Again folks, just need to keep pointing this out: the traditional corporate media covering politics essentially drove Biden out of the WH for this. ↘️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoTrump in Nevada: "Vote for Michael Whatley, by the way" (Whatley is running in North Carolina)
As one does, with a tweet sent out at 3:32 am
Politico@politico.com · 17h agoChuck Edwards says he will end reelection bid after censure recommendation
It's insane that after Trump spent 4 years taking money from foreign governments and letting his son in law negotiate for the US while also making personal deals worth billions with the same countries, it was Biden that the media saddled with a corruption scandal (with no evidence).
💉Josh Rubin, MD@drsandman11.medsky.social · 2d agoCall 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
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
The thing you have to understand is that Joe Biden was very old and inflation was nearly 3% and Kamala Harris simply would not provide enough policy details during tarmac Q&A sessions.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoProbably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/
Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
When the gods want to test a man's character they put him on the computer
I don't care what's in his heart. I care what he says and does and how it affects people in the real world.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5d agoYes, it would also be across the line to do that. Do not pretend to know what is an a parent’s heart about their child. You can run a political campaign on 1 million good points against someone like Vance, and you don’t need to do something like that.
"Biden-Harrisism worked quite well, just not well enough to countervail people's bad feelings after a historic unaccountable pandemic." It's probably the least satisfying account of events to all factions, but it's where the evidence points.
Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.
Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d agosaw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...
if this thing rolled up to me CARRYING A FUCKING CHAINSAW id genuinely probably shoot it
Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅@cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · last wk.we cannot allow this technology to fall into furry hands
far and away I think the single most consequential failures of the 20th/21st century environmental movement was going anti-nuclear. to a great extent we literally chose climate change.
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.sometimes I think about how Germany could have one of the cleanest electricity mixes in the world if they simply didn’t shut down all their nuclear plants
I don't think the main issue with the president taking a $400 million bribe from a foreign state is that his acceptance of the valuable gift in blatant violation of the Constitution was "rushed." But maybe that's just me.
a fun mirror of the Biden-era phenomenon where we had the fastest growing economy in the world (but it was instead reported as a painful recession)
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 2w agoAs Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.
95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.
For a very long time there was an international taboo on assassinating foreign leaders even of countries you were at war with, and the Trump administration thought it was because people were pussies not because "now they're gonna try to kill YOU"
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 2w agoI’m sorry, but like, did they think that the enemy in a war would not actually try to kill them?
Will Stancil is now engaging in this weird strategy where he delinks the post that is criticizing him, but then goes and quotes it too so that you can see he wants to continue the argument from a position of obvious cowardice.
New at the Strength In Numbers Data Lab: How pollsters weight by party ID is influencing Democrats' midterm standing. Different methodologies give a margin anywhere between D+7 and D+10 (among registered voters — likely even higher among likely voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-07-23...
Democrats' edge in midterms polling depends on how pollsters weight by party
What would our Strength In Numbers polling say if we weighted our samples by different targets for party identity?
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There is a serious enthusiasm gap that is growing. NC11 is definitely a reach district that is only competitive during a wave election and yet... avlwatchdog.org/democrat-age...
Democrat Ager reports a nearly 9-to-1 fundraising advantage over Edwards in GOP-leaning 11th District • Asheville Watchdog
Democratic congressional candidate Jamie Ager outraised U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards by a nearly 9-to-1 margin in the second quarter of this year, according to the latest federal campaign financial reports...
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there's a pretty good tweet that's something like "people think that under communism they'll be given a luxiourus stipend to make art no one likes, instead of being forcibly retrained as a dental hygienist and deployed to Bangor Maine to care for the elderly population there"
Jurassic Park is a really good book that is somehow transcended by one of the best movies ever made
J.M. Berger@jmberger.com · 2w agoWhat are your favorite adaptations that transcend their source material? Blade Runner springs to mind
The problem with the MCU is that they're still trying to prop up their dead Avengers storyline instead of just ditching all of that and finally committing to a full-blown version of the X-Men universe. Something that gives me an Alpha Flight movie at the very least.
