Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

chicago.suntimes.com

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

One reason polls are more unreliable and less precise since the Obama era is that respondents lie to pollsters by providing the "right" answer, then voting more racist once in the privacy of the booth

Considering how badly Republican ballot measures targeting abortion rights, public education, independence of judiciary- are getting curb stomped in - checks notes - deep red states … there are gonna be relentless think pieces in DC media bubble about toxicity of MAGA/Trump Republican brand. Right?

Natalie Portman Says 'Right?'

ALT: Natalie Portman Says 'Right?'

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Russian troops are barbarians. Coincidentally, the Trump administration will turn our professional military into this if given enough time.

CNN@cnn.com · 16h ago

A video circulating online shows a Russian drone hunting a Ukrainian vegetable vendor in Kherson. It is one of many incidents of Ukrainian civilians being attacked by Russian drones. CNN's Clare Sebastian reports.

Stolen valor. The American Legion, VFW, DAV, IAVA, etc., shouldn't tolerate it and they should demand its removal.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19h ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

Half of the $62 million spent by outside groups in Michigan spent to support Stevens came from AIPAC.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

This is today. In less than two hours, in fact. We're hanging out and drinking black tea from the Himalayas, a green tea grown in meteoric soil in Laos and a white tea cold brew, also from Nepal. Swing by if you're in the neighborhood.

Rakkasan Tea Company@rakkasantea.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our tea tasting is tomorrow! Join us in the bookstore to drink tea and enjoy a social hour!

They're trying to steal the election in Texas

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

The GOP county exec in Tarrant Co (Fort Worth) often kicks people out for speaking up to protest county govt actions at public meetings. Today he shut it down amid outrage over the plan to cut nearly half of election day polling places this year (as he himself faces a heated race for county exec)

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & the fact that we tolerate this authoritarian behavior as a permanent feature of 🇺🇸 politics is a sign of just how deeply broken our democracy is.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 23h ago

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

Easier said than done when you view Donald Trump as your boss. How the Fourth Estate has fallen.

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · 23h ago

Imagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 23h ago

Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Zohran's magic is built into the fact that he has read Edward Said and David Harvey but understands that a CNN segment is not the time and place to give your book report.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Francesca Hong was asked last night by Kaitlin Collins if she still believes Thanksgiving should be canceled. Her answer was not 'no.'

The only debate in America should center on different views over the *implementation* of liberal democracy. Not whether we will *have* liberal democracy. Republicans are now fundamentally opposed to it, preferring instead a fascist theocracy. So yes, Oliver is correct.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · yesterday

i think the only really legitimate policy debate in america is between the far left and center left. i do not recognize conservative policy as a legit alternative.

I guess I just don't understand the desire to seek power if you're not going to wield it

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

It's time for the media to call out * Trump's inability to manage a war. * The damage he has done to the structures that could help him. * The military's role in placating his nonsense. * More generally, the folly of running the government by one person's ignorant whim.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d ago

I can’t believe we’re doing another cycle of pretending to have a deal with Iran. This is so stupid.

What's revealing here is that Iran and Oman are negotiating what is essentially a shared hormuz toll ("service fee") agreement. So the US is moving pretty rapidly to treat a post-war toll system as a given. 'Come up with an agreement on tolls or we'll attack!!' In other words, a massive defeat.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterday

US President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country.

“In the context of an attempted authoritarian takeover of the United States, normal minority-party participation in the federal budget process is akin to passing enabling legislation.” @brianbeutler.bsky.social

Senate Democrats Dodge Last Pre-Election Opportunity To Fight Trump

They won't take a big stand to protect the election, or resist Trump's broader lawlessness, before the midterms.

open.substack.com

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Do men even like women?

"Democrats may fail to unite around their candidate" is a mischaracterization. Democrats will unite around their candidate. Those who don't are Republicans.

Exclusive: Never-El-Sayed moment in Michigan?

Democrats may fail to unite around their candidate in the general.

semafor.com

K and I throw backyard cookouts a lot and they're awesome because we've spent our whole adult lives curating a perfect guest list, even as individuals come and go, there's always a ton of great folks we love. it never occurs to us to "get out of our bubble" and open the yard up to shit heads

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is the best thing about Bluesky. I have 57K followers and say provocative stuff occasionally and have never once been dogpiled without my consent. The trick is to detach quotes, control replies and block liberally. Without hesitation. With reckless abandon. With carefree joy.

This is the best thing about Bluesky. I have 57K followers and say provocative stuff occasionally and have never once been dogpiled without my consent. The trick is to detach quotes, control replies and block liberally. Without hesitation. With reckless abandon. With carefree joy.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2d ago

Bluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.

Chuds could have their own bubble here too if they want. But they don't, because what they want is to force their garbage takes in everyone else's face.

From a Fox Poll out 7/31: Talarico-Paxton is the marquee race down here but check out the dead heat btw Abbott and Hinojosa for governor. This contest isn't even on the radar for the national Dems, AFAIK. She's has $3m cash on hand--Abbott has *$67m*. Some more highlights from the poll... /1