All you Trump backers who lie about supporting Ukraine…this is what you actually support. These Ukrainians are being killed partly through the policy choices of the Trump administration. The USA could have saved many of these lives but chose not to. www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/e...

Russian attack kills 17 in Kyiv region, Zelensky says | CNN

Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital and nearby areas have killed 17 people and wounded dozens of others overnight, officials said, as both sides step up attacks on facilities that underpin daily life...

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Oh so we're just doing old school medieval European antisemitism now. No sugar coating, no dog whistles, just "Jews are the devil," right there on main. Very cool. Awesome. Love that for us.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

This kind of cowardly buck passing is exactly how abuse gets enabled, at scale.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

RAJU: Sen. Moreno is calling for Max Miller to resign. Do you side w/Moreno? THUNE: It's a family matter &, um, I don't have any observations beyond that Q: If a member of Congress is facing domestic abuse allegations, should they continue to serve? T: It's a House matter. It's a family issue too

One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

Donald Trump stands out historically in one way. He has demilitarized the US military more quickly than any other political leader in US history. A full blown pacifist would have struggled to throw away weapons faster than he has.

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.

If true, this is one of the most dangerous misallocations in modern times.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

is this the same trump organization that was just in the news for concerns about possible money laundering? the same trump org that was found guilty of criminal tax fraud in 2022?

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.

No one in public life talks about red states this way.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Phill Smith, an incarcerated journalist you’ve likely read in Bolts, just recorded an audio narration of a story we published last week—the one about a North Carolinian who is up for clemency with the help of the man he shot. Check out Phill’s voice: tiktok.com/@boltsmag/video/7669915463341591821

I honestly don’t know how anyone can be in the room when he says this kind of shit and not say ANYTHING. That’s not how you talk to people! Hit him with a rolled up newspaper or SOMETHING.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

in normal times, no one knows who the US attorney for DC is. in trump's reality TV insanity, this gets focus even while trump is waging a disastrous war in Iran. I'm not saying it shouldn't, just pointing out the avalanche of absurdity and disgrace that is donald trump, every day.

Watergate was a harmless prank, in terms of the scale of illegality & constitutional violations, compared to this. Again, this is the most basic "do we live under a functioning constitutional order?" type of stuff. The answer, sadly, is no, because this hasn't immediately ended his presidency.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

"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...

Devastating article about the wanton damage done to people falsely charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers in the year since they took over D.C. (By 24-year-WaPo veteran.) news.bgov.com/white-collar...

A Year After DC Federal Surge: Cases Dropped, Lives Uprooted

In the weeks that followed President Trump’s order last August to send the National Guard into Washington, federal prosecutors filed more than two dozen cases charging people with assaults on federal ...

news.bgov.com

The US military is very, very good at 3-4 things, and none of them is going to bring Iran to the kind of surrender Trump wants. That it has come to crowdsourcing ideas from the military shows what a devastating strategic failure this war already is, not to mention the effect on morale.

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

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

This is constitutional failure. Madison said separation of powers was designed to prevent any one branch from having too much power (he called that tyranny). trump's open rejection of the law should bring consequences & accountability. It does not bc system has failed.

Patrick De Klotz@patdeklotz.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Administration is just open mockery of the law. Considering the point of the branch is to execute the laws, that’s a problem.

The Administration is just open mockery of the law. Considering the point of the branch is to execute the laws, that’s a problem.

Probably not the most corrupt thing Trump has done, but very possibly the most brazenly, undisguisedly corrupt thing he’s done.

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

$DJT

May? They're selling advanced access to market moving information. That's pretty much the definition of insider trading.

NPR@npr.org · 4d ago

The president's media company is offering investors early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Experts say the service may violate insider trading laws.

I am glad that the trump admin dropped these absurd criminal charges against David Hearn, but that should not be the end of the story. These dangerous buffoons don't just get to say "woops, my bad!". There must be consequences and accountability.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.

Apropos of the president repeatedly backing down from public threats of a new military offensive, anyone remember this? 👇👇👇👇👇

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 5d ago

Apropos of nothin, remember how Trump in 2016 attacked Obama for publicly discussing an impending offensive against ISIS and called for a "sneak attack"? Lots of reasons to publicize, as @carriealee.bsky.social wrote @warontherocks.bsky.social. Still, memory-holed. warontherocks.com/warning-orde...

The notion of a U.S. national interest is entirely alien to trump. He only cares about his own perceived self-interest. If that conflicts with the interest of Americans as a group, trump's perceived self-interest comes first.

Phillips OBrien@phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 3d ago

The idea that the Russia-Ukraine War and the US-Iran War are merging into one global conflict is perplexing. The US is siding with Russia even as Russians help Iranians kill American soldiers. So the new global war would have to involve the USA helping others kill Americans.

The USA is at the same time a nuclear armed superpower, and one of the most ridiculous states in the history of the world.

to be clear, I am not an expert on treason, but the plain language of the Constitution ""giving [the enemy] aid and comfort" seems to fit

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

Obviously, trump has committed many impeachable offenses, but suggesting he would not help defend a US state and taking the enemy's side against that US state is a rather big one. Is this giving aid and comfort to the enemy? seems to be in that vein, at the least

Darin Self@darinself.com · 5d ago

So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity

We should not accept a president who persists in laundering his paranoid delusions in public And members of Congress willing to go along with those paranoid delusions are abdicating their oaths and should resign

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

THINGS ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS WHEN THEY HAVE UNEXPRESSED THOUGHTS - infants - cocker spaniels - your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time THINGS NOT ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS - people who can launch nuclear weaponry

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

To be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...

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 isn't just a glib remark by Gov. Walz--trump really has gone to war with U.S. cities and states (including in MN) that he views as enemy territory: www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-d...

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities

Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president

theunpopulist.net

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d ago

America First.