Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Hoooooooly fuck. This is pretty worst-case-scenario in terms of controlling spread - hundreds of cases, months earlier than was officially known and reported?

EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected

A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says

science.org

He lied. Yet another major scandal for the Trump regime. Everyone involved should be fired and brought up on charges.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

google has added generative ai capability to Google Earth and i cannot conceive of any positive, good-faith use of this

Trump insulting blue cities, states, refusing to give aid to those states who haven't voted for him, while collecting bribes, shaking down companies for stakes in their companies, insider trading, selling pardons is all well documented. It's just not acknowledged in day to day coverage of him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter the whale up until a couple was found having sex inside it. Now the whale’s jaws are opened only for special occasions, such as Swedish election days.

Rough day but wife is stable and feeling OK. Agreed to DNR but they're keeping her BP up and her pain controlled. They had trouble getting her to use the BiPAP but I was able to get her to wear it. We're not quite as just comfort care, but sliding toward that.

A good look at claims about male hormonal birth control. The only thing I'd add is, as @maggiemcneill.bsky.social say, no woman in her right mind would trust her safety to "Sure. I've taken injections for six months and regularly gotten my sperm count checked." gidmk.substack.com/p/why-dont-w...

Why Don't We Have A Male Birth Control Pill Yet?

The complex story behind a common myth

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I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

digitaldigging.org

Good-faith concern on this issue would be going, "hmm, professional sports leagues should probably have some standards in place to ensure trans competitors aren't getting an unfair advantage," googling for 5 minutes, realizing every sports league already has those standards and dropping it.

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 6d ago

i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice

You are working in a job that doesn't pay horribly but not great either, prices are rising, and you see some 24 year old Hillsdale grad in the Trump administration making $180,000 a year and are really bad at it, and you are just saying to yourself, WTF.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 5d ago

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

One of the worst things about the Senate’s attempted Fauci show trial is how the supposed evidence against him is early in COVID he considered multiple hypotheses, then increasingly ruled some unlikely as evidence came in. The objection is he did science. Fundamentally that is what’s under attack.

There’s no “global increase in teenage suicide.” In fact, 29 of 32 Western nations saw teen suicide DECREASE as social media use rose

There’s no “global increase in teenage suicide.” In fact, 29 of 32 Western nations saw teen suicide DECREASE as social media use rose

How on earth have crusaders to ban teens from social media gotten away with fabricating the impression that social media use fosters more teen suicide?

mikemales.substack.com

One drum I keep beating is that the Trumpification of the Republican Party is irreversible. Even after he's gone it will be exclusively cranks, charlatans, and malevolent antisocial goons. "It was always like that"-it wasn't! It's gotten steadily, measurably worse, and he was the nail in the coffin

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

New, from me: It is fine to disagree with aspects of the pandemic response. But what we saw at Fauci's hearing was something different: a show trial where cranks tried to threaten and shift blame to an public servant. Here is why this is bad for all of us.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/watching-t...

The Trump admin had a real theory of war: Put on a show of toughness, tell people how manly you are, disdain law, do war crimes, and you win. Earlier losses came from leaders too "weak" to do that. It was a very stupid theory. But they espoused it a lot, really seem to believe it, and acted on it.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 6d ago

President Toddler

Back in ICU. May go on ventilator. No one is giving up but it’s fairly grim.

The thing about the government run grocery stores in New York is there are like five of them

Historically, Trump's numbers are closer to those of presidents who aren't invited to the next nominating convention than to presidents who get to hand pick the next nominee. Act accordingly.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump absolutely cratering by many metrics in new CNN poll: 66% say he puts himself over country 61% disapprove of ballroom, arch, etc 57% say lacks sharpness to serve (!) 73% say he's out of touch w/regular people (!!) His personalist project is over. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2137...

Sal 11000: So Argos was waiting for Odysseus for 20 years? Me: Yep. Sal 11000: You realize that's like ... a century in dog years. Me: 😢😭

He boasts about Alabama having the highest per capita COVID deaths in the nation (they didn't but it was very high). Hey, dumbass ... ya think maybe your lies had something to do with that?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

1.3 million people voted for Ron Johnson in 2022. Statistically, about 10,000 of those died within the next year. I therefore conclude that voting for Johnson is far more deadly than the COVID vaccine.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

"These injections cause death" -- Ron Johnson claims the covid vaccine is "the great government scandal of my lifetime"

Accountant who is hooking up with Miss Savannah Beach. (My people have a long history of getting women out of our league.)

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

I approve of the BBC's new incarnation of the Doctor

David Tennant as The Doctor, Sad in Rain

ALT: David Tennant as The Doctor, Sad in Rain

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I 💙 Dogs@dogs100.bsky.social · 7d ago

Everyone has his moment….

Wife update: been a struggle this week. She's tired and laboring to breathe. Surgery planned for tomorrow to run a catheter into the pleural cavity to make it easier to breathe. Hoping they will then address the congestive heart failure caused by two years of chemo.