Lutnick & Trump, & their derelict sons, undoubtedly want a cut of any deal.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 8h ago

US-Canada trade talks collapsed after last-minute pressure from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to people familiar with the matter

musk endorsing this would have been the number 1 story in the world a few years ago, governments investing in him would've had to comment, investors would've got nervous now, nothing. we've just given up bsky.app/profile/polp...

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 18h ago

the coming european reconquista

PARCL LABS: “.. As of tonight, 1 in 4 homes for sale in America are in Texas and Florida - two states that hold just 17% of the nation's homes. Of the two, #Texas is the bigger concern. 48.3% of all Texas listings are cutting prices.”

It is not just eugenicists Musk & DOGE who set out to cause suffering & death. It is the entire GOP. The GOP Congress could have reined Trump & Musk in but liked what they were doing.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2d ago

I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.

Musk's father having a giggle about political murder + homophobia to the Financial Times

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d ago

On Keir Starmer

Long story short: military news in America is functionally dead, replaced by short attention spans on social media and bought up and gutted by private equity. I sometimes have meetings and calls with folks who want to start up some kind of news outlet. Like the X-Files "I want to believe" but don't.

There are no leaders in the modern GOP. There’s no corruption, criminality, or degeneracy that it will not support, in its pursuit of power.

Jennifer Harris@jwharris.bsky.social · 3d ago

A good time to remind voters that Bo French is a racist, nativist and election denier, too. Isn’t fit to serve in public office, but the TX GOP happy to fall in line behind him after state leaders tried to defeat him in the primary. www.texastribune.org/2026/03/27/t... www.kut.org/energy-envir...

Spectacularly twisted - & evil.

Mad_as_hell (Maddie)@maddie-says.bsky.social · 3d ago

Harp posted “FIGHT FOR TRUMP” more than 150 times on January 6. Her Twitter account was suspended, but it’s unclear when and by whom: Twitter or her. “Sycophant” doesn't quite cover all the crazy. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/p...

Harp posted “FIGHT FOR TRUMP” more than 150 times on January 6. Her Twitter account was suspended, but it’s unclear when and by whom: Twitter or her. “Sycophant” doesn't quite cover all the crazy. #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/p...

Deleted tweets show now-Trump aide Natalie Harp’s zealous support on Jan. 6 | CNN Politics

Years before Natalie Harp became a key White House aide to President Donald Trump, she posted more than 150 tweets demonstrating extraordinary devotion to him on January 6, 2021.

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Evangelical EXCELLENCE. I love to make up a whole new bible that's about sucking up to your boss and going to the store.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 3d ago

Buried in this @cnn.com piece: in Dec 2019, Harp appears to have literally inserted Trump’s name (specially, his Twitter handle) into biblical scripture. www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/p...

As mentioned in my comment on USPS's new ballot rule, the American postal service was born in 1774 _because_ the alternative system (the Crown's post) let the executive decide which mail not to deliver. For a Court riveted by bespoke historical analogs, this rule is 252 years of unAmerican.

Trump is *illegally and unconstitutionally* imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadians products *after his attempt to bully the erstwhile U.S. ally into an unfair new arrangement failed* Those details seem pretty important

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3d ago

BREAKING: The U.S. is imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian products after last-ditch negotiations failed. Canada promises to match the tax.

Carney called off negotiations after Trump’s bad faith negotiators “introduced last-minute terms that were ‘unfair, uneconomic, and called into question the reliability of any deal.’” Who would have thought.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump imposes crushing new taxes on American consumers & businesses - compounding the toll of his failed unprovoked war with Iran by escalating his failed unprovoked trade war with our longtime staunchest ally and trade partner, and advancing global disorder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

Our tax dollars are funding efforts to defy a court order and prevent voters from casting ballots in the November election. 

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf

Firefly’s doing things while Musk fantasizes.

