The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...

UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani

Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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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

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I am also very excited to be speaking at this town hall to highlight all of the YIMBY wins we have accomplished in New York under Zohran and Hochul. Sign up! It’s going to be good!

Jeff Byrnes 🚰 🏙️@thejeffbyrnes.com · 3d ago

I’m speaking at @burhanazeem.bsky.social’s “More Housing is Possible: a National Town Hall” tomorrow evening, sign up here! www.mobilize.us/burhanforsta...

This is the logical extension of the highly-contagious RW brain virus known as: "Anything I Didn't Personally Witness Is a Hoax." Closely related to the equally dangerous contagion "Anything I Personally Witnessed But Failed to Understand Is Also a Hoax," currently dominating ntl discourse on COVID.

Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3d ago

just woke up to the Jays are buying at the deadline and Pete Crow-Armstrong thinks Babe Ruth was made-up

I said this yesterday but I didn’t want it to come true *this* quickly

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

This may dramatically slow down the attacks on science. It also provides a template for how to prevent the federal government from becoming a patronage state. It’s a big deal!

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

Vivek Ramaswamy tells a crowd of young Libertarians in Ohio "The truth of the matter is, people in my generation have already made it. We're gonna be fine." He is then booed off of the stage

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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More footage of the burning Wildberries in Novosemeikino, Samara region, Russia.

WarTranslated (Dmitri)@wartranslated.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Wildberries distribution hub in Novosemeikino, Samara region got hit today. The facility is 178,600 square meters and one of the company's biggest in the Volga region. A Russian flag with "zov" was painted right next to it.

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.

Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 6d ago

@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...

Just continued trajectory of the GOP. 2008 was Palin, 2009-2010 was the tea party, McConnell obstruction, & Southern realignment. 2012 Romney nearly lost the nomination. Why in 2015 I said Trump could win the nomination, & why I think the GOP could become an almost entirely rural & Southern party

TrumpsTaxes@trumpstaxes.com · 4d ago

“We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.” The next generation of young conservatives - those who will be seeking office before long - are insane, true believer extremists. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Rapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.

"The Ukrainian campaign knocked out more than 30 and 45 per cent of Russia’s actual and nominal capacity, respectively," bruh? www.ft.com/content/3990...

How Putin’s refinery dream became Ukraine’s target

Damage to Russian refineries still visible from space months after strikes

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Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.

"Universities like Columbia are not better off for having capitulated last year. They compromised their independence and suffered reputational damage, yet are still subject to [Trump's] arbitrary behavior." Read @ryanenos.bsky.social on need to resist Trump: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe

Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.

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"When I became [WHCA] president, last July, my goal was to restore and normalize the relationship with the White House." You succeeded, to a rotten core. Columbia Journalism Review: www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

This is about 1,000x less important than knowing what Uday, Qusay, & Jared are doing, but it’s still worth knowing. And a nice side-benefit is that calling her little man-boy before Congress would probably put Melania in to a psychotic rage www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How close is the Trump administration to the toxic Tate brothers? Let’s ask the president’s son Barron … | Arwa Mahdawi

The 20-year-old crypto bro likes to keep a low profile. He could still be forced to testify before the House oversight committee, writes Arwa Mahdawi

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Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU&t=599s

Paying NYS, NYC and PHL income taxes maybe makes LeBron the most tax-positive person in America. Watch out, @jdcmedlock.bsky.social !

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.

so much for billionaires fleeing because of zohran

Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

The IOC’s announcement that it is provisionally lifting its ban on Russia, shifted the responsibility to international sports federations to decide on how to proceed. Two IFs, UEFA (European Football) and FIBA (basketball) have announced they are maintaining their bans on Russian teams. (1/12)

Spaceballs: The Extended Universe graphics from yesterday's SDCC panel, reformatted into one poster-sized image

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

this is genuinely so pathetic