The solution to funding Social Security isn’t to have some Commission “meet in the middle” between raising revenue from the wealthy (which everybody wants) vs cutting benefits (which nobody but a portion of billionaires want). Doing what their constituents want is *what Congress is supposed to do.*

Social Security Works@socialsecurityworks.org · 1h ago

Americans are remarkably united around what they want for Social Security's future...more than 3 in 4 Republicans and more than 9 in 10 Democrats want lawmakers to strengthen Social Security's revenue base to protect its critical benefits. - Rebecca Vallas, National Academy of Social Insurance

Thank you @blumenthal.senate.gov for calling out Todd Blanche. Blanche is committed to advancing Trump's efforts to use every level of government to impose a national abortion ban. Call your Senators and tell them to vote NO on confirming Blanche for Attorney General. 📞 888-380-2711

BREAKING: The Justice Department. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee just moved Trump lackey Todd Blanche's nomination to a full Senate vote. If confirmed Blanche will be corrupt, toadying, & focused on the defense of Trump. The Senate must reject Blanche for AG.

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Bondi was fired because she wouldn’t do Trump’s corrupt bidding unquestionably enough, and she sure was trying. But Blanche earned the nomination by rushing out indictments on everybody Trump wanted at record pace, executing the Epstein cover-up, and giving Trump a crooked $1.8B slush fund.

Lisa Gilbert@lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social · yesterday

Cornyn saying that Blanche is willing to give Trump hard advice is laughable. If we’ve learned one thing through this process it is Blanche’s utter willingness to do literally anything not to cross Trump and to deliver on his agenda of revenge. #blockblanche

Here’s what Todd Blanche is saying behind the scenes to the far right to rally support for his nomination, just so Susan Collins can’t pretend she didn’t know this time.

BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blanche wants the American public to believe a late-night social media post is proof that President Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund is completely dead — but seemingly still won't swear to it in court. We're demanding the DOJ say under oath that the fund cannot be revived.

A vote for Blanche is a vote for giving Trump & his family IRS immunity as they’ve engaged in shocking corruption. Also a vote for the Epstein cover-up, allowing tax dollars for the ballroom & Trump selling inside info to Wall St. And Blanche can still give $ to J6ers or Trump.

Trump allies at Heritage celebrating the Cornyn cave on Blanche because you actually need both parties to sign off on changing the “settlement.”

STATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING

What this makes clear is that this case never had any evidence but was brought purely because Trump needed a scapegoat for his own corruption and incompetence. Blanche prosecuted an innocent American anyway because he is a mob lawyer goon who should be disbarred, not promoted.

Steve Benen@stevebenen.com · 4d ago

Some might see this and assume it’s fake, but Trump actually published it. The White House perpetrated a fraud on the public, and after the DOJ was forced to abandon a baseless prosecution, Trump doubled down on the self-satisfying fiction he prefers to reality and threw Pirro under the bus.

“If Blanche can’t do the right thing on cases where the law is obvious and unambiguous, how can he be trusted with complex decisions? Courts, authorities and history judge attorneys according to established legal standards rather than partisan loyalty…Senate should do the same.”

BREAKING: STATEMENT ON DOJ’S DISMISSAL OF CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST DAVEY HEARN

It’s crystal clear that if Cornyn hadn’t dug in his heels, the slush fund would absolutely have been brought back. And for all the talk about Blanche being a good guy who’s being overridden by Trump, Blanche has been in on the “don’t put it in writing” con every step of the way.

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · last mo.

Judge in Virginia schedules July 8 status conference in the federal legal challenge against Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund Justice Dept declined judge's order to put in writing its claim that the fund is not moving forward. So the case proceeds....

Stressful times in the DC suburbs.

I think this quote suggests that a lot of the Blanche and slush fund problems are coming from vulnerable GOP senators, who don’t want to vote for him but don’t want Trump’s wrath either.

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.

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I think this is a great point and would be a problem for these folks if everyone knew… I wouldn’t want too many people to spread it far and wide.

Jesse Lee@jessecharleslee.bsky.social · 7d ago

I think the danger for Blanche is that having all this spotlight on him raises the stakes exponentially for Collins, Husted, and Sullivan, not just on the January 6 slush fund but on Blanche’s Epstein cover-up and owning all of Trump’s. Corruption.

I think the danger for Blanche is that having all this spotlight on him raises the stakes exponentially for Collins, Husted, and Sullivan, not just on the January 6 slush fund but on Blanche’s Epstein cover-up and owning all of Trump’s. Corruption.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 7d ago

On Blanche delay, Judiciary GOP spox says “Senators Cornyn and Tillis want written assurances from the Department of Justice regarding the Trump-IRS settlement. Tomorrow’s markup is postponed as work continues to secure sufficient support…” Rs have a 12-10 majority on committee.

They should ask how The Post managed to turn its business around using the same strat– excuse me, I’m being handed a note.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d ago

NEW: Under Bari Weiss, CBS News has shifted to the right to try to grab some of Fox News' audience. Not only have they failed to do that, but they've driven off so much of their core audience that CBS Mornings is now perilously close to getting beaten by Fox & Friends. zeteo.com/p/mamdani-de...

Make every Republican who takes Musk's dirty money own all of him - including his child exploitation. Tonight via Axios: "Tech billionaire Elon Musk is jumping into the midterms with a huge investment in a plan to boost Republican voter turnout, Axios has learned." www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...

Exclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midterms

Musk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024.

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Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · last wk.

minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"

Subsidies to keep drug prices down for seniors: ⬇️ Subsidies for Trump’s political allies from Todd Blanche’s DOJ: ⬆️

Worse, SSA makes it hard for SSI beneficiaries to report most changes (other than wages, for the most part). Recipients must visit SSA offices in person, call the notoriously slow 800 number, or make a written reports (there's no form, so most are handwritten.) And they must do it promptly!

Even as Blanche pretends to give a crap about what Senators think and appease them on his crooked slush fund, he’s shoveling money out the door.

​Every time you turn around, Trump is giving something away to billionaires and taking something away from you

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last wk.

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump admin plans to end a subsidy program that helped hold down premiums for Medicare drug plans — a move that could leave many seniors facing higher rates for their prescription coverage next year.

Trump is ignoring the budgets Congress sends him just like Republicans in Congress are ignoring his corruption.

The West Bank Electoral Strategy

The West Bank Electoral Strategy

This short passage in an article (paywalled) in Haaretz focuses on a...

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American soldiers are dying because Trump illegally put them in harm's way. American citizens are dying because Trump ordered ICE to kill first / ask later.

Elon Musk not beating the Nazi allegations by offering to give Mel Gibson $100 million to make the Tubi version of "The Odyssey."

Elon Musk Says He’d Give Mel Gibson $100 Million For An ‘Accurate’ Odyssey

Elon Musk is saying that Grok would make a better film out of The Odyssey, and that he'd give a bunch of money to Mel Gibson for a more "historically accurate" take.

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“Affordable” and “invest in the grid” get treated as opposites. They’re not — if you get the sequencing right. A thread on how growth, efficiency, and smarter equipment can lower bills instead of raising them. 🧵

Evergreen Action@evergreenaction.bsky.social · 2w ago

Affordability vs. climate is a false choice, and 11 states are already proving it. Cheaper power. More homes. Cheaper ways to get around. Less pollution. New from Evergreen Collaborative, a cross-state playbook for legislators, govs, and regulators: 🔗