My reaction watching this train wreck of a dumpster fire of a shitshow of an interview:

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:

Seriously, if you have the time, treat yourself to the entire 25 minute interview with Max Miller. You will not believe how bad it gets.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h ago

My reaction watching this train wreck of a dumpster fire of a shitshow of an interview:

Class act by Stephens. Important that she got it out so quickly right after such a close raise. (Close race always leaves the #2 in "What if???" territory, but for "healing the party" purposes far preferable to a blowout that would leavee one side more embittered and embarrassed.)

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3h ago

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…

we really need a serious pandemic retrospective conducted by someone who isn't a delusional crank defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

This Thursday, SpaceX insiders will be released from their first post-IPO stock lockup and can cash out early. As I've been saying, this has all the hallmarks of a Ponzi scheme.

El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

Makin Saj from scratch because we budget our time way better than you idiots.

BLITZER: Why is Israel, another country, your red line right now, rather than a domestic issue that impacts Americans' everyday lives? FETTERMAN: Yeah, absolutely. And I agree with a lot of Democrats too. I called trash Platner.

yeah i mean america was such a terrible place the last (and only) time we had a president with a middle eastern name and nobody has fond memories of...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

As a Michigan voter who is grateful as fuck I wasn't in the state for that Senate primary, I think this deserves more attention: Jocelyn Benson has a MUCH easier route ahead of her than it looked like she would in January. MUCH easier. And that's going to help unify the party.

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…

Good for her. Good for the party and good for her longterm career too.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3h ago

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…

EMERGENCY!!!!!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Says Trump's moneybags. Tomorrow he has to turn over the financial information that has been obvious since he decided to sue on the basis that factual reporting harmed his net worth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Honestly, at this point, Democrats should be thrilled with this -- Miller has set himself on fire and if the GOP wants to hold him close, so be it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

Err. I remember last winter when DHS dropped a released “suspect” at a bus station, many miles from where they snatched them, in January. They found him or her dead in the street. So bus stations are okay.

Another important point: Pirro’s argument that she didn’t know the Reflecting Pool problems were caused by the contractor until learning it recently from DOI is complete bullshit. It was obvious BEFORE any charges were filed. She’s just trying to cover her own ass. apnews.com/article/refl...

Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed

Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 18h ago

With his ridiculous claim about nonexistent vandalism at the Reflecting Pool, Trump is either trying to gaslight us or, more likely, he’s gaslighted himself: he’s told himself so many lies that he has lost all sense of what is actually happening. presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/w...

What Did Jeanine Pirro Know and When Did She Know It? - emptywheel

In a bid to get the indictment against him dismissed with prejudice, Davey Hearn reveals that DOJ misrepresented the circumstances of a "before" picture proving he didn't damage the reflecting pool.

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Saw a bit on MSNow recently about how AES was winning in part because of Medicare for All, but the pundit talked to voters and "they don't understand the policy, they just hear it as having a right to health care." 1) great! 2) Has lack of "understanding" policy ever applied to Trump voters?

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 6h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Awww….That idiot (aka Putain de Merde) in the White House missed the legal deadline for screwing up birthright citizenship. I liked the cartoon. I don’t care who boots him out of our country.

Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.

It's a fallacy to think that the Trump regime is pro-military. it's pro-violence and pro-stealing-from-foreign-countries, but it's anti-military-families. As Trump has demonstrated, he thinks soldiers are "suckers" and "losers."

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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The United States has removed counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft and three airlines with links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to details posted to the U.S. Treasury Department's website on Wednesday. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...

We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue

🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

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🧊✈️⛓️ He said he entered a sort of tunnel vision, where his whole world narrowed to surviving the pain one minute at a time, as the plane went from Alexandria to Baltimore, then Romania, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and finally Laos, where he was deported. He was shackled for approximately 72 hours ⤵️

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

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NEW: An ICE flight headed for Moldova turned around over the Atlantic Ocean yesterday and flew back to an ICE hub, returning 15 hours after it left. We don’t know why. Video I obtained from the scene shows 11 exhausted and shackled people disembark. gillianbrockell.com/why-did-this...

Why did this ICE flight turn around over the Atlantic Ocean?

Video shows 11 exhausted and shackled people arrive back at ICE camp airport 15 hours after they left.

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The stock market seems like a reverse indicator of over-all national financial health: The worse things get for regular people, the better it looks for the connected few.

At this western PA bar, a scandal roiled, when the winner of the weekly, “Behind the Sheet, the Biggest Snake in a Bucket” contest, was seen on the back security camera, throwing an industrial sized tube of soybean paste into the dumpster.

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h ago

Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.

The Jews are gonna plotz if the Rhodes Scholar and dedicated public servant defeats the jeans jacket wearing intolerant shrill cosplay bigot. Which should tell you a lot about where the Jews interests lie.