How it started / How it’s going The greatest geopolitical disaster & failure of any president in the history of the Republic

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h ago

This has to be a Pulitzer finalist. @gettyimages.com

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

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

It was over for Max Miller politically when he said his wife couldn’t have been abused because she offered to make him dinner 6 days later. He may not have known it when he said it, but that was the end. You have to be a sick bastard to come up with that as your defense.

If only it hadn’t been illegal. 😞

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

whoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 18h ago

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona, who is running for re-election, plans to tap John Giles, a longtime Republican and former mayor of a Phoenix suburb, as her running mate. Hobbs would not confirm the choice, and nothing is final until an official announcement. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

“Have we tried CARAVANS of COMMUNISTS yet?”

Representative Wesley Bell of Missouri, a moderate pro-Israel Democrat, fended off a primary challenge from former Congresswoman Cori Bush, a democratic socialist, in a loss for the surging socialist movement.

She's one of a couple republicans told she can vote no. If she weren't up against Troy Jackson, she'd totally confirm Blanche.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h ago

BREAKING on MS NOW: Susan Collins says she's voting against Todd Blanche's nomination to be Attorney General.

Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure requiring state Supreme Court justices to be elected instead of appointed by the governor, another setback for Republican lawmakers trying to overturn the ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.

First it was Iran to push the Epstein files off the front page. Then, when the Iran war turned into a fiasco, it was back to the 2020 election and Covid. Every crisis needs a new distraction.

I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.

The word is not used by Republicans in its literal sense - like going to the grocery store, giving money to the cashier, and being entitled to take food away as something to which you are entitled. The word, as used by the GOP, infers that it is an unjust entitlement -- a social safety net gift.

Ryan@funnybone1.bsky.social · 15h ago

Silly question, but why the pushback? They are entitlements as we’re entitled to them. I wont be surprised if republicans are trying to twist its meaning though

The Spokane fire conspiracy theories are almost identical to the Altadena fire conspiracy theories. These people have no understand of how fire works, how science works, or why some things burn. I'm writing a book chapter about it, but the people who need to read it don't read books.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h ago

The internet is filled with really dumb people who right now think the fires in Spokane WA were fake because the houses burned but trees didn’t. What they’re forgetting is that dead, thin, dry wood burns. Wet, dense, living wood is harder to burn. Old living pine and house vs fire: house loses.

The guy who pardons money launderers also launders money? I haven't been this shocked since that big ball of fire appeared in the sky this morning.

Tapper: "There are now three women who have accused you of violent behavior…Are all three of these women who don't know each other lying?" Rep. Max Miller: "Yes…It's all hearsay." Tapper: "It's not hearsay if it is firsthand testimony from women."

And narcissistic personality disorder, and, at this stage, psychosis.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "I know Europe better than anybody. Better than the people that run it."

📌Susan Collins is voting "no" on the repulsive Blanche because she has been given political cover by Thune. Her vote doesn't matter. This isn't a heroic decision, it is pure politics, and whether anybody wants to admit it or not it's how she has survived like a parasite in that chamber for 30 years.

Liberation Day for MyPillow employees.

Trump’s plans to keep National Guard troops deployed to D.C. until 2029 will cost an additional $1.4 billion in tax dollars, according to budget estimates

Trump Plans to Spend $1.4 Billion Keeping the National Guard in D.C. Until 2029

Budget estimates provided to Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office detail the costs of the National Guard’s controversial deployment.

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🌊 Nearly 90 California lawmakers have sent a clear message: No new offshore drilling and continued strong protection for California’s iconic coast! 🧵

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

Tapper: Senator Moreno said on Sunday that you have admitted privately that you need to get help. Miller: That’s projection. Tapper: Have you ever said that? Miller: No, not to him. Tapper: To anyone? Miller: I think a lot of people within this country see a therapist

Max Miller should definitely KEEP doing live interviews. He sounds REALLY stable and looks very present.