WASHINGTON (AP) — Abdul El-Sayed wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.
Democrats used their final moments ahead of Todd Blanche’s nomination vote to remind the committee of numerous reasons why Todd Blanche should not be permanently promoted—but apparently all Republicans heard was a bunch of “whining.” trib.al/YuqLwOk
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
They know voters hate this shit. So they wait until Blanche has the votes for Collins to come out against him. So she can claim to be a moderate. So she gets reelected. So she can spend the next two years voting for more Todd Blanches.
Collins Watch@collinswatch.bsky.social · 21h agoSusan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
Fetterman is not a moderate or centrist Democrat. Like Sinema and Joe Manchin a few years ago, he wants to announce as loudly as possible that the party has gone too far left and punish it for doing so. trib.al/byNISBB
The Solution to the Democrats’ John Fetterman Problem
The party doesn’t just need to secure 51 Senate seats—it needs 52. Fortunately, there is a visible path.
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joshruebner.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
Israel Is Losing Support But Ending Taxpayer-Funded Weapons Isn’t Enough
From enjoying a once seemingly unassailable position of broad bipartisan support in the United States, the American people have decisively soured on Israel, horrified and repelled by the reality that ...
joshruebner.substack.com
Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender apnews.com/article/texa...
Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender
Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System’s restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate cour...
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Abdul El Sayed's open-mindedness on the question of how to actually resolve the question of Palestine is one of the best indicators of his overall intelligence and sincerity. Policymakers in DC should adopt a rights-based approach which prioritizes ending the occupation and apartheid systems.
Ron Skolnik@ronskolnik.bsky.social · 23h agoEl-Sayed: "I believe in equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination, for Palestinians and Jewish Israelis alike... If that’s 2 states, I’m for it. If it’s 1 state, I’m for that. If it’s this 'land for all' model, ... or whatever they decide." www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
The thing about RFK Jr is that he is a liar who has figured out there is a lot of money to be made from lying. Small example, he claimed the NY Times refused to publish an ad for his anti-Fauci book. Censored! Suppressed! Except they did. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
The guy who led a secret Epstein files coverup meeting laughing with the guy who has made zero Epstein client arrests
Will Bunch: There are rings of death in Donald Trump's America. There are the direct attacks that jolt the conscience - the notorious fatal shootings by immigration agents of immigrants such as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero and protesters such as Renee Good
The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch
In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.
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& let's just say that I wish Scopes felt a lot further from our moment than it did: americanstudier.blogspot.com/2025/03/marc...
March 22-23, 2025: 21st Century Attacks on Educators
[100 years ago this month, the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Butler Act , prohibiting public school teachers from teaching evolution...
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The moral depravity of Israel's Supreme Court towards Palestinians is on display. The country's highest court will hear petitions by Palestinian patients stuck in war-torn Gaza, but whenever an urgent intervention is needed to save lives, the judges choose to delay and defer, at a terrible cost.
Opinion | Israel's Supreme Court looks the other way as patients in Gaza suffer
The country's highest court will hear petitions by Palestinian patients stuck in war-torn Gaza, but whenever an urgent intervention is needed to save lives, the judges choose to delay and defer, often...
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It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
i really liked this review from @lbaum94.bsky.social of how often american administrations have lumped together all forms of opposition into a dangerous catch-all Communist Menace, whether that was violent anarchists, trade unionists, civil rights protesters, or just random german-americans
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3d ago“The moment in which we find ourselves is not without precedent. For nearly 150 years, antipathy—if not outright hostility—toward grassroots activism that takes aim at the status quo has been the norm.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-third-re...
The most corrupt, unethical AG in the US history will now take office after a sham deal with retiring Republican senators. Now this lawless DOJ will run amok with Trump’s criminal defense attorney carrying out his retribution tour against the innocent while the guilty go free.
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
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Charges to Be Dropped Against Former Olympian in Reflecting Pool Case www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Charges to Be Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool
President Trump had repeatedly accused vandals of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. On Friday, federal prosecutors acknowledged it was “the result of flawed installation.”
nytimes.com
Really making the whole "dont call us fascists!" pitch a little harder.
“ABC put out its formal response to the FCC’s review, and it’s scathing stuff. I’m going to read one line. ABC says, “The retaliation against ABC is a signal to every media company in the country: Accommodate the administration’s view of what news coverage should look like, or pay the price.”
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoTrump makes his corruption open and explicit on purpose: It helps normalize and numb people to it, and puts our institutions on notice that they need to bend the knee to him. Check out this exchange with @leahlitman.bsky.social on this point: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
