Surprise! Trump’s administration pays out about $100bn in tariff refunds--60% of what was collected. None of the refunds will go to the public, only to corporations. www.ft.com/content/b0f7...

Trump administration refunds $100bn in ‘liberation day’ tariffs

US customs officials repay about 60% of the levies that were struck down by the Supreme Court

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Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

Mayor wu is such a disappointment on bike safety. I’m not sure if she has statewide office in mind and is courting suburban voters or something - but it is dumb and cost lives. I hate to admit but nyc has a better mayor and wu is a walking failure

The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 16h ago

She's furious? How does she think we feel when we have to risk our lives to try and travel in the city? This is just more doublespeak. YOU WON'T EVEN PUT A BIKE LANE ON 5 LANE WIDE CHARLES STREET BECAUSE RICH PEOPLE CALLED YOU TO CANCEL SAFE STREET IMPROVEMENTS www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/m...

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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Everyone should vote for DSA in the primaries right now. no more corporate shills from Democratic Party

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h ago

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.

Democrats should run on investigating Musk and holding him accountable for DOGE www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...

Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms

Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.

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From Beacon Hill to DC, we're tired of the bosses in the halls of power. It’s time to send in the union organizers. We’re part of a national movement fighting for working people and democracy. I’m proud to be running for office alongside fellow @uaw.org member @claireforny.bsky.social

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Seth Moulton had the chance to impeach Donald Trump. He refused. Seth Moulton had the chance to stand up against Trump's bloated defense budget AFTER he began bombing Iran. He refused. Seth Moulton is playing right into the Fox, MAGA playbook.

We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.

Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again

The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".

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Senate democrats and DNC are so not up to task to fight a dictator and a crazy party, it’s not even funny. Corporate shills at best. Only DSA / workers party / greens are willing to do something.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · yesterday

“In the context of an attempted authoritarian takeover of the United States, normal minority-party participation in the federal budget process is akin to passing enabling legislation.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

"the evidence is quite clear that voters don’t think Democrats are too extreme. They think Democrats are weak." There's your answer peeps. Look like you're willing to fight MAGAism, and support candidates - left or center - who will fight.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

May be wrong here, but my sense is there is a whole media apparatus that aggressively screens Dem candidates and cautions voters not to support the more left-wing candidate. And this is asymmetric. Credible media messengers don't police right-wing candidates the same way.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 2d ago

VOTE BLUE NO MATTER... www.semafor.com/article/07/3...

Okay so I haven't opened this or read the story, but uhhh Paul Weiss was the tobacco industry's favorite attorney and is now one of the top firms for oil majors (Exxon is a client)...in what universe were they ever not going to "surrender" to Trump? They're on the same team!

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

It’s not a revelation that the president of the USA is one of the most prolific white-collar criminals on Earth, but what is slightly galling is that nobody seems to care all that much.

Schooley@schooley.bsky.social · 2d ago

How is it that this story still hasn't appeared in the New York Times?

COMMENTARY: It doesn’t get much dumber than Donald Trump and Sean Duffy’s war on “DEI bike lanes”

It Doesn't Get Much Dumber Than Trump's War on 'DEI Bike Lanes'

Donald Trump and Sean Duffy have waged a war against "DEI bike lanes," arguing that they take up room that could be used for cars.

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One candidate has billionaire and PAC money. The other? People power. This was our BIGGEST CANVASS EVER! Special thanks to Sunrise Boston for joining us. Be a part of the movement to send Evan MacKay to the state house. RSVP for canvasses at BDSA.US/EVAN-VOL

As a fellow Rindge Kid for @Evanforcambridge.bsky.social I approve this message

Cambridge Somerville Independent@csindie.bsky.social · 3d ago

We deserve a state representative who works for us

The establishment might have money and misinformation, but we’ve got neighbors talking to neighbors, and building relationships with each other, one conversation at a time. We’ve got 30 days left. Let’s knock every door, phonebank every neighbor, and win. Sign up to canvass here: bdsa.us/evan-vol

Evan For Cambridge

Evan MacKay is running for State Representative to help Massachusetts live up to our values and deliver for all our neighbors. Evan is a union leader, pro-democracy organizer, and a teaching fellow. A...

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Over 100 volunteers came together for our biggest canvass yet because we believe Cambridge deserves a future worth fighting for: reliable public transit, clean air and water, and a government that answers to working people, not billionaire donors.

Many people are saying!

Boston DSA@bostondsa.org · 3d ago

One candidate has billionaire and PAC money. The other? People power. This was our BIGGEST CANVASS EVER! Special thanks to Sunrise Boston for joining us. Be a part of the movement to send Evan MacKay to the state house. RSVP for canvasses at BDSA.US/EVAN-VOL

Only interview serial liars to show they're liars. Otherwise, don't give them a platform to spread their lies

Joshua Holland@joshuaholland.bsky.social · 3d ago

They will tell you in the very same interview that Fauci killed millions of people and also that he and other public health officials wildly exaggerated the danger of Covid to hurt Trump. Two egregious and completely contradictory lies.

Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.

I’m proud to have organized throughout my life to put people over profits, to take money out of politics, and fight for the dignity of all people. My opponent is trying to confuse you about my record because she’s scared of the people-powered movement we’re building. Let’s focus on the real issues.

The people of Massachusetts demand action on the cost-of-living crisis, and bold resistance to attacks by the Trump administration. I’m running for state rep because we deserve more from our elected representatives.

July 31 is the official end of the legislative session, but the legislature has given themselves a pass to delay on important bills until after the primary election. I gathered with grassroots activists at the State House to review the legislature’s accomplishments from this term.