Saw a bit on MSNow recently about how AES was winning in part because of Medicare for All, but the pundit talked to voters and "they don't understand the policy, they just hear it as having a right to health care." 1) great! 2) Has lack of "understanding" policy ever applied to Trump voters?

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

he won by the same margin as Trump, which represented "a huge mandate" back then.

Politico@politico.com · 10h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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This really made me laugh. if I was in the hospital, it’d shake me up. Even knowing it’s just a weird guy in an outfit It’s just the getting up, eating, putting on grim reaper costume & going over to do this It’s like that spate of scary clowns on corners a few yrs ago. What are they doing NOW?

Aidan O’Brien@aidanobrien.bsky.social · 8h ago

First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

CNN currently has ‘breaking news’ that it’s too close to call. They just can’t do it

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h ago

Thank you, Michigan. I love you from the bottom of my heart!

NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks

Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.

zeteo.com

‘Shredded’ is funny as hell

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h 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.

Why is it not front page news on every major media outlet that the United States commander in chief had hundreds of his bank accounts frozen for money laundering??????

El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

Her speech... she is remarkably lacking in grace or dignity. Bitter, self-pitying... and look, I like El-Sayed a lot, and hope for the best. But just his speech—and I believe fully if he'd lost, it'd be the same speech—just has grace, dignity and his consistent and important message

Outspoken™️@out5p0ken.bsky.social · 11h ago

Abdul El-Sayed has officially won the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan. M I C H I G A N 🥳

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Many people don't know the best single that George Michael ever released, or rather the best _version_ of his best single ever: the Fully Extended Mix of Fastlove Part II. At 3:55, he introduces a new verse, soon his vocoder shows up, and then we're off to the races. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP6O...

George Michael - Fastlove Part II (Full Extended Mix)

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I’ve been a loyal democratic voter for 30 years and I’m tired as fuck of hearing how we can’t do things. I don’t blame people who aren’t political diehards for telling the party to fuck off after serial disappointment

Stoned Feminist@ladylinds.bsky.social · 2d ago

I agree it's a terrible mindset. But I can't blame people for feeling that way. I've been faithfully voting for dems since 2000 and all it's done is make me poorer with fewer rights

They are so goddamn weird. My life is full of weirdos, and none of them have the deranged whatever the fuck is going on with not only our leaders and their people, but media, business leaders etc. They’re goddamn off putting

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

You know, I don’t see China as some good guys, but they’re kicking our ass in countless ways, a lot of what’s bad or sinister about their government are in full motion here for that matter — I will say this is more credible than US AI stories ‘the AI is sentient! And sad too! It’s THAT powerful!’

Forbes@forbes.com · 2d ago

The Chinese tech giant hailed its model as its “most capable.”

“ME is a very dangerous & debilitating condition.” Karen Gordon’s mum, explains why travelling 100 miles for an assessment could cause a serious relapse. Karen needs tube feeding & would be better off at home but is effectively trapped in hospital. #MECFS #SevereMEAwarenessWeek

If ‘Moroccan migrant invasion’ turns out to be the US-Israel-Moroccan setup it’s beginning to seem like, every major news organization went way out of their way to report the ‘invasion’ immediately The new reporting on the fuckery, on the other hand, urge ‘caution’ about what really happened

Who’s getting subsidies again? This is who this principled opinion is being pushed by Tax cheats and thieves. They are taking hundreds of millions to pay themselves with OUR TAX MONEY. That’s where their ‘credits’ get taken from Go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Dems and every other official in power not only fail o DO anything about it, they don’t even bother to mention 98% of it They’re clearly in agreement with a lot of it, but Christ the RESOURCES & time they put into a genocide partnership & screaming ‘socialist extremism!’—their only real priorities

Inoza@inoza.bsky.social · yesterday

I realize this is tired to say at this point, and all it does is fill me with helplessness and rage that the people I voted for have abdicated their duty & abused the power we gave them—but daily I see ‘Trump orders (countless things)’ & done deal He doesn’t have he goddamn authority for most of it

I realize this is tired to say at this point, and all it does is fill me with helplessness and rage that the people I voted for have abdicated their duty & abused the power we gave them—but daily I see ‘Trump orders (countless things)’ & done deal He doesn’t have he goddamn authority for most of it

that was a terrible and dangerous thing to completely lose. When it became unthinkable to even consider such a thing, we end up with rot, people so far above, sentence death on strangers, automatically values them above all even more than then. And we accept phone calls & meager ceremony as enough

Inoza@inoza.bsky.social · yesterday

I’m watching Infinity War, a wakanda scene where black panther & captain America leap ahead of the army to be first fighters & thought ‘that’s how it was for centuries, most of time, the leaders deciding to war were up front’ And they HAD to be, or else their oppressed people would turn on them

I’m watching Infinity War, a wakanda scene where black panther & captain America leap ahead of the army to be first fighters & thought ‘that’s how it was for centuries, most of time, the leaders deciding to war were up front’ And they HAD to be, or else their oppressed people would turn on them

Who’s getting subsidies again? This is who this principled opinion is being pushed by Tax cheats and thieves. They are taking hundreds of millions to pay themselves with OUR TAX MONEY. That’s where their ‘credits’ get taken from Go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

America’s concentration camps must be shut down now They are sites of horror: torture, rampant spread of infectious diseases, inadequate sanitation, hygiene, & medical care, & a mounting death toll Just as “better training of guards” wasn’t the answer to Auschwitz, you can’t “reform” these camps

Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 2d ago

Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The federal New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...

Education, science, consideration of the future in numerous ways, infrastructure, public transportation—of ALL the things China is just absolutely kicking our asses in—the worst thing, in multiple catastrophic ways, to be in some race with them is of course #AI data centers.

@lastweektonight.com has a story tonight about #SantaCruz being the first city to introduce (sinister) 'Predictive Policing'. The good news is, the city has since become the first city to BAN Predictive Policing, but also recently was the 1st city in CA to cancel their #Flock contract

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

Bullying works! And so does good journalism. Keep it up.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...