Sir Chumlee
@chummychumlee.bsky.social
Crankypants curmudgeonette of the highest order. Dogs, coffee, beer, and jammies. Not necessarily in that order. Fuck Trump with a cactus, and I AM NOT A BOT. Also: NO DM; Crypto; $$fishing; OnlyFans; and PORN
Troy Jackson: Susan Collins votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time, and she’s just not working for everyday Mainers. Most of the people across Maine know that now and have watched her over the years be a puppet for people like Donald Trump and billionaires.
"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...
USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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INBOX: “Tennessee board awarded a 50-year, multi-BILLION dollar contract to DriveTN, a consortium led by companies based in Australia/Spain/France, to build & operate toll lanes on I-24 between Nashville & Murfreesboro… the companies have faced accusations of price-gouging & financial distress…”
“You all are the only ones who are distracted” 🔥 @angieforfl.bsky.social
Some people are wired to deal with the MAGA-era of politics, others are clearly not. The good news is that, despite their endless TV invites from networks that love titles and nostalgia, most Democrats have finally stopped listening to them.
“.. its latest move to blunt fuel costs and supply concerns stoked by the war in Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Normally when a sitting president has historically low approval ratings heading into midterms, candidates from his party in swing districts and states distance themselves from him during their campaigns. But Trump does not permit that, so they are stuck doubling down on failure.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy turned his family vacation into a six-part taxpayer-funded YouTube travel show on the government’s channel. Nobody’s watching.
Nobody’s Watching Sean Duffy’s YouTube Travel Show
Views are abysmal and comments have been turned off.
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The ballroom “.. is expected to be wrapped by August 2028, according to Fisher. By then, Mr. Trump will have five months left in his term.” @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-k...
FOX BUSINESS: How do you think the conflict in Iran is going to affect the midterms? SEN. JIM BANKS: I give President Trump so much credit. Some things are more important than elections FOX: But the election *is* coming
🤦 Bessent's media tour was a disaster 🤦 "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. We can grow our way out of that" "After the deportations that we've seen and the closing of the border, we don't need to produce as many jobs" Bessent's spin of bad data was pathetic. Here's a supercut:
NEW: Federal judge has ordered Trump Administration to respond by Sept 3 to the new legal challenge from ABC Television, which seeks a temporary restraining order against the FCC's onerous review of ABC TV stations Probe was launched amid Trump complaints about ABC
How ruthless are you willing to be to ensure that Democrats regain the majority in November? And what happens when the Democrats finally have the power again? @briantylercohen.bsky.social’s new book, The Day After, tackles these questions and more: youtu.be/HGS91u924kg?...
Trump SCRAMBLES as MIDTERM Plan COLLAPSES and Dems STRIKE BACK!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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"Politicians from both parties and judges should be prepared to push back forcefully against any attempt Trump and his allies make to interfere with the 2026 elections. If he succeeds in perverting the results, he will be emboldened to take similar steps in 2028..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Trump’s Election Interference Is Eroding American Democracy
The president is prioritizing his own interests over the national interest.
nytimes.com
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. He’s in a situation that he can’t get out of — and unlike so many other things that Trump has gotten himself into, he cannot get bailed out.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 444. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...
Today in Politics, Bulletin 444. 8/20/26
… Nobody is watching Sean Duffy’s Great American Road Trip show, which he filmed with his family over the course of 7 months while serving as Transportation Secretary.
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I’d say she can weigh in on anything she wants but at the risk of coming off as vapid, craven and frivolous. Which in a paradoxical way amounts to some of her most accurate reporting
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3h agoA reporter who covers the White House shouldn’t be weighing in on a matter like this. This isn’t even about Scott Jennings, it doesn’t matter which party is in control. And she’s not doing the thing where she’s talking about how objectively skilled someone is. It’s like a personal endorsement!
JD Vance on Iran: "We have shown an ability to do something amazing" 🙃
Overlooked warning signs at Shoosmith are part of a national pattern. Records from 100 landfills in 20 states show that when temperatures and other key indicators surpass normal thresholds, operators and regulators often don’t intervene to protect the public. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Warning Signs Are Flashing at America’s Overheating Landfills
Hot waste piles can become environmental disasters. A Bloomberg Businessweek analysis finds that many landfill operators and regulators aren’t intervening at the level experts say is needed.
bloomberg.com
"The professor worried about how to discuss Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake for, among other reasons, cross-dressing. "He removed two weeks of study about Vikings. He said Viking mythological poems often featured gender-changing gods like Loki and Odin..." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
nytimes.com
(CNN) - The US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during .. Pearl Harbor .. .. there have been internal conversation about renaming it to honor Trump.” @halbritz.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...
this is gonna to test some assumptions. money is a big big factor when you're in the 50-50, 60-40, maybe even in 70-30 issue range. As a political issue, AI is at like 95% to 5%. how that plays out isn't totally clear. It also depends on a lot on the spenders' expectations.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h ago"U.S. companies have spent an unprecedented $517 million on the 2026 U.S. House and Senate races in the 15 months through the end of the first quarter, exceeding the record $461 million in corporate spending over two years for the 2024 elections..."
