This one is pretty good, lol.

“Ring+ will be the premier destination for original streaming content, with powerful new programs like Blue Honda Civic Turns Around In Driveway and Some Lady Walking Her Dog,” said Ring founder and top executive Jamie Siminoff

Ring Launches Streaming  Service

HAWTHORNE, CA—Providing customers with an expansive and growing library of premium content, smart doorbell manufacturer Ring launched a new streaming service Wednesday.  Company officials said Ring+, ...

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The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Trump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)

After Heath Ledger died Perez Hilton sold shirts on his website saying “why couldn’t it have been Britney?” He made a living off making her life a living hell: nypost.com/2021/02/15/p...

Perez Hilton knows he made Britney Spears’ life a living hell

Notorious gossip columnist expresses regret following the release of the “Framing Britney Spears” documentary.

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Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social · 9h ago

Perez Hilton releasing a statement requesting privacy is WILD. I hope he is ok but come on. After he recovers I hope he is humbled and apologizes to the people he went after when their mental health was in crisis, starting with Britney Spears.

The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit, adding to the mountain of broken heat records so far this summer. yahoo.com/news/science/articles/90-degrees-arctic-now-180400496.html

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mount...

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This excellent Washpost story is an illustration of how the anguish from an unjustified arrest — in this case, of a veterinarian trying to protect animals near the Reflecting Pool —can linger long after the charges are dropped. Gift link ⤵️ wapo.st/3RSQ6nU

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken

Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.

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Today the New Mexico Truth Commission issued their first interim public report on their investigation into the Epstein case in New Mexico and Zorro Ranch. There is a long way to go & we will continue to stand with survivors. You can read the report here: static1.squarespace.com/static/6a075...

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

New Mexico is asking a federal judge to compel the DOJ to release files related to abuse allegations at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, accusing the agency and acting attorney general Todd Blanche in a lawsuit of “stonewalling” its investigation. www.forbes.com/sites/sarado...

New Mexico Sues Blanche Over ‘Withholding’ Epstein Files

The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.

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This is great for the climate (and yet another court overturning for the Trump Admin.)

Judge Williams denies Trump's motion for a stay of her sanctions order and agrees with the amici to let them file a brief in normal course, due August 14. So absent a stay from the 11th circuit, the official state of play on the settlement agreement is that there is no settlement agreement.

One year from now, I don’t want to hear members of Congress acting shocked about the damage Todd Blanche does as the United States Attorney General. They know exactly what they’re voting for, and they had a chance to stop it. Consider them complicit because that’s what they are

The conventional wisdom is the Democrats' big climate law failed to deliver votes and then died. That's wrong. My new study finds its factories moved 2.5 million votes—more than Trump's margin. And the law's still alive. My latest in @theatlantic.com. Gift link! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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I wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

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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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That’s not even to mention Jeffrey Hart, the mentor to D’Souza, Ingraham, and the current head of the DOJ civil rights division. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Maybe it was a sign when the person Trump put in charge of the DOJ's Civil Rights division was a protege of Jeffrey Hart at Dartmouth, a man who wrote this column in 1977.

Additional commentary on that 1997 NR masthead, the heyday of “responsible conservatism.” bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking at this NR masthead from 1997 and I notice that not only is Dinesh on it, but the top editor is currently shilling for Orban in Hungary, the 2nd guy heads up the white nationalist org VDare, and then there's Mark Levin (lol), eugenicist Ernest van den Haag, & segregationist Kilpatrick.

FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

Kevin is not exaggerating, VDARE was not white nationalist in the sense of "well if you get right down to it the modern GOP has always been white nationalist" VDARE was white nationalist in the sense of "yeah those Nazis sure are white nationalist"

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h ago

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

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Oregon senators warn prediction markets allowing betting on wildfires could incentivize arson

A public report urges the CFTC to ban prediction market contracts on destructive wildfires, raising concerns over public safety and potential arson.

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The Survivors’ Truth Commission meets today, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. MDT to present its interim report and walk through its mission investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/08/04/e...

Epstein Truth Commission to present interim report Wednesday - New Mexico Political Report

By Kevin Hendricks The Survivors’ Truth Commission — formally the House Special Investigatory Committee — meets Wednesday, Aug. 5, at 1 p.m. in State Capitol Room 307 to present an interim report and ...

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holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Why don’t they phrase the question as, “Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

I hope people will actually listen to the statements of El Sayed about his focus--improving the lives of the people of Michigan, getting money out of politics, unrigging the system, standing up to Trump, Rogers & MAGA--and tune out the inside-the-beltway soap opera about division peddled by pundits.

May I point out that both El-Sayed and Stevens are Millennials. Generational shift. It's here. It's time. November up here won't just be about progressivism vs. fascism. It will also be about the future vs. the past.

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

In WSJ's ticktock of the Pirro flipflop, they reveal Pirro was PAYING AUSAs $25K bonuses. To stick around. 👀 Given pretty clear GJ misconduct laid out in Davey Hearn's response to the MTD, that looks really really suspect.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h ago

What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...

DOJ Invokes Trump v. US to Protect Todd Blanche's Fixer, Aakash Singh emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d...

DOJ Invokes Trump v. US to Protect Todd Blanche's Fixer, Aakash Singh - emptywheel

In the 18 months that Trump's former defense attorney Todd Blanche has run DOJ, he has yet to rely on Trump v. US, the SCOTUS precedent giving the President unbridled authority to dictate individual p...

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