BYTESEU@byteseu.bsky.social · 3d ago

Blue Ghost to carry nuclear power source to the Moon https://www.byteseu.com/2296689/ Firefly Aerospace and Zeno Power Systems have announced a commercial payload agreement that will see a radioisotope heating unit developed to withstand the frigid conditions of the lunar night taken on one of …

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

Republicans have been in every statewide office in Texas since 1994, and this is their message. All the problems are Democrats’ fault.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

Even if voters believe this obvious bullshit, how is it a motivation to vote for Republicans? They run the entire federal government and can’t improve things? So … re-elect them?

There are many lies to point out here, but the one that gets on my nerves is "under budget and ahead of schedule". He uses this one often, and it's always bullshit. The original budget was $200 million, and cost estimates now are about $1 billion. If only we had a White House press corps.

As an analysis by the Center for American Progress indicates, without the Bush and Trump tax cuts, “revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, and the debt ratio (debt as a percentage of the economy) would be declining.”

Michael McKeon@grinch67.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yes, this is where we point out yet again that the primary driver of federal debt over the last 25 years has been the huge tax cuts for the rich under W. Bush and Trump.

why did the mainstream media cover the deliberate abandonment of obsolete and decommissioned equipment during the Afghanistan withdrawal as a scandal for the Biden administration yet they do not cover the total destruction of US bases in the gulf by Iran as a scandal for the Trump administration?

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social · 4d ago

Lara Korte, who was just fired from Stars & Stripes, has been covering the relocation of personnel from Bahrain for months and did a great piece today on 1,300 Navy family members displaced from Bahrain who are stuck in limbo given the damage to the Bahrain base. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

This is one of those moves by the Supreme Court to permit the court in full more time to consider the issue, so it’s not the final word. Still even a temporary “administrative stay” doesn’t make sense given the balance of equities and irreparable injuries. I’ll be doing longer YouTube on it shortly.

All this authoritarian nonsense projects is brittleness. It says our military is so damn weak that it can't handle any level of criticism. It's a really bad sign about what's going on there.

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social · 4d ago

In a blow to press freedoms within the US military, the Pentagon has forced out several top staffers at Stars & Stripes, the military publication with a long record of editorial independence. Full story: www.cnn.com/2026/08/21/m...

Remember how they would drag their feet for months when it had the effect of keeping Trump from prosecution. But this? Emergency ballroom.

Chief Justice Roberts backs Trump’s urgent bid to allow ballroom construction for now

A federal appellate panel ruled against Trump over dissent from a judge he appointed to the bench. His administration asked the justices to intervene.

ms.now

Let the shit show begin (actually continue)... www.nih.gov/news-events/... No NIH experience at all as far as I can tell. No significant management experience. Vaccine injury trial expert witness.

Pediatric neurologist Dr. John Gaitanis to lead NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Dr. Gaitanis is set to begin his role on August 23, 2026.

nih.gov

Helm'S Deep King Theodin

ALT: Helm'S Deep King Theodin

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Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

Wow. SIEMENS EXEC: “.. We are actively working to not be wholly dependent on data centers. .. We understand at some point there could be a bubble and we’re racing to pay back the investments as quickly as possible.” @blsuth.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

I know the Dem instinct is to treat the ballroom as petty distraction - no kitchen tables are involved, after all - but Trump’s megalomaniacal self-monuments are a direct attack on American republican ideals, and initiating a full-bore constitutional crisis to create them highlights how much so.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Monica Crowley suggests Trump might defy the Supreme Court if they don't allow him to build his ballroom: "I don't want to get in front of the president, but I do know that other options are being considered, because the president has committed to the completion of this project"

EXCLUSIVE: Committee Review Finds Trump Pardons Have Cost Crime Victims $1.7 Billion and Enriched Trump Allies macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them.

Helene Meisler@hmeisler.bsky.social · 4d ago

I know Grassly is old but do you think he knows who is in charge in the 3 branches of government now?

AP has called Tuesday's special election in a Pennsylvania state House district for Democrat Brandon Dukes. This is a FLIP for Dems. Their 6th so far in 2026 (and in the reddest district so far, this one was +18% Trump), and their 31st since January 2025. The GOP has flipped 0 seat in that period.

There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.