Parti Quebecois leader says they are committed to holding an independence referendum if they win, but will not hold it until after Trump leaves office www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/pol...

PQ won’t hold sovereignty referendum ‘while Donald Trump is president’

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says his party won’t hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty 'while Donald Trump is president.'

ctvnews.ca

Republican strategists are already at the “well the base will come home” part of the election doom cycle.

Mississippi EV infrastructure

As another former Republican activist and campaign staffer, I think this is an incredibly accurate and dispassionate way to describe the party’s transition over the last 20 years.

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 4d ago

I mean, as a former lifelong Republican I think the revised Wikipedia summary is remarkably accurate and perceptive, and worth reading.

My air conditioner: I’m tired boss

Farage wins re-election after resigning in an election boycotted by all other major British parties, with satirical candidate Count Binface winning 26% of the vote as his nearest rival.

It’s by-election day in Clacton where Reform UK leader Nigel Farage put on a farce of a resignation only to have all his opponent parties sit out - and famous satirist Count Binface his primary opponent. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Clacton voters go to the polls in Westminster by-election

Voters will choose between 34 candidates - the most to stand in any British parliamentary election.

bbc.com

Damn I can’t believe Mark Sanford lost again

Also I get the freak out but I think a lot of people don’t watch or listen to Trump enough to know that “stranger things have happened okay I’ll leave it at that” is the kind of thing he says when he wasn’t paying attention and didn’t follow what you were saying but wants to end the conversation.

Kevin Dupuy@kevinyeaux.com · last wk.

hahaha of COURSE it was Wayne Allyn Root that proposed that kooky “national emergency” thing to Trump. I’m trying to figure out how bad Trump’s polling is that he’s getting booked on Root’s radio show. Jesus.

hahaha of COURSE it was Wayne Allyn Root that proposed that kooky “national emergency” thing to Trump. I’m trying to figure out how bad Trump’s polling is that he’s getting booked on Root’s radio show. Jesus.

St. George, which broke away from Baton Rouge a few years ago in a hotly contested incorporation battle, doesn’t have the budget for a police department. So they are trying to build a volunteer police department. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

St. George plans a volunteer police force. Here’s what it will do, how it will work.

The officers will be able to issue citations for traffic incidents like speeding or running a stop sign.

theadvocate.com

Finally got ethernet to my home office upstairs.

Did Carlos Ghosn lend the Secret Service his instrument case?

Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · last wk.

the manliest

yes and I predict that Haas will win the world championship this year too while we’re at it

There’s a show on a network called “The First,” which I’ve never heard of, called “The Democrat Party Reimagined” so you know it’s going to be very fair and balanced. I click it and Jeffrey Tucker is talking, someone I haven’t seen since I used to have to do the libertarian conference circuit.

As someone that has called 911 in NOLA more than once in my life… hey at least someone is answering 911 calls now!

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2w ago

AI is now answering 911 calls in New Orleans. The AI handles incoming calls and is supposed to analyze and prioritize the calls so that if multiple people phone in about the same incident, the chatbot will handle the repetitive calls about the same incident. /1

A lot of complaints about Microsoft disabling old versions of Office, but mine’s still working fine.

Within a democratic system such as ours, it presents something of a problem when nearly two-thirds of the public says that their situation is good or excellent, but just one-third of the public says that the economy is good or excellent. | Charles C. W. Cooke https://ow.ly/UpUx50Zx9Mv

In the Battleground States, Voters Like Their Economy More Than ‘the Economy’ | National Review

63 percent say their personal finances are either good or excellent. 34 percent say that the economy is good or excellent. What gives?

ow.ly

Oh okay cool. No worries then everyone!

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump: Iran is going very well - Truth Social

Anyway I maintain that primaries are an awful way for parties to nominate candidates and in some post-Trump reform era, while it won’t be popular, I’d love to see a much more closed nomination process that turns our parties into actual political parties.

MS NOW reporter is at a Detroit polling place and there is a Subway shop inside of it. Which is a feature that should be available in all American polling places and if I were in power I would definitely require it.

“Nothing we can do” says member of the one body of people in the country that could literally do something to rein in the president.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

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

New polling shows the president underwater in Mississippi for the first time, which explains some of the optimism by Dems around their senate race here: www.clarionledger.com/story/news/202…

Trump approval hits record low in Mississippi, new US polls

A record number of Americans disapprove of Trump. Here's how Mississippi voters compare and how opinions have shifted over time.

clarionledger.com

Totally forgot local schools restarted already and drove through insane traffic with parents waiting for pick up. Millennial parents: make your kids ride the bus. Keep the streets clear. I have places to be and your kids need to learn to be self sufficient.

Enraging for people here but there is literally no national attention on Memphis (& even North Mississippi), which has been under federal assault for about as long as anywhere else.

Tennessee Lookout@tennesseelookout.com · 2w ago

COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

I’m not so sure about Chase’s new lines of business.

That the world and its financial structures are being held hostage by the bizarre social media posts of one man is what you get when the dynamics of celebrity culture merge with real political power. It was kind of inevitable.

Governor Tim Walz@governorwalz.mn.gov · 2w ago

Happy Market Manipulation Monday - brought to you by the most corrupt family in American history. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

I did check New Zealand polling since they’ve got an election the same week as ours. Labour is in a small lead but NZ First is amazingly still polling really strongly, generally third. They’ve traditionally performed poorly after being in coalition. Thus why no one can really touch Winston Peters.

NZ foreign minister Winston Peters made a horribly racist remark to a Chinese-born MP, which even PM Luxon said he thought was racist. But as with everyone that gets into a coalition with Peters/NZF, there’s not a lot he can do about it. www.1news.co.nz/2026/07/31/y...

'Yes, I do': Luxon asked if he thinks Peters' remarks were racist

The Prime Minister says the NZ First leader's comments caused "huge offence" to the Chinese-Kiwi community but he won't be sacking him as Foreign Minister.

1news.co.nz

What’s insane about the Rand-Fauci stuff is that there was PLENTY to criticize about the Covid response from a libertarian perspective, without needing to downplay the danger and deadliness. But that would require placing blame on the politicians, including the president, which was… who? Oh yeah.