I so hope TX recognizes the danger they’re in. Paxton intends to serve one master and it’s not the citizens of the Lone Star State.

DrDinD.bsky.social@drdind.bsky.social · 4h ago

@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.

CNN matches Reuters. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/p...

“Frog!” cried Toad. “I am sorry for all the dumb things I do. I am sorry for all the silly things that I say. Please be my friend again!”

This is a pretty damn good response.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 24h ago

“My guy wants to put a data center in your backyard either to give himself gender-affirming care and make a muscle video, or to portray me as a…hero?" Abdul El-Sayed reacts to Republican Mike Rogers' AI ad showing him, Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie as communists inside a Trojan Horse:

The Putin/Trump legacy: "a period of un-order: a jungle in which every country hedges, arms, subsidizes, hoards, and searches for choke points to exploit...it is the makings of a twenty-first-century Hobbesian struggle of all against all.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

En autorisant le survol de son territoire par Benyamin Netanyahou, la #France affaiblit la portée du mandat d’arrêt de la #CPI. La #LDH rappelle l'obligation de la France à coopérer pour défendre sans ambiguïté le droit international et faire cesser l'impunité.

Au mépris du droit international, Benyamin Netanyahou autorisé à survoler la France - L'Humanité

Il a beau être sous mandat d'arrêt de la CPI, Benyamin Netanyahou a été autorisé par le gouvernement français à survoler l'Hexagone. Le premier ministre israélien se rendait à Wash...

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Western Europe is Richer than the US peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w...

Western Europe Is Richer Than the US

Let's put an end to the stupid GDP discourse.

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GGRF unlocked. A federal appeals court ruled EPA cannot block roughly $20B in already-awarded GGRF grants based on a policy disagreement. If it stands, this is a major step toward getting long-delayed capital into affordable housing, building retrofits, community solar.

EPA cannot block billions in climate grants, US appeals court rules

A federal appeals court said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cannot ‌freeze about $20 billion of clean energy grants awarded to several nonprofit groups, handing a defeat to the Trump adminis...

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This is not the standard of accountability we should expect from someone entrusted with the presidency. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

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Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn. True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote. But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”? Can’t get any more craven than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn justifies his support for Blanche: "That's one of those things that can't be remedied by a 'no' vote"

4 AUGUST 2026 WRITE DOWN THIS DATE-EUROPE CLIMATIC HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ANEW Thousands and Thousands of records are being shattered in pieces in Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,Ukraine,Belarus,Romania,Serbia... Widespread 40Cs Tbc

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

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Pirro threw a hissyfit over Judges' decision to quash Fed Powell investigation with NO EVIDENCE; yet trying to expunge Steve Bannon's conviction. 😱 wtf? www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Justice Department seeks to wipe out Bannon conviction for defying Jan. 6 committee

Bannon already served a four-month prison sentence in 2024 for his conviction on the charges.

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🥵 Juillet 2026 est LE MOIS LE PLUS CHAUD (tous mois confondus) jamais mesuré en France Tout le pays a suffoqué, mais c'est sur une bande allant de la Bretagne au Sud-Ouest que les températures maximales ont le plus dépassé les "normales". ⤵️ 1/4

Our average of polls at FiftyPlusOne gives Trump a roughly 36% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating — a net -25 — among all adults, and he’s rapidly losing ground. The president set a new record low six days in a row just in the last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...

Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

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"

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

can't remember, do presidents usually summon us attorneys to the oval office to pressure them on individual cases

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

Republicans are truly spineless Cornyn and Tillis have nothing to lose. They’re both leaving Congress. Yet despite hundreds of reasons to vote against confirming Todd Blanche for Attorney General, they focused on only one-the “anti weaponization” fund And they are swallowing the lie that it’s dead

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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 ... "

MS: One of your criticisms of Fauci is that he said one thing publicly, where he sort of downplayed the virus, & one thing privately, where he acknowledge its seriousness. President Trump did exact the same thing. Does Trump deserve the same level of scrutiny? RAND PAUL: *immediately changes topic*

Booker: "They have become so obsessed with the millions the Bidens made that they have ignored completely the billions of dollars the Trump family is making. That is like being obsessed with a stain on the living room carpet when behind you is a mountain of excrement."

I have a nice, moderate GOP neighbor who despises Trump and often votes for Democrats, but says he can't understand why I say I will never vote for another Republican. Now, I can tell him, "Thom Tillis. Thom Tillis is why. Even Republicans like Tillis cannot be trusted to protect the Constitution.'

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

« Hansen’s team found PFOS in Swedish blood samples from 1957 and 1971. After that, her lab analyzed blood that had been collected before 3M created PFOS. It tested negative. Apparently, fluorochemicals had … leached out of 3M’s sprays, coatings and factories — and into all of us.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d ago

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.

Politicians are back to building political strategy on COVID. Here we go again — 2020. And it's triggering frontline healthcare workers to post photos of themselves from back then — in masks, in plastic gowns, in trash bags.