So it’s a “service fee,” not a toll. Trump let Bibi drag the US into this mess. The deal gives Tehran more leverage over the waterway than before the war. As analyst Ali Vaez puts it, Trump faces a choice between “an unwinnable war and an unpalatable peace.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

How fucked in the head do you have to be to oppose AIPAC on principle, yet be perfectly fine with antisemitism? Being against AIPAC doesn’t require tolerating antisemitism.

Jeanine Pirro told Fox in early July that she personally saw several yards of the pool liner that had been cut. She added, “Someone was intent on causing incredible damage to the pool.” Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social

🚨GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno said his former son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, should not be serving in the House and should "seek professional help.” Moreno said "If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them. He should not serve in the House.”

Sen. Bernie Moreno says former son-in-law Max Miller should not serve in the House

Miller said Sunday that he will remain in his race for re-election before a Wednesday deadline to replace him.

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Both Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed have publicly committed to supporting the Democratic nominee. They understand what’s at stake: defeating Mike Rogers in November.

This is why they’ll actually cut him loose. Not because he’s a woman-beating monster.

The points Miller makes in his video are common from abusers. He recorded her. He calls her crazy. He says she was nice to him. He says she never went to a doctor. Anyone who is a survivor of DV has heard all of it.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d ago

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

Dana Bash showed in this interview exactly how to handle a gaslighting sociopath. This is precisely how journalists should deal with all of them, including Trump.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

Cocchiarella: You've heard a lot of people say that if you're not going to fit in nicely with the Democratic establishment, you shouldn't be a Democrat. Sanders: Well, maybe the converse is true. Maybe the establishment should understand that they are out of touch with where the American people are

The Epstein-Barr virus not only triggers multiple sclerosis, it might continue drive the disease process via low-level replication, a study of immune responses suggests 🧪 If so, antivirals - which don't yet exist for EBV - would be the best treatment for MS www.newscientist.com/article/2579...

Best treatment for multiple sclerosis may be antivirals | New Scientist

Low levels of replicating Epstein-Barr viruses might be the main driver of the autoimmune condition multiple sclerosis. This may mean that targeting them would be as effective as suppressing the immun...

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This is a woman who knows a thing or two about Republican election trickery. “They are ruthless. We need to be ruthless too… I do not mean cruel, that is not our nature. By that, I do not mean breaking the law, that is not what we do. But I do mean we must be uncompromising.”~ Kamala Harris

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Just Changed the Game One of the deadliest cancers finally has a new weapon In a Phase 1 trial, 7 of 8 patients who responded to a personalized mRNA vaccine were ALIVE 6+ years later For context, pancreatic cancer has a 5-year survival rate of just ~13%.

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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🚨 BREAKING: H9N2 bird flu continues to infect people in China, with 7 human cases reported in roughly three weeks. www.chp.gov.hk/files/pdf/20...

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT scientists develop injectable gel that repairs damaged nerves and restores sensation This isn't sci-fi. It's real, it's FDA-approved, and it just changed the game for millions living with nerve damage. news.mit.edu/2025/usherin...

Ushering in a new era of suture-free tissue reconstruction for better healing

MIT spinout Tissium offers surgeons a new solution for suture-free nerve repair. The company’s flexible, biocompatible polymers conform to surrounding tissues, attaching to them in order to repair tor...

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🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.

DOJ Seeks to Dismiss Charges Against Olympian It Indicted for "Vandalizing" the Lincoln Memorial.

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Reminder: everyone on American soil, whether they were born here or not, has the right to due process. Here’s everything you need to know.

“He stoops to very childish things” A court could soon order Trump’s tarp stripped from the Kennedy Center And it’s an Ohio Congresswoman fighting to make it happen Just filed ====> youtu.be/PUdWW3s1aIA?...

Dems EXPOSE Trump Corruption as Judge SHUTS HIM DOWN

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We must take control of the senate in 96 days and block every Trump nomination: officers, judges, and justices.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6d ago

FLAG: Trump just said he doesn't object to withdrawing Todd Blanche's nomination — keeping him in an acting capacity as AG — until after Sens. Cornyn and Tillis are out of office.

Trump threatens to pull Todd Blanche’s nomination and renominate him after the midterms. This makes the Epstein Files, Trump’s slush fund for insurrectionists, and tax fraud immunity major topics heading into the midterms.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸@patriottakes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trump just made the midterms about his Epstein files coverup

Morning Kitten (It’s the look at the end)

CNN on the new GDP numbers: "The economy slowed down during the string ... this is soft"

Sen. Ron Johnson: "Dr Fauci fear-mongered, scare-mongered just like he did with AIDS. Remember that? 'AIDS is gonna be household transmission.' No, that's not it. But he did that the same way because he's a vaccinologist."

These clowns thought a US and Israeli war against Iran would be a cakewalk. Trump and Netanyahu believed regime change was no biggy. Lindsey Graham said Iran would start collapsing within weeks. We are in the worst possible hands.

A baby platypus is known as a puggle and has teeny-tiny eyes, a flat head and silky-smooth looking short hair. Original post

Talarico: When I get tough questions, I answer them. When Ken Paxton gets tough questions, he runs away, literally runs away from reporters, from voters, from anyone asking hard questions. If you've given an Epstein style sweetheart deal to a child predator, you should have to answer questions.

Senator John McCain warned us about Rand Paul when he said, “The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin.”

CNN's new polling has Trump's standing among Republicans at its all time low

Harvey Levin calls the attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s witnessed in government, comparing the push to jail him to the fear and persecution of the McCarthy era. Edited for format.

Trump: “We stopped the conflict between Cambodia and Armenia. It was just starting, and it was a bad one.” Fact-check: False. There was no conflict between Cambodia and Armenia.

Sleepy Don dozing off again in public in the middle of the afternoon at Lindsey’s service.