And the vote today was to advance an amended version of the bill, which I suspect would have made it at least a less noxious. No appetite even for that. Not only was it a party line vote, but a number of Republicans stayed out of the room entirely, preventing quorum. There's a stench on this bill.

SCREEN failed to pass out of committee, despite a 15-13 vote (in favor). Not enough members voting, but looks like a party line vote. Good work everyone! Keep up the pressure for after recess and beyond!

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · yesterday

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

The one low bar to clear here is “don’t fucking sound like the progressives we’ve been mad at do” and I trust my fellow white boys on the internet to— ha ha ha oh god. Well, anyways

"Forced to revert to older technology, the medevac pilots got disoriented and crashed, no survivors" is actually pretty damning to say about pilots, you might as well just say the words "Death By Skill Issue"

The most, or perhaps only effective thing DOGE did was kill an unfathomably large number of black and brown children.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last wk.

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

I want to note that Biden dropped out on July 21; tweet is dated July 22

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 8h ago

Let me ask Abdul El Sayed

The menswear guy also says the boots theory is wrong

BillieB@billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 22h ago

Sitting quietly, waiting for The Menswear Guy to get a hold of this one.

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

People don't really realize how wild west the emergency care was in the beginning. You had ER docs on twitter literally talking about they were trying to figure out supportive care on the fly. When should we intubate, when should we use corticosteroids, etc.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 3d ago

The problem with What Should We Have Done About COVID discourse is that it’s all Monday morning quarterbacking with the much better information we have now compared to then, and is about what we should have done now that we know instead of how we should have acted with imperfect information then

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

being in a situation where you need Literally Every Single Dem on Literally Every Single Vote is a recipe for getting mad at the Dem party all the time because you give maximal leverage to its worst members elect enough Dems and you’ll be less mad! it’s basic math!

this is the reason schumer, gillibrand, and stevens have all endorsed el-sayed so quickly Google's preview news cache hasn't caught up

Micah@rincewind.run · 7h ago

correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them

chuck schumer has endorsed abdul el-sayed

Another Josh Smith@jcsmith55.bsky.social · 8h ago

It's pretty clear that, for centrist/establishment Dems, "Blue No Matter Who" applies only to progressive voters whose preferred candidate lost The establishment has cooked their brains into thinking winning over moderate GOP voters is a winning strategy

can imagine the personal relationship between Senators Slotkin and El-Sayed going anywhere from “buddy cop movie” to “literal homicide”

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · yesterday

Slotkin tells me on Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, “the most important thing is putting a check and balance on Donald Trump, so I will support whoever wins.”

A lot going on here. First, Miller looks shaken. Or drunk. Second, he comes off every bit the creep that he seems to be. Saying he isn't dropping out because Trump didn't drop out after being accused of sexual assault is a hell of a choice. And third, he doesn't appear to know what hearsay means.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · yesterday

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."

The Mar-a-Lago in heaven is even bigger than it looks www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter the Mar-a-Lago in Heaven

Tour the mansion in the sky to which Sean Hannity has consigned Lindsey Graham’s soul.

theatlantic.com

THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 23h ago

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

I do think some people should be pushed out of public life permanently

Andy Burnham Accepter@jorisbinned.bsky.social · 10h ago

Hello I'm an idiot

"I don't get it guys, the man who we've catered to in every conceivable way doesn't get that /this/ time we cant do it. How did we get to this point and why is everyone in this meeting wearing a hot dog costume?"

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h ago

Let's not lose sight of how abnormal this is. Trump is demanding prosecutions over Reflecting Pool fiasco even though his own DOJ has shown conclusively it isn't supported by facts or law. On the pod, @barbmcquade.bsky.social is brilliant on the bigger stakes here: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Because I am actively researching and writing about the FAA practically every day, I spend a lot of time reading about accidents from the 1970s and 80s. You have no idea how incredibly dangerous it was back then. No idea at all. Just read the commercial crash stats for AK in the '90s. Good grief.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 20h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

And now it's up to 5,000+ likes. SIGH. That second paragraph is ridiculous. The GPS being unavailable was in a NOTAM which they would have gotten on the ground. They were unable to hold an altitude which has nothing to do with GPS. All pilots must fly & land without GPS. If you can't, do not fly.

Justin Ling@justinling.ca · yesterday

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

The more that we ignore the basic piloting failures on the New Mexico medevac crash, and try to excuse them as due to lack of GPS, the more we deny the basic requirements of piloting. You can not need GPS in order to fly. You can not need autopilot in order to fly. We learn without those things.

No, the US military did not do this at all, if anyone actually bothers to read the actual NTSB preliminary report. The flight crew (and others) were having issues and were telling it to the controller, the supervisor requested that jamming be turned off, and the military turned off the jamming.

We all saw the images of full ICUs and temporary morgues setup in refrigerator trucks. We lost HUNDREDS of Jesuits to COVID and watched helplessly as it ran through our infirmaries. ... We're at that stage in a cult where the follows MUST believe the lies because NOT believing gets you canned.

Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS@thanh-neville.bsky.social · 20h ago

I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 16h ago

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

Being a church treasurer must be an insane job because sometimes she's using our hardship find to help really vulnerable people secure housing, and sometimes she's checking receipts for bottles of wine that we're gonna turn into Jesus, and sometimes she's asking me why I've bought the church an axe.

Avery@averyis.online · 24h ago

The curse of being a church treasurer is that sometimes you get to do something that really helps someone out and sometimes you say something that makes you sound like George Osborne