This is such an exciting day for Michigan Democrats. Abdul can, and will defeat Rogers in November, and here is why. Abdul stands for us. Abdul is from Michigan. Abdul will fight for the things that will help Michiganders in the US Senate.

CNN@cnn.com · 14h ago

Abdul El-Sayed will win the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Michigan, CNN's Decision Desk projects, handing progressives a major win in a critical battleground primary. He defeats Rep. Haley Stevens. https://cnn.it/4w6wmLu

Congratulations to @jocelynbenson.bsky.social, the person who protected the vote of Michiganders and got rid of long lines to get your license plate tags renewed. She will be a wonderful Governor, and needs your vote in November! Jocelyn will work for us and I can't wait until she is our Governor!!

Michiganders, this is a primary that will determine the direction of the Democratic Party nationally. I don't pretend to know what the right answer is, but I know what I want to be, so I voted accordingly. I hope everyone jumps in on this one so all voices can be heard, and all of our votes counted.

Michigan House Democrats@mihousedems.bsky.social · 2d ago

Every voice matters. Every vote counts. Check your voter registration, make a plan and find out where you cast your ballot by 8 p.m. local time today at mi.gov/vote.

"Billionaires spend to be repaid. Everyone else just votes. The Roberts Court has made sure one’s wealth counts more than another’s vote" - Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justice Todd Eddins

A Blistering Critique of the Roberts Court, From Hawaii’s Supreme Court

In an extraordinary opinion, the state justices accuse the SCOTUS majority of undermining democracy.

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Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws

‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention

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McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

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Unindicted criminal Eric Trump sold 49 percent of the family crypto company to the UAE intelligence chief, then sold tokens to Americans for twelve months without naming the buyer. Four New York felony statutes fit. Bragg and James have the documents and have charged this family twice already.

Eric Trump Just Publicly Engaged in Another $250 Million of Money Laundering. Why Isn’t New York Charging Him?

Six months of public documents, four New York felony statutes, and the two prosecutors best positioned to act.

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Here we go again with this corporate dem "Hey, at least we're not Trump!" Shit. That's it, Hakeem. Keep doing what you guys did in 2024. Offer the bare minimum & no actual plan to inform us of how you'll achieve it. Learn nothing.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Jeffries: "They have nothing to run on. We're going to run on fighting for an affordable America."

WHOA!! Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) just STRUCK a person asking him a simple question about rural hospital closures. Reporter: Do you still think rural hospital closures are a myth? Nunn: I said I'm with a constituent. You should protect their privacy! *SMACK*

I feel like I’ve heard this before.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 2w ago

Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...

Arvell Reese is going to be a demon on the field.

Ed Valentine@edvalentine.bsky.social · 2w ago

With #NYGiants rookies reporting for training camp on Thursday, here is one thing each of the team's six draft picks needs to show this summer. www.bigblueview.com/new-york-gia...

Just wondering how many reports on this subject US journalists plan to publish without creating a standard inset for each explaining that the man Trump is trying to get nukes to is his business partner through Trump Org Saudi business projects Almost feels like that should be in every headline, no?

Reuters@reuters.com · 2w ago

US says it reaches nuclear power deal with Saudi Arabia reut.rs/4fhCqM3

This NDAA hands over part of US military to Netanyahu AND attaches Trump’s fascist “SAVE Act” voter suppression bill. 6 Republicans voted with Democrats. If Hakeem Jeffries had kept the Dem caucus united, the bill would’ve failed. Indefensible. 2/2

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

As energy prices skyrocket, Trump and the GOP pull back on energy efficiency and fuel saving measures… To give more money to his billionaire buddies in oil and coal. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/c...

The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency

The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.

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"When Trump wanted to merge US and Russian cybertechnology in 2017, Congress rightly saw it as a national security threat and rejected it. But when Israel wants a more dangerous military merger, most of Congress abides." On Section 224: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/stop-colla...

Stop, collaborator, and listen!

On stolen sovereignty and Americans fighting back.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

lol YES

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Texas Republicans doing recruitment for us.

eliminating public transportation systems forced most American families to buy a second car. that was a government decision made for you before you were born.

Peter Norton@norton.bsky.social · 2w ago

Car dependency was not a choice. It was and is the deprivation of choice.

‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires

‘The Kardashian era is over’: TikTok’s ‘povvo king’ takes on the billionaires

Shabaz Ali stormed to TikTok fame mocking the designer ice cubes of the privileged. Now he’s on the BBC stoking revolt against the superrich

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Trump grabbing people's trophies and grinning like an idiot like he won the damn things is some sort of really deeply rooted fucked up shit.

This is what Trump wants for the United States. Never, ever vote for a Republican. They brought this pox on us. No Republican serving Trump in office today can be trusted to defend democracy.

CNN@cnn.com · 2w ago

Nicaragua’s long-serving president Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections, eliminating the possibility of an electoral challenge when his term ends next year and further entrenching the rule he shares with his wife. https://cnn.it/3Tcujb4

A very thin membrane separates an alternate universe where collectively surviving a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic made our society more compassionate and empathetic and our current one, where the most obnoxious and ignorant assholes of all time got a thousand times louder and more deranged

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fox host Brian Kilmeade dismissed the advice of the network’s own senior medical analyst, Dr. Marc Siegle, by saying there is “not a chance” he will wear a KN95 mask.

The FDA apologizing for a “false positive” after Taylor Farms went to talk to the WH doesn’t erase the fact that nearly ~7,000 cases of cyclosporiasis have been confirmed. Trying to blame Mexico also doesn’t remove the responsibility a corp. has for the product it profits from

Yep. @polphilpod.bsky.social and I made this point in this essay on Elon Musk's real fascist worldview, which all of you should read if you haven't yet, because (we immodestly insist) it breaks new ground. Also see the interview with one of the authors of "Muskism." newrepublic.com/article/2119...

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3w ago

You don't engage in that kind of ethnic cleansing through peaceful and lawful individuated assessments. If you even aspire to that level of population transfer, you expect things like mass detention facilities and the transformation of ICE into a terrorist paramilitary.

Met him, twice. Heard him speak 4x. He is the real deal, the right choice. What sealed it for me was meeting his staff and communicating with them for over a year. This is the right choice for Michigan.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

El-Sayed: Shouldn't be this hard to pay your taxes and know that that money is going to be spent on you rather than to drop bombs on somebody else and their kids

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself. Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object. How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

If Barack Obama was forced to show his birth certificate, shouldn’t Mitch McConnell have to show proof of life?

Come on hamberders!

If you didn't vote Dem, you helped make this:@airbagmoments.bsky.social · 3w ago

A friend just got an MRI at Walter Reed and is now trapped there because Cheeto Nero has been brought in again so they're locked down. Is today the day?

Former Rep Cori Bush faces millions in AIPAC $$. Her opponent is a former republican campaign manager who ran as a democrat with $13M from AIPAC😐 Her primary is August 4❤️ Let’s help her win: Sign up to phone bank & post this link to ask people to sign up with you✊🏽 www.mobilize.us/coribush1/

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The air quality in Michigan is the worst in the world right now. How did we get here?