“Epstein is the story. But he is also a stand-in for every closed maternity ward in a rural county, for every mom choosing between insulin and groceries, and for every veteran battling the Department of Veterans Affairs while Silicon Valley billionaires buy senators.”

The simple way Democrats should talk about Trump and Epstein | Peter Rothpletz

The scandal has haunted the president in part because of a truth voters already feel: Republicans protect elites

theguardian.com

The weather dude on TV last night said it's going to be 99 degrees today. I'm demanding that he be fired and replace with another dude that will forecast a high of 82. Am I doing this right?

So... He's in the Epstein files?

Love thy neighbor doesn’t come with fine print.

Just took 2x the money we were spending on our Paramount+ monthly subscription and donated that monthly to PBS.org for streaming access to all of PBS's amazing programming anywhere we are. A few more streaming services on the block soon = more for PBS. Might I suggest you doing the same?

PBS: Public Broadcasting Service

Watch full episodes of your favorite PBS dramas, find in-depth news analysis and explore documentaries on history, science, art and more!

pbs.org

Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.” @electrek.co $TSLA electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?

The idea that President can negotiate/dictate bilateral “deals” by using the full force of the federal government to punish and humiliate his perceived enemies goes against the whole idea of the rule of law. That should be the story, rather than normalizing this authoritarian behavior.

Of *course* they are doing this. Slavery’s not something they’re ashamed of. They would bronze a gd lynching tree. Knuckle-dragging Jim Crow mfs.

Kevin M. Levin@civilwarmemory.bsky.social · last yr.

Statue of Confederate General Albert Pike To Be Reinstalled in DC 🗃️ #NationalParks open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Some differences between my father and DJT: - My father was not a rapist. - My father was not a racist. - My father worked hard and was honest. - My father worked his way out of poverty. - When my father became demented in his final years, nobody at @nytimes.com wrote headlines sane-washing him.

Trump administration moves to end veterans’ abortion access in cases of rape or incest scdailygazette.com/2025/08/05/r... This is a terrible disservice to the women who have given their lives for our country!

Trump administration moves to end veterans’ abortion access in cases of rape or incest • SC Daily Gazette

Except to save a patient’s life, abortions would be banned at VA hospitals and would no longer be covered by VA medical benefits.

scdailygazette.com

It stinks! Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade website no-crawl directives

Perplexity is repeatedly modifying their user agent and changing IPs and ASNs to hide their crawling activity, in direct conflict with explicit no-crawl preferences expressed by websites.

blog.cloudflare.com

Today is #HiroshimaDay, marking 80 years since the devastating atomic bombing. My song Paper Cranes documents an emotional visit to the peace museum and an encounter with a survivor. Today and every Aug 6, I’ll donate any profits to a Hibakusha charity. sitenonsite.bandcamp.com/album/hirosh...

I'm angry all the time these days, but it's actually unfathomable to me that one person has the power to halt scientific progress, doing *generational* damage. For literally all of our sakes, someone needs to do something. Get this man out of the government.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last yr.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last yr.

"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...." cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy

💡 You can now use your own fully customized delete confirmation dialog for File Upload Drag & Drop fields in Freeform 5.11.8+ for #craftcms! Check out the guide: docs.solspace.com/craft/freefo...

If you see this pop up on a website, you should not use that website.

Damn the evil prick ending $500 million in vaccine research while children die of preventable diseases.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it! 8/8/25

Let me repeat it! 👇🏼👇🏽👇🏾👇🏼👇🏽

RIP 💔😔

Narrator: Sadly though, SCOTUS has now exempted the president from the founders’ intent to criminalize bribery.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

a specific skill I've developed over the past ~20 years is crafting responses to emails sent to me, but intended for that other Naomi Wolf

Reboot Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” but with Alan Dershowitz and the whole show is just enjoying him never getting food because he’s a querulous, joyless douche and he’s constantly demanding that the Laotian street vendor or whoever denounce Hamas before he’ll try the khao jee

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

nytimes.com

Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall. If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is (h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)