Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.7 billion into the 2026 elections www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.7 billion into the 2026 elections

Billionaires and Elon Musk, who recently temporarily achieved trillionaire status, make up the top individual donors.

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If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h ago

Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are accountable 10% of America’s $40 TRILLION DEBT since gaining power in January 2025. Republicans don’t care about the national debt as long it benefits CEOs and billionaires.

I say we tally up all the times JD Vance has brought up the subject of transgender kids in public and all the times Talarico has brought it up to see exactly which one's hard drive we need to inspect.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

"He's just a guy who shows a weird focus on transgender kids ... typically people who say stuff like that tend to have some unusual search histories" -- JD Vance, who is obsessed with demagoguing trans issues, baselessly suggests that Talarico is a pedo

Vance certainly has gay acquaintances. Most obviously his mentor and most important political booster, Peter Thiel, is gay. But his mental model of Texas voters is that they are a bunch of redneck rubes, so a insinuating a straight candidate is gay will work.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

JD Vance: "I love you too sir. In a totally platonic way, to be clear. I'm the vice president, not James Talarico."

It's Epstein's world and we just live in it, I GUESS

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Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

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Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · last yr.

We actually have a local sno-cone truck here that proudly used to be a sheriff's rough ride van and I used to think before like 10 minutes ago that it was the grossest possible thing to see parked outside a fun family event

A small canary for the Salem/Gove affair: the Financial Times journalist who yesterday did a post with two screencaps of the two daily mail articles side-by-side - the first covering the split, the second (which the mail has since pulled) covering the charges - has, in the past few hours, deleted it

Excellent article on "civility" by @bakerdphd.bsky.social Required reading for administrators and BOT members. I wish she had said more... but these things are always too short. As she states at the end, read the articles she cites for a deeper dive. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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As Trump himself said, this entire campaign is about protecting Netanyahu.   Words of condemnation aren't enough, ICC members must take action to defend the rule of law. Remember, ICC prosecutors have the authority to open criminal investigations against ANYONE who obstructs justice.

EXCLUSIVE: US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize

Navi Pillay sat in the court's appeals chamber.

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Trump's continued attacks on @repilhan.bsky.social the Somali American community, & our Muslim neighbors are a heinous attempt to distract from his complete & utter failure as president. Every American should be chilled to the bone: these are the actions of a dictatorship not a democracy.

is this ike a Roman Republic -> Roman Empire thing?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago

Trump: "I will be the last Republican president"

The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.

Detroit Free Press@freep.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Abdul El-Sayed, Mike Rogers ... or maybe McMorrow: Who won U.S. Senate debate | Letters

I'm glad he wrote this down! It could be incredibly ironic some day

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 19h ago

To "revel in the death of those who truly deserve it...is normal, good, and aligned with our natural and national order," Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey wrote on X.

An organization whose mission is to prevent Spanish from being used on government documents in the US is celebrating the day Queen Isabella’s man, famous English speaker Christopher Columbus, landed in the Caribbean. And some people say this holiday is about framing the US as a white nation. Pshaw!

It really is this simple most of the time, and people will move heaven and earth to call you a deranged conspiracist for pointing any of this out.

Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸@ebridget.bsky.social · 19h ago

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

I talked to The Guardian about how not all leftist insurgents in Democratic primaries are actually "DSA candidates." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Leftist insurgents are storming the midterms – just don’t call them all democratic socialists

Progressive candidates navigate their ties to the DSA as the group faces historic growth and mounting pressure

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I was skeptical of the 'Ukraine bombed MAGA Data Centers' thesis but the replies to a Trump White House tweet have not been this resist-lib pilled since like 2019 x.com/WhiteHouse/s...

The naïveté of elite liberal pundits is really something to behold

personally I think it is not great that the federal government is not only weaponizing the criminal legal system against political opponents, but citing as their justification a 4chan conspiracy theory

Oh Wow.

And it wouldn’t be a thread about weirdo right wingers with a soft spot for white nationalism without a 2007 poem lionizing Ian Smith by Curtis Yarvin, the court “intellectual” of the Silicon Valley billionaire set.

Can we be honest that so called 'wokeness' meant Black people demanding full social personhood and refusing to be silent about getting murdered/harmed by the state? So yes, that is more threatening to many in this country than is fascism. I think that's been clear.

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

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, not fascism, was the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right." bsky.app/profile/donm...

I've said for a while that, rather than actually fight antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as rootless cosmopolitan urbanites, Israeli politics just imbibes them and redirects them against the Diaspora, but then this guy just comes right out and says it.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2d ago

Right-wing Jews are really going with, "We need to do the antisemitic Great Replacement conspiracy against Jews on the left, before the actual antisemites do it against all the Jews and we get blamed, too."

If you understand that political antisemitism was not just the hatred of the Jew qua Jew, but an entire worldview in which the Jew stands in for border-crossing cosmopolitan ideologies that threaten the nation-state, then you understand why the Israeli right had to reinvent it from first principles.

the failure of Dem leadership to affirmatively defend besieged immigrant communities also has consequences! bsky.app/profile/benj...

Ben K.@benjaminkabak.com · yesterday

This isn't a half-bad statement but he should really be defending the entire Somali-American community from Trump's racism as well

Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally

Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.

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Elon Musk's baseless smear of James Talarico blew up in his face, but that doesn't mean he's learned his lesson.

Elon Musk’s James Talarico Smear Blew Up In His Face

But that doesn’t mean the danger from Musk’s lies is over.

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Authoritarians want despondency and an air of inevitability. Don’t hand it to them.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · yesterday

I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.

Let me make a sort of orthogonal point: I don’t get the attacks on immigrants - that even I’ve experienced - that sound like “you came here from a bad place.” Yeah man I know. That was the whole idea of coming here. To come to a good place where you can make something of your life in freedom.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · yesterday

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if you have even a second of wondering, "well maybe she did something..." -- she was raided by DHS, not the FBI

The Independent@the-independent.com · yesterday

Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation