Trump on Democrats: "They will overturn it if they take over. All of the things, including men in women's sports, transgender for everyone, they will overturn it if they get in. We can't let that happen." 🤔
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UPDATE II: In new filing, BBC opposes Trump's bid to amend the complaint, also argues it won't narrow discovery because his "financial records are directly relevant to assessing his purported reputational damages." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
BBCTrumpOppAmend080626.PDF
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Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 8h agoUPDATE: BBC says there's no emergency and they're not engaged in any political attack on Trump. Also, it looks like Trump's attorneys have offered up a date (unspecified) for him to sit for a deposition in the suit, assuming it isn't thrown out by then www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Rep. Andy Biggs mocks Gov. Katie Hobbs’ past stint driving Uber to support her family: “And I know some of you have seen some of those crazy commercials from our Democrat opponent. But I'm going to tell you something right now: Sine may not drive an Uber, but she knows how to drive a tractor!”
Republican Socialists of America?
Cato Institute@cato.org · 9h agoThe US government now holds equity stakes in 30 private companies, up from zero just over a year ago. In some cases, it's the largest shareholder. This raises massive questions about capital misallocation, government neutrality, and cronyism, says Cato's Scott Lincicome on MS NOW.
Trump calls a family on stage, and a toddler starts walking around. Trump responds by saying, "Biden, Biden"
Let's be clear, Trump is in Las Vegas to champion his billionaire friends he gave the biggest tax break in history to... not the working families who are struggling in the economy have wrecked. The average Nevada family now pays $2,900 more on necessities since Trump took office.
a slurring Trump can't remember Mike Rogers's name: "We have a great candidate in Michigan. Great candidate."
A group of protesters is suing DHS for violating the First Amendment by surveilling their activities. DHS is now using that lawsuit to try and obtain those protesters’ Signal chats:
DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.
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Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."
NEWS: A federal judge has granted the Wall Street Journal's request to stay discovery in Trump's defamation lawsuit over its Epstein birthday letter story, signaling a dismissal may be imminent.
Judge Slams Brakes on Trump’s Epstein Lawsuit as Dismissal Looms
The ruling blocks Trump's effort to depose Rupert Murdoch while the judge decides whether the case survives.
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Trump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela -- billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils."
New reporting from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social with video by me on the Max Miller scandal. Check it out
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 8h agoNEW: @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social obtained body cam footage from the investigation into Rep. Max Miller's alleged abuse. In it, Emily Moreno alleges Miller held her at gunpoint while she changed their daughter's diaper. It also reveals him downplaying their daughter's broken collarbone to detectives.
This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...
These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.
What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?
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🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution. The El Paso facility’s power plant could emit as much planet-warming carbon dioxide in a year as 360,000 gasoline-powered passenger vehicles over the same period. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
Trump’s Push for More A.I. Data Centers Will Mean Major Air Pollution
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Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · yesterdayOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
Rand Paul: "Particularly during the pandemic, I was proud of any athlete that stepped forward. There were a few. Uhhhh. Jovic. The tennis player." (The name he's looking for is Djokovic.)
Most AI tools require some sort of privacy sacrifice, so understanding the risk is important. ssd.eff.org/module/priv...
Privacy Considerations with AI Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assistants, AI summaries, and research tools, among others. As a term, “AI” may refer to features in apps, apps themselves, third-party plug-ins, or a...
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Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:
This (link to pdf below) is a brilliant short story "There will come soft rains" by Ray Bradbury, set on 4-5 August 2026. To be read alongside @doctorow.pluralistic.net 's "Masque of the Red Death" - around technology, what outlives us, what matters... www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_...
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It really does come down to this. Vote, early and in person if you can.
At least 4 journalists are being dragged to court in Newark, NJ, TOMORROW following their arrests while covering protests at Delaney Hall. YOU CAN HELP: Use this form to tell prosecutors they must drop all charges. It takes 1 minute. Supporting democracy has never been this quick, free and easy...
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If they built a wall around Alabama, how would Tuberville get there from his house in Florida
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoTuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."
