"In this fully-functional-and-not-at-all-decrepit nation, even an ignorant idiot clown can rise to be *Vice President* to a constitutionally-disqualified insurrectionist pedophile who was best friends, /for years/, with the world's most notorious sex trafficker. The sky's the limit, kids!"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

JD Vance takes a big dump on American colleges and universities and college graduates

If we're playing "shares all the opinions of everyone he's ever been in a room with" then the media needs to start asking Mike Rogers how many birthday cards he's sent to Jeffrey Epstein.

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h ago

The money quote is counterfeit. There's no record of El-Sayed saying that. Might be worth pointing this out, if you're amplifying the claim.

🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”

Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats

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After a certain percentage it's not just "No." It's "No, and fuck you for asking."

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Dems need to be EXTREMELY LOUD in warning the investment banks and their executives: Anyone signing up for the bribery-for-insider-trading API will go to jail. Any company implicated in it will be dissolved. We have to be clear this shit is simply not allowed.

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

The trick will be to take inventory of all the DC "journalists" who participate in this transparent performative horseshit. Whoever still thinks they can shovel the "moderate Susan Collins" lie at us, that merits recording for the future.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · yesterday

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

So fucking @npr.org ran a segment today about Wall St parasites setting up offices in Dallas at a cost of billions of dollars. "Y'all Street!" How goddamned insipid. Aside from that, there were several missing items I will *charitably* categorize as oversights... 1/

Once, at least once, I wish some of those people would come to defence of their colleague. "Screw access, motherfucker you don't talk this way to journalists."

This "deal" (like everything else in this interregnum: every bill, every judicial appointment, every executive order) is plainly illegitimate and constitutionally void. *Everything* done by the executive branch since January 2025 must be nullified. Dems need to express this understanding ASAP.

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · yesterday

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

100% of every public figure is due to someone realizing their time in the spotlight is almost up and they’re desperate for that to continue, and they realize the conservative ecosystem will turn you into a media figure if you promise to endanger as many trans people as possible

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Since republicans insist on bringing up COVID I'd like to remind everyone of a few things. Donald Trump held an unmasked, in person rally attended by Herman Cain who contracted COVID at the event and died. He did debate practice w/ Chris Christie, infected him and Christie ended up in the ICU. /1

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

Conservatism will kill us all if we give it the opportunity.

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

i'm not arguing about covid lockdowns in 2026 bitch get a hobby. take up collecting coins. and you better do it now bc they stopped making pennies

What a batshit first sentence to an editorial excoriating the mayor of Seattle for removing a controversial police chief appointed by her predecessor, something our mayors have routinely done. The conspiracy brain at play: "How dare this scheming woman try to distract us from her incompetence!"

Here’s the thing that frightens me. Everyone executed their roles almost perfectly in the response to these fires and it was still this bad. Everyone. Responders, city, county and fed officials. Detection and warning systems. Everyone did their jobs very well. This was a best case outcome.

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

Every time the media people fail to push back on his TOTAL lack of expertise or qualifications, they are helping him. He has no knowledge or training on anything relevant to health policy. His decisions have already gotten many people killed.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

The worst thing about the "centrists" is not their impulse to surrender to authoritarianism. It's their compulsion to impose their surrender on everyone else. "You can't punish Jeanine Pirro [for her flagrant misconduct and lies]," one of them mewls, "she has absolute prosecutorial immunity." 1/

I say this all the time, but one of my clearest takeaways from reading a different ICE murder victim’s story every day of Lent is that every single employee of Geo Group belongs in The Hague

DrH@drhaup.bsky.social · 5d ago

Adams County, CO health officials are investigating active cases of tuberculosis at the Aurora detention center but GEO facility hasn’t complied with a public health order requiring access. It is illegal under CO law to “willfully violate” a public health order. www.denverpost.com/2026/07/31/t...

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

so, the stooges came back and asked my friend to leave her seat and tried to convince her that she had to change her shirt... we are currently being effectively escorted out of a building that is currently asking for untold millions of our tax dollars

I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well

karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.

The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.