Good for her and good for everyone on the left!

VoteHub@votehub.com · 6h ago

NEWS — Haley Stevens has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan U.S. Senate race against Republican Mike Rogers.

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced Tuesday — Missouri’s primary day, the latest he could legally push the decision — that he will not certify a petition that would’ve challenged Republicans’ new 7-1 gerrymander.

Missouri Secretary of State Comes Up With Reason to Not Certify Challenge to New Republican Gerrymander

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) announced Tuesday — Missouri’s primary...

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So are you all doing anything about right wing media consolidation through legislation? Or pressuring Democratic donors to do anything at this scale with media ownership? Operatives have been warning you all about this gap for decades!

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

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Well then, if we don't weaponize the shit out of everything in the next administration and aim it square at your asses it will be an absolutely utter failure by Democrats and the next administration.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Tillis: "Everybody has this view that they are as pure as the driven snow and it's the other side that has a problem. I think we both have a problem, folks. If you want to talk about weaponization, take a look at Biden, take a look at Obama, take a look at Crossfire Hurricane ... "

"A new bombshell report from Sen Wyden reveals that JPMorgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America systematically failed to report Epstein’s suspicious transactions for nearly 2 decades despite knowing he was a convicted sex offender w ties to human trafficking & now Trump Admin is covering it up"

Aaron Parnas@aaronparnas.bsky.social · yesterday

BREAKING: Bombshell report alleges the Trump Administration and CBS News have engaged in covering-up how banks and Wall Street bankrolled Epstein. United States runs out of long range missiles. Trump demands reparations. DOJ drops more reflecting pool cases. Subscribe to support my work:

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

My money is that Trump and pals secured him a cushy after congress job.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "Given this agreement with Mr Blanche, I expect the DOJ to live up to this in future litigation and I will vote to advance him out of the committee today"

Almost every city in the world needs to urgently understand the need to get really good at planning and designing for shade. #UrbanHeat

Bryn Davidson - Lanefab@lanefab.com · 3d ago

A friend’s recent photo of civic shading in Malaga

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · 2d ago

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

A lot of thrashing about this, but if someone is able to reach these people and start moving them in the direction of understanding why wearing a mask is important, I can't in good conscience be mad about that. Also, if she can grab a few of their votes and fuck with big healthcare companies, bonus!

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

NEW: Jake Taylor from MSNOW says Jeanine Pirro just arrived at the West Wing. Uh oh! Methinks her days are numbered!

I am all for this as long as we close the door behind us. This is not a good way under any circumstance to run a democracy. So, if we have to brute force the fixes needed using the same tooling then we better make sure it can't be undone the same way the next time around.

Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 2d ago

Been thinking this in regards to the SAVE America Act. Most likely it fails. But if Rs get some version of a bill that looked "dead" bc the president never shuts the fuck up about it and signs EOs to kludge it until his party passes a version of it.. you'd be stupid not to copy that!

It is pretty interesting watching Trump deal with someone who acts just like he does every day. Too bad we're all paying the price for it...

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Update: No deal, back to war, Trump says.

If you're a workaholic, particularly a reluctant one, which Hank Green is known to be, working in an environment that is pushing you to always be producing more content then the perceived boost in productivity, and yes the pernicious sycophancy of these systems, is a hell of a dopamine hit.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2d ago

As a confirmed dopamine addict who has thrown myself off bridges and out of a plane in the past chasing some of that sweet stuff, I genuinely don't get it

I'm a bad person. I believe I could have done anything.

Paper ballots, deportation of all immigrants and banning congressional stock trading are among the issues that unite the Republican candidates in the race for the newly-drawn 9th Congressional District while the Democrats in the race focus mostly on “kitchen table issues."

In crowded primaries for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District, what separates the candidates? • Tennessee Lookout

A May redistricting by Tennessee Republicans opened the floodgates to candidates from from both parties in the 9th Congressional District.

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The city of Spokane is on fire.

The fires in Spokane County are already destroying homes as it has jumped the river and crossed into the city. Please keep us in your prayers. Read us for updates or follow me on Instagram for video. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

'Never seen it this bad': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

A wildfire driven by high winds jumped the Spokane River Saturday afternoon, burning homes and quickly moving into the Indian Trail Neighborhood.

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Capital One’s lawyers would not have signed-off on closing Trump’s account unless the money laundering evidence was very strong; it would simply be way too much of a legal/reputational risk

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

First of all fuck this person. Second of all, pretty funny how us on the empathetic left can pick and choose which addictions are addicts faults or not. You all are really misdirecting your self-loathing at the wrong fucking people. Looking forward to them blowing up and fucking right off.

Absolutely fucking awful human beings.

As someone who is deeply anti-AI and yet is forced to use it every day I am absolutely appalled at how people are treating Hank Green. These LLM's are deeply sycophantic. They will confirm your priors simply because they're your priors. Be angry at the Anthropic's and OpenAI's of the world...

An officer reported other cops for using racist, sexist and homophobic slurs at work, filed an Internal Affairs complaint & submitted recordings of the other cops being bigoted as evidence b/c otherwise nothing would be done about it. He’s now charged with 16 felonies & could get 13 years in prison.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 5d ago

LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments to be charged with felony eavesdropping

Subtext of this report from @colbylsmith.bsky.social & @bencasselman.bsky.social : FOMC is PISSED (No link yet, will post when I have one)