The “liberal media,” my friends.

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 22h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

might just put this in an ad

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h ago

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

This is your brain: 🧠 This is your brain on X: 🍳

Unfathomable

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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

rawstory.com

Since we’re in another idiotic COVID spin cycle, some data: only about a quarter of people at the time thought schools were being too aggressive in trying to stop the plague. The people screaming about it in the media were very much not representative.

Dan Ancona@danancona.bsky.social · 2y ago

Helpful to keep in mind where the public was actually at on COVID as it was wrapping up. Almost 2:1 majorities were either mostly happy with how their schools handled it, or thought they were too lax. 67-27. (Data for Progress for @waytowinus.bsky.social, battleground LVs from June-ish 2022)

I keep arguing that Dem leadership (Schumer, Jeffries, etc.) are stuck in the 90s, as are many of the high profile Dem consultants and advisors. They think most voters are de facto moderate. This is why their thinking is outdated:

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

We find that the benefits of moderation found in earlier eras (~1980s-2000s) are gone. Why? Many likely explanations.

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

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.

Demanding to examine a child's genitals for them to play sports is fucking insane

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An 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

I once had a longtime criminal defense attorney tell me he felt guilty people often said “there’s no way this could have happened because of X, Y and Z,” instead of ”this did not happen because I did not do it.”

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 post-2024 clarity about Elon and his spending, and ignoring the mods who keep suggesting they court him, is part of why Dems are winning. This approach worked very well in WI.

Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3d ago

My response to Elon Musk.

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

TL Cleanser ▶️ This maybe my best video yet. 😅 #worlddogsurfingchampionships #pacifica

Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d ago

What's the difference between a landlord who sneaks into your apartment to rifle through your underwear drawer and an AG who sues for your abortion records? The state health director keeping a spreadsheet of women’s periods isn’t any less creepy than the abusive ex who still tracks your location.

Mic drop after mic drop in this piece by @davidoatkins.bsky.social, who has managed to convince me that Martin really is walking the walk on reform. Weak on comms and management? Yup. But also real changes that piss off all the right people. Thus, hit pieces. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/07/31/t...

The Case for the DNC’s Ken Martin. Really.

Martin is being excoriated, but he’s taking on the consultant class, building a strong grassroots operation, and raising tons of money.

washingtonmonthly.com

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

eenews.net

this is genuinely, entirely insane

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

"Are they fearful of the socialists’ plans to ensure all Americans have health care and stop genocide, or are they not horrified by what Trump has done. Here’s what scares me: that Allen and VandeHei would say “yes” to both," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2136...

The New Red Scare Is Here—and It’s Dumber Than Ever

These Beltway pundits desperately want us to believe that there’s an equivalent of Trumpism on the left.

newrepublic.com

one thing i'll note here is that we are running US refineries absolutely flat out - 97.5% utilization at most recent read - and we are holding ~steady in the [very low!] inventories of diesel [distillate] and gasoline. one problem - an accident, malfunction, whatever - and that doesn't hold anymore

Rory Johnston@roryjohnston.bsky.social · last wk.

US commercial petroleum stocks fell by 3.7 MMbbl last week, with product builds (especially propane) offsetting a larger 7.2 MMbbl draw in commercial crude stocks. Total crude stocks stocks fell by 11 MMbbl including a 3.8 MMbbl SPR draw. Crude and gasoline precariously low.

It's genuinely insane that it's a mainstream belief that the problem with COVID was that we did *too much* to address it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

That 65% Trump corruption doesn't matter from Rs... whew.

Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · last wk.

Also in our new poll, some data on Trump's legacy projects and personal earnings. Unsurprisingly, these are unpopular with the public, but they're also not doing much to rally his base. www.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...

Predatory capitalism has been running pretty much unchecked my entire adult life. Decades. We're going to need to try a bunch of things to start to slow this massive flywheel down and start spinning it in the direction of more equity. Another era of bold and persistent experimentation. Even further:

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.

Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.

everybody for forty years: get rid of these stupid bus things donald trump: what this place needs is some fake gold leaf detailing

If you are concerned about this please listen to Charting the Way Forward, it’s literally the entire point!!

Alexander Williams@floatinginwaves.bsky.social · last wk.

I am throwing stones in my glass house but it’s amazing how much online politics coverage seems to involve the same people going on each other’s podcasts and quoting each other’s Substacks rather than going outside and talking to people.