Yep a good way to think of it is the country collectively looking at the bill due around housing and environmental reparations and addressing racist policing and education policies and deciding to say nuts to all that and demanding it’s not mentioned anymore.

Chris Maka@chrismaka.bsky.social · 2h ago

Also that if we made a list of the top 50 things we would need to do institutionally to eliminate the casual white supremacy of American systems, there is absolutely no appetite for doing those things within the mainstream Democratic Party or among the overwhelming majority of its white voters.

“Tonight the people of Michigan’s 7th district sent a clear message: They are tired of Silicon Valley billionaires and DC insiders determining the future of our towns and our country."

This data center foe just won his Democratic House primary in Michigan

Sunrise Movement co-founder William Lawerence will face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in November.

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How will Kansei Matsuzawa, aka TOKYO TOE, push the Raiders Kicking room? @tednguyen.bsky.social  #JustWin #NFL #Raiders

Peggy Flanagan’s people-powered campaign is up against millions in outside spending in Minnesota. Chuck Schumer and the Democratic establishment are backing a conservative Dem who voted to thank ICE and pass the Laken Riley Act. We need your help to GOTV for Peggy before Election Day on Tuesday!

Indivisible for Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate Phonebank Series · Indivisible

Join Indivisible and National Nurses United as we make calls into Minnesota to get voters ready for the upcoming primary election on August 11th and share why we’re supporting Peggy Flanagan for U.S. ...

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In Hawaii, one of Trump’s favorite Democrats is being challenged by a real Democratic fighter. Jarrett Keohokalole’s people-powered campaign has all the momentum against Ed Case, a conservative Dem who supported Trump’s voter suppression bill. Election Day is Saturday, so let’s GOTV for Jarrett!

Indivisible for Jarrett Keohokalole for HI-01 Phone Bank · Indivisible

Join Indivisible on Thursday, August 6th at 6 pm PT/3 pm HT as we make calls into HI-01 to get voters ready for the upcoming primary election on August 8th and share why we’re supporting Jarrett Keoho...

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#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2h ago

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Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees

“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...

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@robin2269.bsky.social Old people (Florida) suck!

Predictive Stupidity@onemoney.bsky.social · 2h ago

Compare and contrast with Florida. In 2006, 58% of voters voted for a measure mandating a 60% super majority to amend Florida's constitution pursuant to voter introduced ballot initiatives. That's why 4 popular initiatives, each receiving +50% of the vote, failed to become law in 2024.

NEW: Republicans tried to get Missourians to effectively kill direct democracy and ballot initiatives. Last night, Missourians literally laughed in their face — rejecting the measure by a massive 80% to 20%. Here’s what to know:

Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts

Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against a measure to restrict direct democracy, while state officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.

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But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Fascinating interview with Robert Kagan, where he says that the biggest mistake of the Iraq war was that it permanently crippled the American public's conceptualization of their country's role in the world, and then admits that America is exceedingly Islamophobic and this informs foreign policy.

Robert Kagan: Sometimes US intervention is worth blowback

In a wide-ranging interview with RS, the hawkish historian talks primacy, neoconservatives, and why he opposes the war in Iran

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Mike Rogers wants us divided. But there is so much more that unites us than sets us apart. The power is ours. This land was made for you and me.

1. the whole "disappointing night" thing is pure cope. El-Sayed beat the establishment candidate despite being outspent 10:1, that's an earthquake 2. primary polls are just not great and everyone needs to spend the next week going really, really hard for Peggy Flanagan

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Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 6h ago

There is now set to be at least nine democratic socialists in Congress. Donovan McKinney – alongside Melat Kiros, Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, Brad Lander, and Chris Rabb – will join Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Three years ago today the black community came together to help kick off the #MontgomeryBoatBrawl in Alabama.

lol Politico trying to meme themselves with that “not the night progressives wanted” with a picture of the progressive who got wildly outspent and still won decisively

Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and RFK on TV told everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.

Enjoying former Republicans who escaped their sinking ship and climbed aboard the Democratic Party’s ship and demanded the controls are talking about needing to find a new party now that a handful of primaries aren’t going the way they want. Go knock on Trump’s gilded door. I’m sure he’s waiting.

Soak it all in, George. #RepBX

We've spent so much effort, for so long, to get this. And they lit so much money on fire. Imagine how much community organizing $60 million could have gotten in Michigan. But organized community wasn't the goal.

April Glick Pulito@aprilglick.bsky.social · 20h ago

El-Sayed numbers truly INSANE this is a movement

I called out Trump, AIPAC, and the Epstein class on Fox News last week. The Democratic establishment has responded by spending over $100,000 against me. They don’t want Democrats who actually fight. They know Moskowitz is in trouble. Help us defeat them by donating below 👇🏻

The GOP goes on about protecting women in sports and then goes on to protect Max Miller.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

there are no trans players in the wnba. the highest estimate is that maybe 0.9% of the us population is transgender. this is just people crushing the most vulnerable humans in america and if you don’t stand up against this you are a fucking piece of shit. what are we doing here.

The report accuses banks of failing to meet their legal requirements to flag suspicious activity and calls for a probe.

Senate Democrat's report says major banks ‘looked the other way' on Epstein

The report accuses banks of failing to meet their legal requirements to flag suspicious activity and calls for a probe.

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Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Young people did not have a say in the Brexit referendum but have to live with its dreadful consequences. Of course, they want to rejoin the EU.

"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...