A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

Just read "Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost" by @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social and loved it! I may be decades older than the target audience, but anyone who appreciates comics will be taken by his design sense and visual storytelling skills. Now I've got to find the rest of the series!

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

theatlantic.com

It is funny that this person thinks “immigrants defended the union while native born whites sought to destroy it in the name of slavery” is an argument against immigrants being Americans. This is precisely the point, nothing about being born here makes you better bsky.app/profile/aphc...

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

Claude I need a perfect quote by Trump that show's his inability to understand basic concepts. Claude:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "I'd like to see tariffs on Iran"

The Haley Stevens ads that show up in my mailbox are all ad hominem attacks. Abdul El-Sayed's are about policy.

The Democratic Establishment Is Running Scared in Michigan

The Senate primary could be a window into what the 2028 presidential contest will be like—vicious, endless, with the establishment candidates conspicuously avoiding policy.

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"Studies demonstrate that misinformation continues to influence a subject’s memory, inferences, and decision-making processes even after they have explicitly acknowledged and accepted a factual correction or retraction." The lies work.

John Dickerson@jdickerson.bsky.social · last wk.

The questions, President Trump labels as stupid are almost always the ones that simply ask him to explain a position, but which he cannot www.johndickerson.com/p/presidenti...

Cannot get over how electable just drifting away from a constituent who asked you a challenging question makes you.

The pattern is unmistakable: *Nobody died from USAID cuts. *Nobody killed by ICE is innocent. *No Muslim in the UK can escape the charge of being a rapist or a murderer. *No Somali in Minnesota is there legitimately by definition. And so on: newrepublic.com/article/2135...

From @gregsargent.bsky.social + @polphilpod.bsky.social: In his explosive interview with The Economist, Elon Musk inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism. trib.al/q2TKEmu

The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids

In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.

trib.al

Here's what the mainstream Dem candidate here in Michigan, running on her supposed electability, is saying about her primary opponent, Abdul El-Sayed.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.

The Stevens campaign's whole insistence that she's more of a Michigander than AES is clearly just racism, especially since the two of them were literally born in the same city.

A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.

Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race

Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.

ms.now

Nope. No, you haven’t.

This is just shameful.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2w ago

FFS 🤦‍♂️ The Pentagon removed the names of 4 servicemembers who died in Jordan from their official list of casualties. They explain that this is because "their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...

I don't get how some people look at this always poised and articulate politician and dismiss her as a lightweight. (Well, I guess I can think of reasons that have to do with them and not her. )

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

AOC: I think when I make decisions about my life, they aren't just rooted in polls. They're rooted in what people need, what is best for the country and what is appropriate for the moment… and I think that right now, the most important thing before the country is for Democrats to win the midterms

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

"There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades actually, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and actually the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them," said @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu.

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

n.pr

Whoopsie daisy. 🤣😂🤣😂

Dang, 220 million voter files stolen by China starting in 2020? Who was president back then, it sounds like he must have sucked ass

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

we really need to go back to calling these people weirdos

Matthew Gault@mjgault.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hegseth announced they're gonna start screening for T and administering testosterone treatment for warriors found wanting

This account is horrifying. Thanks to the Press Herald for this coverage. www.pressherald.com/2026/07/13/b...

Biddeford witness saw gunshot victim bleeding from head

One resident who saw the shooting said he heard the man who died say 'I tried to stop.'

pressherald.com

Susan Collins is in charge of ICE's budget and ICE just murdered someone in Maine and it would be quite helpful if there were a Dem Senate candidate to point that out

I would like the White House to engage in international conflict with a more sophisticated strategy, greater self-control, and a closer connection to factual reality than my 7-year-old has when trying to get extra screentime. I don't think that's too much to ask.

Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.

This is a really good explainer about the mortality estimates around USAID. One big point is that dismantling USAID also dismantled one of the main sources of mortality data in some of these regions. Early indicators of mortality are very worrying.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

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