Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & the fact that we tolerate this authoritarian behavior as a permanent feature of 🇺🇸 politics is a sign of just how deeply broken our democracy is.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · yesterday

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

The U.S. Senate is about to advance the nomination of a man who has helped Trump unconstitutionally evade releasing the Epstein files, and tried to use federal funds to pay insurrectionists. If the purpose of the U.S. Senate is to defend against tyranny, it has failed in its purpose.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Just begging people to let it set in that even with the worst president in US history earning that title every day, a half billion dollars dumped into these elections by an amoral scammer, who may be the greatest con man who ever lived, can actually affect said elections if not effectively combated.

Democrats are pulling away in the generic ballot. So Elon’s trying to buy another election. | LOLGOP Studios

July 29, 2026 was the day reality rebooted. Right up until Axios reported that Elon Musk was reopening America PAC for the midterms, we were

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"The bill would effectively cap IRAs and 401(k)s at $10 million, a sum far beyond the basic retirement needs of most Americans." Could lower taxes on working Americans or afford more public services. www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Selective pressure in action! “A generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”

Nahal Toosi@nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

"The boss wants this money." (gift article) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

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Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.

these are bribes and theyre illegal and when people are like “what do you want the dems to do,” i just want them to say what i just said and promise to investigate as a crime when theyre in power, disincentivizing businesses from participating in this farce

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

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Today in “Existential threats to American higher education that make one wonder why university presidents are so totally absent from the public square in defending our interests” bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

One weird trick to literally destroy America www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Note: in addition to WI (noted in the story--that was Musk's 2025 suspected crimes) GA declared him to have violated election law in 2024. And there are a number of lawsuits (in AZ and PA) for both the FRAUD behind his $1M vote scheme and the fact that he stiffed workers on his reg efforts.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d ago

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

“If you work there (Meta), you should quit.”

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 6d ago

I hope everybody caught this. Under Mark "masculine energy" Zuckerburg, Meta is no longer just implicitly going right wing -- it has become explicit. Allying with Newsmax is not subtle. This is a deeply awful company. If you work there, you should quit.

Disappointed in number of stories about Fauci that neglected to point out that the attacks on him are part of an on-going effort by Trump and GOP to distract from their catastrophic mismanagement of the pandemic, mismanagement estimated to have caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary US deaths.

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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What “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?

‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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A constructive point, in light of some "there are bigger problems than Canada's feelings" replies: There are thousands of Trump problems but a few core unifying themes that reinforce each other: corruption, executive power, lawlessness, white Christian nationalism, misogyny...

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o... new from Chrystia Freeland. Reminds me why I wanted her to replace Trudeau as PM, but maybe it's even better for her to be free to speak her mind like this.

The media isn’t treating the regime’s refusal to release the Epstein Files as a scandal because Democrats and progressives aren’t driving any conflict around it. I don’t know why no one—besides the survivors themselves—is still pushing on this.

Inject this into my veins

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · last wk.

NEW Economist/YouGov Jul 25-27 % who approve | disapprove of Trump U.S. adult citizens 34% | 62% (-28: new low for Trump) Last week 36% | 60% (-24) Start of term 49% | 43% (+6) Dem 3% | 95% Ind 19% | 72% Rep 81% | 17% 18-29: 31% | 63% 65+: 41% | 56% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself

Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Republicans’ attempt to “distance” themselves from Trump will fail, because they have VOTED in favor of Trump’s policies and against efforts to check those policies, and they won’t commit to VOTE against those policies in the future. Dems just need to say, talk is cheap. www.ms.now/news/trump-r...

Why Trump’s team is letting some Republicans distance themselves from him

Three months from Election Day, the president’s political operation is giving battleground candidates space to keep their distance.

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I am absolutely begging Democratic politicians to make media reform a centerpiece of their policy platforms

Local U.S. TV News Will Soon Be Entirely Right Wing Propaganda

Thanks to the destruction of media consolidation limits, Republicans will soon enjoy propaganda and market domination over what's left of local U.S. news.

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The world’s richest man, at it again. Reminder: “remigration” is far right code for the forced expulsion of ethnic “undesirables” in order to “purify” the nation.