Matthew Shirts
@matthewshirts.bsky.social
Brasil fan! Climate alarmist and writer. Author of award winning, Emergência Climática: o aquecimento global, o ativismo jovem e a luta por um mundo melhor. Corinthiano. Posts in Portuguese and English. Based in São Paulo
Trump's election night embarrassment; Dems rally behind Abdul-Sayed following his win; MAGA Mike backs Max Miller amid horrifying allegations; NM sues DOJ over Epstein; and more. Your midday update is here:
Wednesday News Updates: Election Night Updates, House GOP Implosion, + More – 8/5/26
Your midday update is here
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On one hand, it's a good thing CBS finally told the truth. On the other hand, CBS can still go fuck themselves. Bullshit artist Bari Weiss and the Ellison family, even with all their money, can't buy back credibility. And smart Americans will never forgive them for what they did to Stephen Colbert.
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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The Trump Regime attempting to deport eyewitnesses to the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, incl. Jose Trinidad, who says Lorenzo didn't ram an ICE vehicle or run over agents. LULAC's Juan Proaño on what is being done to protect Lorenzo’s family & the Latino community. youtu.be/wF3ulAZP0kU?...
Trump UNDER FIRE After Trying to SILENCE ICE MURDER Witnesses!?!
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Last night's political earthquake in Michigan should make one thing very clear: it's time for Democrats to grow a spine and stop bending the knee to corporate donors.
The Failures of “Centrism”
By moving to the so-called “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening ine
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Are we getting billed for his attack lawyers ?
Forbes@forbes.com · 4h agoThe president’s revocable trust had been ordered to turn over financial documents by Thursday.
Protecting whales and dolphins means protecting the seas—and, by extension, life on our planet. Save the Ocean: If the ocean dies, humanity dies.
Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
ALT: Whale Tail Dives in Frozen World
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JUST IN: Trump is scrambling to stop the BBC from digging into the finances of his business empire after a judge ordered him to hand over records in his $10B defamation lawsuit against the network.
Cool stuff. When it works Democracy is empowering
Rep. Vikki Goodwin@vikkigoodwintx.bsky.social · 3h ago61 years after the Voting Rights Act became law, Texans are still fighting to be counted at the ballot box. Yesterday, the voice of the people was so loud that the Tarrant County Commissioners Court had no choice but to table their attempt to cut polling locations before the midterm election.
"Pirro clearly wanted to spare herself any further scrutiny by the courts, but her motion to dismiss is comically inept, an attempt to paper over the fact her office charged Hearn based only on Trump's fevered imaginings. All it does is highlight how much she was willing to lie in the first place."
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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Can you imagine anyone else getting away with this? Can he be tried by military justice for impersonating a general?
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 5h agoThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
How the GOP rides. All the government money for the wealthy. Hard work and capitalism and high prices for the rest of us
Blue Oleta@blue-oleta.bsky.social · 6h agoApple got a $2.2 billion tariff refund check. Amazon got $600 million.: Walmart got $10 Billion. So basically they got to raise all the prices then cash in?
So you can’t afford groceries, gas, healthcare, utilities, or your mortgage. But hey, I got gold horses.
“The Epstein cover-up just got even darker.” An Epstein survivor is accusing Trump’s DOJ of committing crimes against Epstein’s victims. When survivors are sounding the alarm instead of getting justice, something is deeply wrong. #Epstein #Accountability #USDemocracy #RisingBlue
Donald Trump dodged the draft but is happy to post photos of himself in uniform while he sends our kids to die in his war.
The brilliant historian Tessa Dunlop is one of the only people I know in the media who expresses serious alarm about the climate crisis.
Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.
I'm more worried the Texas Legislature is more likely to ban Universities.
I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.
King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 22h agoOnly a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
FLÁVIO BOLSONARO ESCOLHE VICE ENVOLVIDO EM GRAVÍSSIMAS DENÚNCIAS! 🚨💥
Trump inherited one of the strongest economies in the world, yet 33% of Americans still think he inherited a disaster. The power of right wing propaganda. #BlueWaveIn90Days
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month: "There are no trans women in the WNBA; there has never been an openly trans player in the WNBA... so it’s essentially impossible for a trans woman to play in the league or refute any of Cunningham’s statements." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The WNBA should have never let it come to this | Xtra Magazine
After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham came out against trans women playing women’s sports, the league has allowed things to snowball
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Like Lawrence O'Donnell said, every Democratic Candidate is running against one person, DJT. That has to be our focus, not tearing down one another.
