But don't call them fascists

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 1h ago

The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Its odd. US press and elites are acting like the Iran war is all but over but it still seems like a regional war heating up.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 1h ago

LEADER OF THE YEMENI REVOLUTION ORDERS GENERAL MOBILIZATION. SANA'A PREPARES FOR A FULL-SCALE CONFRONTATION WITH SAUDI ARABIA - TASNIM

But this is what happened a month ago, and the hawks in the GOP went ballistic on him so he launched new attacks. We're just in that part of the cycle again.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h ago

as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Yeah man, run on the coattails of an extremely unpopular lame-duck president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Lindell: "I know a guy. I have an advantage over everyone up here. I can call up the president!"

The reason this nonsense is being reported today is that SpaceX has a bunch of stock being unlocked for sale tomorrow, and the price has been...cratering

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

When there are elites who fear someone like Mamdani for his "socialism" its far more likely they disdain that he actually enforces institutional rule. Elite impunity and the rule of law cannot co-exist.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h 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.

Baseball is hard

Mike Petriello@mikepetriello.bsky.social · 5h ago

The Dodgers are without question the most talented team and most likely to win the World Series Also, over last 30 days, they have 5th-worst bullpen ERA (5.16), are 20th in runs scored, & have maybe the weakest right-now C situation Both things are true, it's why baseball rules

We were lucky if a car made it 100k miles 30 years ago. Losing a Toyota at 200k is shockingly premature

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 15h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

People in deep red states hate the GOP's initiatives

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 17h ago

The AP hasn't called either contest yet, but Missouri's Amendment 4 is losing 82-18 statewide and failing in every county with 10% of votes reporting so far. Kansas' Amendment 1 is losing 71-29 and getting crushed in numerous Trump counties with 26% of votes in. These look over

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

Bring back posting vague passive aggressive lyrics to signal your mental state

the final pearl@pearlsnapped.bsky.social · 20h ago

need AIM clones to have a resurgence so i can must vague post elvis costello lyrics as an away message

MySpace is coming back? Watchout Bluesky, they're coming for the Elder Millennials

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

The U.S. Constitution begs to differ.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Trump was ranting yesterday about "fake polls" and all of a sudden the treasury secretary is saying a deal is imminent, sending oil prices tumbling despite no material change in global conditions. Whose Line Is It Anyway's rules make more sense than global oil markets at this point

Whose Line Is It Anyway: Where Everything Is Made Up

ALT: Whose Line Is It Anyway: Where Everything Is Made Up

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Guys, a permanent deal is imminent in which Trump will get everything he wants just like the past 30 permanent deals that lasted a few days and ended with more bombing

Look, they're not gonna stop doing it until it stops working

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · yesterday

Trump's about used up his power to shift markets with his lies, so now Bessant's relatively fresh reputation is on tap for strip mining

"Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues." NYTimes: We do not understand the very basics of causality

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Time for another one of those cognitive test for him to ace.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump forgets the word for video: "We have photographs, or tapes... Like, moving cameras, right?"

If this is throwing Trump under the bus he's probably fine with it. I'm sure he's making a killing with insider trading

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d ago

CBS reports US officials telling them there are no new negotiations planned with Iran despite what Trump is publicly claiming. We seem to be reaching the point where some in the administration are considering throwing Trump under the bus.

If you're a baseball player and you don't think Babe Ruth is real you shouldn't be allowed to be a baseball player.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2d ago

The whole Mariners' pen believes Babe Ruth didn't exist. Kinda want all MLB players to believe this and make the owners agree to it in next CBA

Is it just me or has Microsoft limited the size of attachments so you now have to move things into OneDrive and share via a link?

So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

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.

This does matter. In my daily life I encounter people who say "Well I'm not too worried because he's about to make a deal with Iran."

Paul Rieckhoff@rieckhoff.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can the American media PLEASE stop falling for these constant head fakes by Trump and his team!?!? Every few days they say they have a deal— for the last 5 months. Just like he’s been saying about Putin and Russia.

heard an interview recently with an anonmyous wall street bro who said his employer would not subscribe to the president's truth social insider trading scheme because they did not want to go to prison when the rule of law returns

You’d have to be a fool and/or desperate to get to yes to accept this, so it’ll probably be enough to get him confirmed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Blanche Gives G.O.P. Senators Written Assurances on Trump’s I.R.S. Deal

Todd Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general has been held up over concerns about a planned $1.8 billion fund for Trump allies and the president’s immunity from tax scrutiny.

nytimes.com

Rig count (in white) really didn’t keep pace with oil prices (orange.) (via RBAdvisers)

That pretty much sums it up.

Surely this will have zero long term consequences

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d ago

You almost have to hand it to Trump at this point. He’s figured out how to manipulate world markets by doing nothing more than tweeting bullshit 24/7.