Neither faction is dominant, securing a Senate and House majority will rest on voters from both backing candidates of each.

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 17h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

I've come to believe that all the insanity -- not just political insanity, and not just among the fascists -- is due in substantial part to fatalism. Even if they "don't believe" in climate change, they know it's happening and they're freaking the fuck out, often without even realizing it.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h ago

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is re: whether Haley Stevens was the better candidate. There are layers of perversity to this. The inner mind of a reactionary centrist is a barren place.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 18h ago

I'm not sure that she is. But AES is likely going to be a problem for Democrats in other races in a way she won't.

"I feel badly for him."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

Trump's guy is losing to someone who isn't even running anymore because his name is Amir Hassan and though he's an evangelical Christian, MAGAts assume he's Muslim. Who could've seen that coming?

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 15h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

Money is poring in to Kalshi on whether $2 gas will come before or after Trump releases his healthcare plan.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Trump on gas prices: "We're gonna down into the $3s and maybe the $2s pretty soon per gallon"

Man, those Fall of Rome people were pikers.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 16h ago

Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

This is just more of the “war on men.” Never mind that there isn’t anything like a female analogue to this. Quick: name four women of note that behave this way. And these are only the worst of the worst.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16h ago

It's demoralizing living in a nonstop Abuse-a-thon: we've had to learn the sordid details of so many men's abhorrent behavior; I mean this summer has been Graham Platner, Andrew Tate, Jared Leto, Max Miller, plus the horrific L.A. rape-murder of the child by the rapper, to name a few lowlights.

A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

mediaite.com

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Bombshell 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:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Republicans hate everything we were told was good about this country, and they’re willing to kill anyone who tries to make it true.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 22h ago

Sen. Jim Banks refers to American citizens as "the babies of invaders" and compares them to Nazi spies and terrorists

What if this guy actually doesn’t really have his finger on the pulse of the electorate? What if NO old crabby ass white men do?

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 19h ago

I know what’s going to happen in Michigan and I just assume that the Senate is now out of reach

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

the cameras are known to just disappear like that at times, ya know

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Dude’s a literal psychopath.

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 22h ago

So this is going well. I think tomorrow is the last day for the Ohio GOP to replace him on the ballot.

The New York Times knows who he is, too. And yet.

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · yesterday

David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.

"Everything is just data so we can computer it" has broken so many brains I swear

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

The head of the Minnesota Republican Party is questioning whether gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell meets the state residency requirement and is eligible to run for office.

State GOP chair wants to know if Mike Lindell is a Minnesota resident

The party’s leader sent a letter to the secretary of state as the Aug. 11 primary approaches.

bit.ly

New Sentinel-2 satellite imagery reveals the extent of damage caused by large scale Israeli detonations overnight on July 30 into July 31st around UNESCO World Heritage site Beaufort Castle in Lebanon.

I'm starting to just unfollow people, no matter who they are, who put normal-seeming posts from assholes in my feed. It's not a matter of "he's right about some things." Lots of people are sometimes annoying, but not assholes. That's not who I'm talking about. I mean: no tankies, for starters. Jesus

Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

My Christ, that paper sucks so bad now.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · yesterday

Who cares who Ellison voted for? His track record of appeasing Donald Trump speaks for itself including firing Trump critic Stephen Colbert & hiring unqualified Bari Weiss & watching her meddle in editorial content, sideline & fire journalists & wreck 60 Minutes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

I've noticed that a lot of the people who said during Trump I that he wasn't as bad a president as [Andrew Johnson, Hoover, Reagan, Bush II, whomever] or that his administration wasn't the most corrupt aren't saying that anymore, though I still see it now and again.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

propublica.org

Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.