Your Hot Take on last night’s primary is at best lukewarm in comparison with Hot Take In Chief’s

I appreciate this explanation thread about the history of the National Emergency Act. It raises (for me) the broader issue of statutory responses to SCOTUS’s role in enabling norm-shattering, an entire can of worms I didn’t get into.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 5h ago

1/ It's important that any thinking about post-Trump reforms think about the relative merits and demerits of rules vs. norms, as @dbernstein.bsky.social does today. But ... goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/restoring-...

Mike Lindell announces he is stepping down as MyPillow CEO to focus on his campaign for Minnesota governor

Trump just made a 14-post thread on Truth Social of screen shots from Marc Thiessen’s WaPo op-ed of “The 20 Best Things Trump Did in 2025.”

What is wrong with these people

This suggests that further attacks will need to use piloted bombing missions, with attendant risks. Also, that readiness for other engagements is questionable. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, ​raising concerns about th...

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Grassley, kicking off committee meeting to vote on Blanche nom, says that Tillis & Cornyn were right to make their demands on corrupt Trump deal, questions why it took Blanche so long to agree. “It’s such a crime it took so long to work out,” he says, kinda missing the crime here….

Can’t keep a good disease down

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Leprosy Making a Comeback

When Jeanine Pirro is not loyal enough for you www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

Furious Trump is considering removing Pirro over Reflecting Pool filing, sources say | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, over a Justice Department filing on the Reflecting Pool, two people familiar with his thinki...

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All women (+Hegseth) behind Trump in the Oval today… because he’s signing an EO for a Military Spouse Commission, and in Hegseth’s military the spouses clearly need to be women b/c what, you want chicks or gay dudes to serve, you some kinda commie or something

The only Republican candidate tomorrow for the MI-13 nomination is a guy who picked a photo of himself in a “PUCK FUTIN” cap for the front page of his campaign web site.

POTUS sez all those low approval numbers are made up

Blanche has produced this capitulation on the Weaponization fund and the scope of the IRS immunity. Reportedly Cornyn has now agreed to support Blanche’s confirmation. I remain baffled that “OK I won’t follow through on the corrupt deal I made” is good enough for a US Attorney General nominee.

So, the whole Bernie Moreno - Max Miller thing seems horrible huh

Cards are available?

I been telling you that the recesses are for 50-foot-high statues of Trump

“The Boston Herald is right” sayeth the Senator from Kentucky

Nobody should be jumping to any conclusions about what’s happened, but flabbergasting that the President’s response so far is to blame Democrats and absolve the country with which we’re at war. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran

Michigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.

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Ooh look whose next book is available to pre-order

A govt that arrests innocent people to perpetrate the leader’s false claims seems bad

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

FWIW a new Trafalgar Group poll shows Darline Graham poised to get one runoff spot in the SC Sen GOP special primary, with Norman Fry & Sanford battling for the other, others in single digits.

I know I’m always babbling about how this administration is completely dominated by men, but seriously this administration is completely dominated by men

today's @mothership.blog story is a group project, featuring recommendations from @amandatien.bsky.social, @candemald.bsky.social, @applecider.bsky.social, @nicoleclark.bsky.social, @saoirsestone.bsky.social, and @exalclaw.com <3 !!!!

What's in the feminist games canon?

It's complicated! But here are some recs from our regular contributors

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Fox News chyron writers are a bit off on the geography of “Northern Spain” (this is taking place in a Spanish-run city in North Africa)

Trump to hold a cabinet meeting later this morning at Camp David. Will be televised. 11:00 et

Trump on the Ceuta migrant situation, per FNC’s Jacqui Heinrich: “It’s terrible. Remember that picture. That’s going to be us in three years if the wrong side gets in,” he said, referring to Democrats winning elections. “If the Democrats get in, you will not live a very good life,” he said.

Why are Republicans so eager to return to 2020 - Fauci hearings, election denial? I wrote this week about how it was a pivotal year for the MAGA coalition open.substack.com/pub/goodpoli...

Republicans are stuck in 2020. Maybe we all are.

The pandemic year was a crucial one for MAGA and the implications are even more disturbing than they seem

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Does a gay man really need a reason to spend a summer weekend in P-Town www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/l...

Pete Buttigieg is coming to Provincetown this weekend. Here's why.

Pete Buttigieg's calm demeanor and analysis of national and international issues made him an early favorite in the 2020 presidential campaign.

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Another feud developing in the right-wing marketplace. Alex Jones, who has been strongly opposed to the Iran war, called for Trump’s impeachment & removal yesterday, prompting Roger Stone to vow to never appear on InfoWars again, leading to backlash from InfoWars folks today.

Right-wing media is currently obsessed with the situation in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on the Africa side of the Strait of Gibraltar. Thousands of migrants have entered Ceuta from neighboring Morocco, captured on chaotic video. Spain is reportedly sending some soldiers to restore order.