Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Aze ❀ Linn
@azelinn.bsky.social
Retired corporate librarian, living-related kidney donor, Pacific NW "To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy." ~Thurgood Marshall
"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit
Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys
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They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.
Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · yesterdaySusan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her as she sat quietly in the front yard of her DC home
Purple Heart vet sues after National Guard troops detained her at her DC home
National Guard troops seized Anna King, slamming her to the ground and leaving her with injuries that required surgery, according to a federal tort claim
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This account, based on interviews with several people with knowledge of the events, demonstrated a core truth of Mr. Trump’s second term: Anyone willing to contradict the president is in trouble, even if the dissenter happens to be a family friend www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
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Reminder during the Blanche markup: Since last year Trump has appointed three of his former personal lawyers — Emil Bove, Justin Smith, and Matthew Schwartz — to lifetime seats on the federal appellate bench. That's 30 percent of all Trump 2.0 judges appointed to circuit courts across the country.
In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission. The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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(1/2) The Iran war is a redistribution machine: Big oil profits have shot up to historic highs. Our research shows that 50% of fossil fuel profits go to the richest 1% in the U.S. The rich are the ultimate beneficiaries of the war windfalls.
(2/2) The bottom 50% claim a mere 1% of profits while they are hit the hardest by the cost shock. And that’s just the domestic economy. People in the Global South have been priced out of energy needs for months.
Elon Musk is betting that Maine voters will consider him, the Hitler-saluting white nationalist trillionaire father of 14 children with 4 different women who wants to send people to Mars, as a more trustworthy figure than a 5th-generation Maine logger who wants more spending on healthcare. Good luck
Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3d agoMy response to Elon Musk.
Just the fact that media calls it a “Weaponization Fund” shows utter failure to meet the moment. It’s like when you call Trump’s budget a “Big Beautiful Bill.” They get you to launder regime propaganda by creating a title that is a false characterization, which gets published.
Via @jricole.bsky.social, interesting questions on how Israel has veered so radically from its founding principles & right into genocide, with the world’s complicity. www.juancole.com/2026/08/mora...
The Moral Collapse of a Nation
Orono, Maine (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Having been a long time Lecturer in Peace & Conflict Studies I was deeply impressed by Omer Bartov, a leading genocide and Holocaust...
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Does anyone ever stop and remember that the presidency is a public service position, not a personal enrichment scheme for oneself, their family, and whoever pays or votes the “right”way? The president is supposed to serve the people. How did we stray so far from that basic truth?
Well done by Dana Bash. -RFK Jr: You don't understand this. You're not a scientist. -Bash: Neither are you. Reminder of why it's a race among this guy, Hegseth, S Miller, R Vought, Lutnick, Bondi->Blanche, Noem->Markwain, Tulsi->Pulte, etc for WORST and most destructive mini-Trump.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
Only Trump can give us scandal after scandal after scandal that manage to be both outrageous abuse of power and hilariously stupid and inept.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
At least this time when the lazy bastards used AI to do their job they didn’t blow up a girls elementary school.
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? by Jamelle Bouie Musk spends much of his time on X amplifying far-right accounts & shares his own white nationalist, anti-immigrant politics for all the world to see He posts: "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor” Read this bit.ly/4yO5frg
Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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Musk's $288 million donation to the Trump 2024 campaign continues to pay off bigly. 🙄 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.reuters.com/business/med...
SpaceX gets $1.6 billion US Space Force order for 18 Falcon 9 launches
SpaceX won $1.6 billion in orders from the U.S. Space Force on Wednesday to launch 18 Falcon 9 missions through 2027 carrying Pentagon satellites for detecting and targeting airborne objects, the ser...
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The hearing was just a GOP effort to rile the cult for midterm turn out. The GOPigs have no ideas on how to lower prices, red states live at the bottom of every list measuring good lives. So all they can do is gin up fake a$$ anger over the past.
Pat Bagley@bagleycartoons.bsky.social · last wk.Idiots. Let them drink bleach Thank you Dr. Fauci for saving lives
Today's #MustReads: Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup prospect.org/2026/07/28/t... by Robert Kuttner
Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup - The American Prospect
If we are vigilant, he won’t pull it off.
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The small group that voted against an extension of the UN human rights chief’s mandate includes the 🇺🇸 , 🇷🇺 , 🇰🇵 , 🇮🇱 , 🇦🇷 and 🇲🇱. France was not amused, stating: “The US used to be a beacon of human rights. Not anymore… And the world no longer listens to it.”
This article encapsulates everything that is wrong with Louisiana--corruption, racism, neglect of the environment. This state has so much more potential than what greedy capitalism will allow it. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/t...
How Meta Got Everything It Wanted in a Secret Louisiana Data Center Deal (Gift Article)
A Times examination details how the Silicon Valley giant used private talks with local officials to start a project big enough to cover nearly six square miles.
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The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak
The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.
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Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states Guardian Rejects administration’s request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June 2-1 decision siding with 23 states and DC led by California, Massachusetts, Nevada & Washington bit.ly/4fB5Fsk
Appeals court rejects Trump bid to curb mail-in voting in 23 states
Judge rejects administration’s request to lift injunction secured by several Democratic-led states on 25 June
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Just a reminder: Trump has ordered the US Navy to fire on tankers to stop them from exiting the Strait of Hormuz with oil and gas for international markets. In case you were wondering.
