Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Get ready for three months of the most vile, disgusting, unapologetically islamophobic and racist commentary you've ever seen from the GOP during a campaign.
Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 4h agoFormer J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
BREAKING: Trump is reportedly indifferent to losing congressional majorities in the upcoming midterms because he intends to focus on executive actions and pardons rather than passing legislation, per Axios
ColoradoNewsline: Trump administration’s attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge coloradonewsline.com/briefs/trump...
Trump administration's attempt to obtain Colorado voter data shut down by federal judge | Colorado Newsline
Colorado will not need to hand over sensitive voter registration information to the federal government, a judge ruled.
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NEW: Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan's Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, defeating Rep. Haley Stevens in a massive victory for the party's progressive wing in a battleground state. https://to.pbs.org/4fPHHJQ
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate primary in major victory for Democrats’ progressive wing
The real test of El-Sayed’s and progressives’ strength will now come in a November matchup against Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman who ran unopposed for the GOP nomination.
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Brian Beutler: 27 Thoughts On A Tough Primary Season open.substack.com/pub/brianbeu...
27 Thoughts On A Tough Primary Season
There's more to come, but the worst is over, and now it's time for some perspective.
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We go to a pristine area of Alaska to see how the Trump administration’s brand of state capitalism is upending business norms — and life in the Arctic
This Arctic Road Shows How Trump is Rewriting the Rules of Business
The federal government issued a permit for a road long in the making in exchange for a stake in a mining company.
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Cory Booker was discussing Todd Blanche’s handling of the Epstein files when MAGA Sen. Eric Schmitt raised a handwritten sign: “I DON’T CARE!” He may have intended to troll Democrats—but the image revealed something far more damaging. #EricSchmitt #ToddBlanche #EpsteinFiles
Cory Booker Was Talking About Epstein’s Victims—Then a MAGA Senator Held Up Two Stunning Words
Sen. Eric Schmitt could have challenged the accusations against Todd Blanche. He could have defended Blanche’s record, disputed the Democrats’ legal arguments or explained why Donald Trump’s former…
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Chipotle isolated a single source of Jalapeno peppers contaminated with Salmonella. They figured it out. RFK Jr. can’t
🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters
Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.
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Judd Legum: UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani open.substack.com/pub/populari...
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
Jeanine Pirro crashes into the limit of Trump's lies
It's one thing to bullshit on Fox. It's another to lie in court.
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📌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.
Meanwhile work requirements for terminally ill people on Medicaid just went into effect
Court lets Trump admin force some terminally ill patients to work for health care www.rawstory.com/trump-admin-...
Court lets Trump admin force some terminally ill patients to work for health care
A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal di...
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Republican senators looked like they were standing up to Trump over his self-serving "settlement." But a deal between the DOJ and John Cornyn lets Trump keep immunity from owing taxes on any returns filed before May 19. A potential windfall for Trump worth millions www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Gets To Keep Tax Immunity Under DOJ Deal With Republican Senators
The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” might be dead, but President Donald Trump still gets out of paying any back taxes he might have owed.
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The Boys recording one of the greatest albums of all time — REVOLVER — at Abbey Road in 1966. This seminal album was released 60yrs ago today.
🚨BREAKING: Colorado Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to provide access to complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and our clients. DOJ is now 0-20 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/colora...
🚨 United States of America v. Griswold
Learn more.
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Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Watch Senate Judiciary Republicans humiliate themselves by voting "YES" to advancing Todd Blanche's nomination out of Committee: www.c-span.org/event/senate...
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Tillis said Blanche had to meet with Epstein survivors. The survivors said he was condescending, rude & constantly interrupted them. They said he was just checking a box. Tillis wants slush fund order modified & IRS settlement gone. Blanche creates a sham order. Tillis wants performative nonsense.