1. Now-deleted audio shows that Acting AG Todd Blanche privately told faith leaders the DOJ is working to make the 2022 Dobbs decision, which revoked federal abortion protections, “permanent in every single state.” Blanche also suggested a crackdown on the mailing of abortion pills.🧵
Or, as @radiofreetom.bsky.social put it: "the president has encased himself in the hard amber of irrationality that inevitably surrounds authoritarian leaders. He has become detached from reality—and that detachment is extremely dangerous." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Irrationality Is Dangerous
The president’s recent rant is a sign of serious dysfunction in the Oval Office.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterdayWith his ridiculous claim about nonexistent vandalism at the Reflecting Pool, Trump is either trying to gaslight us or, more likely, he’s gaslighted himself: he’s told himself so many lies that he has lost all sense of what is actually happening. presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
Klobuchar: "I'm gonna live what I'm saying, and that means making sure that small towns can develop, that we keep our rural hospitals strong, and that's not gonna happen when my opponents -- all 3 of them -- have embraced Donald Trump's big beautiful bill that cut Medicaid!"
How is this not a bigger story?!?! Capital One Financial hit back against a lawsuit over its decision to close the Trump Organization's bank accounts years ago, stating that it did so after a review by anti-money laundering experts. Read more here: https://bit.ly/3RN2QMQ #TrumpCrimeFamily
HAHAHAHAHAH Judge Box Wine volunteered for this. youtu.be/B_M8dS6ohlo?...
Pirro gets a lesson in DEMENTIA
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Pope Leo meets rock icon Patti Smith at the Vatican www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...
Pope Leo meets rock icon Patti Smith at the Vatican
Smith, 79, was in Rome to perform a show in the city's Circus Maximus on July 27. Although she does not consider herself Catholic, the rock legend wore a Franciscan Tau cross during her audience with ...
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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Todd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The $1.776b Slush Fund Isn't As Dead As Senators Cornyn And Tillis Seem To Be Willing To Believe
MS NOW’s Mychael Schnell reported Monday morning that “Overnight: A spokesperson for Sen.
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I’m so furious that we’re in a situation where now everybody in the world has to check their own behaviour, be on their guard in public and be suspicious of anyone wearing glasses, in case they’re being filmed by a pervert. All because Mark Zuckerberg is a greedy creep
Ruth Watson@ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 2d agoPervert glasses should be banned from general use.
Use real taxis. Another thing about Uber and Lyft: They'll let anyone drive for them. Here in Albuquerque, at least one of their drivers has epilepsy and drives illegally for them before the required 6-month seizure-free period to drive legally.
Pedestrianize MPLS@mplsdromomania.bsky.social · 2d agoAn absolutely vile company. Ride sharing is a plague and another aspect of car violence harming our society.
MS: One of your criticisms of Fauci is that he said one thing publicly, where he sort of downplayed the virus, & one thing privately, where he acknowledge its seriousness. President Trump did exact the same thing. Does Trump deserve the same level of scrutiny? RAND PAUL: *immediately changes topic*
Senator with access to classified material accuses Trump of murder in boat strikes. •crickets• from most major news organizations. Thank you CNN.com.
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CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
You have to love the concision of this. we’ll see in November if all of this can overcome racism.
G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 2d agoThe reason Trump’s approval keeps hitting a new all-time low every day, and why Republicans might lose the Senate, is because GOP voters are losing their enthusiasm for his agenda, while independents move in droves toward an energized Democratic base. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...
and then we'll give it back when Michigan elects a GOPer to the Senate
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoEnten: "This is the best looking polling for Texas Democrats in a Senate race since really the 20th century ... Talarico is doing 9 points better than O'Rourke [in 2018] ... this could be very, very real. Democrats have a real shot in Texas."
Digging on ridic playlist from @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social including a deep cut from Willie Colon. Joe Bataan! open.spotify.com/playlist/5hC...
Grumbach's #SongOfTheDay
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I got a text from Rashida Tlaib begging for money. I said, “Fuck you and I’m sending money to Shanelle Jackson.” I sent $25.00 and I hope you win Ms. Jackson.
“Are those ‘REAL Polling Numbers’ in the room with us right now, Mr. Trump?”
Hmmm looks like fighting back (or at least not surrendering /cooperating in advance) works.
The Empty City@davidallengreen.bsky.social · 3d agoNEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
