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Pragmatic Northwesterner. Patriot. Climate/energy professional. I will follow back in the interests of building community for positive change. 🚫trolls, crypto scams, porn, jerks, and nazis. Can’t believe I have to explicitly say no Nazis.
Blanche promising state womb control. 🧾 www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · yesterdayA faith group that hosted a call with Todd Blanche — who assured listeners of his commitment to make Dobbs “permanent in every single state” — insisted it was off-the-record…then posted it on YouTube 🤔
Musk will attempt to buy the election, but what is he receiving in return for his cash? insidepoliticalmoney.com/news/musk-sp...
Musk Spent $291 Million in 2024. Now He's Coming for the Midterms
Musk is already among the biggest donors in the midterms so far, and now it looks like much more money is on the way. What can we learn from last time around?
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More corruption from Trump appointee, and brainworm host. apple.news/ANrAmZP9oRRi...
Opinion | How not to avoid a conflict of interest — The Washington Post
The HHS secretary gave his stake in a lawsuit against Merck to his son. His department settled with the company last month.
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Every law student in America should be required to read this as a cautionary tale. Every lawyer at Paul Weiss should be required to read this to understand what they have become. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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Padilla co-wrote a bill that would let the public sue a sitting president to recover money taken through corruption. Yes, a sitting president. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-law...
Let’s add money laundering violations to the list of crimes confirmed by the Trump crime family. apple.news/Ad-ypSGfPRdG...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review — Guardian US
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
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Right-Wing UFC Star Gives Dark Description Of MAGA Rallies: ‘I’m Not Even F**king Joking’ - apple.news/ACJR0At3iTdq...
Right-Wing UFC Star Gives Dark Description Of MAGA Rallies: ‘I’m Not Even F**king Joking’ — HuffPost
“When you go to a Trump rally, it makes you question the sanity of everybody,” Sean Strickland said.
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MAGA influencer steals money donated to his charity. No surprise here. Grift is a feature of MAGA not a bug.
Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help usher in a new age of fascism and criminality — but go ahead, buy that powerwall or starlink, or give him your money in SpaceX stock www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Elon Musk Plans at Least $100 Million in Midterm Spending to Help Republicans (Gift Article)
Elon Musk, a year after a huge blowup with President Trump and the Republican Party, is said to be planning to spend in at least eight states to help them in November.
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This is nothing new, but dang it is easier than ever to scam people with fake reviews, fake influencers, and corporate platforms that support it. www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...
Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA
How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."
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Cost of living comparison from city to city based on real data. Haven’t dug into it, but pretty cool concept and contributes to the ongoing discussion of US v European wealth and value. cityparity.com
The real cost of living, city to city
Take-home pay, childcare, healthcare, and the social safety net, priced in dollars for a true comparison of two cities.
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Trump administration wants millions more to pay off Freedom 250 events - the corruption will continue until morale improves. apple.news/A8IJP_vlDTI2...
Trump Administration Wants Millions More to Pay Off Freedom 250 Events — NOTUS
“It is unacceptable to ask the American people to bail out Freedom 250,” Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley said of the request.
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Nate silver has completed transition from data blogger to clueless bloviator. r.mail.talkingpointsmemo.com/mk/mr/sh/SMJ...
Read the news
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Gov. Matt Meyer signed three healthcare laws in one afternoon: private equity locked out of Delaware hospitals, free care below $47K, real caps on hospital charges. This is what Democrats do with power. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...
Elon still trying to kill more poor brown people. This time he is poisoning their air. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Pollution from Musk’s unpermitted xAI power project hits hardest in Black communities
Exploding electricity demand from AI data centers is driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.
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All of the enshittification stems from dumb economic math. According to @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Enshittification Relies on Broken Economic Math
Pay no attention to the externalities behind the curtain.
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“Two detectives, an Ohio county Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS) caseworker, and a Cleveland Clinic physician met on Zoom to discuss how the 2-year-old daughter of a congressman and granddaughter of a US senator wound up with a broken collarbone... 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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Investors finally catching on that Tesla math is no longer mathing. stocks.apple.com/A-kAwRA6_Tqi... I mean trading at 300x multiple is high for a tech company, let alone a hardware manufacturer with real costs. But fanboys gotta fan and Elon’s gotta scam.
Tesla Stock Just Erased a Year of Gains. Nothing Seems to Help. — Barron’s
Shares of the EV maker fall Monday after rising in premarket trading.
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Even if you’re not a creep wearing Meta recording glasses, everyone thinks you’re a creep and acts accordingly. apple.news/AIcZv8whaSXO... Google glassholes, but with more zucking and pervs.
Meta glasses are killing the vibe — Vox
The comical charm of Meta’s new AI-enhanced, smart glasses is that they’re seemingly made for someone unimpressed, perhaps thoroughly, with the way they’re experiencing life.
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Floridians!! Ashley Moody has become the latest loud Senator demanding the Senate stay in session to pass the SAVE Act. But while she was AG, she failed to prosecute a Russian citizen who fabricated >100 voter registrations. And DOJ's treatment of it is a bit weird emptywheel.net/2026/07/25/t...
The (Russian) Foreign Vote Fraudster Trump Didn't Mention - emptywheel
Last year, Trump's DOJ got guilty pleas from a Russian and his Uzbek buddy based on illegally registering false identities to vote in Florida. And yet the case against the Russian is getting weird in ...
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Musk is calling for the assassination of a journalist. It's so difficult to comprehend why someone in his position would do such a thing that we naturally give him the benefit of every doubt, but it's crystal clear what he's saying.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.There is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
“Remember, stupidity always brings losing and death.” If someone tweeted this about Trump, the Secret Service would be investigating.
Elon just vaporized half a trillion dollars of investor money, in record time. But fan boys and suckers gonna keep fanning and sucking. …
“The policy-making structure is effectively posting to Truth Social & seeing if the gathered Nazis reply w/ likes or jeers. If the first, leave the post up. If the second, reverse course & chastise your aides. If neither, whine about how everyone is unfair to you & it’s all really Biden’s fault.”
The Saudi nuclear farce and governance by whim and meme
Trump has made the word of the US government worthless.
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Why I both still subscribe to @nytimes.com & am such a loud critic: this is incredible journalism AND tomorrow the front & editorial pages will go right back to normalizing & euphemistically sanewashing the unprecedented authoritarianism & corruption as if this article were never written.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · last wk.A good design decision to put the domestic money at the bottom, so you can see that it — putatively Trump’s real business genius — barely moved at all.
In a surprise twist, wannabe dictator trump will NOT protect sex predators and criminals just this one time. apple.news/AmQ-QUZ42TmS...
Trump will allow Tate brothers to be extradited to Britain — The Telegraph
US president will not step in to block pair’s return to UK after they were arrested in Miami on new sex abuse charges
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