yeah i'm not really worried that we're gonna lose this one any more. polling might take a couple weeks to catch up but
Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last wk.I proudly endorse this message from my grandparents ❤️
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Retired voice teacher, singer, and substitute teacher. Now a proud granny nanny!
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make america great again by driving soldiers to suicide
USS Abraham Lincoln sailors tried to jump overboard amid extended deployment – reports
Aircraft carrier’s crew in ninth month at sea and has spent record 250 days consecutively without making land
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"Last month, Trump used a planeload of reporters as an unwitting decoy during a real assassination threat, subpoenaed the reporters who reported something was amiss, then stood up at a black-tie dinner and told those same reporters how lucky they are he tolerates them at all" — @lizdye.bsky.social
Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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Three years ago, DHS created an independent statistics office—but its director just quit. Despite agency pledges for greater transparency, Trump’s immigration crackdown “continues in a fog of fake numbers and statistical subterfuge,” @nickmiroff.bsky.social reports:
The Man in Charge of Immigration Data Just Resigned
The Department of Homeland Security has stopped releasing timely, reliable statistics on immigration enforcement.
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‘If built as planned, data center developers’ gas burning plants could release as much pollution in a year as half of all the passenger vehicles in the US, particulates that can contribute to heart disease, asthma, lung cancer, strokes and other ailments.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/c...
Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution
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I fought and won a major vote in the Senate this weekend to stop the hemp ban that would’ve devastated Minnesota’s farmers, brewers, and small businesses. Minnesota already has sensible safety rules in place, and now this moves to the House and must pass. www.startribune.com/klobuchar-se...
Klobuchar, Senate make midnight move to end hemp ban
A plan to delay the Nov. 12 hemp products ban could allow lawmakers to overturn it permanently.
startribune.com
In April, I was kicked off of X. Now, YouTube is threatening to delete the Nerd Reich podcast. Anyone have experience dealing with this kind of thing? It's clearly a coordinated campaign to kill our channel via false complaints, but it appears YouTube will nuke our channel in the next two days.
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
nytimes.com
Democrats who are worried about more progressive candidates on the ballot in November, please consider that CHARACTER matters now more than ever. Honesty. Courage. Selflessness. Intelligence. Cooperation. Service. (Did I say honesty?) That’s the cultural reset I’m pining for right now.
With our continued use of fossil fuels, we are committing ecocide. We are killing our beautiful, precious, unique Earth habitat. www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
scientificamerican.com
Just 3 weeks ago, JD Vance tried to use the Marine Two helicopter to send his 9-year-old son to a golf lesson. The helicopter costs between $16K-$25K per hour to operate and is paid for by American taxpayers. He has also used it for multiple recent “house hunting” trips in the DC suburbs.
Vance’s security detail ‘fed up’ with hastily arranged personal and family travel requests
Secret Service sources said the Vance family asks included getting their young son to a golf lesson on a military helicopter.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoJD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"
Politics requires that we put our beefs aside and embrace this. Magnanimous victory and gracious defeat, and then turning around to fuck up the real enemy together, heals a lot of wounds.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w agoDEM UNITY: Haley Stevens just hugged Abdul El-Sayed at the Michigan Democratic Party’s Unity Breakfast in Southfield.
Wisconsin, our state is far too beautiful and full of natural wonder to be in the hands of Tom Tiffany. He’s so anti-environmental that even other Republicans think his ideas are too extreme. Read more: https://bit.ly/4wLGVVy
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
Outrageous. Rand Paul should be removed as head of that committee. He has abused his position for a personal grievance.
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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And I'm sure it is no surprise that Sharyn Alfonsi’s 60 Minutes story that investigated the Epstein money trail somehow disappeared after Alfonsi was fired. Wake up America we are witnessing a massive cover-up
Lists on Bluesky are the best thing about it. Want a human-curated feed that is real time and not algorithmically moderated? They are the RSS of the social age. Here are a few of mine, hopefully self-explanatory (thread) bsky.app/profile/did:...
Democrats need to be in the business of winning elections right now, everything else comes second. Ben Wikler joins the LP Podcast to talk about big tent politics and uniting behind a common goal. Watch: https://youtu.be/qmCVz1X-kCw
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2w agoABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
Not exactly a surprising analysis, but a sobering one. open.substack.com/pub/gooznews...
Health care headed for a financing crisis
Uncompensated care for the uninsured is skyrocketing ahead of major cuts in federal funding, setting the stage for a major spike in insurance premiums for the privately insured.
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senator bernie moreno finally makes a statement about the allegations of abuse by rep. max miller against his daughter and granddaughter after miller went live on X this morning to deny everything.
“The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump’s family business.” File under ‘no surprise that the Trump family is involved in money laundering’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
theguardian.com
Holy wow. We've been tracking the DOJ withdrawals of indictments, dismissals by judges, rejections of subpoenas, no bills by grand juries and more. All those are collected here: www.justsecurity.org/146665/court... Add this one to the list:
Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3w agoFLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"
Make no mistake here. This is Trump objectively taking the side of Iran, a nation we are currently at war with, over the Americans in Minnesota because he hates the governor and the fact that a majority of voters there did not vote for him
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Make this the one thing you read today if you only read one thing. 🔥
Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social · 3w agoI remember seeing someone (very reasonably) complaining here a few days ago that there seems to be next to no visible thinking on left and center about how to join the dots on administration and democracy. This is the beginnings of an answer to that complaint donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...
How much do you want to bet the managers of whoever made this have been pushing their employees to use AI more often?
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w agoA U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
