on July 25, 2026 to remember people killed by Trump administration immigration enforcers. (Photo by Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Protesters rallied against the Trump administration’s deadly anti-immigrant crackdown in the wake of the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo,… Continue reading
26 July 2026/SF News/Zack Ruskin New video footage shows ICE agents arresting Chantal Morales Rojas, 27, of Ecuador, at Denver International Airport earlier this week. Currently employed as an au pair in Oakland, Rojas was in Denver to visit with her former host family. Bay Area resident Alycia Dantzker told ABC… Continue reading
By Joe Mathews, Contributing Columnist July 26, 2026 Gift Article (SFChronicle.com) A TGV high-speed train awaits passengers at the Casablanca railway station in Morocco.Andia/Andia/Universal Images Group via The automated English voice over the loudspeaker is polite and American-accented. “For your convenience, we invite you to make your phone calls from the platform… Continue reading
Posted on July 30, 2014 by Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex.com) I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch: What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in… Continue reading
Peter Grant Jul 12, 2022 (Medium.com) “Past is fucking prologue,” — Stone’s Rule #4 This article is an excerpt from my book, While We Slept: Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of American Democracy, available here. ROGER STONE AND THE JANUARY 6TH INSURRECTION Convicted felon Roger Stone, one of America’s most… Continue reading
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