Gonna go Early Vote in a bit here in Minneapolis! You've still got time, but keep an eye on the calendar and go do it! #PeggyFlanagan #Aug11

This is such an idiotic own-goal by the Trumpers. There's a million things to be furious about, but this (I mean all the brain-drain shit, not just M.D.s) is surely a Top 100 fuckup.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · yesterday

FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social

Give him credit, he just gave every Democrat their next ad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Absolute fucking cowards. He should resign immediately since it is obvious that he has NO understanding of the Constitution to which he "swore" an "oath."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I'm so effing tired of the incompetence.

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 2d ago

The FDA cyclospora page hasn't been updated in more than a week www.fda.gov/food/outbrea...

The most corrupt Administration in US history just surged by leaps and bounds.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

I think Chuck Schumer and the Democrats using the Senate to suffocate the SAVE Act in the crib is good actually. But never let Democrats’ successes get in the way of brownie points online.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

i am begging you — including some of you who follow me that i'm seeing in the OP QTs — to actually read what senate democrats are getting out of this and to stop and think for, like, at least 90 seconds, about what *else* you think a minority party *in both chambers* can squeeze out of the majority

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

This, right here, is why Yale would be utter fools to enter into an "agreement" with Trump. What it says on paper won't matter. He and his cronies lie about everything, and they will crow that Yale 'gave in' about everything, and the institution will suffer huge public reputational harm.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

This country has arrived at the point where a prominent bank can file court documents attesting to the fact that they stopped providing services to the current President of the United States because there was evidence he was involved in money laundering and it barely breaks into the news cycle.

Spokane, Washington facing a horrific wildfire in the city, and it's not even in the main scroll on the NYT app. What are we even doing here?

Fast-moving wildfire in Spokane County, Washington, forces residents to evacuate their homes as crews work to quell the blaze https://cnn.it/4w3ZmDF

Fast-moving wildfire forces evacuations in Spokane County, Washington | CNN

A fast-moving wildfire in Spokane County, Washington, has forced residents to evacuate their homes as crews worked to quell the blaze Saturday.

cnn.com

Trump's insecurities and narcissism are just spilling out all over his Turth Social media account at the moment.

The GOP cannot keep on message, because Trump's message is toxic to their own chances in November. Oh well!!

I sure hope the whole Dem. mess in Maine doesn't return Collins to the Senate. She deserves to lose!

I'm not an official of any sort, but I am a very long time Democrat. And I oppose everything about this disgusting Tate scandal and all the ways Trump and MAGA have tried to *help* Andrew and his brother. It's vile! And should bring huge disgrace to the entire Republic Party.

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 6d ago

Had the tab open for weeks but finally read the New Yorker's Tate brothers expose. Among many thoughts: that reporting ought to be an existential emergency for MAGA and the international far right, but the reaction is eerily mute due (perhaps) to the decline of reading and weak political opposition.

Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:

INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 6d ago

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.

In the "We could have nice things" category, why don't we have happy inflatable traffic merge guys in the US? (This was in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan the other day.)

The Trump Administration is running like a well oiled machine. Except they're using rancid grease.

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social · last wk.

Egg-related Salmonella outbreak sickens nearly 100 in 17 US states A total of 1.6 million dozen eggs shipped to six states have been recalled. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yKsous

A former FDA official says the federal govt's mishandling of the cyclospora outbreak is approaching a ‘catastrophic level.’ Frank Yiannas, food policy expert in the 1st Trump regime, says an independent panel should review of the response that has allowed the outbreak to spiral out of control👇

Former FDA official says US handling of cyclospora near ‘catastrophic level’

Frank Yiannas calls for an independent review of the federal response to the illness causing explosive diarrhea

theguardian.com

Laser focused on reducing the cost of living, from day one.

Wait, the guy whose rockets crash and cars catch fire with impossibly hidden 'safety releases' may have bungled the GriftForce One? What.

All In with Chris Hayes@allinwithchris.bsky.social · last wk.

According to a bombshell investigation from the New York Times on Trump’s rushed effort to upgrade his jets, the president sent Elon Musk to speed up the Air Force One project, driving up costs and raising concerns about safety.

We are here because too many Democrats have been weak. Here's my message to Minnesotans: I will never bend to Donald Trump. I will always stand with you.

I have questions.

Democracies allow free speech up to the point where that speech incites murder. No democracy will survive that basic value being discarded. Musk, through his wealth, feels he's untouchable enough to do this and he needs to be disabused of that notion before it's too late.

Put slightly differently: the US may have consumed enough ordinance to be vulnerable from a state actor other than Iran. Don't think that's really in the cards, but Trump–Hegseth –Rubio are such strategic disasters that they've shot off way too much in exchange for way too little, and we're 🪛d.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last wk.

🇺🇸 Iran passed another night without US airstrikes on Sunday, as Washington paused a war nearing its fifth month and reports emerged that concerns over dwindling munitions were restraining plans for further escalation. ➡️ u.afp.com/SrXD