El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

I will say the attempt to paint him as an extremist or a radical, when he graduated from UM-Ann Arbor, where he played LACROSSE, then gets an MD from Columbia and a doctorate from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar), is some old school Islamophobia.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

GEIST: You went to the University of Michigan. Are you confident that Sparty fans also will come around to you? EL-SAYED: Look, as long as we're not going red and going to Ohio, I'm good with it

Haley Stevens was out with a gracious concession and a commitment to support Abdul El-Sayed within about one hour of the AP call in her race. If she can buck up first thing in the morning, everyone else can. That’s actual political leadership.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 12h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

This race was not fully determined by Michigan. Steven's campaign war chest came from AIPAC and a corporate PAC. The national Dem establishment also inserted itself by backing her, even when another moderate was in the race. Stevens proved to be a terrible candidate. www.axios.com/2026/07/16/m...

Stevens' 12-to-1 Michigan spending advantage over El-Sayed

The total: $26.9 million for Stevens versus $2.1 million for El-Sayed, from July 1 to the Aug. 4 primary.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD@dcollier74.bsky.social · 9h ago

Well I don't know if Michigan did or did not screw up .... I hope that the candidate for Senate is able to communicate with The middle of the state and the Western areas of the state to pull enough votes to win.

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…

My hot take is that if moderate Dems want to win (primaries and generals), they need to nominate decent candidates. Haley was a mess. Even with crazy money, you can't be a mess.

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

NY Times Calls It!

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Families have always been the primary caregivers for the sick, but children who act as caregivers face unique burdens and challenges. That this scenario exists is a clear sign of massive policy and structural failures.

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. (Gift Article)

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

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I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

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Worse except for being far less likely to die in a fiery airplane crash. But sure.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 20h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

You only become a Michigander when you use your hand to show where you live in the state.

Ben Rosen@benrosen.bsky.social · 20h ago

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten

">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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One thing people should notice, Dems are turning out in almost 2X the numbers of GOP in Michigan so far for this

I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere and wanted to surface it — Cornyn and Tillis both signed off on a letter dated July 15 that urged Blanche to use the DOJ’s might to “stop the abortion industry’s unlawful and unsafe mail-order abortion drug practice.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

Look what came in the mail today! Congrats @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social !

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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 ...

Madison, WI. Today, 4August Police brought a wheel loader. Protesters clung to what they called "an autonomous zone," where a cop killed Corey Ruiz. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Laura Schulte, captured the scene at 7:44 am (local time). "Police have removed protestors." URL: x.com/SchulteLaura...

Exclusive: Sen. Rand Paul published Anthony Fauci's diary entries without redacting the names or medical details of over 20 people, including people with cancer, Ebola or HIV. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Rand Paul’s Fauci Diary Dump Exposed Peoples’ Medical Histories

The Republican senator’s office published over 20 individuals’ health information without redaction.

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Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

No way this could backfire. When it does, Trump will blame states or somebody else, but this is a decision to endanger Americans that Congress did not approve. (Via @almsnatalie.bsky.social) www.notus.org/agencies/fem...

FEMA Cut Staff Without Planning for Future Work, Watchdog Says

The agency has already moved to rehire some of the staff.

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Natalie Alms@almsnatalie.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Trump administration cut FEMA's workforce without a plan for what this would mean, leaving it at risk of being unprepared and without staff to respond to future emergencies. More 👇

This forecast has ME-2 as a Tossup, This makes engagement — contacting voters, writing letters to the editor and submitting opeds, talking to people you know, and donating — very important. #mepolitics fiftyplusone.news/forecast/house

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Vote tomorrow Humans of Michigan! Clean water is life. Vote for it. 🌊🌊

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

I look forward to my next peer review.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

why should I bother doing journal reviews when this gif exists?

This is legit insane. It requires girls from K-12 to go through genetic testing, testosterone screening, or a physical exam to participate in sports. For feminists worked up about trans athletes, this is the through line. This is where we were going to end up. It’s about control and dominance.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good framing.

Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...

What the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?

Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode.

thebulwark.com

Capital One disclosed in a court filing that it shut down hundreds of Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns. President Trump has maintained that his businesses were "debanked" for political reasons, and the Trump Organization sued Capital One last year. https://cnn.it/4xiOF0T