One thing that's killing me about the mainstream Dem messaging on the purported progressive insurgency is this idea that progressives are risking a sure thing in November. Have y'all been watching the game? Your "safe picks" keep getting their asses beat.

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.

hear me out

The Independent@the-independent.com · 8h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

I actually don't know what's happening here but why does Minnesota Farmfest's logo look like it's going to do my taxes

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Lindell: "I know a guy. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up the president!"

Getting the same vibes from this as I get from the Christianity/Atheism divide where *unintelligent* people on both sides of that debate can't even internalize the worldview and experience of the people they're arguing with.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 9h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

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Three, system light dark. That second option makes no sense to me. I assume if there are two options then you're overriding system

Bramus@bram.us · yesterday

QQ about Dark Mode Toggles on websites How many options do you show to users? - Three values: System, Light, or Dark - Two values: Light, Dark (with one of them mapping to “System” behind the scenes). Why the one or the other? (I have an opinion about it, but I’m looking for external input)

Pretty sure when you win the election it's a big election night. Pretty sure when your party's leadership all endorses the loser, it means the leadership is out of touch with the electorate.

Politico@politico.com · 10h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Truly wild to continue framing this as a war progressives are waging when the "razor-thin margin" being discussed here was a win after a historically massive imbalance of spending between a grassroots candidate and large PACs (incl AIPAC and its affiliates, which is not even Dem-aligned)

Politico@politico.com · 10h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

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 · 21h ago

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Responsible for Most Healthcare Fraud theintercept.com/2026/07/31/i...

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

theintercept.com

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

minimum bar for 2028 is saying that you consider all of this a corrupt, unenforceable bargain and will prosecute all involved

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

“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:

I just feel like if it ever happens it's gonna somehow be in defense of Nick Fuentes or Richard Hanania or some other "reformed" racist and not the dozens of worthy journalists who have already received this treatment from Trump

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23h ago

the first reporter to tell Trump 'how dare you treat someone like that' in defense of a colleague will be a hero

again, if i had a calculator that gave me the wrong answer one (1) time, i would throw it out and never use it again and could probably bankrupt the company by simply telling people what happened

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterday

Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

just wild that riley gaines doesn't recognize that cunningham is absolutely gunning for her spot on the no longer an athlete grifter compensation fund

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Absolutely nobody knew who Riley Gaines was when she was swimming for Kentucky -- there wasn't a whole arena booing her at that time.

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

if you can't trust serial liars working for a serial liar who can you trust

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃

Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.

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"

I know it's mostly preaching to the choir on here but I really just can't get over this idea that Democrats are threatening to leave the party over stuff like Free Buses and No Genocide when they've spent my entire adult life defending Manchin, Sinema, and other quislings in the name of Big Tent

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday

Democrats could be learning some valuable lessons about how it is socialists just now for the first time teaching everyone from children to the pundit class how government can work for people but no lol they're still too scared about Hasan Piker taking his shirt off too much

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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

Losing my mind at A Guy in my head who voted for Trump from the left because he'd disrupt the system and is smugly nodding to himself right now

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

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

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

Great news for any South American countries who elect a mildly left of centre government this year.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · yesterday

The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.

I'm begging the British right to have ANY OTHER historical reference than WWII, which I should add saw all of yerp come together with Soviet Communists, to beat the far-right.

"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...