They put the entire WHPC on a targeted plane and said nothing. Someday I really hope the subs in the WHPC realize their dom isn't playing when he says he hates them and wants them dead.
Aaron Schaffer@aaronschaffer.com · 3h ago!!!
Liz Gereghty
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New Yorker, champion eye roller, former seller of Game of Thrones votives, recovering NY17 candidate, helper of NYC tourists, radical leftist scum.
Aaron Schaffer@aaronschaffer.com · 3h ago
Two things 1) you can tell everyone around him hates him because they leaked this 2) he is going to be livid and spend a week or more entirely obsessed trying to find who leaked this while simultaneously denying it
Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h agoSTUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
The U.S. has AGAIN sent people to a foreign country where they get imprisoned. This time, it’s to get around laws barring the deportation of people who face persecution/torture in their home countries. The U.S. gets paper-thin assurances that the below won't happen, which it knows will be ignored.
Emily Bregel@emilybregel.bsky.social · 8h agoImmigrants confined in a decommissioned hotel in Equatorial Guinea, after the U.S. deported them there without notice/due process, report worsening, dangerous conditions: "We’re living a nightmare." tucson.com/news/local/s...
curious how I haven't see a paint blistering media freakout about Trump STARVING THE TROOPS anywhere close to comparable as when Biden ripped off the bandaid in Afghanistan www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Exhaustion, low morale plague USS Lincoln crew outside Iran, family members say
‘Apparently, the ship’s doctor or therapist said they need to hit port soon or people are going to start, you know, losing their minds,’ says Bonnie York, whose stepson serves on the carrier
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private equity is destroying everything and must itself be destroyed
Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
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New from me: He had the money, bio and Trump endorsement needed to win in a Republican primary. His opponent even dropped out! But Amir Hassan could not beat Tom Smith. His loss reflects the depth of anti-Muslim bigotry in the GOP. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-candidat...
A candidate who quit the race still beat Trump's pick in a GOP primary — because of his name
A real life audit study!
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All due respect to Scott Couch — of course debates are important. But it’s as much TN media’s job as @jerrigreen4tn’s to pressure @MarshaBlackburn 🐔 to do them. Y’all have a role to play too. Have the debate. Have an empty chair. 🪑 Tennesseans should hear from potential governors.
This story, as much as any you'll read, encapsulates how deeply Trump has poisoned the well of his own party. Even Mike Rogers -- as establishment a politician as you'd find anywhere -- has plunged himself into the sewer of election conspiracy theories. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...
Michigan Senate Candidate, a Former Trump Critic, Shifts Toward Election Skepticism (Gift Article)
Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sank his first Senate bid two years ago.
nytimes.com
For the fifth time, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money to abandon planned wind energy projects
Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
nytimes.com
Palantir is an evil company that should be sued into the ground and the earth salted.
Bucks County Beacon@buckscountybeacon.com · yesterday“USA TODAY is partnering w/Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers...& turn them into ‘actionable intelligence.’ That spy language from USA TODAY is a huge red flag...media exists to hold power accountable. Not to partner w/defense intelligence contractors. Or treat readers like intelligence targets”
President Donald Trump remains silent as American cities are left to foot the bill. trib.al/a6VYPKO
World Cup Host Cities Chase FIFA as It Refuses to Pay Up
President Donald Trump remains silent as American cities are left to foot the bill.
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Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
Excluding one case of double-bunked incumbents, 159 House Dems have been through their primaries to date and 5 lost (there are 11 states still to vote). That's a renomination rate of 96.9%. The post-WWII average for House is 98.3%. This is what gets much ballyhooed as a "bloodbath" in our system.
This is the $300M mega yacht owned by billionaire Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg that didn't answer a distress call from a much smaller cruise ship that ran out of fuel in Alaska this week. Photo Credit: Arno Lippert.
Alaska Beacon@alaskabeacon.com · 2d agoCruise ship helps stranded skiff and crew in Southeast Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by, writes @alaska.bsky.social for @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruis...
An example of how women's intellectual labour gets erased #WomenInSTEM 🧪
Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 8mo ago112. I'm not going to lie, initially I was excited by this article citing my PhD on Andaman Island lithics, until I realised how I had been erased. You would think the author had done the archival research himself. It took years to chase down every lead I could find. #TabClosed2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
So the Times did a story on this, but not Capital One closing Trump accounts over suspicions of money laundering.
Chuck Grassley Announces the Death of His Beloved Vacuum, Beth (Gift Article)
Senator Chuck Grassley mourned his decades-long cleaning companion, writing on social media: “GOOD BYE BETH. U hv been a real workhorse.”
nytimes.com
We will say this again, until we’re blue in the face 🤢: outlets should have debates anyway with an empty chair🪑next to @jerrigreen4tn where @marshablackburn 🐔 refuses to be. cc: @tennesseannews @FOXNashville @wmcactionnews5 @wsmvtv @newschannel5 wbir @wjhl11 @memphisnews @wkrntv
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
newrepublic.com
It's a choice the media repeatedly makes to platform and legitimize - even cheerlead - anti Muslim bigotry in a way they would never platform or legitimize similarly open anti black or anti Jewish bigotry
josh boerman@bosh.worstpossible.world · 2d agothe media in this country treats bigotry coming from a place of fear as a valid public position. eventually this leads you to the ludicrous place where “the muslim mayor of new york city shouldn’t attend the 25th anniversary commemoration of 9/11” is treated as newsworthy opinion
I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)
President Donald Trump threatened to take State Department paintings home during a mining roundtable Friday, breaking off mid-speech to size up the room's art and declare, "I'm taking it.
Trump threatens State Dept. paintings after losing plot mid-speech: 'I'm taking it'
President Donald Trump threatened to take State Department paintings home during a mining roundtable Friday, breaking off mid-speech to size up the room's art and declare, "I'm taking it."The event was held in the Benjamin Franklin State Dining Room at the State Department, where Secretary of State ...
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Chris Hayes: Trump and his allies are unleashing a wave of anti-Muslim bigotry. In Michigan, that hatred is already consuming candidates in their own party.
Trump’s racist politics BACKFIRE in Michigan GOP primary
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Centrist orgs like Third Way aren't afraid that a progressive will lose the general in 2028. They're afraid that they'll win www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
The cowardice of those who capitulate when they have nothing left to lose. Tillis. Cornyn. Cassidy. I hope they are shamed wherever they go for the rest of their lives.
These tools will spend 10x what they owe on the pied-a-terre tax on attorneys or finding ways to avoid contributing. Losers. Just write a check. www.wsj.com/us-news/new-...
New York City Homeowners Sue Over Mamdani’s Pied-à-Terre Tax Rollout
The lawsuit represents an early test of the mayor’s housing levy.
wsj.com
It sometimes feels like we're living in a ridiculously exaggerated folk tale with wildly implausible villains. For example, as the president takes billions for himself and his family and *coats his things in gold,* the soldiers fighting his war can't get toothpaste, hot water, or a clean toilet.
Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.
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