Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
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Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine
🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social claps back at J.D. 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 Trump had no business being president of anything, then decided to suck up to power.”
James Talarico: The young people here might not remember this, but those of you who are a little older might. Not so long ago, you could afford to live a good life here in America. But today that middle class has disappeared. The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall.
El-Sayed was "unelectable." A progressive agenda wouldn't resonate with "real Americans." Well, he won. The agenda won. And he beat $60 million from outside money AND the Dem Establishment AND Islamophobia. Dems will consolidate and Abdulrahman El-Sayed WILL BEAT Rogers and MAGA. Inshallah ;)
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.
So many Republican male lawmakers have been accused of physical and sexual violence against women that the report about this guy, who harassed his employees with unsolicited gifts, inappropriate comments, and demands for dinners, seems almost quaint. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
House Ethics Panel Finds Rep. Chuck Edwards Likely Violated Sexual Harassment Rules
The Ethics Committee called for the censure of Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, who showered two female staffers with lavish gifts and affection.
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Monireh Ahmadi 4 August 2026 The New Masters of Chaos When the Devil no longer needs to stay, it is not because the world has become better. It is because others have learned to do his work.
Dennis Goris 4 August 2026 Get Ready to Toss Your Salad Amid outbreaks of foodborne illnesses, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a cooking show to teach Americans how to prepare healthy, affordable meals.
reporting live from michigan today and just wanted to say: thank you to all our election workers. 💙 *especially* with Trump consistently questioning the integrity of their work — even sending DOJ monitors here.
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Jake Tapper to Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio): "Hold on— I’m not done with the list of women that have accused you of violence."
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." ― Margaret Atwood
America’s unions are proud to call our union sister Roxanne Brown the International President of @steelworkers.bsky.social. Together, we’re building power for Steelworkers and ALL working people across the country ✊
She Never Worked in a Steel Mill. Now She Leads the United Steelworkers.
New union leader Roxanne Brown’s first test will be contract negotiations with U.S. Steel under its new Japanese ownership.
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Trump: "Now we have a big decision to make. Do we take the pavers that are red -- the red, brick pavers -- and do we change them into a granite?"
Did you ever stop to think about how outrageously stupid the whole Reflecting Pool thing was, and how a man's life was turned upside down over a lie? The great @rexhuppke.bsky.social did www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump administration can't govern. He can't even fix a pool. | Opinion
It takes a special kind of stupid to turn the rehabbing of a monument like the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a presidential scandal.
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