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Our capacity for justice makes DEMOCRACY possible, but our penchant for ugliness and injustice demands democracy.
Demonization of the Left is now the primary strategy of the Right. The fact that their demonization is in the form of falsehoods, cartoonish hyperbole, and misstated epithets, shows you how they got nothing, they don't serve The People, and they're speaking only to a dwindling hardcore base.
…We need to win this Senate seat, because Elissa Slotkin deserves a partner like Abdul in the U.S. Senate.”
Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 8h agoFormer 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...
A pro-democracy legal group is suing for access to public records to shed light on the involvement federal immigration agencies have had in Trump’s efforts to undermine elections. The group believes US Citizenship and Immigration Services is working to identify and purge people from voter rolls.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left www.nbcnews.com/politics/202... Now let's see the moderates put on their big person pants on & get on board, like they always say... "For the good of the Democratic Party" & 🖕🏼 #AIPAC
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
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Sure, but that doesn't negate his point in the video. People create content for podcasts, TV shows, movies, etc. for others to enjoy. That's not the same as them saying people should forgo real life experiences and live through that content.
The board of a Michigan township agreed to rezone a terrain to make way for a data center. Residents opposed to the data center forced a vote on the matter, and they blocked the rezoning tonight: www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...
A major defeat for conservatives in Kansas, who were hoping to make inroads on the state supreme court by switching the state to regular elections. Their measure was defeated 61/39. (I'll have more to say on what this means for the court going forward soon.)
If anyone up I'm going live talking about this historic Abdul El-Sayed win, what it means, and what we have to do moving forward to beat MAGA. thelefthook.substack.com
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Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.
Abdul El-Sayed has officially won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan. M I C H I G A N 🥳
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
Don't let anyone gaslight you. Tonight was a HUGE win and represents a seismic shift in Democratic politics.
💯 Congratulations to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, notching a Midwest victory for the left
The former public health official has defeated Rep. Haley Stevens, NBC News projects, despite facing a huge advertising disadvantage.
nbcnews.com
For those looking for more information: kyivindependent.com/russian-ball...
Russian ballistic missile attack kills 17, injures 44 in Kyiv and surrounding area as rescue efforts continue
A massive Russian ballistic missile and drone attack killed 15 people and injured 51 others in Ukraine's capital and Kyiv Oblast as fires engulfed Kyiv and its suburbs, authorities reported overnight ...
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Kyiv. The smell of last night’s attack is in the air. I’m making warcoffee. Reading the news. Warehouses belonging to civilian businesses were on fire. A railway station in the Kyiv region was hit. People were killed.
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos paid Trump’s tariffs on all those Chinese made products he brought into the USA. Then, Jeff raised all his prices & Americans ended paying for those tariffs, with higher prices. Bezos got a nice big fat tariff refund (paid twice). Americans got bupkis.
I think there is a First Amendment argument to be made here
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
This is a weird form of gaslighting MAGA is very fond of: They act like the preservation of core American traditions and norms that have been around for centuries is actually some wacky novelty. I guess because they want to pose as “conservatives” rather than the radicals they are.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · yesterdaySenator Banks calls the Supreme Court’s decision not to change the law on birthright citizenship “the worst Supreme Court decision of my lifetime.” Keep in mind that he was born and lived his entire life under the legal interpretation of the 14th Amendment the Court kept in place.
“Spencer, if you’re out there, please continue to shitpost me.” @profgalloway.com tells @karaswisher.bsky.social that getting dragged by Spencer Pratt feels like a badge of honor.
As of August 4, 2026, the official U.S. military death toll stands between 18 and 19, while at least 624 service members have been injured since Trump’s Iran War began on February 28, 2026.
A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flagged for potential money laundering should be a far bigger story…
Is the President Laundering Money?
A major bank closing 300 Trump bank accounts because they were flag...
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Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters who packed the meeting room — and two overflow rooms — to demand that their voting locations remain open. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage
The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters
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