NEW: Trump is speaking today at a casino owned by a company battling lawsuits alleging its properties failed to stop the trafficking of a 9-year-old girl and other victims. The suits allege negligence and inadequate security. Our latest:

Trump to Speak at Casino Owned by Company Facing Lawsuit Alleging Failure to Prevent Trafficking of 9-Year-Old Girl

The ownership group is battling multiple lawsuits involving sex trafficking victims

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@catgyoung.bsky.social #medsky www.ovid.com/jnls/pidj/ab...

Abbott has already started:

Jay D Johnson@refusenik.bsky.social · 6h ago

Here's a question for @robertdownen.bsky.social I wonder how Islamophobic Texas Republicans will attempt to use Abdul El-Sayed in their attack ads against Talarico and the Democratic Party in general? The same really applies nationwide. It's why establishment Dems solidly backed Stevens.

Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

The more Hegseth restricts reporters from doing their jobs, the more his officers leak to the press. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h ago

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The Defense Department’s second in command hastily gathered top military and defense acquisition officials for a meeting Friday night to discuss ways to quickly address a shortfall of U.S. weaponry — after he got an angry phone call ..” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

If you read memoirs of great military leaders, you know that a surefire way to instill loyalty among your troops is to throw your deputy under the bus for your own screwups.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h ago

Three-byline alert: 🚨 “.. Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David last week, where he demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

So apparently there is an approved booster but scarce information about when it will be sent to pharmacies , www.fda.gov/vaccines-blo...

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Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h ago

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Apparently it’s unprofessional to have a murdered son

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 8h ago

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

Meta is a singularly garbage company 🤬

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 10h ago

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.

John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 13h ago

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano, 29, died last week after being detained at CoreCivic's Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia. He told loved ones that he hadn't received medical care after experiencing severe symptoms. His family's GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/support-pr...

Mexican Man From Durham Dies From Leukemia While In ICE Custody

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center. He died on Wednesday, July 22.

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I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 8h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Tennessee is where Project 2025 was workshopped.

Owen From Ohio@owenfromohio.bsky.social · 8h ago

4/5 The economic fallout hits small businesses and banks hard. Wildberries invokes force majeure to avoid paying sellers for destroyed goods, bankrupting merchants and leaving lenders toxic, uncollectible debt. Wildberries is a strategic partner of state-controlled bank VTB and has a lot of debt

Our Haitian neighbors need us—and we need them. Call on your U.S. Senators to pass Senate Bill 4814. Visit boston.gov/tps to read our letter in full and find your Senator.

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

It’s been 166 days since SCOTUS struck down Trump’s illegal tariff taxes & big corporations are getting their refunds. $2.2 BILLION for Apple, $600 MILLION for Amazon, $300 million for Nike.   When are American families going to see the $1,700 they're owed? Return the money, NOW.

Corporate America got billions of dollars in tariff refunds. Where’s your cut? | CNN Business

Apple got an estimated $2.2 billion tariff refund last quarter. Amazon got $600 million. Nike got $300 million. But American consumers who paid higher prices as President Donald Trump’s tariffs filter...

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Health research, early childhood education, programs helping domestic violence survivors, disabled veterans, seniors, and so much more are at risk if the Trump administration is able to hold federal funding hostage. Tell Congress to put a stop to it now.

No Illegal Partisan Attacks on Essential Programs

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is illegally trying to give the Trump administration power to choose who gets federal money based on the president's political agenda. Tell Congress to put a ...

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1/ On Tuesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., read our reporting into the congressional record during a committee hearing on Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.

Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.

Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterday

Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 10h ago

Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.

"eye-opening commentary that favor no party." This is the tag line adjacent to Olivia's story on the Free Press website. Good grief. Also deep investigations? Come on.

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 8h ago

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 8h ago

This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.

Shirley Chisholm was the boss. The clarity and focus on the issues is clear as a bell. Wish we could find another Shirley Chisholm today. Maybe her doppelgänger is out there. We need to find her.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 13h ago

Representative Shirley Chisholm, 1972: "[W]e have looked in vain to the Nixon administration for the courage, the spirit, the character, and the words to lift us, to bring out the best in us, to rekindle in each of us our faith in the American dream."

Translation: "We want people to get healthcare as long as billionaires can make massive profits off of it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Rick Scott: "We want people to get healthcare, but ... "

"Hundreds of civilians were killed or wounded by US airstrikes in Yemen last year, but the Pentagon has yet to publicly acknowledge the casualties or share a full account with Congress." Yet another thing to investigate if we ever get a congress that's so inclined. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

U.S. airstrikes killed or wounded hundreds of civilians in Yemen last year, sources say

The Trump administration has yet to publicly acknowledge the number of casualties in the three strikes.

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Trump's hair yesterday.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

is Trump rocking a wig, or what the hell is going on here?