Republicans: We hate everyone who lives in cities & if elected will murder them all Also Republicans: Why doesn’t anyone in cities vote for us, can only be voter fraud

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents

considering how well things are going in new york, the lesson here is clear: fuck these people

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A judge found that the #Massachusetts State Police have engaged in “a pervasive informal practice of violating” the state’s Public Records Law and may order the agency to adopt reforms for how it responds to records requests. #mapoli

Mass. judge finds State Police engaged in pattern of records law violations

A Suffolk Superior Court judge found Massachusetts State Police engage in a “pervasive” pattern of violating public records law. The agency has been ordered to develop proposed reforms to improve reco...

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Every picture of him looks like: Coming this fall on CBS, David Ellison is Young Trump

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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What privatizing government really looks like

Politico@politico.com · 20h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

When centrists win, our media tells us centrists are the ONLY way for Dems to win elections & progressives must be banished back to the wilderness where they belong When progressives win, our media tells us how they actually lost, if you think about it, really

Politico@politico.com · 11h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Today in Democrats telling voters that all the other Democrats suck & Republicans are good & normal

Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.

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Our media now goes back & forth in its copy between reported facts & Republican quotes, as if those are the two sides of the story

US supply of long-range missiles, THAAD interceptors nearly exhausted: Reports

The U.S. military’s supply of its premier long-range missiles and interceptors for a key missile defense system are nearly exhausted after over five months of airstrikes against Iran, underscoring …

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Me not care if me ever get back 🥰🍪⚾️

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 16h ago

Cookie Monster's Take Me Out To The Ballgame

I’ve said about many Republican “jokes” that this is the guy you’d regret sitting next to at the bar Clay Travis is the guy you’d tell the manager to throw out of the bar or you’ll tell the whole town it’s a pedo bar

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h ago

JFC! Clay Travis: "I am putting in an application to get a WNBA franchise for my home, Nashville. It’s going to be the most inclusive team that has ever existed. Only trans. Only men who identify as women on the team. Our motto: one love, two balls. The Nashville Balls... The best women are men."

Today in Democrats telling voters that all the other Democrats suck & Republicans are good & normal

Arizona’s Democratic Governor Set to Pick a Republican Running Mate

Gov. Katie Hobbs, locked in a competitive re-election battle, plans to tap a moderate former mayor of Mesa, Ariz., John Giles, to serve as her lieutenant governor if she wins in November.

nytimes.com

Cops have stopped enforcing road safety laws nationwide & no electeds are *acknowledging* it, never mind trying to solve it

Mass. Law Enforcement Data Show Dramatic Decline In Speeding Tickets - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Massachusetts police are writing significantly fewer speeding tickets compared to a decade ago, even as speeding has been cited as a contributing factor in an increasing number of lethal crashes over ...

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The War on Cars@thewaroncars.bsky.social · 5d ago

"...across the more than 6,300 miles of roadway throughout New York City, the NYPD’s nearly 34,000 officers ticketed only 10 drivers for blocking bus lanes, 12 for parking in a bus stop and 10 for parking in a bike lane in the seven days covered by the NYPD’s latest data sheet, July 20 to 26."

They will pry my 2011 Camry (analogue display & buttons, no touch screen, 260k miles & counting) out of my cold dead hands

852dude@852dude.bsky.social · yesterday

This sucks ass. When I start my car I want to be able to put my foot on the pedal and drive off. I dont want to watch an ad. A distracting ad. Right in the middle of my console. Again. This sucks ass.

Quoted in this article: - Trump - American Petroleum Institute Both sides! Have not seen a single article mention Trump is - right now, as he’s claiming to care about high oil prices - fighting to INCREASE the amount of oil our vehicles burn & trying to kill EVs

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

‘Making too much money’: Trump blasts Exxon Mobil, Chevron profits

For my friends at @ecorinews.bsky.social, I wrote an op-ed about Newport Buzz's decision to publish climate propaganda from the Heartland Institute.

'A Textbook Example of How Not to Cover Climate Propaganda' - ecoRI News

The gist of the report was — surprise! — climate change is really no big deal. In fact, the report suggests, it might be a good thing.

ecori.org

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Private equity firms and large corporations have been buying up veterinary practices across the country such that they now own as much as 75% in the veterinary specialty care, emergency medicine, oncology, and cardiology fields.¹ Lookup tool: PrivateEquityVet.org

Miles Grant@milesgrant.bsky.social · 2d ago

Have now been at vet ER for 8 hours & still haven’t been seen. Health care for pets in America is as awful & profit-driven as it is for people.

Have now been at vet ER for 8 hours & still haven’t been seen. Health care for pets in America is as awful & profit-driven as it is for people.

Good reminder that eating McDonald’s & exercising led Bill Clinton to multiple heart surgeries Eating vegan & then nearly vegetarian saved his life

Fun@funkelly.bsky.social · 2d ago

lets go girls

How bad is superhero fatigue? Spider-Man was my absolute favorite as a kid, and I loved the Sam Raimi/Tobey Macguire & Lord/Miller/Miles Morales movies I did not even realize a new Spider-Man movie had come out last weekend, like ugh another one, how many multi-verses will I have to endure

“‘Civil War’ is no name for a war waged by slaveholding traitors against the United States to hold Black Americans in human bondage.” @aconwrites.bsky.social

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again.

To face our history, we must be honest about it.

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Via LUCE New Bedford: “Once again- New Bedford District Court staff granted ICE access to the courthouse garage, where a community member was kidnapped during their appointment.”

LUCE New Bedford on Instagram: "Once again- New Bedford District Court staff granted ICE access to the courthouse garage, where a community member was kidnapped during their appointment. These silent ...

39 likes, 1 comments - lucenewbedford on August 3, 2026: "Once again- New Bedford District Court staff granted ICE access to the courthouse garage, where a community member was kidnapped during their ...

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Nothing can be for anything but wealthy conservative white men Anything that attracts a different audience must be destroyed for existing users & rebuilt to be the 3,507th app/TV network/radio station/editorial page geared exclusively for wealthy conservative white men

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

I’m at the vet hospital & my dog is doing OK But it cracks me up that every dog here has a look on their face like I Think This Must Be Some Kind Of A Mistake

Trevor’s point about workers not having to drool all over their employers also applies to literally everyone on LinkedIn. Your employers are lucky to have you! It’s OK to be appreciative of your job without crossing into weird groveling!

Trevor Dame@trevordame.bsky.social · 5d ago

A new free column where I rant about wrestlers saying "they're home", people saying there's too much wrestling, and all these titles. www.patreon.com/meccamecca/p...

Republicans all choose to spend their entire lives living in blue cities, and make their political careers trashing them Weirdos all

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Amazing to watch every network drop the pretense of seeking a larger audience, profits, etc Now all of them just tell their fascist billionaire owners what they want to hear, ever-shrinking audience be damned

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

The party of small government, individual liberties, let the free market decide, etc All a lie, one our media continues to dutifully repeat, because they work for their billionaire owners, not for us Subscribe, liberals!

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2d ago

Pro-wrestling executive Linda McMahon issued a letter today (in her role as US Secretary of Education) demanding that universities justify their existence and explain policies to the Trump administration by the end of 2026. Not sure what the endgame is, but it sure feels like a trap.

Yes this will deliver quantifiable benefits to public health & help low income folks But let’s be honest that the main driver of opposition here (& to better services, open streets, etc) is that city residents don’t deserve good things & cities should exist to serve suburban biz owners & commuters

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.