Former gov Pat McCrory on MS NOW comes out guns blazing, calling El-Sayed a socialist communist etc. Then they showed a table of what communism and socialism are and mentioned he's not even DSA and suddenly he's arguing against his original position, saying labels cheapen the discourse. Comical.
Yes, the moon also remembers the Obama administration
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h agoNASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."
Every time Elon pumps the stock with sci-fi bullshit like this it should drop 10%. Today it's down 12.6%, so good start!
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS
Kind of ironic that SpaceX is the only stock you never see people use rocket emoji with
Seen a lot of MI Dem voter interviews today, mostly PoC, and they break down to two camps: 1. Exclusively older; we need to appeal to moderates in November 2. All ages; NOPE, electability politics are over, we ride at dawn I am more ready for this particular fight than I have ever been.
Since this is the first time I've seen this guy at length... Is the eyes-at-half-mast thing common for him? When I talk to someone who looks like this I infer that they're likely in an altered state.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago🤯 Rep. Max Miller's interview with Jake Tapper was one of the most self-destructive things I've ever witnessed on cable news. Here's the whole thing:
"Hold on! Because I'm not done yet with the list of women who accuse you of violence." - Tapper to Miller in an all time political interview quote.
I never knew Stephen A Smith was so obsessive about this issue (see 🧵 for many examples). as the saying goes, "once you post transphobia, you never post normally again"...
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 23h agoThere are no trans women in the WNBA. There are no trans women NCAA basketball players. Hell, who knows if there are even any trans girls playing HS basketball.
FWIW, Seattle, this is you in about an hour
Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · yesterdayUnbelievable air quality readings of 1000-3000 around Wenatchee, Leavenworth, and Plain, as of 11:50 AM in Chelan County, WA. At this point, smoke is like fog. This level of smoke is hazardous to all, for any length of time outside. #wawx #smoke #wildfires
"I was just mentioning this to my girlfriend, you've never met her, she's from Canada. That's a bad country, Canada. They got these sticks, I call them hockey sticks, and they hit you with 'em. They say 'keep your elbows up' because if they're up they can hit you harder with the sticks..."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "We were gonna hit them hard yesterday. Very, very hard. Harder than any attack since World War 2."
83% of Will Dreher's campaign money is from out of state, much of it from employees of OpenAI & Anthropic, & he has a grand total of *20 donors* in his district. Totally normal, not at all sus, I'm sure it's fine. But you might wanna go ahead and choose @ronpdavis.bsky.social for the 46th LD anyways
It died like it lived, turning what was once a worthwhile low-skill job into a liability the government will have to deal with
Lauren McKenzie@themckenziest.gay · 3d agoHopecore
Proof Bernie Moreno can be relied upon to do the right thing once doing nothing and multiple obviously wrong things prove to be unpopular
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d ago"The senator said in the post, “If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.” bring back shame www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
If this screws up my Worldle streak istg
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 7d agoNauru officially changes name to Naoero
Imagine looking at this and thinking, hmm, needs more gold shit on it
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agograndpa is hallucinating again
In the olden days, a no-bid contract that's screwed up this badly would be bad enough to be scandalous. Don't worry, it will be again as soon as there's a Dem in office www.cnn.com/2026/08/01/p...
Trump’s Reflecting Pool debacle takes a predictably scandalous turn | CNN Politics
Nothing about what happened Friday, when the Justice Department dropped its case against a purported Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandal, was completely surprising.
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Given AI is now integrated in popular writing tools and mandated at many workplaces, every piece of human output can legitimately be suspected of being AI assisted. Minorities will bear the brunt of consequences and accusations here as our culture of double standards and DEI witch-hunts have shown.
These are just such dumb and obvious lies I don't even know where to start
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
"Trump threatens to pull attorney general nominee" Sure, CNN, that's what happened. Just like Taylor Farms threatened to recall the cyclosporidium lettuce. www.cnn.com/2026/07/30/p...
Trump threatens to pull attorney general nominee amid GOP revolt | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wouldn’t object to temporarily withdrawing Todd Blanche as his nominee for attorney general amid resistance from two Republican senators, another major blo...
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you shouldn't be mad about destroying books. you should be mad about who is allowed to have access to the scans, and why the public isn't able to benefit from this at nominal fee to be paid directly to the author, rather than the knowledge being rented from a middleman.
All UEFA nations have unanimously agreed to boycott the World Cup and every other FIFA competition in protest against FIFA’s plan to sell stakes in the tournament to private investors. The decision was made during an emergency virtual meeting today. (martyn ziegler)
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Looks like my Polymarket "will Trump make an ass of himself during Graham eulogy" position is going to pay out
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump takes issue with the Lindsey Graham eulogy he's reading: "Virtually everyone liked Lindsey. Well, not everybody. But it sounds good. I have to be honest. I have to veer from this for a second."
Fun fact! The original X dot com was an online bank around 2000, and it was… pretty great, actually. Then PayPal needed a licensed bank, Elon needed an exit, and they told all their customers: hey, jerks, we got ours, you have 30 days to get your cash out. Asshole. www.theverge.com/tech/971649/...
X Money is launching in the US starting today
Would you replace your bank with X Money?
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