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.

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🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Facts are pesky things…

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d ago

Population of CA: 2023 - 38.9 million 2024 - 39.5 million 2025 - 39.5 million 2026 - 39.5 million bsky.app/profile/atru...

Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while her team played against (and beat) Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever is such a big "hell yeah fuck you TERFs" moment.

New important interview! On Kushner and WWIII. This taped on Monday and I’m glad it posted. Lots of info here: Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Russia, AI weapons, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r8m...

The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

Incredible piece on the Prairieland 9 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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“.. health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades ..” $XLV

Guy Berger@econberger.bsky.social · 5d ago

3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.

#TraitorTrump

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d ago

But today in his cabinet meeting, Trump blamed it on American Democrats. Just as he has blamed things many times that Russia and China have done on Americans. He’s not a patriot, he’s the ultimate traitor.

Grateful to @justandro.bsky.social and @msmagazine.com for this fantastic, in-depth piece on the latest in my lawsuit against Acting AG Todd Blanche: msmagazine.com/2026/07/29/t...

Trump's Plan to Keep Todd Blanche in Power Raises Stakes in Epstein Files Fight

Blanche's bid to become attorney general permanently has hit a Senate roadblock. President Trump has responded by vowing to keep Blanche in the acting role indefinitely if necessary, ensuring he could...

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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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The official Republican position on COVID is that it was a mild case of the flu but also an engineered bioweapon and the vaccine that Trump miraculously pushed out in a under a year is worthless sugar water but actually killed millions and it’s really Fauci and Joe Biden’s fault.

To which the next question should be: "how many Patriot and THAAD interceptors did we have before the conflict?" ~2330 Patriot interceptors ~534 THAAD interceptors (of which 452 were operational) Per CSIS numbers.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d ago

If those are accurate numbers… Holy shit. That’s bad.

A readable record of Trump's truth social posts at trumpstruth.org h/t to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for the find

Trump's Truth

'Trump's Truth' is a searchable archive of Donald Trump's posts on TRUTH Social.

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I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · 7d ago

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

In 2020, a new plague swept across the Earth, killing millions. Before that year was even over, wizards working in an invisible world had devised a shield that everybody could use. The result wasn't a new era of scientific appreciation but of preening frauds lying more shamelessly than ever before.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d ago

TUBERVILLE: Fauci killed 9 million people FOX BUSINESS: Yeah. We can't prove that, right? TUBERVILLE: We can

Since he never talks facts, adding some to this clip... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_po...

Wind power by country - Wikipedia

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "Any time you see windmills, you see a failing country"

Winning!

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.

“Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit. Instead… Last 18 Months: –$1.80 trillion deficit in Goods. 18 Months Prior: –$1.74 trillion deficit in Goods. The deficit didn’t shrink. It increased 4%.” - Bilello

Reminder that on his last day of his first term, Trump awarded a commendation to Dr Fauci "in recognition of his exceptional effort on Operation Warp Speed"

If Biden fell asleep as often in the middle of the day at public meetings and events like Trump, Fox would have aired it nonstop day in and day out. But we know they won’t show Trump sleeping. But how much do the other networks show Trump falling asleep and why isn’t more often?

For anyone who needs encouragement this is precisely how to fight fascism! #SheShed #ImpeachIndictRemove

Twenty years ago today, the Voting Rights Act was reauthorized with bipartisan support—a recognition that every American deserves an equal voice. This year, the Supreme Court gutted those protections. We must keep fighting to ensure every American voice is heard.

Donald Trump still has absolutely no idea what he was trying to do, how he was going to do it, why he wasn't able to do it, or what he's going to do next to try to fix what he has no idea he broke. He's a delusional, crackbrained, and deranged moron. It's just that simple.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

Breaking News: President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran.

What a guy…

Avel Guénin--Carlut@fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · last wk.

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

This is part of a running series examining ways that the Trump family is positioned to profit from the policies Trump is pushing as president. Sector, after sector--in a way that has no precedent in American history. Here is another recent piece we did from June www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit. (Gift Article)

An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of tun...

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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.

What’s up @abcnewsdesk.bsky.social

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is ABC doing false stories based on Russian propaganda?