Many people in the bar are saying the near miss happened because the helicopter exceeded the FAA’s all-you-can-eat weight limit. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/g...

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

🏆 MAINSPLAINING CHAMP 😄 In a bold effort to explain flight tracking to @gillianbrockell.com this man cites a Rolling Stone article written by… Gillian Brockell 😬

Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h ago

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

We’ve depleted our missiles. Trump was unaware. Hegseth thought his deputy told Trump. It’s partly why Trump had to call of his escalation against Iran. Other than that, everything’s fine: wapo.st/4hQVTF0

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

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Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

As @kevinmkruse.bsky.social noted, this was the cover of the pro-free-market, not-progressive Economist one month before the election that brought Trump back to power. The economy had problems, hence the result, but a “total catastrophe” it was not.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h ago

Trump: "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe"

Any shop can look ominous in “The Prisoner” font!

The SCREEN Act is the biggest threat to your right to free, anonymous speech, ever. That this bill is very likely to be signed into law should send a chill down everyone's spines. Within the next month (or sooner), it will be the single most talked about topic in America - and rightfully so.

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

"Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up." newrepublic.com/post/213959/...

Epstein Survivors Say Republicans Ghosted Them Before Blanche Vote

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.

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Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · yesterday

This is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

We're not dealing with a defective ideology. We're dealing with defective people.

Peyton Farquhar@peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 10h ago

This may sound like hyperbole, but it's not. You start off by telling yourself that greed is good, that it's okay to sell the law to the highest bidder, privatize profits and socialize costs, then market it all as white revenge. The gop is sorting for the scum of the earth, politicians and voters.

This may sound like hyperbole, but it's not. You start off by telling yourself that greed is good, that it's okay to sell the law to the highest bidder, privatize profits and socialize costs, then market it all as white revenge. The gop is sorting for the scum of the earth, politicians and voters.

Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc)@purrtah.bsky.social · 10h ago

Reminder, as awful as this all is, everyone in the GOP decided to go all in on the worst traits of human behavior. not ignoring it, but actively encouraging it, covering it up, saying it’s fine. Moreno only cares because it happened to him and his.

It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

On one hand, it's a good thing CBS finally told the truth. On the other hand, CBS can still go fuck themselves. Bullshit artist Bari Weiss and the Ellison family, even with all their money, can't buy back credibility. And smart Americans will never forgive them for what they did to Stephen Colbert.

UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani

Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...

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Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

Nolan Wells’ Mother Under Investigation With Nursing Board After Complaint, Lawyer Says

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, is under investigation by the Mississippi Board of Nursing after an anonymous complaint.

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Chuck Edwards: At night when I look into the stars, I see your name written among them. I cannot bear to think of you in the arms of another, for you have captured my heart and soul. 23 year old staffer: you're highkey freaking me out rn periodt

CEOs are raking in $17 million a year, 300 times what their own workers make, and John Husted’s answer is “learn to budget.” Sherrod Brown wrote the law that got over 100,000 Ohioans their stolen pensions back. Vote for who fights for you, not who lectures you. #BlueWaveIn90Days

Nothing to worry about, just a US attorney investigating people for deportation when suggested by rando X accounts

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

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Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses. www.wired.com/story/ai-age...

AI Worms and Viruses Are Coming

Chinese researchers have shown that AI models have the capacity to act like aggressive and adaptive computer viruses.

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Military schools should develop officers who can question flawed assumptions and tell senior leaders unwelcome truths. Politically sanitized schools may produce more compliant officers. They will not produce better leaders. (PDF in first reply) www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The Pentagon is waging a war on critical thinking

A proposal to eliminate civilian tenure at military academies would weaken the minds and the might of America's future leaders.

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$ECPG buys defaulted consumer debt to try and squeeze them for recoveries. Gross business model. But good lord has the stock been on a heater; leaving aside the nasty business, says a lot about how that distressed consumer segment has been performing.

Merit.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 12h ago

Retired GM engineer Tom Smith could not figure out an FEC website, but he did beat Trump's endorsed candidate, despite dropping out of his race. His charming handwritten FEC letter recently went viral. bit.ly/4fNVocc

Let’s be clear about what this means. We have credible grounds to believe the Trump Organization may be a money laundering organization and that Trump himself may have been breaking the law.

Whatever I just took, it's definitely kicking in.

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.