Maybe all we need for a woman candidate to win the presidency is for her to wear a leather jacket. Worked for Whitmer and now Benson
The New York Times@nytimes.com · yesterdayJocelyn Benson, who has cultivated a national profile during two terms as Michigan’s secretary of state, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination for governor, The Associated Press said. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
The Missouri Legislature is completely unhinged for putting these on the ballot, but thank god Mo voters are sane.
David Ellison may think we are stupid, but we know who he is. We know what he has done to CBS. We know what he wants to do to CNN. Support independent media.
Idk what the solution is but we can’t keep letting fare evaders get away with fare evasion. This person both evaded fare and assaulted a CTA rider. There need to be harsh consequences for this behavior, we can’t just shrug it off www.fox32chicago.com/news/cta-far...
Video shows alleged CTA fare jumper knocking down woman as security guards stand nearby, lawsuit claims
New video shows the moment an alleged CTA fare jumper knocked down a 61-year-old nurse at a Red Line station. Now, she’s suing the security companies hired to patrol the area.
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Trump put the US at a strategic disadvantage so any other nation like Russia or China can take advantage of our low stockpiles. And all in the name of vanity. Truly a more disgusting, disgraceful, and pathetic leader has never sat in the Oval Office.
CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d agoU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Oh my god. The death knell of the Republican Party. It is now MAGA vs. everyone else who believes in the founding, the Constitution, the rule of law, and freedom and equality.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Redemption involves penance. In Catholic Theology, your sins are forgiven when you admit to them, ask for forgiveness with sincerity and you DO something as penance. A path to redemption is open for those who admit what they’ve done, leave the party, and make amends.
A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d agoMany say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.
Likely blatant corruption once again by a Trump cabinet member.
Right to Jail Meme
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Will Sommer@willsommer.bsky.social · 2d agoTransportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...
This was a gift to all Dem candidates running: if they run on legalizing weed they will garner attention among less involved voters and probably won’t pay a price for it. Anyone that anti-weed isn’t voting Dem anyway
Team Talarico@teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 3d agoJames Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."
But thank god we will have had 8 years of Trump where we doubled down on fossil fuels! Lefties will say it was worth it to punish Harris by withholding their vote in order to accelerate the revolution or something but all it did was accelerate the death of the entire planet.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
I do think this is true but it’s not good actually: consumers would, if given the chance, choose a cheap con man product that falls apart within a short span. Immagine if we extrapolated this to houses, cars, cut regulations and allowed people to choose the products they prefer.
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoOnline shopping eliminated these gatekeepers and disintermediated the market, allowing consumers to express their desires more directly. And it turns out that what people really want is cheap disposable goods, not more expensive but higher quality stuff that lasts a long time.
Literally a party of abusers, pedophiles, and creeps
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3d agoA caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.
Part of what angers me about Nazis is how their rapacious hatred and violence is in service of something so obviously and apparently false! Their fervor was a based on a mirage, they were ideas created by cringe, drugged up weirdos and failures. Nazis were and always will be pathetic.
Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 5d agoOn this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.
Dude who played on easy mode his whole life is finally put in a situation that requires skill, virtue, and intelligence. Loses immediately
Mr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙@blabalino.com · 5d agoThis is what happens when the government is run by a felon reality TV personality, Fox News hosts and right-wing podcasters.
Allowing these on our streets and having a whole meltdown about e-bikes is not only misguided, it’s embarrassing. Electeds who ignore the crisis of pedestrian deaths from these massive trucks and focus on regulating e-bikes should be ashamed. You have backward priorities!
Viktor Köves@viktorkoves.com · 5d agoOversized pickups are a mathematically proven menace - coincidentally I saw this lifted truck with a hood basically up to my neck - and I'm 6 feet tall
Not only does Blanche not deserve to be AG, he himself should be investigated and charged for his fraud and harassment of who he or any lawyer would KNOW was not even remotely guilty. We need to punish fraudulent conduct by these federal actors. There can’t just be zero consequences.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d agoLet’s not forget that this illegal Reflecting Pool indictment was also overseen by Todd Blanche. He could have stopped this at any time, but he was a corrupt and willing accomplice to this fraud upon the court. How can any decent person possibly vote for this man as AG?
Trump is okay with the enemy we are literally in a war with sabotaging Americans if those Americans are from a state that didn’t vote for him. Another treasonous act.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
Fauci saved lives. Republicans and misinformation spewers got people killed
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoSen. Moreno claims Fauci "killed seniors" and calls him a "smug SOB"
This was very real! This was also the first time (mid college) I was finally exposed to legacy media tv on a more regular basis and it was bizarre. From then on I’ve had massive skepticism of CNN and her sister legacy TV infotainment channels.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 6d agoRemembering how the "Ebola Crisis" was literally *the* most covered news story - consistently framed as though it was a huge embarrassment to Obama - before the 2014 midterms (after which the media totally abandoned the story)
Genuinely why even be a journalist if you’re only ever going to regurgitate what other people say. It clearly IS a giveaway to the Trump family. Literally and functionally it’s transferring wealth from taxpayers to the Trump family. Even the immunity is a privilege no other person has.
These simple metrics are partly why I’m so anti-car dependency. Aside from all the danger and pollution and destruction of a healthy city, it’s also all in the service of this absurdly inefficient transport system. We’re sacrificing so much for literally the worst form of getting around.
Jake Gotta@jakegotta.bsky.social · 6d ago“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
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.
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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I hate getting too optimistic, but this is a year when orange narc tyrant isn’t on the ballot
Digital Ground Game@digitalgroundgame.org · 7d agoNEW POLL 📊 Fox News Senate Polls (June/July) GEORGIA: 🔵 Ossoff 56% (+13) 🔴 Collins 43% NORTH CAROLINA: 🔵 Cooper 53% (+9) 🔴 Whatley 44% OHIO: 🔵 Brown 53% (+8) 🔴 Husted 45% IOWA: 🔵 Turek 50% (+4) 🔴 Hinson 46% (Fox News/Beacon Research/Shaw, A-rated, RV)
This is just an honest assessment
Michelle@michelleroy78.bsky.social · 6d agoThis is just rational thought.
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
It’s ironic because Musk himself claims that US AID is a grift and corruption and of course once again it’s all projection: Musk is the one grifting on federal taxpayer dollars.
@wtpickens.bsky.social · last wk.Musk and Thiel and all the tech bros now feed at the trough funded by taxpayers and borrowing by the Federal Govt. Govt contracts to enrich themselves and cronies. So corrupt.
The guy who is sueing in Minnesota Court to do deepfake porn of teenage girls photos is going to help the party whose president was best friends with Epstein. Surprise, surprise
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.Quite the day of news! Probably unrelated. www.axios.com/2026/07/29/m...
So the US, Israel and Ukraine are collaborating against Iran as is Saudi Arabia now; Iran who is working with China and Russia. This is how world wars start. Good thing we didn’t elect Harris though?
