good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.

there's a lot of things you could say that explain why someone is not fit for public office but "he cheats at a solo sport " should be all you ever need

No, I don't want to watch a damn video. If a sound comes out of my phone it should need permission like taking a safety off a gun.

A fantastic read; wonderfully human and beautifully written. Might even learn a thing or two along the way! I know I did. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...

How to Predict the Weather in Our Era of Freakish Storms (Gift Article)

I didn’t want to have to depend on a weather app to know when the storms are coming.

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i bet the first guy to whistle scared the shit out of everyone

it's amazing that the NYT has done this repeatedly with investigative journalism by well-resourced teams of excellent reporters, running the stories once (sometimes buried) then ignoring and forgetting them it's like the paper runs its own internal catch-and-kill operation

he wasn't kicking up enough vig, classic mistake

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

A White House teleprompter operator who allegedly made bets about Trump’s speeches on Kalshi has lost his job

The thing you can do to counter this is to play a Disney or Taylor Swift song very loudly so that when the “evangelist” posts the video they be hit with a takedown order

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Sincere question that I don't mean to sound challenging: Is there a single elected Republican on the national level who has publicly taken all of those positions that you're listing? Because if those are the positions of the average Republican, the average Republican has been 100% disenfranchised.

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

GALLEGO: Would you say as a former auditor you pride yourself on catching waste? DENNIS: Yes G: Let's do a test. Is $600m on a ballroom, half paid by taxpayers, is a good fiscal decision? D: Oh, I'm not going to get involved in what the WH is doing G: As HUD CFO, this is literally the job

the administration taking the position that federal law does not apply equally to the states is a de facto attempt at dissolution of the union

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

* U.S. HHS SECRETARY SAYS CMS IS PAUSING MEDICAID PAYMENTS TO CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA @reuters.com

Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:

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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Just rake-stepping all the way down.

starting to realize it is trumps immediate circle who might be just as terrified of the prospect of democratic majority investigations as trump is

I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."

📣Authoritarians are predictable. They all do the same tired shit. One of their favorite moves? Undermining faith in elections to reduce turnout while laying the groundwork to contest results that don’t go their way. They are sore losers & consummate cheaters. protectdemocracy.org/work/the-aut...

The Authoritarian Playbook - Protect Democracy

Today’s authoritarian playbook is a process that happens piecemeal and is hard to distinguish from normal political jockeying.

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every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

The level of disrespect this regime shows to their fellow Americans reaches a level that’s completely incompatible with democracy. These people literally believe they have the right to kill people who disagree with them. It’s disgusting.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

If the head of US intelligence isn't able to say who won the election in 2020, then maybe he shouldn't be head of US intelligence.

The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.

Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

If they actually feared for public safety, they wouldn’t be firing guns.

Someday in the distant future Democratic politicians will remember Mike Johnson as a spunky and affable little squirt. That’s how the club works, but today he claimed to not know anything about federal agents murdering a man in Maine yesterday.

The best story ICE could make up, after 12 hours, is that ICE agents shot someone in the head because they believed the person they shot, who was not accused of any crime, was a different person also not accused of any crime, and so "public safety" required killing them on the spot.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3w ago

It took DHS 12 hours to come up with this statement, And the best they could come up with is that ICE shot and killed an unarmed man who didn’t present a threat to the agents. They know they fucked this one up. And it’ll be up to state and local prosecutors—not the feds—to make the case

I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.

counterpoint: the dead should make it harder for me to speak ill of them

No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum

please show respect for the dead body of someone who didn’t respect your alive body