Rudy Giuliani, mayor of Crazytown.

Jim Stingl for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

You know you’re a bad driver if your neighbors start a Facebook group about it.

I’m talking about Bay View Prius Lady and its 620 members who swap horror stories about her speeding, recklessness and horn blowing.

It’s part public shaming via social media, and part call to action before someone is seriously hurt.

The road to vigilante justice is paved with cute cat pics and funny GIFs.

Yikes.

Ezra Klein writing for Vox:

There is a deep pull in political punditry toward asserting symmetry between the two political parties — whatever sins one party is guilty of, surely the other party is no better. But this was a week in which the pretense of symmetry between the modern Democratic and Republican parties fell away.

The Democratic Party is acting like the political parties we have traditionally known in American politics: It is backing familiar politicians with deep institutional ties and, amidst divided government, nominating compromise figures with the potential for bipartisan appeal.

The Republican Party, however, is moving in a different and worrying direction: It is nominating an inexperienced demagogue whose appeal is precisely that he has no institutional ties, and it is refusing to even consider compromise with the sitting president.

A bill has passed the U.S. Senate which would make it easier for citizens, journalists, and researchers to make Freedom of Information Act requests for records and remove discretionary exemptions for internal documents over 25 years old.

Under the legislation, agencies would have to point to a specific “foreseeable harm” when withholding documents that would typically be exempt from public release. The legislation would also create a single FOIA request portal for all agencies, limit the amount of time that certain documents are exempt from disclosure and make more documents available online, among other things.

Lawmakers have tried get the bill passed for the past few years, despite opposition from the Justice Department and a handful of other civil enforcement agencies that have quietly opposed the legislation.

Funny how the Justice Department is so much more into using The All Writs Act to force others into helping them extract things like emails from suspects compared to their willingness to oblige FOIA requests for their own emails. It just seems like law enforcement have an easier time appreciating the costs of retrieving information when the information is their own.

Is this an advertisement? For Daredevil Season 2? With Buzzfeed, I can’t tell anymore.

So let me get this straight, the price of “free” on the web not only includes increased bandwidth, longer load times, attempts at attention-grabbing, spying/tracking, the possibility of increased spending due to successful ads, but also now the threat of exposure to malware AND all of these good times come not by visiting shady internet holes, but the most reputable sites like The New York Times and Google?

Free as in quite costly.

Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson (R) still believes in the constitutional right of a president to nominate justices to the Supreme Court:

I think the Senate has got to take on the responsibility and hold hearings. They can vote it down. But I think America is entitled to democracy.... The government’s got to work and it has not worked in years. And it’s about time they start doing their responsibility and carrying on what their repsonsibilty is, and that’s holding public hearings. And then vote it down if they don’t like the candidate. Let the next president choose. But to say, I’m just not going to hold publics hearings is not an answer.

David Clarke (Milwaukee County Sheriff) has to be the most irresponsible law enforcement official in the country. Today he is blaming all of the wrong people for violence at Donald Trump’s campaign rallies:

I would say, look at some of the rhetoric and language used by Mrs. Bill Clinton and Bernie Sanders at their rallies and at their debates. How they criticize the police, they attack the police, they stoke up racial animosity. The president of the United States is the one that created this division, stoking up racial discord, class warfare, gender warfare, for the last eight years. For people to blame this on Donald Trump, is way out of bounds.

Meanwhile, other (more sensible) Republicans are blaming Trump himself. But to a guy who seems to be a machine which produces for Fox News soundbites, when Republican supporters throw a punch, it’s always going to be some liberal’s fault. Not the folks committing or inciting the violence. Nope.

And Mrs. Bill Clinton, really?

David Clarke, also a leading candidate in a crowded field for jackass of the year.

Gross.