Imagine being a US Senator pretending to care abt the child rape of the Epstein files; and then hiring Todd Blanche to help protect the rapists.

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

The United States Treasury: An ATM for the Rich and Powerful

@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

Today, Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare threw constituents out of a PUBLIC HEARING after voters questioned his plan to remove 140+ voting locations ahead of the midterms. Throwing a temper tantrum when voters disagree isn't new for O'Hare— it's a cowardly pattern from a panicked politician.

GDP growth slowed to 1.5 percent while Lutnick promised 5 to 6 and Bessent's blueprint targets 3. An economist calls the numbers unrealistic, a former Bessent advisor says the arithmetic does not get there. Trump's golden age is a Fed hold, tariff chaos, and inflation nobody asked for.

Trump faces brutal 'reality check' as 'golden age' pledge crashes and burns

President Donald Trump is facing a “reality check” over his promise of a new "golden age" as economists warn his “rosy” outlook may not come to fruition.

alternet.org

My single-minded campaign to keep Trump's lies as part of the American conversation continues. However, some posters have challenged me to do more. So, this is the first of 12 short essays that I hope provide some positive impact on that conversation. jaywaters.substack.com/p/it-is-the-...

It is the model of America, not the promise of America, that is broken

The first of 12 posts exploring A New American Model.

jaywaters.substack.com

🔥@abdulelsayed.bsky.social truth rocket 🚀 on @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social: “I’m committed to Jewish safety— I just don’t believe in unconditional military aid to any country, especially when 🇮🇱 is committing genocide/apartheid. OUR kids have a right to our tax 💰 . I believe in international law.”

Look at Trump's serial failures, his obvious decline, the disastrous poll numbers for the GOP, the abysmal quality of their candidates, their complete absence of accomplishments, their betrayal of their base, the absence of post-Trump leaders emerging...and tell me the Dems are the ones w/problems.

Trump AI-generated himself a four-star general with a Medal of Honor lookalike, outranking Patton and MacArthur, both demoted to two stars. Five deferments, zero days in uniform, and he gave himself more medals than the men who actually earned theirs. The stolen valor presidency in one image.

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

We see that our political system is broken, then keep behaving as if it worked. We need serious change, and it's time to take bigger swings.

America’s chain of command is just billionaires tugging on Trump’s leash from different directions.

RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."

Jennifer Hegseth has no clearance, no confirmation, no appointment. She’s sat in on foreign military meetings, screened Pentagon hires, and was in the Signal chat. Now she chairs a presidential commission. The job she actually holds is “wife.”

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

The proposed cuts at tomorrow's meeting would take the number of Election Day polling sites from 316 to 176. And they would trim early voting locations from 50 to 42. The meeting starts at 10:00 am.

Words were never more true. Talarico is the "real deal".

Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 2d ago

James Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.

Gov Abbott is feigning interest in stopping data centers in Texas by requesting full audits. With Hinojosa in striking distance, I expect his interest to stop once the elections are over. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/t...

New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them

On Monday, the governor ordered the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to audit all data centers wanting to connect to the state’s power grid.

texastribune.org

91 Days Until Election Day You can’t be focused everywhere at once. None of us have unlimited resources. So how do we decide where to dig in? We dive into the data, looking at history in a precinct, trends, and specifically non-voters, and how those numbers change based on the election cycle.

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

If this obscenely gaudy gold shit doesn't piss you off, you're not even paying attention.

The best thing about this place is all of you (well, most of you), but the 2nd best thing is that if you come on here and you're a bullying dick you'll just get quickly sealed into a box and sunk to the bottom of Bluesky hell, muttering to yourself and leaving the rest of us alone.

Mainstream reporters can see MAGA is building a dictatorship. They don't tell the public because their newsroom leaders: A) hope irrationally that everything will fix itself B) fear being punished by fascists and/or C) are in league with fascists. That’s why they pretend this is normal “politics.”

Trump is the classic example of the man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.

Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth

For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained

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