They don't want any smart people to bring any intelligent knowledge into the US.

Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬@drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 9h ago

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Don't remember reading about this before now.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 12h ago

Hackers launched a wave of sophisticated attacks on Wall Street firms in recent days, targeting information systems at major money managers

So tell me, is DC burning yet?

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h ago

Albert Speer would be so proud! The Times takes us on an exclusive video tour of Washington remade in the image of Donald Trump. It furnishes a perfect demonstration of the psychopathology of fascist architectural design. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Highly recommended reading.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · yesterday

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As someone who owns around 600 books, this horrible destruction of books eats at my soul. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World

Viral stories about AI companies supposedly destroying books sparked outrage online.

theatlantic.com

But, who gets custody of the Reflecting Pool? 😟

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2d ago

The looming public divorce of Trump and Pirro youtu.be/LihmQTs8c6c?...

Strongmen are always looking out for number one: themselves. That’s why they create inner sanctums around themselves, surrounding themselves with family members who do not give them objective feedback. We should all be concerned when leaders surround themselves with only sycophants.

Here it is , ladies and gentlemen, the event that the Christian Nationalists' cult has been waiting for to help trigger the end-times apocalypse. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan

Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’

theguardian.com

Watchdog group Democracy Forward sends demand letter to Justice Dept seeking "under oath" statement that the Trump slush fund is truly dead: "The Acting Atty General has still refused to provide a sworn statement under penalty of perjury" Democracy Fwd sued to challenge fund

The right ideas but weak language and bad choices. PR no longer wants to be a state but DC does. Revisit is BS. Expand the court. Revisit EC? 2 ways to change it. No revisits. Kamala Harris Introduces 'Controversial' Plan For Democrats To Beat 'Cheating' Republicans www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...

Kamala Harris Proposes A Bold Plan To Counter 'Cheating' Republicans

“They are ruthless. We need to be ruthless, too,” the former vice president said.

huffpost.com

Nah. I call that BULL💩.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

The Reflecting Pool is perfect now. It reflects the ugliness and corruption of this administration.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump is doubling down on the Reflecting Pool hoax even though his handpicked U.S. attorney dropped the charges and blamed “a botched installation and not vandalism.”

Holy crap. This would be huge. And I can only imagine the other members of the FOMC are *pissed www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...

Warsh Considers Reducing Frequency of Fed Policy Meetings (Gift Article)

The Federal Reserve has met at least eight times a year for decades. Reducing the number of meetings would represent the biggest change by Kevin M. Warsh since he became chairman.

nytimes.com

Hahahahahahaha.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

Trump said the US-led Board of Peace had reached a deal for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip

Not to mention that it has been too expensive for me to buy lately, so I guess this is a non-issue for me.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

Have you noticed your favorite chocolate candy tasting…off? Check the label: You may be a victim of “skimpflation.” Stacey Vanek Smith unpacks the trend.

This is something a lot of us have noticed over the past year. Good on the NY Times to lay out all the data and show that it isn't just Ben Shapiro who is losing his audience -- it's the entire right-wing media ecosystem. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

nytimes.com

BREAKING: New York just sued Kalshi — alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation. New York AG Letitia James alleges Kalshi failed to obtain a state gambling license and pay taxes. Her office is seeking an order enjoining Kalshi’s operations, plus fines, restitution and forfeiture of profits.

New York sues prediction market Kalshi alleging it’s an illegal gambling operation | CNN Politics

The New York attorney general’s office is suing Kalshi, one of the largest prediction markets, alleging it’s running an illegal gambling operation in the state.

cnn.com

Trump keeps using tax money to buy stakes in previously private companies. He wants government and big business to be the same thing. Which is another way to describe ... communism.

Commerce Department quietly announces 7 new equity stakes in private companies

The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seve…

thehill.com

The definition of “picking winners and losers.” @thehill.com thehill.com/policy/techn...

I would replace the words "US economy" here with "American people". But that is just me.

Bloomberg Opinion@opinion.bloomberg.com · 7d ago

$100 billion. That's a rough estimate of how much the Trump administration's chaos has cost the US economy since January 2025

Disappointed in number of stories about Fauci that neglected to point out that the attacks on him are part of an on-going effort by Trump and GOP to distract from their catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic, mismanagement estimated to have caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary US deaths.

I lay out Trump's three-part strategy to attack the midterm elections and what we need t do to fight back. Read, share and act! www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop them

The GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.

democracydocket.com

After a lifetime of public service and dedication to the health of Americans and people around the world it is obscene that Dr. Anthony Fauci is being forced to sit in front of this Congressional committee and face these absurd accusations.

pulitzercenter.org/stories/samo... Until we stop ignoring wealthy criminals, the cycle will never end. Kennedy wasn't even given a slap on this wrist for this and yet here we are going after Fauci?

Samoa’s Tragedy and RFK Jr.’s Alleged Role

Part three of Tragedy in Paradise, an Atlanta News First investigation shedding light on potential consequences of declining vaccination rates. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZnUjMnzdU SAMOA —...

pulitzercenter.org

The US is stuck in Iran because Trump and his allies failed to understand the reasons for growing limits on American power

A Misdiagnosis of US Failings Leaves Trump Stuck in Iran

Not for the first time since he began a six-week war with Iran five months ago, US President Donald Trump finds himself stuck. He told the world last week he would unleash a hell yet unseen on Tehran, because Iran’s leaders clearly hadn’t been hit hard enough to understand the futility of resistance. Now, he has stood down, apparently after being advised he has no good military options.

bloom.bg

The Ellisons might have thought cozying up to Trump would make them even richer. They're finding out the hard way that everything Trump touches turns to a substance that is not gold Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Ellisons Discover the Hard Way That Trump Is the Anti-Midas

There’s a thesis that everything President Donald Trump touches eventually goes bad. The USFL. Knicks-Spurs Game 3. The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Oracle Corp. co-founder and Chairman Larry Ell...

bloomberg.com

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. www.wired.com/story/dhs-of...

DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’

The outgoing executive director of the Office of Homeland Security Statistics is one of very few federal officials to speak out against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

wired.com

This has to be the most unbelievable, craziest 💩 he has said yet.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "I've done more for you than your parents, okay? Your parents are okay. I'm not gonna knock to your parents, but I have been better to you than your parents."

Now we know who the next round of military and civil servant personnel getting fired and removed are going to be. Either that or they are setting up for something much bigger.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social · last wk.

“Price and availability have not been noticeably affected.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...