The Big Ugly Bill cut Medicare by $536 billion starting AFTER the elections. What kind of thoughtless idiocy cuts programs that seniors' lives depend on and thinks they won't notice? #MomSky #RepublicanMedicareCuts

If you’re still on Max Miller’s comms team, you deserve bad days.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · yesterday

If you're having a bad day, please realize that you're having a much better day than Max Miller's comms team.

They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.

Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · yesterday

Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics

Josh Sundquist: This Was A Scam

ALT: Josh Sundquist: This Was A Scam

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Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

Just thinking how funny it is that Trump's Cabinet officials had to go on TV and push this line of BS knowing that it would almost certainly come back to blow up in their face.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

So the administration now admits that this prosecution overseen by Todd Blanche was utter bullshit. Blanche must not be confirmed as Attorney General.

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"

Disgusting but unsurprising, given that these are perhaps the two most willfully ignorant state regimes in the nation.

CAIR, a Muslim Nonprofit, Gets a Terrorism Label in Florida and Texas

The federal government designates terrorism groups. But Governors Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott have gotten in the game, and a focus is CAIR, a nonprofit.

nytimes.com

Sen. Bernie Moreno has reportedly said that he doesn't "know" if Rep. Max Miller should stay on the ballot after Moreno's daughter accused Miller of domestic abuse. A trove of court and police records obtained by Mother Jones details allegations of physical abuse, drug use, and misogyny.

Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller

Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.

ow.ly

Bernie Moreno still not saying anything because he’s a gutless sack of shit.

If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d ago

Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

“Well, Kasie, he’s an abusive shitbag, but he’s OUR abusive shitbag.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Holy shit! Jim Jordan is reduced to stammering when Kasie Hunt presses him on why he continues to support Max Miller despite credible allegations that he abused his ex-wife and toddler daughter

Fuck these people.

Futurism@futurism.com · 7d ago

"I have no idea how to get around this."

"Vega was urged to include a comment by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey supposedly calling on city police officers to fight ICE agents. But Vega said she and her colleagues watched 'every frame' of a Frey news conference and 'that never happened'" amazing stuff here

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · last wk.

After federal agents killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, the pro-Trump management team at CBS News pressured journalists to put disinformation in their reports. This went beyond “politics” – it was news executives helping fascists whitewash murder. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

First they came for the salad, and I did not speak out, because I don't eat salad...

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · last wk.

Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled. See affected products

We actually had the 16th highest mortality rate in the world and it largely resulted from the ignorant asshats who were *resisting* the common sense protection measures Fauci was promoting like masking and distancing. What a colossal asshole.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃

Let me guess: The plan will be ready in "about two weeks."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "We will pass the great healthcare plan. That's what it's called. The great healthcare plan."

Imagine the degree of denial required to believe this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "We're having the single greatest year we've ever had as a country"

"Suck it up, whiners. You're paying for this pointless, endless war whether you like it or not."

Mediaite@mediaite.com · last wk.

Marc Thiessen argued that if Americans “can't handle $4 oil for a period of months,” then “we are not a superpower anymore.”

lol

The KIDS Act is not just some benign form of digital “carding.” If passed, the bouncer at the door is an online entity capturing and storing personal data from users who simply want to access legal, First Amendment-protected content on the internet, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social wrote for @coindesk.com.

The KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance system

The fact that lawmakers are even contemplating a bill that would create a surveillance and censorship regime should be a wake-up call for everyone who values privacy and free expression, argues Electr...

coindesk.com

Until he changes his mind again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trump Holds Off on Major War Escalation Against Iran as Advisers Raise Concerns

Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions in the Middle East.

nytimes.com

What wonderful targets these signs will make!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history. For the record: It does.

New addition to my collection.

What a buffoon.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "I think we'll put a major tariffs on Texas-- on Mexico because of the lettuce. And we'll put a big tariff on Canada because of the smoke."

Donnie is still working out all the feelings from 40-50 years ago when New York's old money despised him as a new-money garish little bitch. Guess what? He's still a garish little bitch.

Evan Simko-Bednarski@simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump Station? A letter from DOT Secretary Duffy to congressional leaders yesterday makes clear, he intends to re-name Penn Station. Read it first in the New York Daily News.

As foretold. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

wired.com

David Greene@davidgreene.bsky.social · last mo.

She may be the one person who could make MSG turn off its panopticon facial recognition surveillance.

Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.

Scoop: Cecilia Vega broke her silence on Thursday and detailed how the Bari Weiss-led CBS News management tried to meddle in her stories, according to an audio recording of her remarks that I obtained. Full story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cecilia-ve...

Vega Breaks Her Silence

The fired “60 Minutes” correspondent revealed stunning new details about how CBS News management tried to meddle in her reporting, according to an audio recording obtained by Status.

status.news

Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.