Abdul El-Sayed’s win represents a big blow to the politics of bygone days. Because if one campaign can show that *that* much money and *that* much old guard support doesn’t guarantee victory, it cracks open what can be imagined. It widens the aperture of what’s possible.

Will This Be AIPAC’s Biggest Defeat – Ever?

Prem was on hand in Michigan to witness the nail-biter between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens, which appears to have gone down as an astonishing failure for AIPAC.

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This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.

The Influencer Recession

Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.

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This week's premium episode of Posting Through It is entirely based and unquestionably mule-pilled. Out Thursday www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

129: Too Many Mules | Posting Through It

The promo material for Dinesh D'Souza's 2022 film "2000 Mules" left out one key detail: the election security expert it hinges its core clai

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WaPo has some great reporters in its newsroom and I can only imagine how dispiriting it is for them to watch the other side of the paper devolve into right-wing "well ackshually" content

Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 20h ago

Mamdani’s grocery delusion

Really fantastic reporting here centered on the messages exchanged between a mass shooter and ChatGPT. This was a message the chatbot spit back at the guy after he said he wanted to die. Stripped of that context, it feels like an apt summary of the risks chatbots pose with unstable users.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · 22h ago

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

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Think about it this way: what if your tax dollars were used to buy sophisticated surveillance equipment and guns, and then the cops never killed your dog? Wouldn’t you feel ripped off?

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.

NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

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Rewatched “2000 Mules” recently for a podcast we’re doing later this week and it is really difficult to put into words just how aggravatingly stupid that film was and how depressing it is to think about the impact it had in GOP politics, regardless.

This is what every one of these conversations sounds like

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

NEW: Our researchers have discovered that users of a far-right imageboard notorious for coordinated harassment campaigns have developed at least three custom AI tools meant to help them "dox" their targets. openmeasures.io/soyjak-ai-do...

Users on This Far-Right Imageboard Are Building ‘Fully Autonomous AI Doxxing’ Tools - Open Measures

Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online content that impacts public discourse and global events.

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New podcast episode out today where @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I discuss the future of MAGA media and an OnlyFans model who's churning out bigoted slop in apparent hopes of selling horny right-wing guys some videos of her doing anal podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/1...

128: OnlyChuds Conservatism

Podcast Episode · Posting Through It · August 3 · 1h 5m

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Oh, I see what's going on here. The Enes Kanter Diminishing Minutes Special. I should've checked a long time ago.

Zero percent chance this man carded a legit 70. I’ve seen the video where he plays with Bryson DeChambeau. You can either be a scratch golfer, or you can do other things with your life besides play golf… like be the president

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

my latest: Doug Wilson's daughter went on TPUSA's Culture Apothecary podcast. Her advice: don't hold hands with your friends, don't date casually, and always submit to men. How Christian Nationalism gets translated into lifestyle advice for girls: numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/how-doug-w...

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128: OnlyChuds Conservatism | Posting Through It

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Not a fan of this blogger, who has aired out brain-melting conspiracy theories about myself and others who covered the rise of the QAnon movement, but this lawsuit against him was plainly ridiculous and the resulting headline here is great

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

A federal judge has thrown out the FBI director’s lawsuit against a blogger who called him a “googly-eyed Kremlin bitch.” trib.al/oZwZMR9

Discovered this pod by @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social essentially about the various right-wing social media losers, and I just realized how MUCH has happened since about 2015 and how easy it is to forget. And all of this cultural rot is pretty much enabled by social media.

Michael Jackson made great music, but it is nowhere near good enough to justify the “separate the art from the artist” argument people make around him

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

We’re still trying to figure out what was going on with this Cybertruck, but in the meantime here’s a recap of the research we published this month blog.openmeasures.io/p/icymi-july...

ICYMI: July 2026

Account trafficking on Telegram, networked activity from 'active clubs,' an op-ed about transparency, World Cup conspiracy theories, and AI doxxing tools

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Looking like this might end up being our most-downloaded "Who the Hell" episode yet

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · last wk.

OUT NOW: Who the Hell is Andy Ngo? feat. @socialistdogmom.bsky.social Join us as we unpack the life and career of MAGA’s favorite anti-antifa propagandist. You can find it on all the podcast apps. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1JdY...

Trump administration friend and TPUSA hype-man Jack Posobiec is back hyping the fascist Franco, who mass murdered over 100,000 people, burying them in unmarked graves

Incredibly bleak development in our latest dispatch from the web's nastiest corners

Open Measures@openmeasures.io · 5d ago

NEW: Our researchers have discovered that users of a far-right imageboard notorious for coordinated harassment campaigns have developed at least three custom AI tools meant to help them "dox" their targets. openmeasures.io/soyjak-ai-do...

The True Texas Project and Young Republicans are hosting multiple events in Texas next month with the head of a self-styled white nationalist "think tank," the White Papers Policy Institute. WPPI promotes mass deportations and "remigration." It has strong ties to major white nationalist groups.

Cool data story from NYT showing that MAGA Media's audience is cratering as its personalities feud with each other www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

I want you to notice how the New York Times does not think it's important to mention that both the OpenAI and Anthropic "AI gone rogue" hack events were completely avoidable and caused by human error

Anthropic Says Its A.I. Systems Broke Into Computers at 3 Organizations (Gift Article)

The disclosure followed OpenAI’s report last week that its own artificial intelligence had hacked into the network of an online library.

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Andrew Callahan really showed his ass with this stunt. The thing with Fuentes was the most embarrassing effort to cover a radical right internet personality of the second Trump term. Available on PTI's Patreon today. ⬇️

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · last wk.

Next up on the premium feed for PTI listeners, @michaelehayden.bsky.social and I sat down to look at an absolute debacle of a conversation between Hunter Biden and Nick Fuentes, where Fuentes was invited to try to rehabilitate his public image as a racist antisemite www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...