@GottaLaff
@gottalaff.bsky.social
Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) in US for years, now in Canada. I post (A LOT) breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. Bite me, Musk. Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇨🇦
WaPo: “Food and Drug Administration has approved the first mRNA-based flu vaccine, paving the way for a new type of shot that will be available for adults 50 and over looking to get immunized against the respiratory illness, Moderna announced Wednesday evening.”
El-Sayed on Vance: Is that Peter Thiel's boy with that Ohio charisma? The last thing that he said that made any sense was Hillbilly Elegy—after he said that Donald Trump had no business being president of anything. And then he decided to suck up to power.
“Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week, where he demanded answers from Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran”
Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns
At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.
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Benedict Cumberbatch: Yes Sir
ALT: Benedict Cumberbatch: Yes Sir
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoJD Vance: "The president makes the decisions, and we all try to implement the decisions in accordance with the president's wishes. The president runs this administration. He makes orders."
Bombing them kinda has that effect
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoJD Vance: "The Iranians are extraordinarily difficult people"
Leave That Man Alone Imurgency
ALT: Leave That Man Alone Imurgency
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Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · 4h agoWSJ - A US Senate panel investigating Anthony Fauci has obtained a copy of the doctor's iPhone, potentially securing even more records related to his actions during the Covid-19 pandemic. www.wsj.com/politics/policy/s...
politifact.com/article/2020... "Back to the future: Trump’s history of promising a health plan that never comes"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoTrump: "We will pass the Great Healthcare Plan. It's called the Great Healthcare Plan."
Yet it's Trump who naps in public at every gathering he attends.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoTrump calls a family on stage, and a toddler starts walking around. Trump responds by saying, "Biden, Biden"
“.. At their closest proximity, Marine One came within 0.8 miles of lateral distance and 700 feet of vertical distance from the passenger jet ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Anger aside, I remember a time when the president of the United States wouldn't dare smugly spew vulgar racism. It comes from desperation and knowing you're a loser.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "When I watch Abdul, he's full of shit"
Hes been repeating the stuff. Trump and Miller are repeating this stuff over and over lately for a reason. The nazis used this same language of ugliness and uncleanness and disfigurement as a dehumanization tactic. It's intentional. See it for what it is.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "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."
BREAKING: FIFA said its leadership reaffirmed 'full support' for President Gianni Infantino at a crisis meeting with senior officials of world soccer's governing body in Morocco reut.rs/4hOdcXd
They want to be on FOOD, because you're f'ing starving them.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump brags about making people go hungry: "We've lifted nearly 100,000 Nevadans off food stamps. And they don't want to be on food stamps."
And a liar is the person stupid enough to not know what "outlier" means.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "An outlier is a person that doesn't have a chance" (That's not what 'outlier' means)
UPDATE: 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...
Trump seeks to shield his business finances from BBC in libel lawsuit
politico.com
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 9h agoJUST IN: Trump files emergency motion to try to block BBC from getting details about finances of his business empire in connection with $5-10 billion defamation suit he filed against the network www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
That's what Blanche supporters do.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7h ago"Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up." newrepublic.com/post/213959/...
It appears that people do not enjoy living under fascism. Fascism is for losers.
Paul Rosenberg@paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h agoI see 4 major developments manifest in yesterday's elections: 1) El-Sayed's victory, along with multiple downballot victories shows a significant expansion of DSA/Sanders/AOC-aligned power in the heartland, where we've been told it just couldn't reach. 1/5
Do that, Tubs. Maybe it'll keep you from traveling to other states.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h 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."
BREAKING: New Hampshire asked the First Circuit to allow it to require voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship in order to register to vote or cast a ballot. The request comes after a lower court prohibited the state from enforcing the mandate.
A long-rumored Trump administration plan to repurpose a private prison in rural western Minnesota for use as a detention center for undocumented immigrants has come to fruition.
It’s official: A dormant prison in rural Minnesota will become an ICE detention center
A long-rumored Trump administration plan to repurpose a private prison in rural western Minnesota for use as a detention center for undocumented immigrants has come to fruition.
bit.ly
NEW: Maryland Republicans threatened to sue to keep voters from weighing in on Democrats' newly approved redistricting plan aimed at countering GOP gerrymanders ahead of the 2028 election. If passed by voters in November, it could set the stage for the state's only red district to be eliminated.
Maryland Republicans threaten lawsuit to block vote on Democrats’ redistricting plan
Currently, Republicans hold only one seat in the Maryland congressional delegation, but the redistricting proposal aims to flip that seat to Democrats.
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