An adult with a perpetual wish to perseverate his childhood, wants you to call him "Tommy" and "Coach", is trying to stoke fear over people who aren't white, thinks it's a good idea to build a 30 ft wall around Alabama (that's a 1,044 mile perimeter and 165,369,600 square feet). Hmmm.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

Debora Kapisha is a nurse at Maine Medical Center. She came to the U.S. from Zambia and is authorized to work here. Last week, ICE detained her at Logan—part of a recent surge in airport arrests. Debora couldn't be further from "the worst of the worst." She's dedicated her life to serving others.

Crush this. Dismantle this. Bring it to ruination. #Taxes

How Malta Became a Tax Haven for Crocs and Other U.S. Companies (Gift Article)

The Mediterranean archipelago is a hot destination for U.S. companies seeking to shield profits from income taxes.

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BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Antonín Dvořák, Renée Fleming, Czech Philharmonic & Charles Mackerras Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

Congratulations to @donavanmckinney.bsky.social on a huge win for working families in MI-13! In addition to overcoming millions in outside spending, Donavan defeated a multimillionaire incumbent who enriched himself in office and voted to enrich Trump. This is how we build a better Democratic Party!

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Every single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents

As a "Bernie type", I admit I have never considered your particular argument before. It is interesting and has merit (w/o research I can't jump completely on board right now but will certainly dig into it). Thank you for posting.

1/ The New Left / DSA / Bernie types have a huge problem with race. Critically, black voters identify themselves as the Dem base, so when the New Left attacks "the establishment" African Americans take that as directed at them. Stevens also spent years working closely with the AA community.

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…

…We need to win this Senate seat, because Elissa Slotkin deserves a partner like Abdul in the U.S. Senate.”

Beaming with some heavy ANTIFA pro-democracy vibes over here!

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10h ago

A staggering 1.5 million Democrats voted in the Michigan Senate primary. That’s a huge showing.

A huge congrats to Abdul El-Sayed and the people of Michigan. It’s time for our party to unite and do everything we can to ensure Abdul wins and we flip the Senate. Let’s get money in your pockets and Medicare for All. And thank you to Haley Stevens for your service to your district and the country.

Full-on, yes, this!

Michael J. Stern@michaeljstern.bsky.social · 9h ago

El Sayed was not my first choice. But at this point, it doesn’t matter. We all need to rally behind him to keep Michigan’s Senate seat with the Democrats. Progressives need to do the same when a centrist Democrat wins a primary.  www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/p...

BREAKING: Ted Cruz lies that Democrats support getting rid of Thanksgiving and Christmas while implementing Sharia Law. Democrats do not support these things. Ted Cruz knows this. He’s a pathological liar trying to scare people into voting Republican.

Remember, they are evangelicals. They believe men should rule over women and children. They continually cover this up in their churches. This I'm saying from experience.

Please stop saying “lockdowns.” There were never true lockdowns in the US, and it fuels far right narratives to repeat this inaccurate statement. You can say closures, you can say restrictions, or better, you can say public health measures which saved many lives.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 6d ago

People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives.

a fixation — and somehow it seems to me there must be something in it that is akin to the Disney Adults inclined mind

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.

Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts

Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss

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O, yes, do!

Reuters@reuters.com · 18h ago

UK PM Burnham considering inquiry into Epstein, minister says reut.rs/4fD1iOy

Mallory McMorrow endorses Abdul El Sayed minutes after NBC call

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 19h ago

Goodnight

Sure, but what about the smoke? 🌲🔥🤢

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 18h ago

The fire danced in her eyes. The flames swam, flared up, sank away, brightened again against the sooty stone, against the dark sky, against the pale sky, the gulfs of evening, the depths of air and light beyond the world.

Reuters U.S. Business of Space Correspondent Joey Roulette breaks down SpaceX's first earnings report since going public, which showed the rocket company transforming into an AI infrastructure provider, with Starlink's soaring revenue funding ambitious plans for data centers in space.

Very much the point because if we don’t stick together, it will be so much more awful. Mending fences sounds like hard work but the alternative is a barbed wire-topped chain link disaster.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 20h ago

El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

OBAMACARE

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 21h ago

In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

South Korea to revive stalled rail project that could connect to North Korea reut.rs/4yWX77N

South Korea to revive stalled rail project that could connect to North Korea

South Korea will restart work on a railway section that could eventually link to North Korea's eastern city of Wonsan, the Unification Ministry said on Wednesday, reviving a project halted for a decade despite frozen relations with ​Pyongyang.

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"RFK Jr. is wrong. Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S." 🔸Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate per capita from January 2020 to March 2023 with 665.84 deaths per 100,000. The U.S. rate was nearly half at 341.11 per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S.

During a CNN interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. had the highest death rate from COVID-19. Peru’s was higher.

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state of war and peace man is waging incessant war upon nature.”

There’s a passage in John Francis’s book “Planet Walker” that quotes the Middle Eastern philosopher Seyyad HosseinNasr: “Many labor under the illusion tha only war is evil and that if it could be averted man could go on peacefully to create paradise on Earth. What is forgotten is that in both the

I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

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