Indeed. #Luigion

Draft dodger says what, now? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Bone Spurs President Uses AI to Award Himself Ultimate Medal

Draft-dodging Donald Trump has cast himself as a battlefield leader in the mold of America’s greatest generals—while appearing to bestow himself with the nation’s highest military honor. The 80-year-o...

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as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

For the sake of Democratic Party cohesion, it should become conventional wisdom sooner rather than later that AIPAC is in the general sense little more than a Republican donor front.

IMEU Policy Project@imeupolicy.bsky.social · 10h ago

AIPAC is the biggest source of Republican money in Democratic elections, and now they are making clear they will spend even more to defeat Democrats in November. They advocate for policies the vast majority of Democrats viscerally disagree with. No Democrat should be taking money from AIPAC.

Former DHS Sec. Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski dining at Grocer's Table in Wayzata. The sheer audacity. You don't get to brunch in the community you terrorized with Operation Metro Surge's mass deportation raids—not after smearing locals like Renée Good and Alex Pretti as "domestic terrorists".

Trump hires to his government people he sees on Fox News, and then throws tantrum when it turns out they suck ass.

"The ad is just a taste of the onslaught to come—one that will traffic unabashedly in lies and anti-Muslim tropes. The AIPAC-funded attacks of the last few months will seem modest by comparison."👇

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 3h ago

"Literally minutes" after El-Sayed was declared the winner, Republicans posted an ad that describe him "as the 'most radical Senate candidate in America,'" used "his full name, Abdulrahman El-Sayed, then accused him of supporting terrorists and ended with his refusal to disavow Hasan Piker."

@butterfaces

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Why do red states have more suicides? Umm... could it be because they're red states? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming (Gift Article)

Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.

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Happy Montgomery Riverfront Brawl Day! 🪑🏊🏾‍♀️🛳️

Russian attacks on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded dozens, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday, as Ukraine's depleted air defenses failed to stop any of Moscow's incoming missiles overnight. https://to.pbs.org/4hbU7hv

It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”

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Democratic Senators cave to Trump so they can get back on the campaign trail and tell everyone they're leading the fight against Trump. Every time.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6h ago

The fact that the Democratic senators are agreeing to a continuing resolution until Dec 11th with NO compromises for them is absolute political malpractice and head scratching. Why not even try to ban like…. The arch? Anything!

Oregon has set a record for the worst fire season in history, with 2m acres burned, and 2 months before the return of fall rains. Climate change is here. It looks like scorched forests, fires that encroach on major cities, & lost commerce and recreation. My video report from smoke fouled Portland

The most glaring double standard in American politics today is that if a Democrat said 1/10th about GOP-leaning areas what this guy says about cities on the daily there'd be a media dogpile so swift and vicious there'd be nothing left of their bones for the hyenas to pick at.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."

Nothing says "nothing to hide" quite like spending $1.4 billion to make oversight harder. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Trump’s solution to abuse in ICE facilities is pricey—and evil

Instead of working to alleviate problems and improve conditions, the Trump administration is choosing to retreat behind a veil of secrecy.

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I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

When Fred Guttenberg calls Bernie Sanders an "antisemite" and dismisses Brad Lander's Jewishness, he is defining identity through an association with Israel's right-wing government. It's similar to how MAGA often defines true "whiteness" as allegiance to far-right politics.

On July 22, Corey Ruiz of Madison became one of the roughly 1,200 Americans killed by police each year. After his fatal shooting, Wisconsin Watch spoke with UW Law professor Ion Meyn about police training, use-of-force rules and who should shape policing policy. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/08/wisc...

As I was saying

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 4w ago

At some point we are going to have to reckon with what percentage of the Thought Leadership we get from this class of people is just drug addiction. Either a lot of credulous reporters have never listened to someone tooted out of their mind go on a monologue or they're afraid to call it out.

I know almost nothing about Michigan polio, but it sure looks like AES is doing better in the non-Detroit parts of Michigan. The college towns I get, but the UP and nearby areas I don't understand.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h ago

Counties with plenty of outstanding votes that might benefit whom Stevens: Wayne with 95,000 Macomb 26,000 Genessee 12,000 Abdul El-Sayed: Ingham 11,000 Wasthenaw 22,000 Kalamazoo 11,000 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meet Timothy Derrickson. This gentleman was at city council last night with a bunch of trades people endorsing the data center project. This guy got called out for the ss bolts on his leg and in turn assaulted someone for it.

In his 2020 run, Buttigieg stopped releasing the names of his campaign bundlers after scrutiny. They included: -superlobbyist, and now Palantir lobbyist, Steve Elmendorf -billionaire Blackstone exec Hamilton James -"Silicon Valley's favorite fixer" Bradley Tusk -Merck's head of public affairs, etc.

Here Are the Lobbyists and Corporate Execs Collecting Checks for Pete Buttigieg

As the Buttigieg campaign stops releasing its bundler names and blocks press from fundraising events, here are some of the pharmaceutical and finance executives behind its rise in the big money race, ...

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Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · yesterday

We see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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i resent that netflix won't stop showing me my murdered student's face and i'm unable to hide it from my homepage