If true, the Constitution is dead. Because it seems like the people who gathered in Independence Hall to draft that document gave them a mechanism to rein in the president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Whitehouse on Blanche and Ghislaine Maxwell: "It was to get exculpatory information about Donald Trump and then reward her ... How often does a prisoner allegedly facing threats or danger get moved to a less secure facility? Think about it. It doesn't pass the test of common sense."

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

Bravo

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯

This shift to computerized state tests was made possible by schools' adoption of one-to-one devices. Which mostly happened with Covid. And yet, we rarely discuss the possibility that computerizing tests--without first teaching computing skills--might've contributed to subsequent test score declines.

David Adams@daveadams.bsky.social · 3d ago

My daughter’s middle school never taught typing, but the computerized state standardized tests included a timed essay section to be completed in a tiny text area.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Again, the only credible position on this is automatic universal voter registration and free national ID cards. If you don't believe in these things - as no one, including John McGuire, in the far right authoritarian party does - then the <entire point> of this is mass disenfranchisement.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

They keep trying to make voter ID sound common sense, but all they wind up doing is making themselves sound like elites who haven't done regular-people shit in a decade. "You need to show photo ID to buy groceries or medicine!" Sure, sure, Scrooge McDuck, that's definitely how it works.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

Rep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."

This is a more straightforward reality-based assessment of COVID than literally any Republican is willing to acknowledge

chercat208.bsky.social@chercat208.bsky.social · last wk.

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Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it. www.wired.com/story/tropic...

Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe

Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the Continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.

wired.com

This is all a crazy effort to rewrite the past, yes. But what's really terrifying is hearing these people tell us how badly they're going to fuck up the *next* pandemic they're now creating without that nerd Fauci holding them back.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

Republicans want us to memory-hole everything Trump did in 2020 while dragging us back into the same tired 2020 culture wars: Fauci, Wuhan, vaccines, communism. Why? Because it’s now 2026, they broke the country, and desperately need a distraction to reinvigorate their base.

Stay safe while soaking up some ☀️! ☀️ exposure has both ➕ & ➖ health effects: ➕: sun exposure boosts vitamin D production. Vitamin D increases calcium & phosphorus absorption from food & helps with 🦴 development. ➖: prolonged, unprotected UV exposure can cause eye disease & skin cancers.

What a tragedy these years are spent fighting a deranged despot who denies real crises like man-made climate change.

Epstein survivors sat across from Todd Blanche and got an hour of gaslighting. Now he wants to be confirmed Attorney General. Two senators can end it. Make sure they hear from you: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

Maybe we should pivot to pointing out that many other countries that report high qualities of life are also significantly more socialist than what DSA is advocating for. They enjoy greater levels of freedom and upward mobility than we do and their economies are capitalistic as well.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2w ago

🔥 Jon Stewart Defends Democratic Socialism: “When you call it SoCiALiSm, I think it’s a misnomer — It’s about strengthening a safety net for a country that has suffered too long overvaluing capital and money, and undervaluing labor and work. That’s it.”

Trump wants his personal defense lawyer running the entire Justice Department. Picture that for one second. Tell your senators no—before they vote 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

NYT reports the Pentagon did not disclose multiple Iranian strikes on U.S. bases in Jordan last week that reportedly injured dozens of American service members and damaged helicopters. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Pentagon Withheld Dozens of U.S. Military Injuries in Iran War (Gift Article)

Central Command is not required to release information about injured service members, especially when they quickly return to duty, a military official said.

nytimes.com

This is a politician who understands that this is not an indulgence, it's an investment. Every public space where you can have fun and not spend any money is probably more of a crimebuster than 100 cops.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Governor Beshear said what needed to be said: Trump has spent years attacking fair elections and has repeatedly come up empty. Meanwhile, the only person caught on tape trying to change an election result was Trump himself. American elections are secure. Facts matter.

Here's the most appropriate *immediate* response to the nakedly Hitlerian speech Stephen Miller just gave yesterday (of course, *long-term* prosecution and incarceration will be necessary for all the premeditated, legally cognizable harms, including deaths, he's provably caused):

OSSOFF: I expect tonight's speech to be equal parts pathetic and dangerous. I think we will hear from the world's most famous sore loser, a prime time presidential sour grapes address reheating, debunked conspiracy theories about an election in which he was soundly defeated.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

It doesn't matter how much physical courage you have or demonstrate, if you fail to demonstrate moral courage – you're still a coward.