Whenever one of these freaks goes off on a tangent about their trans conspiracy of the day, the proper response -- from an interviewer or anyone else -- is "well, it seems like you're having some sort of mental breakdown here, so we'll wrap it up"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Royce White is now ranting about "transgender sex dolls" during a forum that is supposed to be about agricultural issues. This guy is a serious Republican in Minnesota who had the party's nomination for a Senate seat two years ago. Insanity.

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 6h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

I must regretfully inform everyone that this, too, is Gender.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h ago

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

I’m gonna be so for real if I can for a minute: I don’t really give a shit who wins the Michigan Senate primary at this point because I live in New Jersey

i'd just urge people not to treat this as some sort of fun drama or as exposing moreno or whatever. Miller is credibly accused of beating Moreno's daughter and granddaughter. this is grotesque abuse and sadism, period.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

“No alternative but to take his word” motherfucker you’re a lame duck who got turfed out of your own party in favor of an actual felon because you were insufficiently groveling to these guys. You’ve got plenty of choice. You’re free. What you’re lacking is courage and dignity.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃

Once again this is maybe the most corrupt thing I’ve heard of Trump doing, which is really and truly saying something.

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 2d ago

Trump Media’s idea was so plainly ridiculous — selling special access to his tweets to Wall Street for $100k per month — that it seemed hard to believe the plan would ever be implemented. And yet, as of now, it’s live. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

This is, respectfully, dumb as shit. Tammy Duckworth gave her legs and she’s not using that to excuse her bad behavior

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

A key part of the COVID Amnesia Project is denying who was in charge in 2020.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

oh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again

If you were to look for the name “E. Jean Carroll” in this opinion piece, you’ll find the number of times her name appears is zero.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.

im sure bari's outpost of journalistic integrity will update this story

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

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan reports first 2 US deaths of people who had been sickened in outbreak of cyclospora.

Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

We need to return to traditional masculinity, to the time when real men took their kitties for walkies so they could smell smells.

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

Mfw the local shelter just got more kittens in

Al jazeera is doing ‘a lot of people are saying’ and pretending it is journalism

other95@other95.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...

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This guy has anti-Semitic brain worms (among many other species of brain worm) and he needs to be treated as radioactive by every Democrat.

i am begging you — including some of you who follow me that i'm seeing in the OP QTs — to actually read what senate democrats are getting out of this and to stop and think for, like, at least 90 seconds, about what *else* you think a minority party *in both chambers* can squeeze out of the majority

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

big thanks to keith olbermann and others for pumping rfk’s credibility in the aughts when it was already plainly obvious he was a fucking kook

I’m realizing that Miller’s video is the crisis comms equivalent of the wise guy in the horror movie who says he’s going to leave the locked room and negotiate with the velociraptor. In this case not only pretty obviously guilty but also dumb and arrogant as fuck.

when you think about bernie moreno’s public behavior concerning all of this, keep in mind that max miller thinks this is him putting his best foot forward and then think of what he’s like when he’s being more candid around family.

have u ever seen such a lad

Aside from the clout-chasing and wrecker mentality and stupid conspiracy theorizing of it all, it really does raise my hackles that the people claiming McConnell is dead are explicitly arguing that hospital staff are coordinating career-ending fraud across multiple departments for months.