This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

The Reflecting Pool saga is a perfect diorama of how right-wing media turns Trump’s fantasies into public reality, and then tries to quietly conceal the wreckage once the facts catch up.

Jeanine Pirro's Reflecting Pool reckoning

The former Fox News star couldn't sustain Trump's fantasy. Her downfall is classic MAGA tale

salon.com

The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson

Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.

theatlantic.com

This highlights a profound impact of Trump — the further normalization of violence against women. Trump got elected in spite of his long history of violence against women. He is not held accountable when he continues to abuse women. 1/2

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

Max Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."

"Pepper-spraying a 72-year-old woman for exercising her constitutional rights is outrageous." You are damn right, Gov. Hochul! gothamist.com/news/ice-pep...

ICE pepper-sprayed NYC woman, 72, in the face. Gov. Hochul is peeved.

A video on social media shows the officer pepper-spraying the woman in the face, turning and then walking away.

gothamist.com

My new article in Time asks if AI can free women from the mental load of caregiving. #AI #Mentalload #Women #Caregiving time.com/article/2026...

Can AI Free Women from the Mental Load of Caregiving?

Innovation has not brought about women’s liberation, writes Marianne Cooper.

time.com

"The 2nd Trump administration, which has aligned itself with narrow and cartoonish ideas of masculinity and femininity, is showing itself to be an unmitigated disaster. MAGA media in general has lost its luster..." By @jessgrose.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/o...

Opinion | The Tradwife Illusion Meets the Anti-Trump Reality (Gift Article)

Nara Smith’s illusion meets the anti-Trump reality.

nytimes.com

This absolutely poor little child. My heart breaks for her.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

NEWSMAX: Your daughter fractured her collarbone and there was a handprint on her upper chest, and it left a bruise. How did that happen? MAX MILLER: What I can tell you is I didn't do that. 9 of the 11 previous days was my ex-wife's care. What's so troubling about child protective services is ...

North Korean missile unit deploys in Russia for Ukraine war, Kyiv says. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

This is NOT good! www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

scientificamerican.com

Look at Trump's serial failures, his obvious decline, the disastrous poll numbers for the GOP, the abysmal quality of their candidates, their complete absence of accomplishments, their betrayal of their base, the absence of post-Trump leaders emerging...and tell me the Dems are the ones w/problems.

I want leadership like this for New Orleans. Instead we got the guy who nixed a huge coastal restoration project that the legislature had already approved because it “messes with Louisiana’s way of life”

Mongabay@mongabay.com · 9h ago

To mitigate tsunami impacts, a project in Japan has planted over 680,000 trees along the coast, drawing on traditional "guardian forests." While these natural barriers offer proven protection, many communities continue prioritizing concrete seawalls. Jonathan Vit reports for #Mongabay.

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

WATCH — Sen. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social on Trump’s insider trading: “If you pay Trump $100,000 a month, he will give you early access to White House announcements on economic and trade policy. None of this is normal, and a lot of this is illegal.”

Todd Blanche made more promises during a private call that a faith group inexplicably uploaded to YouTube. Expect to see this story cited in lawsuits against the FDA when it ends telemedicine of mifepristone for no reason other than pills by mail make anti-abortion groups very mad

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

I don't know how to make it more clear to folks that reviving Comstock is on the table—at least for mail-order medication abortion. Here's Blanche responding to Dick Durbin last month and DOJ's comment to Politico today www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Collins and Murkowski pass the baton back and forth. 😡

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h ago

Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Minnesota will stand as a firewall against any and all attacks on reproductive freedom. We were the first state to establish an ironclad right to abortion after the Dobbs decision and we will remain an island of freedom for those seeking to make their own healthcare decisions.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Acting AG Todd Blanche plans to outlaw abortion nationwide: We're working to get solutions so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state. We're putting policies in place so that states can't do things like mail abortion drugs. We will have victory, and it will be permanent.

"He's about being Donald Trump's lawyer" -Senator Cory Booker

I’m not a constitutional lawyer, but this is nonsense

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Sen. Rand Paul: "I've had the debate with this administration ... they told me this isn't a war. I said, why isn't it a war? They said, 'Well, a constitutional war has to have significant casualties' ... initiation or declaration of war is *before* the casualties."

BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.

This is so true. Texans you have to turn Texas back to blue. You have to want better.

Very interesting graf near bottom of latest NYT story on MAGA efforts to bend universities to its will, as if they were GOP Senators or the SCOTUS Six. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... Reminder number five zillion: Except for GOP Senators thinking of a lobbying future, appeasement never pays off.

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "