Congrats to all Blue Victories. Come Together and Win. To Save Democracy. Do Not Sit This One Out. Vote For Those With No Voice. iwillvote.com #VoteBlue

Scoop: "60 Minutes" is facing more brain drain. I'm told Madeleine Carlisle—a well-regarded associate producer at the newsmagazine, who also happens to be the daughter of Stephen Colbert—resigned from the program in recent days. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4wLyA4i

Sigh. Make. It. Stop.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2h ago

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:

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MeteorBlades@meteorblades.bsky.social · 4h ago

www.epi.org/deportation-... The Economic Policy Institute has released the Cost of Deportations Calculator. The tool shows how many tax dollars are paying for deportations in each state, county, and city. The calculator shows what that money could be spent on instead—such as school teachers.

Whenever you read a hot take from Politico that casts Dems in an unflattering light, remind yourself that the owner asked the executives to pray for Donald Trump’s reelection. It’s propaganda.

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

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Laughable, just sickeningly laughable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Sen. Cynthia Lummis says on her crypto bill that "the president agreed to an ethics provision that no president has ever agreed to. He's gone further to protect ethics than any president in history, yet the Democrats want more." 🙃

On NBC this morning they had a whole segment on this but not a word about, ya know, the president being a money launderer.

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

* Chipotle Mexican Grill: Minn. Dept of Health Clears Company in Latest Minn. Salmonella Outbreak >CMG * Chipotle Mexican Grill: Proactively Removed Jalapenos From Its Restaurants, Replacede With Product Frmo Different Growers > $CMG (via DJ)

And it begins...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

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ACLU@aclu.org · 3h ago

President Trump's Justice Department can't erase disabled people's right to live integrated lives in our communities, rather than being warehoused in institutions. Federal law and decades of Supreme Court precedent protect this right.

Cutting Medicare Part D subsidies isn’t “fiscal discipline.” It’s a prescription for higher drug costs, more untreated illness, and greater long‑term healthcare spending. Seniors deserve stability, not surprise hikes in essential medication costs. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

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D. Earl Stephens@dearlstephens.bsky.social · 18h ago

📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.

Trump is killing it. People, animals, the planet, democracy, rule of law.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 18h ago

Trump announces he is rolling back protections for endangered species

Capitol One shut down 300 accounts belonging to Trump because they were flagged for potential money laundering. That was 2021. Imagine if this were Biden. How would America react? But yes "liberal media."

On the campaign trail Trump said he would never let anyone touch Medicare. On 01.01.2027 the subsidy program for Medicare Part D that helps keep Rx prices down is set to expire. #RepublicanMedicareCuts can be reversed, but we must win the House and Senate. We have 91 days LFG!!

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Donald Trump stands out historically in one way. He has demilitarized the US military more quickly than any other political leader in US history. A full blown pacifist would have struggled to throw away weapons faster than he has.

Republicans wrote the Big Ugly Bill to funnel cash to billionaires — and they used your grandmother's Medicare as the piggy bank. Half a trillion in cuts start January 1. Vote them all out. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

NEW: The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. It provides additional insight into the breadth of data that airlines like Delta, American and United were selling without their customers' knowledge, and that law enforcement agencies were tapping into, likely without a warrant.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

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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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Before right wingers install the guy immunizing Trump for tax crimes, we should know whether Stan Woodward or any of the OTHER people who were paid by Trump's PAC were the beneficiaries of the suspected wire fraud that Capital One found. emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/d...

Did Stan Woodward Get Paid Via the Proceeds of the Money Laundering that Todd Blanche Immunized? - emptywheel

Were any of the people appointed to high positions in the current administration beneficiaries of the money laundering Blanche is attempting to immunize?

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“.. it’s one thing for Trump to have a personal fascination with one of the world’s most expensive metals. It’s another for the president to flaunt it at a time when many Americans are struggling to pay rent ..” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

I'm sorry what now? Nothing you can do? Laughable.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

This is absolutely insane disinformation. It could not be more inaccurate. And yet, it also reflects the wider disinformation about this initiative. Let's walk through it: First, an ID isn't involved at any part of the process of buying groceries at these stores. At all.

Hey I am back! And really glad to have two trusted voices on the program. Dr @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social - a top expert on viruses - and I will discuss RFK Jr’s disinformation campaign. Plus @macfarlanenews.bsky.social on the return of Todd Blanche. See you at 4p ET on Substack. Later on YouTube.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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The end result of decades of hollowing out mechanisms for popular control of warmaking is on display in Trump’s market manipulations over Iran.

The Markets Matter For War—You Don't

Not only has Iran controlled the escalatory ladder, it's exposed another symptom of American decline

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