The mayor of Arlington Jim Ross is now on stage. He says he is an independent but Talarico can bring parties together. He says he’s excited to support a candidate like Talarico because he’s “tired of criminals running for office.”
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The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoTrump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."
Supporters of Arkansas direct democracy effort file suit over rejection of ballot measure petitions arkansasadvocate.com/2026/08/05/s...
Supporters of Arkansas direct democracy effort file suit over rejection of ballot measure petitions | Arkansas Advocate
Seven petitioners argue that rejecting all signatures because of non-material changes to the petitions infringes on Arkansans’ constitutional rights.
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Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
good reminder that before the counting is over, election results don’t tighten. at no point is anyone trailing. nobody moves closer. they’re just tabulating the polls. it’s a fixed number that just isn’t done yet. to say otherwise is bad journalism but even worse math.
Same as in Arkansas and other states, it’s always the same story: Republicans don’t want to answer to the people or be held accountable to voters.
Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
I get why politicians do this- but it’s frustrating anyway. It does reek of corruption it IS corruption. They aren’t ’spreading the big lie’ they’re LYING. etc
Congresswoman Andrea Salinas@salinas.house.gov · 2d agoTrump is letting Wall Street firms pay up to $100,000 a month for faster access to his Truth Social posts. That includes announcements that move markets. This pay-to-play scheme reeks of corruption. Wealthy traders should not get an advantage over working Americans.
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d agoFLAG: 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.
The manufactured moral panic about “biological men playing women’s sports” is a collective mass hysteria. This is an infinitesimal issue, completely undeserving of a robust debate. It’s essentially in-person voter fraud: A thing we are told to care about that doesn’t happen.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 5d agoSpeaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d agoProsecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job
Only Trump can give us scandal after scandal after scandal that manage to be both outrageous abuse of power and hilariously stupid and inept.
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
This is a massive scandal. Not "should be," but "is."
Ways and Means Committee Democrats@waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · 6d agoEvery day, this Administration unlocks new levels of corruption never thought possible. At a time when families are struggling to stay afloat, they’re being denied jobs and opportunities by their president because of their political views.
Companies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.
GM to launch its own in-vehicle AI system later this year
General Motors plans to launch a proprietary in-vehicle artificial intelligence system that's better tailored for its customers later this year.
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looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
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.
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this is genuinely, entirely insane
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“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...
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · last wk.Trump is getting institutions to delegitimize and weaken themselves. No institution that has made a “deal” appears to be better off now than other comparable institutions. That’s particularly the in higher ed. Here’s hoping that Yale does not follow in Columbia’s footsteps
The message from Republicans is clear. If you want to enrich yourself and your family, to break laws with impunity, to punish your enemies and jail your critics, then the federal government is the place to be. But if you want to help ordinary Americans and try to keep them safe, well, fuck you.
yeah look the default bad Democratic candidate is either 'shitty tweets' or 'boringly careerist' and the default bad Republican candidate is 'serial rapist' or 'literal Nazi'
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.
I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/catg...
Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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The dot over the I is Tuesdays, and also July, and occasionally that point on the Bearimy timeline is the time-moment when nothing never occurs.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last wk.Trump on Iran: “There is a good chance something good can happen. “If it doesn't, then we go back to doing what we were doing two days ago.” Which didn’t work.
ICE is murdering people because the Trump regime wants ICE to murder people. If the regime didn't want ICE to murder people, it would publicly crack down on ICE agents who murder people. But the regime doesn't. Because it wants ICE to murder people.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBASH: Do you know specifically what happened to officers involved in the Texas and Maine shootings? Are they on administrative leave? HOMAN: I don't know specifically. The policy would be to put them on administrative leave B: But as border czar, you don't know for sure if they have been? H: No
How much good could these interviewers do by just laughing in these people’s faces? How much could be saved by them doing so?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoWELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail
GRACE & FAVOR: Private Christian school in Little Rock where Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders sends her kids received $10.4M in taxpayer subsidies last year through her school vouchers scheme, 2nd most among 166 schools that signed up. #arpx #arleg #arnews
Over $60 million flowed to top 10 Arkansas private schools receiving Educational Freedom Accounts last school year | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Just 10 private schools received more than $60 million in Arkansas taxpayer funds in the 2025-26 school year through the state's school choice program, Arkansas Department of Education data shows.
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Starving children at home and abroad is one of the Trump administration's top priorities (beyond enriching Trump and his friends, of course). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed
Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026
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