glad to see she did this; it's pretty important if Ds are going to win that senate seat.

Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 3h ago

I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...

Our last, best chance to cool the Earth

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

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Trump flogs a book by “the highly respected Alan Dershowitz.” Maybe he says it that way so we’ll think it’s a different Alan Dershowitz from the one who was a lawyer for sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and admitted getting a massage at Epstein’s house but insisted, “I kept my underwear on.”

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

Maine voters are probably smart enough to see through this. Everything about her screams that she is a tool for others and just happy to be there.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 19h ago

She's one of a couple republicans told she can vote no. If she weren't up against Troy Jackson, she'd totally confirm Blanche.

Max Miller should definitely KEEP doing live interviews. He sounds REALLY stable and looks very present.

If you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.

"After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York" -- www.curbed.com/article/ken-...

After All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New York

The hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters.

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I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Items circling the drain accelerate as they approach the end.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · yesterday

Today's Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson.

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

This year has a chance of being the coldest year on record for the next few centuries. It will just keep getting worse and tends toward accelerating.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · yesterday

One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”

evergreen

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.

"I’ve dreaded this moment for ten years and it’s finally here. These are the conditions that lead to WWIII. That's not something I've ever said before." youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...

The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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"Kushner is the ‘chief negotiator’ for Israel and Gaza and Iran; and for Ukraine and Russia. He is not an elected or appointed official. He’s a mafia operative who is Trump’s son-in-law, which is how authoritarian kleptocracies work... (1/2)" youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...

The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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The guy has a brain worm from doing just this…..

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2d ago

zero sympathy for anyone involved but it is so typical that his anger is that she didn’t lie *enough*

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

“.. The president is ‘furious’ with Pirro, one of the sources said, telling CNN that he fumed about her all weekend.” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

You and I paying increased prices due to tariffs then corporations getting the refund is “trickle up economics.” Trump has invented even worse economic policies than Reagan.

Tariff refunds split companies as consumers demand share of $166B

Some firms say they will share a portion of the rebate from the Supreme Court striking down Trump's tariffs earlier this year.

newsweek.com

Not every date has to be something to post to Insta. Go for a walk…

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

People in their 20s and 30s are dating less than earlier generations did. The high cost of going out is one of the reasons.

This is the author's evidence of "the left" hiding "positive" things that Trump has done -- the networks refusing to air a speech in which he spread malicious lies about our democratic institutions. Doesn't name a *single* actual good thing Trump has supposedly done that's been hidden from people.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.

Trump used a totally made up story to justify selling off more than a million acres of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument. It wasn't a mistake. They knew better. I'm sure we're all shocked. www.rawstory.com/trump-bears-...

'Lying' Trump caught using made-up story to justify slashing national monument: NY Times

President Donald Trump claimed hikers, hunters and anglers were locked out of Utah's Bears Ears National Monument and used that story to justify slashing its size by more than 1.2 million acres. Newly...

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The guilty parties are literally right there in the photos….

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: We spoke to hacking law experts to learn if OpenAI and Anthropic could be prosecuted for their AI agents’ hacks against four companies. We are in “uncharted territory,” as one lawyer put it. But another attorney said there is a potential avenue to hold the two AI giants liable for negligence.

Do you know how obvious the botched installation had to be for Trump appointees and sycophants to contradict him?

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Prosecutors dropped their case against David Hearn on Friday, blaming Reflecting Pool damage on a "botched installation" rather than vandalism. That has implications for other people who were charged. n.pr/4fBw9Ln

Oh.👀 Well that figures. "A Jeffrey Epstein-linked French modeling scout who was discovered dead at his home last month was quietly operating an anonymous online account devoted to praising President Donald Trump." He wanted his pedophile protector to stay in power. www.rawstory.com/daniel-siad/

‘Unbelievable’: Epstein recruiter found dead secretly ran pro-Trump account

A Jeffrey Epstein-linked French modeling scout who was discovered dead at his home last month was quietly operating an anonymous online account devoted to praising President Donald Trump, according to...

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“You’re a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, how come you don’t like Palantir?” “You’re a huge fan of 1984, how come you don’t like the surveillance state?” “You’re a huge fan of Fahrenheit 451, how come you don’t like ritual book burnings?”

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

The caddie literally just tosses a fucking ball on the ground for Trump while never looking back

Every discussion about Linda McMahon should start with the fact that she is credibly accused of sex trafficking minors and covering up child rape for decades

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

Pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon issued a letter today (in her role as US Secretary of Education) demanding that universities justify their existence and explain policies to the Trump administration by the end of 2026. Not sure what the endgame is, but it sure feels like a trap.

Two people in Michigan have died in connection with the multistate cyclosporiasis outbreak, Michigan health officials said Monday, marking the first known deaths linked to the foodborne illness. www.axios.com/2026/08/03/c...

Cyclospora outbreak causes first two deaths

Weeks into the national crisis that's sickened thousands of people, federal authorities still don't know for certain where it's coming from or why.

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"Beginning in the late 1980s, the two men forged a bond intense enough to leave others who knew them with the impression that they were each other’s closest friend, The Times found." MAGA will never believe this unless and until someone releases the videos, and maybe not even then. 🧵⤵️

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 3d ago

This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