Me: hey Tidal can you shuffle my lifting playlist Tidal: sure, how about I play all of your Jeezy songs back to back to back
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You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...
The story: Trump-Backed Republican Loses to Little-Known Rival Who Had Suspended His Bid www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Trump-Backed Michigan Candidate Loses Primary to Rival Who Suspended His Campaign
Without running a single ad or filing a campaign finance report, Tom Smith, who had suspended his bid, soundly defeated Amir Hassan, a Navy veteran backed by President Trump.
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Oh my god its real, I am losing my fucking mind. futurism.com/health-medic...
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.
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Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 9h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Assume that anyone trying to drive a wedge between Democrats after the Michigan primary is a Republican op and act accordingly. Both Haley and Abdul are coming together to beat Rogers because they know a Democratic Senate majority is more important than factionalism, we need to do the same
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Turns out voters don't like being bombarded with super PAC ads every time they turn on the TV! We might be entering an era where tens of millions of dollars in outside money is a liability more than an asset
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 15h agoDr. Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary despite being massively outspent. Outside groups spent roughly $70 million backing his opponent, compared with about $3 million supporting El-Sayed.
Gonna keep beating this like a drum: prediction markets are the most dangerous, societally detrimental financial instrument ever introduced and if we don’t do something about them right now it’s going to cause far more destruction than you can imagine.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · yesterdayThese betting markets sites are so socially corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states
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.
NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Despicable! Someone cut down Peter Thiel’s Flock camera scanning the license plate of every car that enters the park. I bet the vandals used a Sawzall with a $30 diamond tipped blade, and that the good-for-nothing brigands even did it while keeping their phone at home so they couldn’t be tracked
Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoOne more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Love how Politico Playbook newsletters are always like “WHY PROGRESSIVES ARE COOKED. Presented by Lockheed Martin”
I'll be talking to Sen. Wyden about this tomorrow at 1:15 PM ET! Watch live at RawAmerica.com
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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Mullin's being as brutal as possible in implementing Trump's mass deportation agenda. But his admission that some immigrants play a productive role in society has provoked an outcry in MAGA ranks, where portraying immigrants as anything other than a noxious drain on the society is impermissible.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoDon't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Just cancelled almost $40 worth of monthly subscriptions, feels good as hell
"...it neatly exposes MAGA’s real position: Mass deportations must be carried out even if they hurt the economy." If you force MAGA to choose between the economy and white supremacy, they're choosing the latter every single damn time, and they'll somehow still get portrayed as "pocketbook voters."
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoMAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Tidal playing a very dangerous game by increasing their price to $15 a month while Spotify is still $13. Spotify is an abjectly evil company but Tidal's product is vastly inferior. They're also now allowing AI "music" on their platform (but you can opt out! Oh boy!) so theyre slowly becoming Spotify
This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d agoHowever horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
When I was small, my father held a knife to my mom’s throat as I screamed and scratched at his legs. Later she made dinner, because refusing to do so would have been worse. That was a few days before we left in the night, her bleeding, me silent. It was the worst night of my life. And the best.
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. 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?"
There are few things more satisfying than coming back in the endgame to win by checkmate, especially against an opponent who plays scholar’s mate (which is for mark-ass busters). I had absolutely no reason to win this and was cooked just 5 moves in. All it takes is one blunder from your opponent!
