Just a senile, diapered 80 year-old playing with a sharpie in the Oval Office turned Roomper Room, entertaining his half-witted cult with his usual toddler level theatrics.

I’m not sure how to convey this succinctly to legacy media who continues to go to Manchin for his opinion. But let me try: No one, and I mean no one, gives a fuck what Joe Manchin thinks about anything.

JD Vance called Susan Collins his “dear friend.” No wonder why — she's voted for Trump's agenda 96% of the time. I don’t need a half-dozen meetings with JD Vance or to pal around with billionaire hedge fund executives to know what Mainers are dealing with every day.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Vance: "The second shout out I gotta give is to my dear friend Susan Collins, the senator from Maine. Thank you!…She has been to my house probably a half dozen times, the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory."

i genuinely think that the way this admin is treating Canada will be looked back on as of the most shameful chapters of modern US history far too many people are laughing it off as unserious but the reality is that they’re spitting in the face of our closest ally for no reason

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

JD Vance: "Canada is a state -- sorry. Freudian slip."

When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power.

WATCH - SEN. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social: “Trump has found a way to monetize the war… Is any Republican senator willing to come down to this floor and defend the President setting up a subscription service for public policy announcements from the White House?”

Ossoff on why he invoked Natalie Harp during his speech: "We're in wartime. The commander in chief has mired us in this geopolitical disaster. People have lost their lives ... and he retreats into this bubble of West Wing aides who are his security blanket to make him feel good about himself"

Trump has failed miserably on every economic promise he made for his second term, and Steve Rattner has kindly summarized Trump's failures in a series of easy-to-understand graphs. Share these widely.

Freedom Writers Collaborative@fwcollaborative.bsky.social · last wk.

'Promises not kept': Wall Street insider tears apart Trump's grim economy

In the NYT opinions today, critics of DEI warn that "the right will need to erect a firewall between antiwokeness, which is more than justified by progressive excess, and actual bigotry, which is not." This is an impossible task, since bigotry is the core principle behind the right's antiwokeness.

NEW: Harmeet Dhillon swore in 100+ new Civil Rights Division lawyers as "civil rights warriors" for "ALL Americans" — then named exactly none of them. So we did. Court filings let us ID 11. At least 5 arrived with records of misconduct, controversy, or hiring irregularities. 1/

Meet the attorneys Harmeet Dhillon installed to turn the Civil Rights Division against its mission - Public Citizen

Introduction  On July 8, 2026, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon tweeted that she had sworn in more than 100 new…

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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”

It's just insane that the president tells absurd, easily disproven lies on a daily basis, and at this point we all just expect it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

The last decade has been one long parade of Republican politicians selling their souls to Donald Trump.

In Michigan, a Former Trump Critic Shifts Toward Election Skepticism (Gift Article)

Mike Rogers, the Republican Senate nominee, has suggested that further scrutiny of the 2020 election was warranted and that voting irregularities sunk his first Senate bid two years ago.

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Israel has rejected the Trump/“Board of Peace” plan for Gaza. Iran has rebuffed all US demands, and Hormuz remains closed. Can we not fall for “imminent deal!” or “peace plan!” again? Please! And treating the president as a child you overpraise to encourage steps towards good behavior has failed.

BREAKING: Retired Republican County Judge Glen Whitley endorses James Talarico for US Senate: “I’m ashamed that Ken Paxton is even on the ballot. He’s the most corrupt politician Texas has ever seen.”

NYT headline says "Moderate Democrats prepare for ‘war’ against an ascendant left" while the text says "Most party leaders — from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York to former Vice President Kamala Harris — quickly embraced Dr. El-Sayed’s Senate candidacy."

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮

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My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Just listened to an NPR story about a new and exceptionally effective flu vaccine based on mRNA technology, which they referred to as "highly controversial" and then proceeded to both-sides it without ever explaining that the anti-mRNA cranks are basing their assertions on deception and lies.

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4w ago

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

I can tell how desperate Republicans are to shift the conversation from Epstein and a war of choice and high gas and grocery and housing prices and unaffordable healthcare because they are rehashing COVID and Fauci. They are shaking in their boots…good.

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

This is an impeachable act, and probably also a crime: "Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states 'based solely' on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

Paxton—who has been Texas attorney general since 2015—somehow acquired 15 properties across the country worth $9 million, all on a government salary while in the midst of both a Senate run and a divorce. trib.al/bk0fo0W

GOP talking points becoming indistinguishable from scammers who deliberately say stupid stuff so that only the easiest marks are still paying attention.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Scalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"

This combination, two days apart, will serve for future historians as an effective shorthand for the lunacy of the moment.

so, the thing is, no they won’t. DHS doesn’t do this. DHS doesn’t have authority to do this. DHS doesn’t have the *ability* to do this. this is just puffed up horseshit because they’re terrified of the midterms and can’t do anything about it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

Mullin claims DHS will “scrub all election records” and asserts that dead people are voting