If Biden, Obama or even a Harris or Clinton President had played in a competition during a war they intiated and while multiple disease outbreaks were happening due to their funding cuts, that is all that Fox, @cnn.com @wapostopinionsplus.bsky.social @nytimes.com would be talking about

"maybe it's a bit more intense in this administration" is a good way to ignore the fundamental difference between a fascist project and a regular administration. It's not a quantitative difference, it's a qualitative one .

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?

Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.

thebulwark.com

"The Trump administration admitted that it terminated nearly 300 federal research grants 'solely because' the projects were connected to states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024 and had two Democratic senators in office, according to court filings." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump administration concedes it canceled research grants in blue states

The administration said 284 research grants were canceled because they were in states that voted against Donald Trump in 2024.

nbcnews.com

Not sure I should appreciate TNR chose that picture to illustrate the dumbest policy you can think of. But it *is* the best school in the world.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

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

Imagine a bank closing the accounts of the sitting president and the reason listed is money laundering. Just imagine the appropriate level of political scandal that something like that should cause. Now imagine the leading newspaper of the country, @nytimes.com, not writing a word about it

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

NEW: Capital One closed hundreds of Trump accounts for money laundering. We wouldn’t have known if Trump hadn’t sued. Now he’s got tax immunity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capita...

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

You'll definitely get purged but legendary respect for whichever Troop® emails Hegseth the JCPOA.

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

PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

Someone found this on their windshield. They didn't seem to appreciate the message as they just tossed it on the sidewalk. I admire the commitment to the bit to actually print this on business card stock.

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

Hearn's attorney were trying to get the grand jury proceedings and now Pirro is dropping the lawsuit altogether. Which (to me at least) means that these proceedings were not on the up and up, as we have seen with the Broadway 6. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool (Gift Article)

President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation” and moved to dismiss cha...

nytimes.com

I thought the gold plating was a renovation of the statues, not adding freaking gold to a stone statue.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 5d ago

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

In the nearly 3 years since announcing his candidacy for a second term as president, Donald Trump has filed lawsuits and claims demanding over 70 BILLION DOLLARS.

Trump has filed lawsuits and claims demanding over $70 billion since second term candidacy announcement - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Trump has filed lawsuits and claims demanding over $70 billion since he declared his candidacy for office in November 2022.

citizensforethics.org

The first line is trivially obvious (every NBA champion has stars and experience) but you have to admire how SIX of the best teams were in the top five!

That last add on at the end: "and frankly, it wasn't me who kicked him off the ballots, it was the Democrats" after saying that Platner had nazi tatoos, as if that was not disqualifying! "Hey, the guy had nazi tats, but it wasn't me who disapproved of that, no siree."

It has the same loser energy as telling Iran he will blockade their blockade.

Ivan the K ™@ivanthek.bsky.social · 6d ago

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1% mortality rate, 350M people, that's 3.5M deaths. Every year, 3M people die in the US. So that's more than doubling it. "We could've gotten through it" is psychopath territory.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

Overheard at Epstein’s house:

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."

Accidentally, of course

This thread is impressive - I wouldn't wish on anyone to follow trump on his social website. Also, wow, he's off his rocker.

Howdy@icandie.bsky.social · last wk.

Occupy Democrats BREAKING: Trump is having a mental health episode on social media right now. He’s been posting insane nonsense, nonstop, all day:

Trump's company has been awarded a $63 billion development opportunity in Saudi Arabia, and that happened around the same time the Trump admin was negotiating the nuclear deal with the Saudis. He will sell out the U.S. piece by piece for his personal enrichment.

Trump's Business Pursued Saudi Deal As He Conducted Nuclear Discussions

While Trump's administration held nuclear-energy talks with Saudi Arabia, his private business moved ahead with a real-estate project tied to the crown prince.

forbes.com

Not the onion

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "I owned the Miss Universe pageant. And Miss Venezuela always did very well in that pageant. So I know something about the country."

This ends the debate of who is the 🐐 : LBJ. (Or is it Kareem?)

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

DOOCY: Where do you stand on LeBron versus Michael Jordan as the best ever? TRUMP: Michael Jordan's a friend of mine, play golf with him. He's a really good guy. and I think LeBron is maybe he's a racist but maybe he doesn't like Trump. I only like people who like me.

You gotta love real estate agents. Who else would think, when you look at the image below: "low maintenance backyard"? www.compass.com/homedetails/...

If the deadline for LBJ strangling Jaylen for hogging the ball is Christmas, I'll take the under.

Dear Guardian, just spare us the crocodile tears. He's been wading into far right politics all over the world, that's not by mistake. Do fall for this crap.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

I have to say the Rs are good at framing the debate - in this case they are fascists by the textbook definition, while the Ds are not communists by any means. But the framing is fascist/communist as if both (or neither) were exaggerations.

Rep. Jim McGovern@repmcgovern.bsky.social · 2w ago

WE WILL STOP FASCISM. 🇺🇸

Media blackout you say? That same media who made a big deal of Hunter Biden getting $500,000 a year for seating on a board while his dad was out of office??? popular.info/p/a-nuclear-...

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

popular.info