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“the president has encased himself in the hard amber of irrationality that inevitably surrounds authoritarian leaders. He has become detached from reality—and that detachment is extremely dangerous.” (Gift article) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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Might be helpful to read today's column in conjunction with this one, from January, as they point to the same root cause: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot
There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Important read. I’m pretty confident that the vast majority of humans do NOT choose to burn up & starve on an unlovable fiery planet. Why are we letting these profit-obsessed death cult freaks decide the future for all of us?
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16h agoMy column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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I’m sure it’s happened before but I can’t recall a candidate winning a statewide nomination while being outspent ~9:1
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 17h agoUnfathomable
New Jersey recently disclosed a registration glitch that led to noncitizens being added to the state’s voter rolls. Now, the DOJ claims the rare occurrence is proof that Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order needs to be implemented — and the Supreme Court could weigh in at any moment.
Urging Supreme Court to greenlight Trump’s mail voting order, DOJ seizes on New Jersey registration glitch
It’s just the latest example of Republicans exploiting the error to advance their anti-voting agenda.
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Democrats regaining power doesn't suddenly fix this mess. They need a playbook, and Brian Tyler Cohen has one. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOHvPZHlmP8&t=53s
BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.
You know you’re terminally female when they tell you that no, you’re not allowed to have the abortion
Russian attack on Kyiv region kills at least 14 people, say Ukrainian authorities
Russian attack on Kyiv region kills at least 14 people, say Ukrainian authorities
Air raid alerts last for more than an hour as Moscow inflicts another heavy bombardment on Ukraine’s capital Russian strikes in and around Kyiv killed at least 14 people, injured 27 and damaged warehouses, emergency service officials said. Some reports put the death toll at 15. Air raid alerts lasted for more than an hour as Moscow’s forces continued a series of deadly heavy attacks on the Ukrainian capital. The military administration said seven sites were hit in an assault that began on Wednesday after midnight. Continue reading...
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🚨🚨🚨“Virginia Department of Health investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally.”🚨🚨🚨
VDH investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally
The Virginia Department of Health announced they are investigating a confirmed case of dengue virus that occurred in a resident in Northern Virginia.
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In his 2020 run, Buttigieg stopped releasing the names of his campaign bundlers after scrutiny. They included: -superlobbyist, and now Palantir lobbyist, Steve Elmendorf -billionaire Blackstone exec Hamilton James -"Silicon Valley's favorite fixer" Bradley Tusk -Merck's head of public affairs, etc.
Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg
As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, ...
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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22h agoWe see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.
Monitors from the Department of Justice quietly observed the voting process in four Michigan cities.
The Trump administration sent federal monitors to the Michigan primary. Here’s how it went.
Monitors from the Department of Justice quietly observed the voting process in four Michigan cities.
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Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.
@vanjones68.bsky.social From an Israeli citizen, you're a genocidal scumbag. Genocidal apartheid Israel is slaughtering #Gaza's children. Yep, some of us can see what's happening here. youtube.com/shorts/PWZLW... #ICC4Israel #StopArmingIsrael
Van Jones just really said this on CNN. #vanjones #cnnn #abdulelsayed #michigan #senate
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Ms. Stevens’s bid has been aided by about $60 million in outside money boosting her and hammering Dr. El-Sayed. More than half of that came from AIPAC, a hard-line pro-Israel group whose spending became a core issue in the contest. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08... #michigan
Primary Elections Live Updates: In Michigan Senate Race, El-Sayed and Stevens Face Off
Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive, faced Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, in the state’s contentious Democratic primary for Senate. Other contests were held in Kansas, Missouri, Virginia and Washin...
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Holy shit, this is an extraordinarily broad and inflammatory ethnically bigoted statement. You can condemn Hamas without declaring millions of people biologically incapable of peace. This is indefensible, Joe. Shame on you.
for months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
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Gonna keep beating this like a drum: prediction markets are the most dangerous, societally detrimental financial instrument ever introduced and if we don’t do something about them right now it’s going to cause far more destruction than you can imagine.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 19h agoThese betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A federal court says the Trump admin improperly terminated $20B in "green bank" funds — a big win for the nonprofit groups fighting to restore clean-energy and climate lending. But a likely Supreme Court appeal may delay them from getting their money: www.canarymedia.com/articles/cli... #energysky
Court rules against Trump EPA’s freeze of $20B in ‘green bank’ funds
A federal appeals court finds the EPA acted improperly in terminating grants to boost clean energy projects. The Trump administration may appeal to the…
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How Data Centers Broke American Politics What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026. Let's be perfectly clear, datacenters are for surveillance, period. www.wired.com/story/how-da...
How Data Centers Broke American Politics
What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.
wired.com
Cluster munitions on an urban civilian area in a major city.. Add that to the list of war crimes #russia has committed. Bloody evil bastards. 🤬 Bring on #Nuremberg2.0
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · yesterday❗️Cluster munitions explode in Kyiv after strikes! The Russians are covering the capital with ballistics, which instantly break into small pieces after the explosion.
And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate
Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.
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McMorrow would have won this, and between Mills and Stevens, the DSCC / senate leadership seems to be misjudging the D voter base right now
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 3d agoIs Gillibrand on crack? Why was she telling donors, without a shred of evidence, that Mallory McMorrow is a DSA member???
Things not looking great for Judge Jeanine. (Also, statistically speaking, the top factor in predicting whether Trump will fire someone in this administration is their gender. He really likes firing women.)
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 19h agoTrump on Jeanine Pirro: "Well I just think she was totally wrong...I told her I was not happy." Q: "Is she safe? Are you going to keep her in the position?" Trump: "I haven't made a determination."
