A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

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Apparently we're paying $25K bribes to AUSAs to convince the to risk their law license working for a shitshow DOJ. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 20h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Caitlin Flanagan was a prominent Atlantic staff writer for 25 years. Explain to me again how the Atlantic is a serious-minded, left-center publication.

yes but does this include the new helipad construction g elliott the people love a new helipad

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · yesterday

Our average of polls at FiftyPlusOne gives Trump a roughly 36% approval rating and 61% disapproval rating — a net -25 — among all adults, and he’s rapidly losing ground. The president set a new record low six days in a row just in the last week: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-08-04...

How Trumps war with Iran is going 😎🤬🍊💩

Let’s not forget that the strait was open before the war. These guys are trying to claw their way back to zero.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "We've seen President Trump last week threaten what would have been the largest military campaign since World War 2 against the Iranians, and now because of that we are in talks with the Iranians. I think there's a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait."

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

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CNN host Kaitlan Collins has tangled Jeanine Pirro in her own web of doublespeak.

Kaitlan Collins Exposes Trump Goons With Humiliating Pool Fiasco Montage

What a difference a month makes.

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Susan Collins last 10 years in a nutshell.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · yesterday

Republicans have three modes: (1) Twist themselves into a pretzel to defend Trump (2) Feign ignorance about what Trump is doing (3) Pretend that they are holding him accountable while doing nothing prospect.org/2026/08/04/r...

It's looking like the Russian military's decision to use Amazon-look alike Wildberries to provision the Russian forces in Ukraine wasn't a very smart idea. www.ft.com/content/4d9d...

Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses in overnight strikes

Russian retailer has become key target for Kyiv as it aims to bring Putin’s war closer to home

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18. The teachings of Jesus Christ demand to much *from them*. Their true religion is their sincere belief in rules for thee, not for me. Revealing that truth begins with refusing to take them at their word. ¹ Better yet, the Sermon on the Plain (Luke 6). That's even more demanding.

17. To be sure, they want the rest of us to! They love the Ten Commandments, and believe all public spaces should display them, but do not love the Sermon on the Mount with equal passion.¹

16. I think that's fine and more power to them. However, I also think secularists should be aware that by overlooking the tenets of their religion, they end up giving these Christians too much credit. They don't really want to live by their own system of morality.

15. So when it comes to countering the claim that America is a Christian nation, there is a preference for reasonable arguments grounded in history and Constitutional law, and what the founders actually said, rather than what Christian nationalists say they said.

14. Regular readers won't care for this argument. If anything, they tend to believe religion is something to avoid, especially Christianity, as that's the chosen faith of the Republican adversaries.

13. To Christians, there should not be anything casual about Donald Trump's blasphemy, but here we are. No worries. We're not really a Christian nation. We just like to say we are.

12. And indeed, informed Christians know what Jesus himself said about the consequences of breaking it. "For God said [through Moses], ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of or insults or treats improperly father or mother is to be put to death.’" www.bible.com/bible/compar...

Matthew 15:4-9 - Compare All Versions - Bible App

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their fath...

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11. The fourth one – less important than keeping the Lord's day holy but more important than the prohibition of murder – is "honor your father and mother."

10. Indeed, it should have been like the shot heard around the world to those who demand that public schools erect monuments to the Ten Commandments.

9. Perhaps, as Hamlin suggests in his essay, we are so used to the "casual blasphemy" of the Trump administration that few noticed the monstrous blasphemy of this statement. However, the Christians among us should have noticed.

8. The AP: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-X...

Trump tells Michigan supports, 'I've done more for you than your parents'

YouTube video by Associated Press

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7. For instance, in a recent rally in Michigan, in support of the Republican Senate candidate there, he addressed the youth in the audience: "I've done more for you than your parents, OK? Your parents are good. I'm not gonna knock your parents. But I have been better to you than your parents."

6. I don't mean his rampant womanizing, bottomless greed and breathtaking corruption. Those are topics for later. What I mean is actions that are tantamount to slapping the Christian God in the face.

5. But ignorance of Christianity and the "Judeo-Christian tradition" are only one reason we are not a Christian nation. More important, I think, is the fact that so many Christians do not mind it when Donald Trump does something spectacularly obscene.

4. Hamlin:

3. The question occurred to me while reading an essay by Hannibal Hamlin in the Pittsburgh Review of Books in which the Ohio State English professor said that tho we're called the most religious nation on earth, "Americans are ill-informed about even their own religion." pghrev.com/the-trump-ad...

2. It's because the people who call themselves Christian, especially the supporters of Donald Trump, are often so ignorant of their religion. How can we be a Christian nation when Christians here don't know much about Christianity?

1. America is not a Christian nation. Yes, I know what they say. But we're not, and it's not because history and the Constitution say so.