SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
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Social Democrat: support for a market economy combined with strong worker protections, universal healthcare, a robust social safety net, and progressive taxation
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
I am grateful to be quoted in this article detailing SNAP disqualifications in Kentucky (among the highest in the U.S.). Case law (see Shahid v. DHHS) and federal regulations are clear that states must have more than transactional evidence to disqualify an individual for SNAP fraud.
Sylvia Goodman@sylviaruthg.lpm.org · 10mo agoAfter searching through court and state records, a pattern is clear. Kentucky swiftly stepped up SNAP disqualifications in 2016 and a review of several cases from 2020 onward shows a heavily reliance on suspicious shopping patterns to accuse people of selling benefits apnews.com/article/food...
Homeowners in rural McLean County in Kentucky are still recovering from April flooding. The government wants to buy them out. From WKU:
Homeowners in a rural Kentucky county are still recovering from April flooding. The government wants to buy them out.
McLean County is one of six Kentucky counties participating in a buyout program from the state and federal governments following April’s historic flooding.
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APPLEBAUM: Where we're now is hard to parse because Trump says contradictory things. Seems he’s frustrated with Putin, that he mistakenly believed he's so charming he'd persuade Putin to end the war. Trump is warmer about Zelensky, but not warm enough to actually do much that makes a difference.
This is the third nationwide blackout in Georgia in the past few weeks. Still no explanation given to the public.
Why don’t they phrase the question as, “Did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election
More on the biggest pump and dump operation in modern times. Today’s investment contest: Guess how many paragraphs deep is the revelation that SpaceX lost $541 million in a single quarter in first report after IPO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/spac...
SpaceX Shares Sink on AI Spending Plans
The Elon Musk-led rocket company spent $15.8 billion on AI projects in the second quarter and doesn’t plan to slow down.
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Jeanine Pirro’s grand case against Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s Reflecting Pool cover-up was a showdown worthy of reality TV. trib.al/htyokyD
Forty-nine of 50 states do not provide lifetime appointments for their state supreme court justices. No one should hold power for life. We're urging state legislatures to call on Congress to pass Supreme Court term limits. bit.ly/3Tdzl7e
Model State Resolution Urging 18-Year Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
State lawmakers should call on Congress to enact Supreme Court term limits.
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They indicted Davey Hearn before asking the obvious question: could he have caused any of this damage at all? Their own eyewitness never went before the grand jury @democracydefendersfund.org, Steptoe LLC & WLG are asking for dismissal w/ prejudice @apnews.com on what the govt knew & when👇 -TN
Lawyers in Reflecting Pool case say Justice Department knew case was flawed
Lawyers for a former Olympian charged with damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool say that the Justice Department knew or should have known for weeks that its case was flawed.
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Attack on a Wildberries warehouse has been reported in Aleksin, Tula Region of russia 🔥
💔🇺🇦 Zelensky: As of now, 44 people are known to have been injured in the massive Russian strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Unfortunately, 17 more people died. The strike was heavy: 24 ballistic missiles, 4 “Zircon/Onyx” and another 115 drones, a significant part of them jet.
🤬 Russian killed 17 people in Kyiv region during night attack. 44 injured. Fires and destruction reported in Brovary, Bucha, and Fastiv districts.
What if Freud was right (at least some of the time)? A review, by @stossel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
What if Freud Was Right?
A neuroscientist dares to argue that old-fashioned psychoanalysis holds the key to curing mental illness.
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🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...
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Jocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Thank you to Mexico & Australia for sending your fire fighters to aid us when our closest physical ally threatens to fine or tariff Canada even as smoke from Washington & Oregon blow into BC. We send fire crews & our Super Soaker water bombers when the USA is on fire. TACO issues threats. Sad...
Woman Shakes Head Exasperatedly
ALT: Woman Shakes Head Exasperatedly
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Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
I could have sworn "stolen valor" was a thing Turns out it was just something else Republicans never actually gave a shit about Draft-dodging PoS
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"
“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2