If you have the opportunity to vote for James Talarico and you choose impeached, criminally indicted, pedophile-protector Ken Paxton, you're dirt.
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Former Buckeye, Pickaway Co. Extinguished Bluegrass Mandolinist. 🏳️🌈 Swing and Gypsy Jazz violinist. Avid political observer and voter. Oakland, Ca. Anti-Fascist. http://www.jeffterflinger.com/index.html
While American families are getting flattened by skyrocketing costs, Donald Trump is spending $1.4 billion to keep troops on the streets in Washington for years on end. The National Guard are not pawns, and taxpayer dollars are not a piggy bank for Trump’s political stunts.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterdayThe Pentagon’s deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. is set to cost an additional $1.4 billion through the end of the Trump administration, according to information reviewed by The Post. The estimate encompasses October 2026 through January 2029.
Every Democrat should be campaigning on Trump getting a free ride for tax fraud while ordinary Americans are struggling to put food on their tables and gas in their cars.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 6d agoBREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' proposal to end Donald Trump's IRS sweetheart deal. This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed. It's corruption on steroids.
Elon Musk will be spending $100 million to $120 million in at least eight states to help elect Republicans in November, according to The New York Times. But Musk’s money shouldn’t be viewed as a problem. It’s an opportunity. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-stink-of-musk
Commentary: As America celebrates its 250th birthday, let us remember and celebrate small towns like Athens, Ohio that launch leaders into the world and welcome scholars from around the world. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/03/s...
Small towns like Athens, Ohio: America’s ambassadors to the world • Ohio Capital Journal
As America celebrates its 250th birthday, small towns like Athens, Ohio, are global leaders and ambassadors.
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Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.
I mean this in all seriousness, this is a severely mentally ill & delusional person who not only should be removed from office under the 25th amendment, but he should be in a psych ward. This is pure insanity on so many levels. He lives in a fantasy world. He is unwell & has lost touch with reality.
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The rest of your natural life—and then some. That's how long we'll be cleaning up the mess of Trump and MAGAism. The nation as it was before is lost. It won't return. What we seek to save now isn't what used to be. It'll be something else altogether. It'll be what we make it.
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
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Our idiot of a president doesn’t understand that you can’t hold one person (Olympian David Hearn) who touched part of the reflecting pool, accountable for someone else vandalizing a lawn. Really, how does this guy get up and tie his shoes every morning? 
"Just Get Off Your Butt and Vote" #ABlueView 🧵 Do you think this incredible video will move nonvoters to vote this time? #BlueWave2026 #VoteGOPOut #VoteBlueAllTheWayDownTheBallot 1/2
Just think of how sick, twisted and demented you have to be to post this as president knowing it is all a lie because you don’t want to admit you hired an unqualified pool guy - the act of typing this knowing that every word is false.
They subpoenaed him. Leaked his diaries. Said they wanted him in a cell. Dr. Fauci walked in anyway, looked Rand Paul in the eye, and said he had an “unhinged obsession” with him. And then refused to fall into the MAGA propaganda trap. Good.
Fauci Just Humiliated Rand Paul In Front Of The Entire World
Five years led to this. Trump’s Supreme Court threat died in silence. Comey called it revenge. A teachers union froze NVIDIA cold.
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Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles.
Reuters: US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MOVES TO DROP CASE AGAINST FORMER OLYMPIAN ACCUSED OF VANDALIZING WASHINGTON REFLECTING POOL -COURT FILING
Joan Baez painted a portrait of Dr. Fauci August 2020, featuring the word "TRUST" as a tribute to his scientific truth-telling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The viral artwork became part of her Mischief Makers 2 art exhibit and sparked a lasting personal friendship between the two.
Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
Mike Collins had a chance to condemn his son-in-law’s antisemitic videos. Instead, he dodged. Jon Ossoff: “We saw this morning a sad spectacle of a crumbling man.”
Oh, it's bad. He doesn't say Blanche is pulled, but, he does. I think the only fair reading of this is that Trump is not willing to let Blanche back down on the audit immunity.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d agoNYT on the Blanche vote delay that’s the result of Cornyn and Tillis not being on board due to where things stand with the IRS audit immunity provision. “‘I can see why he wants it, because it provides immunity from audits no other taxpayer would get,’ Mr. Cornyn added. “
Trump says he’s open to temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination if Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don’t support him, saying he’d renominate Blanche once they’re “out of office.”
“Can you get to the point already?” That’s what Epstein survivors say Acting AG nominee Todd Blanche told them after they spent 8 to 9 months begging for a meeting. True leadership starts with basic empathy, not condescension #Blues
Ken Paxton hasn’t debated in over a decade. I wonder why. Maybe it’s because he’d have to explain how his corruption crisis became Texas’ affordability crisis. James Talarico is ready. Paxton is still hiding. Debate him. Or keep running.