One of my great frustrations with the media is they know Trump is full of shit on things like this. But because they don’t know if he’s lying or delusional they type up neither possibility. But they should be loudly writing that those are the only two possibilities and both are disqualifying!

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

This is a great piece from Scott. I wish there was more discussion of this massive Overton Window move. It’s fascinating, as Scott says, and also depressing and dangerous. Countless public servants were doing the best they could in an absolutely unprecedented and deadly situation.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · yesterday

The great Covid bait and switch www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...

Agree 100% here.

Jacob Schriner-Briggs@jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 2d ago

If one of the primary functions of the press is to check power, it really feels like much of the mainstream media ecosystem is fundamentally broken. Worse, as of now I see no institutions capable of stepping in as a viable, preferable alternative.

That is terrible (and an illustration of why I can’t listen to NPR anymore).

Totally. His ability to dine out on an (acknowledged!) success from 3+ decades ago is remarkable (and an indictment of the MSM).

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 3d ago

The way we're supposed to listen to this guy 35 years after his one achievement is incredible. Pat Caddell (Carter's Carville) was by 1992 a pariah in the Democratic Party, and he ended up on Brietbart, Fox News, and the Trump campaign. They all do this. You can just stop listening to them.

THIS

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 4d ago

A synthesis of Republican bad faith and Democratic Party political failure.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

NORMAL PEOPLE: Every single one of these assholes told a dumb brazen lie to our faces and should never be trusted again. CORPORATE MEDIA: Thank you for coming back to chat with us, sir!

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

The thing I wish that more Democrats and threatened universities and vilified news organizations understood better about Trump is this: He never has a second move. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...

Trump Threatens to Withdraw Blanche as Attorney General, Dealing Blow to Nomination

President Trump’s threat followed a day of fruitless negotiations with two Republican holdouts, Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.

nytimes.com

It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?

FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.

President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.

eenews.net

Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.

Yale is on the verge of cutting a deal with Trump to change its admission procedures. Reminder for any school dealing with Trump's extortion: You can't appease a tyrant. Surrendering to authoritarianism only invites more of it.

Yale Loses the Capitulation Bowl - The American Prospect

The university’s president embarrasses herself in trying to give in to Trump blackmail.

prospect.org

And the MSM dutifully picks it up, every. Single. Time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump is asked about the New York Post's fake reporting about 9/11 families allegedly not wanting Mamdani to go to memorial services. This is how Murdoch launders smears into the news cycle.

Exactly this. *How* Dems do their messaging is so poor, regardless of the content of the message.

David Corn@davidcorn.bsky.social · last wk.

This shows the gap between GOP & Dem. messaging. The Republicans NEVER stop pressing their false narratives. They bang the drums over & over. The Dems make their case & move on. They should have been non-stop pummeling Trump for Covid (and 1/6) for years, never letting anyone forget these sins.

I have criticized the left for diversity statements and pronouns. But I have also criticized President Trump for killing civilians, raping women, and running a massive crypto scam. It's what makes me a neutral, balanced columnist.

Republicans are currently denouncing everyone in the Democratic Party as a “communist” and if you think Democrats firing at their left flank will make those attacks *less likely* and *less effective* you should try reading up on the history of McCarthyism

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

🔴Civilian control of policing 🔴Amnesty for all immigrants 🔴Reparations & tribal sovereignty If Dems don’t start drawing clear distinctions between the Democratic Party and the DSA, Republicans will gladly do it for them. And they’ll use it to define every Democrat on the ballot. 3/3

Not sure there’s a more gifted retail politician (at least in an executive position) on our side currently.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.

Schatz has the same pathology as Newsom: a need to show "I'm just like you" to awful people with bad values. It's not even cynicism; it yields no additional votes. Destroying USAID was an illegal act by white nationalists with genocidal intent and it has killed people. That's more than just "bad."

Aaron Huertas@aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Gross to see a senator skip over the part where the aid was cut off illegally and without warning. Cooking their brains on a right wing owned social media site.

It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.

I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges

Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Truly absurd headline. And most importantly, grossly factually inaccurate. Beyond any reasonable doubt, Trump is a sociopath; he does not grieve, nor is he capable of grief. Even if journalists are too timid to report that truth, they should not report the contrary as truth.

This should be a lightbulb moment for Democrats: You are free to run on this platform because Republicans are going to accuse you of it whether you do or not!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The Democrats are gonna terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance and then they're gonna approve DC and Puerto Rico as states. They get 4 more senators, 12 more congressmen, like 40 electoral votes ... you don't want to see me cry."

This state supreme court opinion pulls no punches: “This court does not anchor Hawaiʻi’s due process rights to the federal floor. Especially one that keeps sinking. . . . State constitutionalism makes it easy to consider Roberts Court jurisprudence ‘white noise.’”

Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The Roberts Court sees only white. It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect. The freed people, their descendants, and all others denied equal citizenship. The 14th Amend. is not colorblind. It never was.” Me? No a judge www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Man, yall just some certified haters the halftime show is dope asf and cute as hell and far more entertaiing than the actual game lmfao

Kids of all colors celebrating. I love it. Eff you DJT

Dudamel and Animal. I love it.

“Dude you were supposed to make that”

So basically they were like “ok we each get a half.” LOL

Yes, yes, and yes. On the money.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3w ago

Can't be overstated just how deeply Republicans oppose (a) merit in employment; (b) functional government; and (c) the notion Americans have any shared interests. That's why they don't even feel a tension between "being a bigot" and "undermining national security." To them, the latter is irrelevant.