a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

SCHIFF: 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

* It's unreal how terrible Trump's nominees are * DURBIN: You wrote, 'Feminists advanced a theory that rape is meant to perpetuate male domination.' Do you still oppose Violence Against Women Act? CANDEUB: I haven't really thought it D: In 2023 you did an interview & decried harassment laws ...

If you’re still trying to sabotage presumptive democratic candidates on Thursday following a Tuesday primary, you deserve to get blocked by everyone who actually cares about who holds a majority in Congress.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 11h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

Unable to articulate the depth of my rage that he vandalized the moon. cbs12.com/news/local/a...

Abandoned SpaceX rocket slams into moon at 5,400 mph, carving new crater

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster that launched from Florida struck the surface of the moon early Wednesday, creating a new crater.

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I want to note that Biden dropped out on July 21; tweet is dated July 22

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 9h ago

Let me ask Abdul El Sayed

this stuff is real and tangible in material ways we don’t have the expanded child tax credit today because joe manchin was personally opposed to it and couldn’t be talked out of his opposition he was also vote 50 of 50, if susan collins had lost in 2020 he’d have been vote 51 and we’d have it

Micah@rincewind.run · 8h ago

some specific democrats suck and they suck in ways that are detrimental to issues that you personally care about you know how you solve that once we are past the primaries? you elect even more democrats so that their votes are less important joe manchin couldn’t have done as much damage as vote 52

Dan Koh bought tech funds while he worked in the White House. Tram Nguyen voted for massive tax breaks for data centers that benefited her NVIDIA stock. Joh Beccia owns Palantir stock, getting rich from mass surveillance. Voters are tired of politicians and lobbyists making excuses for corruption.

Michael Flynn got paid by the Russian government to do anti-American propaganda, got paid by the Turkish government to conspire to break US laws, and now got paid by the US government for helping cover up a hostile anti-American foreign intelligence operation, ensuring perpetrators got away with it.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 10h ago

🧵🧵🧵 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🧵

If investors believe this, they deserve to have their money taken. I will shed no tears for someone who loses everything when the grift is this obvious.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

About a year of humanitarian food distributions to Syrian refugees in Lebanon

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 22h ago

30,000,000 dollars

It's an affront to the primary voters ("you losers can't pick right"), it's an affront to the candidate ("your win is actually a loss"), it's an affront to party unity ("vote blue but not for you"), and it's an affront to the very idea of your party ("I know people don't like what we stand for").

More abuse enabling, at scale:

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

Why are Bari Weiss and David Ellison manipulating the news to protect child rapist Jeffrey Epstein and his accomplices? Possibly connected to how Weiss pushed to hire Epstein friend Peter Attia?

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

This unilateral disarmament by NJ Dems is pathetic. In a world where every single House vote counts and the GOP is continuing to gerrymander, NJ Dems are choosing to allow NJ’s tax dollars to be redirected to other states while NJ keeps getting denied federal funds it is entitled too.

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · yesterday

Politico says New Jersey Dems appear disinclined to put a redistricting measure on the ballot in 2027 after missing the 2026 deadline. A new 11-1 map could target two GOP House seats and protect Dem seats, but some Dems seem uninterested because they’re likely to flip one of the two in 2026 anyway

History will be unkind to the admin for many things, but on this the unkindness will be focused onto the voters. They chose to reward a hideous lie with election victory and the liars unleashed the state onto the people they slandered 100% predictably. Nobody will be able to say they didn’t know.

It's going to be really important in 2029 for Democrats--and the people on the ground investigating these strikes--not to get hung up on whether the victims were actually drug traffickers or not. IT DOESN'T MATTER. Even if every person killed was a trafficker, the strikes were still war crimes!

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate war zone, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social - Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

theguardian.com

His putative successor, Tram Nguyen, has also bought stock in industries she oversees, and voted for massive subsidies to benefit them. Vote @beth4ma.bsky.social.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seth Moulton was given the chance to make several private equity investments that were not available to everyday investors with defense tech companies he helps oversee on the House Armed Services Committee. They are now worth millions of dollars. Bob Kuttner reports: prospect.org/2026/08/03/s...

A 50-year old book reveals the tendencies that undermine military competence—a century ago and today. Read our analysis for free:

The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures

‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.

foreignpolicy.com

What this nation is doing to trans people is disgusting.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d ago

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

As a Muslim I'd like it if a Democratic candidate for senate could be a bit more direct and condemn these kinds of racist comments?

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

This Johnston bigot writes for “The Federalist,” named after a 1788 publication John Jay contributed to. In 1785 Jay said he looked forward to the time “when all our inhabitants of every color and denomination shall be free and equal partakers of our political liberty.”

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

oh wow actions have consequences? I'm hearing this now today for the first time?

E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 4d ago

Senior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com