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

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 48m 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

👇🎯 Your periodic reminder that we don’t have to keep doing this thing we’ve done for decades now on Every. Single. Damn. Topic. In. American. Politics.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

This is a weird form of gaslighting MAGA is very fond of: They act like the preservation of core American traditions and norms that have been around for centuries is actually some wacky novelty. I guess because they want to pose as “conservatives” rather than the radicals they are.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h ago

Senator Banks calls the Supreme Court’s decision not to change the law on birthright citizenship “the worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime.” Keep in mind that he was born and lived his entire life under the legal interpretation of the 14th Amendment the Court kept in place.

Beyond that there’s nat sec. If I’m trying to assess an operating environment for senior leaders/decision makers, regardless of level of operation, I may need to refer to an art historian regarding street art & graffiti. I’m sure you & your colleagues had similar needs for some of your natsec work.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · yesterday

I think there is a First Amendment argument to be made here

I think there is a First Amendment argument to be made here

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

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

The whole midterm message could be a picture of Ken Paxton with the caption “he wants to look at your daughters genitals” and it’s a dem landslide

Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 2d ago

The message "they want to inspect your daughter's genitals" would be astoundingly effective. Which is also why conservative Democrats who want to cave won't say it. In general, they would rather lose and be comfortable than win and have to push hard.

The sense of fear is absolutely palpable.

Ted Hesson@tedhesson.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE is beginning to outfit Haitian immigrants with ankle monitors after the Trump admin ended their deportation protections www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

“You must continue the experiment.” open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

Will Todd Blanche Get Confirmed? Ask Stanley Milgram

What the psychology behind "just following orders" tells us about changing course once you've already started down the wrong path.

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Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

And we're off, with MOVIE NO. 39 in our chronological tour through the American movies of the 1980s....and we're in May of 1980, and as our thoughts turn lightly to the summer, that means it's time to investigate the bloody waters of Camp Crystal Lake...that's right, it's FRIDAY THE 13TH!

Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 4w ago

All right, here goes: in preparation for a book I'm writing, I'm going to try something very ambitious/stupid. I am going to attempt to watch every single American movie produced in the 1980s. In chronological order of release. And to talk about them here in the process.

The saddest, cringiest cope imaginable

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: “My REAL Polling Numbers, not those made up by the Fake News Media, are the best they have ever been”

New in PN: Harmeet demonstrates danger of posting through it "The case highlights disintegration of DOJ under leadership of internet-poisoned ideologues who think Musk’s house of horrors is real life. And yet being terminally online is their Achilles heel, undermining their quest to weaponize govt"

Harmeet Dhillon demonstrates danger of posting through it

When being terminally online goes wrong.

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ChatGPT-maker OpenAI disclosed that one of its cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems had escaped from a controlled testing environment and hacked into another technology company. Here’s how that attack happened:

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

Uefa says they have reason to believe that Trump, Joshua Kushner and Infantino hatched a corrupt scheme involving the privatization of Fifa, and they are suing for damages and the ouster of Infantino. They have issued an anti-spoliation letter today demanding preservation of documents..

Moreno finally speaks: “As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter & I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter. If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.”

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d ago

senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.

Max Miller has a documented history of violence against women dating back to high school. Read this article from 2021. web.archive.org/web/20211105...

melania’s looking well

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump having a normal one today

This is my question: What, exactly, was SO bad about the Before, that makes this preferable to it? Was it literally just the fact that a Black man was elected president?? I mean, for literally ANYONE except the .01% making billions, how was this the better option???

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d ago

The rest of your natural life—and then some. That's how long we'll be cleaning up the mess of Trump and MAGAism. The nation as it was before is lost. It won't return. What we seek to save now isn't what used to be. It'll be something else altogether. It'll be what we make it.

the executive doesn’t seem very unitary today

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

As I said repeatedly during Trump 1.0, Trump sees the U.S. Treasury as his personal piggy bank. But back then, he couldn’t find a way to siphon it to himself. This time around, he has: shakedowns, crypto, and the slush fund. With the added bonus of paying off his own shadow army.

Frum: The 20% who lived in the most pro-Trump places suffered 70,000 more COVID deaths than the 20% in the most pro-Biden places. Red America obeyed those who told them not to mask, not to vaccinate. They died for it. No, Fauci is not the villain here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story

The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.

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It's precisely *because* of the enormous risks of such outcomes that the Constitution precludes the President from unilaterally taking the U.S. into such a war in the first place. Your daily reminder: Even the Trump Administration itself hasn't defended its legality. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...

In Iran, the U.S. Appears Headed for a Strategic Defeat, Allies Fear

With none of President Trump’s aims accomplished and the Strait of Hormuz closed, U.S. allies see dysfunction and vulnerability from the war.

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One of the things the right absolutely does not want to be reminded of is which administration imposed COVID restrictions on them, or who Dr. Fauci worked for at that time.

Asha Rangappa@asharangappa.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m trying to reconcile Trump still owning Operation Warp Speed as a victory (which it was) with GOP claiming the vaccine killed millions of people. Isn’t the person to blame, then, Trump, not Fauci??

Hard to overstate how much of a threat leaders and public officials who actually govern and serve the people pose to those whose political careers depend on fomenting cynicism and delegitimizing democracy

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 5d ago

Now this is the kind of trash talk we can get behind. We’re containerizing neighborhoods by taking trash off our sidewalks and allowing mid-size buildings to trade in their wheelie bins for a bigger, better, cleaner alternative: Empire Bins. It’s time to put a lid on it, New York.

We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War

If you need a break and love music, this video is worth a watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0X...

The Gen Alpha Melody

YouTube video by Carl E. Martin

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