Haley Stevens was out with a gracious concession and a commitment to support Abdul El-Sayed within about one hour of the AP call in her race. If she can buck up first thing in the morning, everyone else can. That’s actual political leadership.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

Pour one out for the 4% of Michigan Democratic primary voters who went for Mallory McMorrow. I can only guess that they were unaware that their candidate had dropped out of the race.

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

Seconded. It’s wrong on principle, it’s unamerican—we rejected religious tests for office and dual loyalty smears with JFK, Jewish Americans, more—and every minority (especially but not exclusively religious) should recognize it as yet another assertion that only white Christians are real Americans.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 13h ago

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

convincing michiganders to get behind aes because his name is abdul THE sayed and it’ll piss off ohioans

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

1) Interested in learning what this has to do with increasing "lethality" 2) WTF is this "papers please" bullshit? 3) Don't you drag my beloved #Excel into this you asshole

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · yesterday

"Commanders [must] maintain a log of personnel requiring facial hair treatment plans... Must forward a Facial Hair Accommodation Accountability Report in Excel monthly...   Those approved for accommodation must carry the signed paperwork on their persons..." www.militarytimes.com/news/your-na...

I get that there's a lot of legal power in saying "you're not even following your own self-assigned murder rules". But I also hate giving even an inch on the framing, because, just so we're clear: any drug runners on those boats are also murder victims.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

We have chosen a deeply dishonorable path.

Scripps News@scrippsnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.

You're telling me a social media company CEO wants to expand their user base. This is new and shocking information.

Senators who have nothing to lose by sticking to their principles : we are abandoning our principles

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d ago

John Cornyn & Thom Tillis issue a joint statement announcing they will support Todd Blanche for AG. He's now in good position to clear the Judiciary Committee tomorrow and head to the full Senate.

minimum bar for 2028 is saying that you consider all of this a corrupt, unenforceable bargain and will prosecute all involved

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

Genuinely, the vast majority of American voters believe that only laziness or criminal intent could be stopping the average immigrant from obtaining US citizenship. The truth is that becoming a US citizen takes years upon years of work and requires navigating a baroque bureaucratic nightmare.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

I remember a family member of mine saying “isn’t it like going to the DMV?”

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

Looking over my todo list, I see a single line item that just says C WHAT DID YOU MEAN, PAST JEN??? C WHAT??

The weird part is that they're in a Burger King. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/doc PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d ago

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

What else should we expect from the dude who looked the other way when athletes under his care were being sexually abused?

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 3d ago

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan on alleged spouse and child abuser Max Miller: “This is a family matter. I know Max is a good man. I hope he wins re-election.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

downplay a book or movie: The Middling Escape

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

Downplay a book or movie: There Are Many Tangoes Left In Paris

It's been a banner year for digging into the state-specific rules and deadlines for when a candidate can drop out and how / if the party can replace them.

We should criminalize foreign emoluments on the part of the President (so there are more consequences after removal), maybe other high officials too, and set up better definitions & a reporting process so the FEC/OGE have it all on record.

So that’s the thing to know, if you’re a tabloid that’s going to name-check me in another round of transphobic shit about Bluesky discourse. I don’t stand with you. I stand with my trans friends and family members. ⏹️

“Sandwich guy case” “Harvard clawed frog embryo smuggling case” “Olympic canoeist reflecting pool vandalism case” “James Comey seashells Instagram post case” New rule: If the case sounds like a Mad Libs story, it’s probably about to implode.

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

Launch RFK Jr into the sun. I understand that this requires more energy than putting him on a solar system escape, but in thi case it’s worth it.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...