Beyond the clichés, Jeff Colyer offered little in the way of substantive policy solutions to Kansas problems, most notably education.

So much for obeying a court order, even if begrudgingly and with manufactured delay.

There are levels of corruption, and then there's whatever the hell this is. Donald Trump is demanding that American taxpayers pay him $230 million for being prosecuted. Which is like getting a speeding ticket and then billing the state for the cost of your traffic lawyer. Except in this case, the traffic lawyer is now the judge, and the judge gets to decide how much the state pays you and you get to approve it all, and somehow this is all legal because we've apparently given up on the concept of shame.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command…. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed–if all records told the same tale–then the lie passed into history and became truth." —George Orwell, 1984 This past weekend witnessed what may have been the largest single-day political protest in American history.

The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

The surrender of America’s elites

Its trappings remain, but authoritarianism and AI are hollowing out our humanity.

How mob boss Trump sped through all of Watergate in just a single weekend.

Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie Kirk. But that leads most people to assume that Kimmel said something unkind about Kirk or in some way celebrated his death. But he did not. You can see the segment here (assuming Disney doesn’t pull it):

Some experts tee up public comment on EPA report calling fossil fuel concerns overblown, as others fast-track review

The Environmental Protection Agency just proposed rolling back all limits on carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Comments on the proposed repeal may be submitted now through August 7...

The budget bill moving through Congress has many propositions that would harm America’s wildlife and our natural world.