holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
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Hey, Colorado.... (The swearing will continue till shit gets straightened out) Epstein Epstein Epstein Against fascism
what, people wipe out their front loaders? i've had them all my life and never once did that, i just leave the door ajar and that's it (same with dishwashers). these are the real europe/US differences that people don't talk about and just assume the other must surely be doing things the normal way.
Me buying a house and not having to do coin laundry anymore: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me having to replace the washing machine when it breaks: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
I just sharpened a pencil, maybe for the first time since the 1980s.
In the West Bank village where ‘No Other Land’ was filmed, settlers sexually harass Palestinian women daily, human rights groups say, and the Israeli military took over a man’s bathroom. Diana Buttu tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the settler system. Full video- zeteo.com/p/what-happe...
Twenty-three percent of Americans think he's handling the price of groceries well. Twenty-three. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...
ICYMI: Last year I wrote all about Project Seahorse, a research and conservation organization. www.scubadiving.com/organization...
The Organization Helping to Protect Seahorses, Sea Dragons and Pipefish
<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">In the latest "Organizations Divers Should Know," David Shiffman, Ph.D. explores Project Seahorse, a collaboration of researchers and conservationists working to study and…
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BIZARRE: Earlier this year, the Trump administration was sued for violating protesters' First Amendment rights in Maine. Now, they're trying to use that lawsuit to obtain Signal group chats that the protesters were in, which attorneys say is itself a 1A violation. www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...
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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They wanted her signature on a document handing over every voter in Colorado. She sent back a refusal short enough to fit in a text message. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Regime Wanted Every Colorado Voter’s File. Jena Griswold Refused.
They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.
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Anyone else find it interesting that the only two recent presidents wanting to reintroduce battleships are the two known to suffer from Alzheimer’s, Reagan and Trump? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More (Gift Article)
President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.
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David Ellison's promise is that he won't impose his politics on CNN. Sure, sure, sure, sure. www.readtpa.com/p/straight-d...
Straight Down the Middle
Ask the people who aren't there anymore.
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“The first planned Trump-class battleship, the U.S.S. Defiant, is likely to cost $23.4 billion, $8 billion more than the Navy initially indicated.” Meanwhile, Trump’s USDA secretary calls kicking 5 million Americans off food aid “a pretty big win”: www.commondreams.org/news/brooke-...
Trump USDA Chief Calls Kicking 5 Million People Off Food Aid 'A Pretty Big Win' | Common Dreams
"The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, 'a pretty big win,'" said one policy expert.
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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2h agoHe sure loves spending your money.
@democrats.org should be forced to put out a statement about this AIPAC IS LITERALLY AGAINST US, WHY DO YOU NOT IMMEDIATELY CONDEMN THEM FOR THIS? @michigandems.bsky.social you're being sabotaged, STOP TAKING AIPAC MONEY IMMEDIATELY, THEY ARE LITERALLY SUPPORTING YOUR OPPONENT NOW
AIPAC is a disease. It is a foreign agent and it needs to be eliminated from our politics along with all other money. Our elections and elected officials not should be able to be bought.
media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment
They have now lost this exact lawsuit twenty times and have not once figured out why. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Regime Wanted Every Colorado Voter’s File. Jena Griswold Refused.
They sued her. It went badly. Plus a $19 billion walkout and his worst poll yet.
dworkinsubstack.com
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
The last thing standing between Blanche and the Justice Department is a stack of mail on three senators' desks. Add to it. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Your Senators: Oppose Todd Blanche for Attorney General
Contact Congress today!
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The searing injustice of the dismissal of the Oath Keepers' criminal convictions: A conversation with Harry Dunn, on Substack live at 8 pm ET. Join us? open.substack.com/live-stream/...
LIVE SOON: The searing injustice of the Oath Keepers' dismissal: A conversation with Harry Dunn
Starting Aug 5 at 8:00 PM EDT
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with NBC News that he will encourage progressive voters to still back Democrats on the ticket in November even if moderates are victorious in the primaries.
Nobody in Congress has ever received a serious volume of mail about John Roberts. Be the reason that changes. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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i fucking hate bike thieves. while i was leaving a place i was watching a guy obviously case the bike racks and start trying to take one when he thought no one was looking. i shouted at him and he quickly ran off, but a conveniently located person is not exactly reliable crime deterrent.
4) He's a long-shot, but puts a supposedly safe rural Red state Senate seat at least possibly in play. Together, all 4 of these developments signal a profound shift away from the politics of the recent past—not just Trump and MAGA, but the neoliberal order that preceded and helped produce him. 5/5
3) He's the latest in a wave of similar candidates—pastors and seminarians—whose emergence challenges conservative Christians’ efforts to claim they alone speak for all of Christianity. 4/5
3/4) In Kansas, Adam Hamilton, founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in America, won the Democratic US Senate nomination, reflecting two converging dynamics. 3/5
2) In Kansas and Missouri, conservative GOP power-grabs went down to landslide defeats. (A reverse Robin Hood amendment also got crushed in Missouri.) 2/5