Darby Shaw

@darbyshaw.bsky.social

🇺🇸 Political Science Geek & Truth-Seeker/Hyper-Analytical (so, an organic Liberal)/Recovering ITProfessional/Parodic Author: “The Trumplican Brief”, “Cult45” & “DeadZone47”/☮️❤️🇺🇦/No 📵 DMs

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

The dumbest man on the planet heard his developers say they were using API to build his new ‘VIP’ insider trading section on top of truth social; and no one around him knows (or is willing to tell him) that API isn’t a name for an application, its a coding method. bbc.com/news/article...

What is Trump Media's Truth API and why is it controversial?

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has set up a paid service to give Wall Street firms access to Truth Social's most influential accounts.

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The dumbest man on the planet heard his developers say they were using API to build his new ‘VIP’ insider trading section on top of truth social; and no one around him knows (or is willing to tell him) that API isn’t a name for an application, its a coding method. bbc.com/news/article...

What is Trump Media's Truth API and why is it controversial?

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) has set up a paid service to give Wall Street firms access to Truth Social's most influential accounts.

bbc.com

Todd Blanche: -pushed bogus investigations into Trump's political foes -masterminded Trump's $1.8B slush fund and IRS immunity deal -oversaw the botched release of the Epstein files and moved Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum security prison He should never be AG.

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Trump would rather see his AG nomination fail than give up his IRS immunity and insurrectionist fund, GDP just came in way below expectations, and the war keeps escalating. Also: UEFA just voted to boycott the World Cup over a Kushner-led plan to privatize it. Your midday update is here:

Thursday Afternoon News Updates: Trump's Bluff Gets Called, the Economy Slows, and the World Cup Might Just Blow Up – 7/30/26

Your Thursday afternoon update is here

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msmagazine.com/2026/07/25/u... “It took until July 7 ‘26 for world’s leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. …adopted unanimously, UNHRC recognized “reproductive violence” specific, systemic gender-based violence.

A Groundbreaking U.N. Resolution Calls Forced Pregnancy What It Is: Reproductive Violence

It took until July 7, 2026, for the world's leading human rights body to call forcing someone to be pregnant—or forcing them not to be—what it is: reproductive violence. In a landmark resolution adopt...

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No science fiction could have prepared us for just how stupid the end of the world can be. "The environment was on the brink of collapse, and so, rather than deal with that, we burned what fuel we had left getting computers to scam each other for money."

…and Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and more are on fire 🔥 Some of that smoke is coming from inside the house/US. Mass flooding & devastating drought year after year - It’s called climate change & there’s no amount of denialism that will change that reality. But, hey you can always just blame Canada.

Blame Canada

ALT: Blame Canada

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Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3w ago

More than 75 people have been rescued in Texas as floodwaters rise, while Canadian wildfire smoke is choking skies across the Midwest and Northeast, including New York, and heat continues to fuel wildfire risk in California.

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!

The residents of Biddeford, Maine are reacting to the killing of a 26-year-old Colombian man by ICE goons today. ICE claims the man tried to "weaponize his vehicle" so they shot and killed him. Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets

After this morning’s fatal ICE shooting, the community has come together to demand justice-NOT only for this latest loss of life, but for the broader pattern of deadly incidents reported nationwide🇺🇸 Hart28.com