I repeat once again that uncommitted did everything right and you better learn how to respect the people involved because they're gonna keep doing everything right and moving up in the party.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2h ago

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

I wanted to take a moment today to highlight a colleague I have had the pleasure of knowing, admiring, and working alongside for the past 3 years: Sarah Parady. I wish her happiness and peace as she journeys into this next chapter. You will always have a friend in D6❤️

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

on.wsj.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

Also looks like the DSA will FLIP the Ann Arbor Mayor's office, with former DSA State Representative Yousef Rabhi destroying Democratic incumbent Christopher Taylor: Rabhi- 63.5% Taylor (Inc)- 36.5%

This law firm was just awarded a $150 million/year contract to lead representation of unaccompanied minors through immigration proceedings. Seems really bad!

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 19h ago

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/

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

Denver just Denvered: 2:30p yesterday in Denver: 102° 4:30a this morning: 52° 50° swing in 14 hours! #COwx

I have a theory that a big chunk of the socialist fear mongering by liberals is really about the fact that it’s perceived as a youth movement and godforbid the young exert political power

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

The ICC chief prosecutor has been sanctioned by the Trump administration and also debanked. Worth listening to in full because this is being done in our names on behalf of Israeli war criminals:

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · yesterday

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

Today's Prospect Patriot is Frances Perkins. She saw the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory go ablaze in 1911 and her life changed. "The New Deal was born that day," she said. 22 years later she'd be America's first female cabinet member. prospect.org/2026/08/04/a...

Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security - The American Prospect

In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’

prospect.org

"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · 2d ago

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

ICYMI heatmap journalism seems to have stopped a data center and gas fired power plant

Matt Zeitlin@zeitlin.bsky.social · 2d ago

big @jael.bsky.social scoop: developer clearway isn't going forward with its data center and gas plant proposal (that had already been swapped out for an existing solar proposal) heatmap.news/sparks/clear...

I love the coverage of this stuff, as if a corrupt fascist kakistocracy is capable of building a useful "framework for AI"

White House finalizes AI framework behind closed doors

The White House said it met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models — but it won't say what the framework contains.

axios.com

Gas plant costs rise – new study Renewables are cheaper than gas-fired power plants, even without subsidies. Demand has risen for gas power, but cost inflation has hit the sector. gasoutlook.com/analysis/gas...

Gas plant costs rise – new study - Gas Outlook

Renewables are cheaper than gas-fired power plants, even without subsidies, a new study finds. Demand has risen for gas power, but cost inflation has hit the sector.

gasoutlook.com

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Older guard Colorado Dems are shifting but remain committed to Israeli apartheid in their core values. It’d be nice if CPR ever challenged these Congresspeople on a two state solution, something they’ve never worked to achieve despite touting it all the damn time. www.cpr.org/2026/08/03/d...

Colorado Democrats flip on Israel aid, reflecting larger divide within the party

Two years ago, all Colorado Democrats supported aid to Israel, but earlier this month they all supported an amendment to cut aid to the Middle East ally.

cpr.org

Every women’s league is going to have to deal with the fact that crying about trans people is a much more stable career path than playing women’s sports

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jesus Christ. Sophie Cunningham fully embracing the right wing grift.

how else do you accurately describe Chuck Schumer, by *his own admission*? his loyalty to the people of the United States is far more debatable than his loyalty to Israel.

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 4d ago

What's tricky about the dual loyalty thing is that it *is* antisemitic to assume that every Jewish person, politician and institutional organization is loyal to the state of Israel. But also, a number of them...are! And pretending that they aren't makes the complaint look fundamentally disingenuous!

What an amazing final push from our coalition members and a small army of volunteers. The graduated income tax is poised to make the ballot! coloradosun.com/2026/08/01/g...

Backers of Colorado’s graduated income tax ballot measure race to collect final voter signatures before Monday deadline

Initiative 195 will ask voters to raise Colorado’s flat 4.4% income tax rate on income earned by people and corporations that exceeds $500,000 while cutting the income tax rate on earnings less than t...

coloradosun.com

I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

The world is full of people who insist "AI is changing everything" but who - when pressed - have to admit that what they mean is that they're pretty sure that AI *will* change everything. Eventually. After we allow it to consume all the planet's energy, carbon, water and financial resources. 8/

Once again asking where the advocacy groups and think tanks are on this because elected officials are not going to get there on their own.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 5d ago

Chaperoning a preschool trip to the aquarium and one of the other dads who is vaguely familiar with what I do comes up to me and goes “man I sure hope we get some Nuremberg-style trials at the end of all this”

one of the Sisyphean goals of my life is trying to convince somebody, anybody, to make a serious attempt to roughly quantify whether police in the US cause more deaths than they prevent

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ah well what's the torturous needless preventable deaths of thousands of people a year when a stolen car is now pancaked into a tree

It’s genuinely eye-opening.

Rachel Cohen@cohen489.bsky.social · 5d ago

want to be clear there are absolutely big differences b/t Dems & GOP, don’t ascribe to all-the-same, and that said, it’s awfully telling how many high profile Dems now profess to prefer a Republican in office than a progressive and how that appears to be driven by who is closer to their values

This is why I give extra side eye to people who use AI that know better. I know they know about this. You're telling the world you couldn't care less how your little vibe code trash gets made. Doesn't affect white people, or me specifically, so it's fine. The most selfish amongst us.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d ago

The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

All else aside this race is yet again proving that you can just say whatever about an Arab or a Muslim candidate and no one will demand that you apologize