They're not even doing the post-Access Hollywood "I wouldn't be able to look my wife and daughter in the eyes if I continued to support him" schtick before eventually caving.

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

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

Hey it worked for Lincoln in 1864, and there were no down sides I think

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

Thank goodness we have the White House fraud taskforce to ignore stuff like this

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 17h ago

Exclusive: A Post investigation found that for-profit trade schools defrauded the U.S. government of over $300 million through the GI Bill, exploiting veterans with overpriced, short courses due to lax oversight and loopholes.

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

Does public health need MAHA? As much as a fish needs a bicycle. Latest episode on centrists trying to tell those of us who warned about MAHA that we need to pamper those who unleashed it on us all.

Why Public Health Doesn't Need MAHA

Podcast Episode · We Want Them Infected Podcast · August 4 · 1h 15m

podcasts.apple.com

Find someone who looks at you the way Steve Kornacki looks at turnout data.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 17h ago

There's a Kornacki Cam fyi www.nbcnews.com/video/kornac...

WHAT

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 18h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

That's enough internet for today.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 21h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

It sure would be nice to have a functional Article I.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Good framing.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

rawstory.com

This is what happens when you simultaneously gut reproductive health and the safety net.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2d ago

Mississippi recorded an infant mortality rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, the highest the state has seen in more than a decade, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health.

Almost as depressing as people using AI to write: People who have apparently read so little decent writing that they believe utterly commonplace tools every minimally competent writer employs are AI tells.

Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2d ago

I saw someone say that sentence length variation is a sign of AI. I’m just out here like, no:

I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this

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.

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

I'm starting to suspect that my tax dollars are going to munitions I'll never use, either

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.

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/

Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

It's called limited government, folks.

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 it's hard but please imagine in the Before Time a senior senator of the same party defending the president in the same way you'd excuse a cranky toddler.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

That’s a line that should be in Democrats’ campaign ads.

Michael McDonald@electproject.bsky.social · 3d ago

Today while Trump played golf Iran played Trump

👇🎯 Your periodic reminder that we don’t have to keep doing this thing we’ve done for decades now on Every. Single. Damn. Topic. In. American. Politics.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

JD Vance in the Washington Post in February.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

This piece I saw at the Baltimore Museum of Industry on typos was an absolute delight.

Writer here. That's not how words work

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d ago

and GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME

Seen driving through rural PA (around Bedford).

Would Moreno have even issued this but for Miller's unhinged little video stunt? Moreno kind of had to afterwards.

The Rooster@rooster.info · 3d ago

Bernie Moreno puts Max Miller in the dumpster hours after the Congressman refuses to exit his increasingly contested race.

I’m not going to give RFK Jr. credit for saying the right thing on vaccines only once strong-armed into doing so after his fueling of vaccine skepticism led to outbreaks and death.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

BASH: I want you to use your bully pulpit to tells parents who have not vaccinated their kids that they should vaccine their kids for measles. Will you do that? Look into the camera RFK Jr: I'll say it right now. Parents should get their children vaccinated for measles.

I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS