JamesMathews
@jamesmathews.bsky.social
#ClimateCrisis #Anti-Fascist #Ukraine #BLM #LGBQT+ #NativeAmericans #BodilyAutonomy, ex-Twitter, HR consultant/workplace investigator/PI, ex-DOD contractor, husband/father/grandfather, Air Force brat, NBA addict in Las Vegas via Los Angeles & Portland.
Abdul El-Sayed has won and Haley Stevens called him to concede. El-Sayed's speech last night focused on unity. Stevens has released a congratulatory statement saying she's proud to offer her support to him. Their ability to unite the coalition will be the key to a general win.
This is really important work. Most people don’t know about many of these abuses of power. Share widely, please!
The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 12h agoIt just never ends with this guy
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Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 13h ago🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
This account, based on interviews with several people with knowledge of the events, demonstrated a core truth of Mr. Trump’s second term: Anyone willing to contradict the president is in trouble, even if the dissenter happens to be a family friend www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.
nytimes.com
“… The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator — a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet. …” 🌱
Yale Environment 360@yalee360.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Arctic just had its hottest year on record, while measures of sea ice hit a new low. via The Guardian
Kevin Warsh, roughly two months into his tenure as chairman, is facing a reckoning after a news conference following the Fed’s July meeting that confused investors and called into question his commitment to quelling inflation. It was a costly blunder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...
Warsh Wanted ‘Regime Change.’ Markets Are Demanding a Reset. (Gift Article)
After his latest appearance set off a bout of volatility, Kevin M. Warsh, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is under pressure to clear up mixed signals about his commitment to getting inflation dow...
nytimes.com
Are Republicans going to let the Heritage Foundation destroy Head Start? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
nytimes.com
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
publicnotice.co
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
The president is having trouble cleaning up his own messes, according to political analyst David Rothkopf.
Trump Is Drowning in Failure as Crises Mount: Political Guru
The president is having trouble cleaning up his own messes, according to political analyst David Rothkopf.
thedailybeast.com
Today we filed a brief on behalf of the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Leader Schumer, and Leader Jeffries in the Supreme Court. We are supporting the stay entered by the lower court against Trump's second anti-voting Executive Order. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
Dr. Angel Foster has made $5 abortion pills so accessible that abortions in Mississippi are up a mind-boggling 85% since Dobbs.
She's remaking the abortion landscape one pill at a time
Far from buckling under Dobbs, the access movement has created “a whole new way of doing healthcare.”
motherjones.com
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Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d agoMAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Everyone should know who Borlaug is. This is the legacy Musk and Trump destroyed.
KC@kcwinters.bsky.social · 3d agoTom Vilsack, former Secy of Agriculture & former gov of Iowa, profiles Dr. Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born scientist whose Green Revolution transformed global agriculture, saving more than a billion lives from famine in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social& team. youtu.be/JF46O8BgTq0?...
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d agoNew from me: Some data points for a MAGA melt-down: *Hardcore Trump loyalists declining *Right wing influencers losing viewers *The Heritage Foundation is rife with dissent and incompetence, with conservatives worried about the pipeline of talent 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/is-maga-me...
Clean out the rot. www.theunpopulist.net/p/congress-m... www.theunpopulist.net/p/congress-m...
Congress Must Rein In the Anti-Democratic Roberts Court Enabling Trump's Power Grabs
A mutually enforcing court-presidency doom loop is eroding the rule of law and making each branch less accountable
theunpopulist.net
RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim
Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show
medpagetoday.com
Fox News harasses Dr Fauci-who, during 50 years of service to America, saved millions of lives and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom (by a Republican, no less) Because MAGA needs a scapegoat to cover Trump’s incompetent handling of COVID-just like they needed one for the reflecting pool
Brian Cardone@cardonebrian.bsky.social · 4d agoIf you don’t understand that MAGA and Donald Trump are running a fucking mafioso government, then you aren’t paying attention. This is bullshit and it needs to stop NOW‼️
MAGA masculinity means declining to publicly criticize the man your daughter has accused of physical abuse, because doing so might prompt a senile 80-year-old man to write mean things about you.
Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 5d agoThe man beat his daughter and injured his granddaughter but he's fine with it apparently. www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...
“According to four people involved in the show, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the administration, no historians or professional curators collaborated on the exhibition…” [gift link]
After Claiming ‘Bias’ at Smithsonian, Trump Officials Stage Patriotic Exhibition (Gift Article)
Trump officials have promised to “make visual arts great,” with a museum exhibition that includes artwork by several people with personal connections to the planners.
nytimes.com
We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Coming Food-Stamp Crisis
A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.
theatlantic.com
A federal judge yesterday ordered this O'Keefe undercover operative's identify to be publicly disclosed. This is the risk you take by working for O'Keefe. Make sure you understand the consequences you might face. We look forward to deposing her shortly.
Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social · last yr.1/DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMAN? This is “Heidi” or “Daisy”. Or perhaps her true name is entirely different. She is an undercover operative for #JamesOKeefe & his org. Using dating platforms such as Bumble & Hinge, she lures men into dates & secretly records their private conversations
