Centrists in Congress (anonymously) threatening to leave this Democratic Party. James Carville calling for a schism. Top Dems refusing to endorse Dem primary winners. Pouty (also anonymous) pro-Israel donors in MI calling for a donor strike—I wrote about the emerging centrist Uncommitted Movement.

A new, centrist Uncommitted Movement has emerged

Except this time it’s in support of genocide, rather than trying to stop one.

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Kirsten Gillibrand's son, right out of college, getting a $300 million valuation on his "trade stocks as derivatives" company is a particularly ugly payoff for the Senator's stalwart crypto support, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/07/08/n...

Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps - The American Prospect

DSCC chair’s 22-year-old son strikes it big in pursuit of further gamifying finance.

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When down 20 points the most middle of the road Dem there is decides she has to veer left. The ideas, regardless of the personalities, are winning.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

44 years ago today Dead Kennedys at the Whiskey A Go Go, July 4, 1982. T.S.O.L. was also on the bill, and the Butthole Surfers were added at the last minute based on Jello Biafra's recommendation. 📸 Edward Colver #punk #punks #punkrock #deadkennedys #history #otd #punkrockhistory

45 years ago today Famous flip shot of skater Chuck Burke taken during Stiff Little Fingers / Adolescents / D.O.A. show at Perkins Palace in Pasadena, California, July 4, 1981. Photo by Edward Colver #punk #punks #punkrock #punklegends #skatepunk #history #otd #punkrockhistory

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

yeah don’t worry Password. i’m also insecure

Americans when they hear Europeans don't have air conditioning

During Labour's now-exposed paper-tiger election win in 2024, leaders were passing around "The Death of Deliverism," a attempt to claim that material progress no longer matters in politics. Anyway. www.politico.eu/article/nato...

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Mike Bloomberg incensed that his 75 year Lou Gehrig streak of not touching or being touched by a person of color streak has ended

Perhaps there’s some way that he pulls himself out of the nosedive but people should be very aware that Larry Ellison is exceedingly leveraged and is trying to add a second unprofitable business to his life at a time when he’s destroyed all long term hope for Oracle. We have the setup!

It’s not a coincidence that Democrats have consistently lost the ability to inspire people since Citizens United. They made the decision that they needed to outpace GOP spending and have mostly become a party of bribed losers tip toeing around the wealthy.

Skills that pay off: actually knowing how plumbing works, how graphic design works, how to read images critically, how marketing messaging works, how to tell if AI slop is making you look like a ding-a-ling. In other words: reading, writing, art, and critical thinking. In addition to plumbing, obvs.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 3mo ago

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

the democrats are the washington generals of politics

Gas prices the highest in years amid a disastrous war and the leader of the opposition party is busy thanking the White House for posting grainy "UFO" pics 👍

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

The fact that we came out of 2008 and decided that the commodities regulator should remain separate from the securities regulator AND the corn people should have all swaps and futures is proof that we wanted to make sure we were the home for the next 2008

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

this is the real test of whether anthropic actually gives a shit about anything and I would be utterly unsurprised if they cave just like they did on raising funds from the middle east

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 6mo ago

We live in an autocratic oligarchic hellhole. The Pentagon is basically saying that if Anthropic doesn't drop its demands over restricting the use of AI in autonomous drone targeting and surveillance of Americans, it will essentially destroy the company.

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

Will Nicholes@willnicholes.com · 6mo ago

“By removing writing from reporters’ workloads, we’ve effectively freed up an extra workday for them each week” is such a strange sentence to read.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar.com · 6mo ago

Romance alert: Trump's reckless tariffs have Valentine’s Day costs up across the board: Roses 🌹16.6% Chocolates🍫 18.7% Ribeye 🥩 25.4% Restaurant meals 🍽️ 4.9%

MS RACHEL SHOULD NOT BE WORKING HARDER ON THIS OR GAZA THAN DEM LEADERSHIP

YouTube star Ms. Rachel sounds alarm on kids held in Texas ICE facility

"I am really worried about the kids living in Dilley detention center."

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Overheard a teenager deploy "SHUT UP, BRO. You watch AI porn!" as a devastating insult to one of his friends, which sent the rest of their group into a laughing fit.

this is a problem

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 6mo ago

Orders came down from the White House budget office in April urging every corner of the government to deploy AI. Officials across the government answered the call, according to a Post analysis. https://wapo.st/3O4Auvf

What if Abundance is just the Think Tank and PAC jobs we made along the way?

Axios@axios.com · 6mo ago

Ezra Klein's Abundance movement is getting some backup: A new political group is urging Democrats to embrace "pro-growth," deregulatory policies with an eye toward 2028, according to plans first shared with Axios.