perfect synopsis of modern Republicanism

NEW: Despite being ruled “permanently ineligible” from coaching by SafeSport, a Texas girls volleyball coach has continued to run his club, posting hundreds of videos in which he works with players, supervises practices and is alone with teen girls. with @washingtonpost.com

This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching?

Even though an oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, sports organizations have failed to stop him from coaching.

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BREAKING MS NOW: Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without a security clearance for more than a year. Harp declined multiple times to seek a routine security clearance normally obtained by West Wing staffers to work at the White House.

Trump aide Natalie Harp worked at the White House without security clearance for a year

The close aide to the president, known to filter much of the information reaching the commander-in-chief, ultimately relented in recent months after pressure from White House staff.

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All ICE funding should be transferred to MRNA research and development . www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

Novel Cancer Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning in First for mRNA

Result in high-risk patients validates decades of research into mRNA-based therapeutic cancer vaccines.

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For the record, this is Ossoff's full quote. Extremely interesting to see the outsize MAGA freakout. "See, he doesn’t want to do the job; he wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar."

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 2d ago

i think kirk getting murked was the only other time they’ve been in such a coordinated freakout of this magnitude during this term

The One Big Beautiful Bill authorized $12.5 billion in funding for a complete overhaul of the FAA’s Air Traffic Control System. But none of the money is reserved for hiring more air traffic controllers. Instead, the cash seems destined for Palantir’s pockets. Read more: buff.ly/8wdQ4Dx

We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

There were a lot of articles recently about how bad it was for Cambridge to hire someone who made up stories about their experiences, and now Yale has hired this man?

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d ago

Now why would Yale do this? The man, as @jamellebouie.net says, is a fabulist. He is making stuff up. But what stuff-an indictment of the university-and that's what matters. An indictment-all made up, but Yale cannot tell the difference or doesn't care. 3/ jackson.yale.edu/news/david-b...

Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern says that "countless others whose First Amendment rights have been chilled by Carr’s antics should follow Disney’s lead," stating that "it's about time for someone to take Carr and his FCC to court over their endless campaign of intimidation."

We sort of knew this was happening for a while. But what we are seeing now is data and court filings that reveal how systematically and blatantly the Trump administration has withheld resources from blue states as political retribution. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...

Another day, another impeachable offense: The White House ordered federal agencies to block resources to Colorado because it had punished an election denier. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

The White House is actively beefing with military families and denouncing them as liars. And their supporters still let them get away with it. Imagine Obama calling Navy spouses lying communists or latte-sipping sissies for demanding better conditions during deployments, and Dems supporting it.

The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.

Trump Says USS Lincoln Hasn’t Been Deployed ‘Nearly Long Enough’—Denies Families’ Concerns

The aircraft carrier has been deployed for nearly nine months.

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"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."

Transgender athletes are a red herring

It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.

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Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 5d ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It's so blazingly obvious that this is true. A university lecturer being fired for plagiarism would not be national news >99% of the time. It was inflated into one this time purely because it fit into racist "culture war" narratives about "DEI".

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 6d ago

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

Jason Arday’s nemesis, Nathan Cofnas, sacked from his Cambridge job for articles like this Under a colour blind system of course, people of colour would not have been subject to centuries of slavery, segregation, genocide, and denial of access to healthcare and education

He's not in some marginal place or unemployed or anything. > UGent has defended its decision, stating that Cofnas was selected through a "procedurally correct" process that evaluated candidates based on qualifications like publications and expertise. www.brusselstimes.com/2007046/ghen... 3/n

Ghent University under fire for appointing US philosopher with ties to 'scientific racism'

Concerns have been raised about Nathan Cofnas due to his association with controversial "race science."

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In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

FFS, You don’t even have to look *outside Cambridge* for examples of white professors who have behaved far, far worse and not only kept their jobs, but have been protected and celebrated by both their institution and the media.

Or, in fact, not really a news story at all. I don’t believe at all that this was nationally important and certainly not “third on the BBC 6 o’clock news” important as a story. Cofnas started all of this because he’s a racist and the media ran with it.

Nadine Batchelor-Hunt@nadinebh.bsky.social · 6d ago

No, that is not the alternative The alternative was treating like a normal news story, and not a trial by media - one that was so clearly turbocharged by Arday’s ethnic and social background and the growing resentment in the establishment in the UK of having more black people in high places

The corruption and grift is endless — at the expense of American taxpayers. The stain this family is leaving on our nation will be everlasting. www.wsj.com/finance/trum...

I remember when Bill Clinton—a FORMER president—met Obama’s sitting AG on an airplane and it was a massive scandal. Now, here’s Trump’s new AG just doing Trump political rallies like it’s NBD.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman

Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

Five months ago

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6d ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

This will reduce potential sortie capacity something like 40% and put unexpected cycling strain on reactors which were not designed for it. Basically indistinguishable from literal sabotage, if you care about such things as readiness or reliability or lethality or whatever

Brian Finucane@bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7d ago

Navy Knowers, is this good? www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

Something there hasn't been nearly enough of is promises of specific consequences like this, as a way of deterring present corrupt behavior. Let's at least make them consider the possibility that we might have a real government again someday

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

Former DOJ anti-trust chief Jonathan Kanter, on CNBC, says firms purchasing the Truth Social API could find themselves -- four years from now -- being "investigated for insider trading. .. Traders who use this service need to be careful." @cnbc.com $DJT

This is a good example of something that is entirely political (the government dislikes higher ed and foreign people) and has large economic impacts but will get less attention than "woke one" from our pundit class.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

There will probably be far fewer foreign students on college campuses nationwide this fall following the Trump administration’s crackdown on international visas. A new report predicts international enrollment will decrease by 9.5 percent this fall.

The president is refusing to spend taxpayer money assisting Americans suffering from natural disasters solely because their states didn't vote for him. I know there are a thousand scandals at the moment, but this one deserves some more oxygen at every level.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is this just business as usual in politics? No. Approval rates of federal disaster aid requests were about the same regardless of the state and did not vary much with the party of the President. This graph powerfully conveys the scale of the partisan discrimination now.

This is a very good piece, and wisely quotes Lindsey Cormack's analysis and observation that "the Third Way memo reads less like an audit of Democrats’ language and more like a list of terms Republicans tell us Democrats are saying."

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I wrote about the idea that Democrats need to excise "activist" language from their vocabulary, and what it says about the corporate interests looking to divide and conquer the party.