Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!
@blueskybry.bsky.social
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
trib.al
Not good timing, but some extremely important points in this now unredacted part of the 2024 Autopsy: -loss more about Dem turnout decline than swing voters -Dem consultants extracting huge $ for bad advice -Biden shouldn'ta run -spam PACs ruining fundraising www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
nytimes.com
This is actually quite smart of AOC.A lot of the MAHA adherents have been let down by a medical establishment that dismisses women’s concerns at every stage-birthing to menopause(which they only recently started studying).They should have somewhere to turn for non crazy solutions to real problems.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d agoThere is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.
Good to see Democrats being strategic by withdrawing and supporting independents running for Senate in three deep red states where a Democrat couldn’t win. Utah in 2022 and Nebraska in 2024 saw independents massively overperform the Democratic ticket, and Nebraska is a very real possibility in 2026
Democrat exits Senate race in South Dakota, clearing way for independent
Julian Beaudion withdrew after resisting pressure to step aside, making South Dakota’s contest the third Senate race without a Democratic candidate.
wapo.st
Reading this and can't help but think about how communities of all kinds come together in the immediate wake of disasters, politics aside. And how I've been racially slurred the hardest by a good ol' southern boy who nicely helped me pull my car out of a ditch after a storm. The future is unwritten.
molly taft@mollytaft.com · yesterdayfor months, ive been trying to map out the ways the right and the left were uniting against data centers and AI both here's my story on my efforts, featuring steve bannon's anti-tech prophet, my girlfriend's high school english class, and the unabomber:
NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections
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...
thenerve.news
An interesting piece out from @democratictheory.bsky.social. One of the things Mamdani’s campaign & admin does that is replicable & good for democracy beyond policy is to broaden opportunities for civic connection & tell increasingly layered stories of peoplehood w/ “the people” being New Yorkers.
Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum | Democratic Theory | Cambridge Core
Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum
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I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.
Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h agoOne way to be safe is to never write an electability take
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake just endorsed Jon Ossoff for Senate in Georgia. "Character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution."
Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake backs Jon Ossoff, saying ‘character matters’
The Arizona Republican has been one of the loudest critics of President Donald Trump. He says Ossoff's character outweighs any policy disagreements they might have.
ajc.com
A vote to confirm Todd Blanche is a vote against justice for Epstein survivors.
🚨 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social just secured a game-changing win! Despite the status quo Democratic establishment lining up behind his opponent and special interests flooding millions into this race, Abdul's people-powered campaign won. Being a real Democratic fighter is good policy and good politics!
BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
So, what the heck is the Comstock Act and why is Todd Blanche so enthusiastic about it? hartmannreport.com/p/is-todd-bl...
Is Todd Blanche Going to Drop the Cold, Dead Hand of Anthony Comstock on America’s Women if He's Confirmed?
So, what the heck is the Comstock Act and why is Todd Blanche so enthusiastic about it?
hartmannreport.com
Let’s see if Susan Collins stands by her “concerns”, or if she folds like she always does.
Umm still waiting.. and add how the GOP+Trump rewrote EPA laws for hyperscale data centers to avoid reviews. Or donate to the SuperPAC I started and I’ll do it myself FFS: wwwaoaipac.org
Angry Eagle@angry-eagle.bsky.social · 9mo agoDem leadership, Please run three types of ads, now until midterms: 1. Masked ICE abduction videos, “Trump’s America” (urban) 2. Farmers going bankrupt en mass, “Trump Tariffs Killed US Farms” (rural) 3. Epstein with Trump pics, “Republicans Protect Pedophiles” (everywhere) Do this, you win.
Better idea: instead of replacing the work force with AI agents, let’s replace all the executives. Then all the profits won’t get hoarded at the top, since the AI won’t take huge compensations— or any payment beyond their use cost really. Unions can vote on the AI’s business objectives.
State Capture: is a type of systematic corruption where small wealthy interest groups take control of institutions and processes that make public policy, to exclude the public whose interests those institutions are supposed to serve. This is what tech oligarchs have done to the U.S. #DOGE
Dem leadership, Please run three types of ads, now until midterms: 1. Masked ICE abduction videos, “Trump’s America” (urban) 2. Farmers going bankrupt en mass, “Trump Tariffs Killed US Farms” (rural) 3. Epstein with Trump pics, “Republicans Protect Pedophiles” (everywhere) Do this, you win.
They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley has once again broken ranks with House Democratic leadership over endorsements, this time to support former Missouri Rep. Cori Bush. Pressley’s endorsement sets her squarely against the establishment wing of the party.
Pressley breaks with Jeffries over Missouri primary race
It’s the second time she broke with the Dem leader over endorsements.
politico.com
Remembering Sir Alec Guinness who passed away on this date in 2000 😇🙏
Tapper: "There are now three women who have accused you of violent behavior…Are all three of these women who don't know each other lying?" Rep. Max Miller: "Yes…It's all hearsay." Tapper: "It's not hearsay if it is firsthand testimony from women."
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
