I mean, Sean Duffy has been busy, getting paid by DOT contractors to drive across the country on a free vacation. DC ATC will have to wait. Trump of all people must recognize Reality TV as a priority. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman
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I used to write laws… then I invented Knee Defender. ex-HPSCI, ex-Senate tech, taxes, trade/FP, impeachment, ethics, antitrust… crime & even reputed parliamentarian
EXCLUSIVE: Video of Elon Musk's space junk hitting the moon #SpaceX
5/5 The Kremlin will likely use burning hubs to stoke outrage and justify further mobilization and recruitment of soldiers. Yet forcing more citizens into the army will only worsen Russia's severe labor shortages, drive up inflation, and accelerate the country's long-term economic decline
3/5 Every air defense battery redeployed to guard a warehouse opens up strategic vulnerabilities for Ukraine to exploit elsewhere. Russia's air defense assets are already stretched to their limit, forcing a zero-sum choice between civilian logistics and front-line military targets
Aug. 5, 1926: The federal government concludes that the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is legally entitled to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters when their tunes are played in public venues. Radio broadcasters had complained ASCAP was an illegal monopoly.
JUST IN: Trump files emergency motion to try to block BBC from getting details about finances of his business empire in connection with $5-10 billion defamation suit he filed against the network www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump seeks to shield his business finances from BBC in libel lawsuit
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Interesting opinion just out from NDTex—because Congress eliminated the NFA tax on short-barreled rifles and shotguns and on suppressors, the NFA restrictions on those items are no longer constitutional storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Memorandum Opinion and Order AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #136 in Silencer Shop Foundation v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (N.D. Tex., 6:25-cv-00056) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER. Granting in part and denying in part cross-motions for summary judgment re: 48 ; 59 ; 117 ; 118 . (Ordered by Judge James Wesley Hendrix on 8/5/2026) (ada) (Entered: 08/0...
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FUCK DOJ has, in general, not relied on Trump v. US, even in all its most expansive claims to be able to do what they want. But in Broadview--where defendants suspect that Todd Blanche's enforcer Akash Singh was involved--DOJ went there. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![Separately, as the Supreme Court recently held, “[i]nvestigative and prosecutorial
decisionmaking is ‘the special province of the Executive Branch,’” and so even the “President may
discuss potential investigations and prosecutions with his Attorney General and other Justice
Department officials to carry out his constitutional duty to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully
executed.” Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593, 620 (2024) (quotations and citations omitted).
Thus, members of the Executive Branch are constitutionally required to “take Care that the Laws
be faithfully executed,” and it is entirely appropriate for them to “decide which crimes to
investigate and prosecute.” Id. (quoting U.S. Const. Art. II, § 3). Although the Supreme Court in
2024 made clear that the law permits such interactions, as already noted and consistent with
Department policy, in this matter, the United States Attorney reported the Office’s charging
decision to Main Justice shortly before the first grand jury presentation in this case. R. 110 at 4,
n.2.15 Former Defendants are not entitled to any communications relating to charging decisions or](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihyyexcusmlv2qq5dhiupo44u6dxuggoidlrpfdkddmsuesirnp2q)
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Meanwhile, over on the other site… > CNN: US HAS USED NEARLY 80% OF KEY MISSILE INTERCEPTORS IN IRAN WAR, TOP COMMANDERS WARN STOCKPILES "DANGEROUSLY LOW" > HEGSETH: That banner is NOT TRUE, @CNN. Shame on you. We don't hate the Fake News media enough. > MASSIE: So what IS the number? 😳😳😳🍿
In MI-08, an R+1 district with a Dem incumbent, the GOP candidate Trump endorsed is losing by double digits to a guy who'd dropped out last month.
Meanwhile, over on the other site… > CNN: US HAS USED NEARLY 80% OF KEY MISSILE INTERCEPTORS IN IRAN WAR, TOP COMMANDERS WARN STOCKPILES "DANGEROUSLY LOW" > HEGSETH: That banner is NOT TRUE, @CNN. Shame on you. We don't hate the Fake News media enough. > MASSIE: So what IS the number? 😳😳😳🍿
Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Oakland County Current Results: 🟠 Haley Stevens – 104,666 (50.6%) 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 96,316 (46.6%) The remaining votes are disproportionately absentee, which should benefit Stevens.
Fun fact: The last time a Cabinet pick failed on the Senate floor was 1989. John Tower. No Cabinet pick has been defeated on the Senate floor in Susan Collins’ nearly 30 years as a senator.
WRITERS ROOM LATEST on vote to confirm Todd Blanche NAY: Dems + Collins & Murkowski = 49 YEA: Repubs, with McConnell absent & Cassidy absent = 49 JD Vance enters, assumes the chair, starts to announce a tie vote— McConnell enters and votes NAY. #SRules
1985-86 – 99th Congress 🟪23 purple states Many not-so-conservative Repubs, not-so-liberal Dems Rs incl Barry Goldwater (AZ), Rudy Boschwitz (MN) Ds incl Sam Nunn (GA), Ted Kennedy (MA) > Functional 2025-26 – 119th Congress 🟪3 purple states Not many not-so-conserv Rs, not-so-lib Ds > Non-functional
The numbers coming out of Detroit are not enough for Stevens. It’s a bloodbath
Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion
Tfw when you realize these miles are older than most* of the ppl who'll see this. Cool: Now can book 1-way & short trips <miles. Not cool: Now $ to check a bag. Pride: Not forgetting to jump thru the periodic hoops to keep them active. (* – ok, maybe not most, yet 2X as old as at least one of you)
Anyone else think it’s weird that Trump alleged massive election interference by the CCP… but never really followed that up with any action? It should be abundantly clear these claims of election fraud are just a pretext to justify interfering in the midterms.
Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
As EU AI Act enters into force, study warns chatbots blur voters’ own political views
As EU AI Act enters into force, study warns chatbots blur voters’ own political views
As the EU's AI act comes into force, new research warns how vulnerable our political opinions may be to AI interference. Citizens may lose the ability to identify the source of their opinions, limiting their democratic autonomy - a fundamental pillar of EU politics
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Aug. 3, 1926: The “world’s only aquaplane band” jazzes and splashes along the shore of San Diego.
Questions to each other. Markey asks why Moulton voted against an impeachment vote and for defense budget. Moulton says he has voted to impeach him but that the time is right and he says he brings the fight to GOP media. #mapoli
Russia’s new Banderol missile cripples Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,621)
Russia’s new Banderol missile cripples Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports (Ukraine Battlefield update, Day 1,621)
Behind the strikes on Odesa and other ports lies a newly mass-produced missile built with Western and Chinese parts, giving Russia a cheap, precise tool to batter Ukraine’s economy.
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Political questions are about politics. Personal questions are about things that are personal. Fucking questions are about fucking. Senator, that was not a fucking question. #Moreno
