Tuesday, Justice John Paul Stevens passed away at the age of 99. Justice Stevens’ retirement from the Supreme Court paved the way for Justice Keagan’s appointment.

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Seems like only yesterday that Dr. Leana Wen was named Planned Parenthood’s new president, and it kind of was. Just under 44 weeks ago, to be precise.

Wen assumed the roll of president on September 12, 2018. Today she tweeted that she had been fired.

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An arrest has been made in the gruesome murder of 75-year-old civil rights activist, Sadie Roberts-Joseph. She was found dead in the trunk of her car last week.

Roberts-Joseph founded an African American history museum in Louisiana.
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Julian Castro is running for president in the Democrat primary, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the current news cycle.

After a strong debate performance (by Democrat metrics), Castro raised $2.8 million in the second quarter, most of it filtering in after the debate.
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A poll released Monday by Saint Anselm College’s New Hampshire Institute of Politics could spell trouble for some big-name candidates. But it’s time. The field is crowded and should start consolidating.
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As Professor Jacobson blogged Saturday, “Willem Van Spronsen, 69, of Vashon Island, Washington, attacked an ICE Detention Center in Tacoma earlier today with incendiary devices and while armed with a rifle. He was killed in a shootout with police.”
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Yet again, my husband Jeff and I are thrilled to announce that our family is growing!

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Thursday evening, Trump announced his administration was not “backing down in the effort to determine citizenship.” While the census will proceed without the hotly contested citizenship question, the administration will pursue that data via other federal agencies.
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This has been an exciting year for Legal Insurrection. In March, we launched the Legal Insurrection Foundation and we haven’t slowed down since. In the few months since creating LIF, we have been busy putting together a team to research, investigate and expose anti-capitalist, anti-American, and anti-Zionist activists, groups, and movements, with a focus on the...

Billionaire Tom Steyer announced Tuesday he was running for president. The anti-Trump activist who drove the Impeach Trump effort promised to spend $100 million in the race.
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Ross Perot, a seminal figure in 90s politics passed away at the age of 89 Tuesday after a five-month-long battle with leukemia, according to the Associated Press.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren brought in a massive $19 million second quarter fundraising haul, passing up both Sanders and Harris and giving Biden a run for his money — he raised $21.5 million.

Fundraising hauls have to be weighed against the campaign’s “burn rate” or how much of the money they’re bringing in...

Revisionism is a scourge. Cherry picking quotes to suit your own political agenda, when those quotes are in no way congruent with your agenda, is just as bad.

Colin Kaepernick did just that, plucked a Frederick Douglass quote out of context and tweeted it with a patriotic gif. And then Ted...

In what can only be described as an act of a terror a woman opened up a half gallon of Blue Bell ice cream (the best ice cream in the country), licked it, and returned it to the freezer of a WalMart in Lufkin, Texas.

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Local Bureaucracies Are The Absolute Worst, Volume Eleventy Gazillion.

Kendall Optometry Ministry, Inc. was created in 2003 and has been serving homeless people around the world ever since. They provide gently used eye glasses to those unable to afford them. Their equipment has been used in 79 countries.
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During the crowded Democrat presidential debate, preference was given first to Elizabeth Warren, who bombed her big opportunity and so shifted to Kamala Harris. Less popular candidates were given substantially less air time and were frequently iced out (see Delaney) and all but completely ignored.

Both Andrew Yang and Marianne Williamson claim...

The first Democratic debate is now logged in the annals of history. Night two was just as odd as night one, only with less Spanish and a heckuva lot more fighting for limited time.
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