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David Amerland

@davidamerland.com

He/Him. My random thoughts and targeted writing may help you improve your life or your business. Sometimes maybe both.

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DevinCow@devincow.bsky.social · 6h ago

Jeff Flake is a decent person. The old kind of Republican. He left the Senate because he wouldn’t do what so many have done, support Trump’s nonsense.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club@lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 6h ago

Former Republican Senator Jeff Flake just endorsed Democrat Jon Ossoff. Flake says he is still a conservative Republican, but character matters more than party. Flake warns Mike Collins would be a rubber stamp for Donald Trump. #GASen #CharacterMatters

Former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake Endorses Sen. Jon Ossoff • August 5, 2026 & Congress, Republicans
VoteVets@votevets.org · 7h ago

Donald Trump threatens massive airstrikes against Iran. Then he backs down. That’s not strategy. That’s weakness.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h ago

Albert Speer would be so proud! The Times takes us on an exclusive video tour of Washington remade in the image of Donald Trump. It furnishes a perfect demonstration of the psychopathology of fascist architectural design. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Inside Trump’s multimillion-dollar DC makeover — a visual guide

The president has grand designs for Washington, including a White House ballroom, independence arch and Dulles airport redesign. How much does it cost?

thetimes.com

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h ago

Isn't it weird how the reaction to an Iran-Oman deal is much more "yay, peace, the economy will be fine from now on," and little-to-no "Iran effectively declared victory, utterly humiliating Donald Trump, so he'll probably end up bombing again, like last time"? Well, it's weird to me.

💙 Mystic 💙@mistady.bsky.social · 6h ago

Listening to David Cay Johnston who just said: "This is Donald Trump's fantasy world. Donald Trump creates his own reality. He just makes stuff up!" No kidding! And he seems to have become worse as he's aged.

Sen. Cory Booker@booker.senate.gov · 6h ago

Instead of meeting with Epstein survivors, what did Todd Blanche do? He rushed to Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison cell, and then she got transferred to a cushier prison camp. This is not justice. It is corruption of a system meant to protect the most vulnerable.

Rewire News Group@rewirenewsgroup.com · 6h ago

1. Now-deleted audio shows that Acting AG Todd Blanche privately told faith leaders the DOJ is working to make the 2022 Dobbs decision, which revoked federal abortion protections, “permanent in every single state.” Blanche also suggested a crackdown on the mailing of abortion pills.🧵

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 6h ago

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 9h ago

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…

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Hazel@hackneyhaz.bsky.social · 15h ago

Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15h ago

So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.

Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate By Will Meakin-Durrant Kemi Badenoch has said her party "believes in second chances". , after the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate. Joshua Bonehill-Paine posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward. Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment. He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men". He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London. Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis. "Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism. "Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously. "And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."
Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 15h ago

Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 23h ago

Jessica was kind enough to offer to send me a copy of her new book. I’ve been clipping her for the past couple of years, and I can’t wait to read it 🙏