This is an amazing story about journalistic cowardice at the Bulwark. So many receipts.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 2h ago

The Democratic Party has let a consulting industry exploit elderly donors in its name, wreck its reputation and finances in the process, and walk away rich whether the party wins or loses. When a mirror is held up, the instinct is to break the glass rather than look. On why the press looks away:

At this point there is no other interpretation than that Democrats are trying to sink Abdul's candidacy

In this Golden Age for corporate impunity, the GOP is pushing state-level legislation that would strip people of the right to sue corporations — from oil companies to data center developers to chemical manufacturers. @drilledmedia.bsky.social drilled.media/news/new-zea...

Just saw Facebook antivaxxers speculating that 80-year-old Dolly Parton’s death was hastened by the COVID vaccine she helped fund the development of and received—half a decade ago—and am thinking about how the past decade spent catering to these people has been nothing but a waste of time.

having Alex Pretti as your pfp while telling people they HAVE to vote for democrats is one of the most tone deaf behaviors I have seen on this website

So Elk River. A place I only know for traffic jams going to lakes & ruby-red politics. How red? Gun-toting popinjay Eric Lucero is the state senator. Walter Hudson reps the next-door house district. Big Lake. Otsego. Albertville. If you see a Strib letter from there, you cringe. A DFL dead zone. 1/

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 19h ago

Words I never thought I’d type: had an inspiring experience in Elk River. Details tomorrow.

congratulations sophie cunningham on protecting womens sports

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · yesterday

Fox host: WNBA players are “proving that women shouldn't have a league. It's too dramatic.”

After new polling shows Democrats in all six of the first 2028 primary states overwhelmingly in support of sanctioning & cutting weapons to Israel, Hakeem Jeffries elevates one of the most pro-Israel Democrats in Congress to lead the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee:

Look at my progressive state, dawg.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bolts reported in February that Massachusetts is only blue state where a state agency has a 287(g) contract with ICE. Massachusetts passed a new law this summer that bans 287g contracts in the state... but the law exempts the one agency anywhere in Massachusetts that actually had such an agency.

I'm sorry but how the fuck are we NOT supposed to conclude an AIPAC memo went out.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · yesterday

They’re calling it the most coordinated fake outrage campaign ever

Texans still have time to check if they’re registered to vote before the October 5 deadline. Here’s how. www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-n...

Can't get the governor to back condo defect reforms or other housing priorities, but this? No problem! Profiles in courage that are sure to reflect well in 2028.

Unfortunately their pivot to doing quiet ethnic cleansing instead of having bozo agents murder people in the streets has worked and there has been basically zero coverage lately of any of this and all those whose lives are being ruined

ICE arrests jumped to nearly 50,000 in July, the highest monthly total of Trump’s second term

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 50,000 people in July. That marks the highest single-month total during the second Trump administration.

apnews.com

add two more to RFK's death toll abcnews.com/Health/2-peo...

2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania

Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday.

abcnews.com

The wages of austerity and Brexit. A Lost Two Decades.

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every time I update this graph it still makes my jaw drop

It's beyond insane that every major paper and news org just let's these pieces of shit lie with every breath they can muster. This is no different than the Comet Pizza basement horseshit only this time it's coming from the Secretary of Education.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Linda McMahon: "After the Biden administration allowed schools to secretly transition students without parents' knowledge, President Trump is defending parental rights like never before"

Happening now: A crowd is gathering outside a Target parking lot off 33rd and Damen on Chicago's south side, in reaponse to ICE agents who appear to have been involved with some kind of car collision earlier today. Press, elected officials also on scene.

This is Vance’s second trip to Maine to campaign for Susan Collins. And yet, both times Collins was “unable to attend” his events. I wonder why Susan Collins won’t get on a stage with Trump or Vance in Maine?

Before Tucker's death, his mother, Katie, took him to the doctor 25+ times, but doctors reassured her there was nothing wrong. When he was just over 2 years old, he had a seizure and died. Katie was convicted of shaking him to death and sentenced to life in prison. truthout.org/articles/sha...

Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Largely Debunked. Courts Are Still Catching Up.

Katie Smith, whose murder conviction was based on what’s increasingly seen as junk science, is fighting for her freedom.

truthout.org

One thing Ossoff is showing that you can hold pretty normie Dem positions but still campaign like you can read the room and understand the high stakes of this election. People are incredulous and angry at what’s happening, maybe common ground is a necessity later but nobody wants to hear that now.

kelly says “getting people back in the parks” will help a ton in this area nice to see MPD acknowledge the value of parks in crime prevention! let’s fully fund our parks then, mayor frey!

the other representative of business owners in the area is jim rubin of mint properties why is it only 2 landlords that are speaking for the business owners here? tons of immigrant owned restaurants etc

Salt river horses removal is canceled and protected until 2028. VOTE BLUE

there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Wow. There are more names in support of Cofnas here! More than 300 academics defending the conduct of a gutter racist. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...

Todd Blanche has done everything in his power to shut down the State of New Mexico's special investigation into what went down at Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County. Why is that? Here's Epstein inviting Mark Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel to Zorro Ranch for gatherings that include "world leaders, quantum

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

Steven Pinker signed this crap. So did academics at Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Brown, Georgetown, a number of respected state schools, and both of my alma maters — UT-Austin and Northwestern. What are the chances any of the signatories did the “free speech” dance for pro-Palestine academics?

Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 4d ago

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

Shoutout to the homie yelling “hey Jake why don’t you come over her and lick my asshole” through a megaphone 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Brendan Gutenschwager@bgonthescene.bsky.social · 4d ago

BREAKING: Chaotic scene in Minneapolis as Jake Lang rides in the bed of a pickup truck outside city hall