Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 19h ago

This is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Yeah, this is not some otherwise respectable professional who leans towards 'lab origin' as part of a passive elite consensus. Quay has written (and published!) pretty much every insane false CT on SARS-COV-2 origins you maybe have only heard in passing. Dude has dined at the lab leak buffet.

Alex Crits-Christoph@acritschristoph.bsky.social · 14h ago

So, something that the media will sanewash as this story develops is Quay isn't just a lab origin proponent. He has for 5 years sold an endless stream of very specifically wrong and silly ideas on the topic. He's not right, but even if he was, that wouldn't excuse his fabrications along the way!

so long sweet prince we will always remember you for having bad politics and trying to make up for that by speedrunning an impeachment vote until Jeffries bullied you into not doing that

Politico@politico.com · 4h ago

Thanedar becomes latest incumbent to fall to a progressive challenger

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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This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

This is why it was national suicide for Biden to not do everything in his power to keep an insurrectionist from gaining control of the military.

Patrick G. Eddington@pgeddington.bsky.social · 19h ago

A thread on how U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) wargamed an Insurrection Act invocation scenario just five weeks after Trump's second inauguration...and how subsequent DoD actions raise the specter of military involvement in connection with the 2026 midterms.

I’m not a “Europe is hopelessly poor” person nor a “GDP explains everything” person but tbh whenever I see someone complain that EVERYTHING in MODERN LIFE has gotten MONOTONICALLY WORSE there‘s a good chance they’re in the UK which has in fact been in and out of recession for 10 years

Wolf Blitzer: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, this is what your critics are saying, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? John Fetterman, visibly confused throughout the entire interview: Yeah, absolutely.

Baseline: there's no evidence for it. You can reject it in the same sense you can reject the idea that someone poured water on the ground to make a puddle when you know it rained this morning, even though you didn't specifically see the rain make the puddle.

Let's all sit with the fact that the president wants to jail some random person who is self-evidently innocent. It's not surprising, but it's amazing that much of the media is almost completely disinterested in this fact.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

was thinking this morning about how the US kinda gave up on solving problems, so we get a string of obvious cons that pretend to solve problems instead. carbon capture, hyperloop, moon factories, AGI, crypto, plastic recycling, widened highways

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

So so fucked up. We know that these people will be detained, potentially jailed for a long time (with all that entails in Myanmar), conscripted straight into the military, even if neither of those things happen... Myanmar isn't exactly safe. /sigh

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 7h ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Spoiler: no they don't. But lockup expiry is imminent, so pump pump pump. $SPCX

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Absolutely fucking disgusting. The GOP is the party of wife beaters, rapists, and Epstein cronies.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

It's very very strange to be in a situation where Jeanine Pirro is the sane and responsible one!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Well, this sucks. Assistant was great for doing what you told it to do without it making guesses. I don't want my computers to make guesses when I'm telling them what to do

The Verge@theverge.com · 6h ago

It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th. www.theverge.com/tech/975516/...

“Well, I wish you hadn’t done that. Now I’m going to arrest you,” Dennison-Gibby recalled the officer, whom she identified as a U.S. marshal, telling her. wapo.st/3RSQ6nU

Arrested at Reflecting Pool, woman details ‘heartbreaking’ toll case has taken

Sophie Dennison-Gibby was one of three defendants charged with a misdemeanor related to Reflecting Pool damage. The charges were all dropped.

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Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

As predicted with global warming-driven climate change.

NBC10 Boston@nbcboston.com · 6h ago

Dew points are the big issue as they rise into the mid-70s – more typical of a tropical climate. on.nbcboston.com/Lu5lFdH

A stock market is where shares in companies are bought and sold based on economic data such as “did the president say war words or peace words last night?” and “can you imagine a future where computers do all your work for you much better than you do would but you keep all the money?”

SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Calling Steven Quay a pharma exec, as this article does, is generous. He's a "breast health" quack doctor and conspiracy nut.

Michael Taffe@effatma.bsky.social · 16h ago

This is how political interference works. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

This is an INSANE article from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social at @motherjones.com Just read it

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

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I want young people to know that until The Emperor got elected, all politicians could be shamed out of office if their sin was grave. What we see now is freakish and unhealthy.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 20h ago

Tapper: Senator Moreno said on Sunday that you have admitted privately that you need to get help. Miller: That’s projection. Tapper: Have you ever said that? Miller: No, not to him. Tapper: To anyone? Miller: I think a lot of people within this country see a therapist

They are doing nonstop war from every angle. It will take a grand scale longtime effort of fighting back to keep it from working

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 17h ago

the day2 installment of this week’s “Start The Steal” series at @zeteo.com, focusing on Trump and Republicans’ many many efforts to rig the midterms and attack free and fair elections for years to come — and efforts to fight back: zeteo.com/p/19-ways-tr...

The two realistic options for the clock are permanent standard time, or we shift time twice a year. That's it. On top of that, locales at the edge of a time zone could switch zones, and/or we can do something about winter work schedules.

Nicholas Bauer PhD@bioturbonick.net · 3w ago

I made a tool to explore how time zones, daylight saving time, and our schedules interact in the United States. One thing I hope will be clear is that the real enemy is our work schedule, not the clock. bioturbonick.github.io/DaylightExpl...

I made a tool to explore how time zones, daylight saving time, and our schedules interact in the United States. One thing I hope will be clear is that the real enemy is our work schedule, not the clock. bioturbonick.github.io/DaylightExpl...

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 19h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court