Last night, 41-year-old Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan. What he overcame is not just politically significant. It is historic. And we must understand why so we can duplicate it nationwide. My latest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-e...

Dr. Abdul El-Sayed's Win Isn't Just Historic—It Proved Something Many Thought Impossible

The primary was tough. The general will be vicious with Trump's MAGA pick Mike Rogers already running a shameless culture war campaign — here's how we win again

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Easily duplicated. Keep talking about Health care Affordable housing Real wages Education Child care Stop corporate greed

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 2h ago

Last night, 41-year-old Dr. Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan. What he overcame is not just politically significant. It is historic. And we must understand why so we can duplicate it nationwide. My latest: www.qasimrashid.com/p/dr-abdul-e...

Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

Trump is rolling out yet another key plank of Project 2025: privatizing airport security. History has shown us time and again this makes both workers and passengers less safe. Everything is for sale under Trump.

TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past - The American Prospect

The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companie

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📌Mike Rogers and Tommy Tuberville live in Florida, and don’t give a shit about the people in the states they pretend to live in, Michigan and Alabama. -Cheers

Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015. (Published May 2025 w/ @tennesseelookout.com)

This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.

The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

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El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

Tommy T is legitimately perhaps the dumbest man to ever serve in the U.S. Senate, and while he may have gross fantasies about seceding into a New Confederacy, almost 30% of Alabama residents are non-white. Doubt that they want to be walled into a paranoid white nationalist garrison state.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h 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."

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

We proved it in Wisconsin. We proved it in New York City. We proved it in dozens of special elections over the past year. People power over money!

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 7h ago

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

Vance's attacks against MAGA fixture immediately condemned: 'How far America has fallen' www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-mar...

Vance's attacks against MAGA fixture immediately condemned: 'How far America has fallen'

Reactions were rolling in after Vice President JD Vance unleashed a fat-shaming attack on a Republican ally on Wednesday.Vance launched the unprovoked attack on Marc Thiessen, a longtime conservative,...

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Rent isn’t high by accident, it’s high because 9 landlords colluded with an algorithm called RealPage to fix prices behind your back. Kris Mayes sued every single one of them. This is what a real fighter looks like, and it’s why she deserves your vote, AZ! #BlueWaveIn90Days

Folks from the Women's March have been arrested at the Capitol for protesting ICE. Shout out to the women who are putting their lives and livelihoods on the line to get their message out: ABOLISH ICE.

Assholes who make fun of people eulogizing their dogs: There aren't many places for folks to do that, and it's a big moment in some people's lives they weren't exactly ready for. So shut the hell up and let them do it.

It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

With all the revealed corruption, the nominees who lied to their faces, will the Senate committee confirm Trump’s personal lawyer as Attorney General of the U.S. ??? As Sen. Whitehouse said, his Republican colleagues are willingly blind, deaf and mute... @atrupar.com bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

The booing of what sounds like a foreign (and no doubt in the man's mind, 'Islamic') name, really speaks volumes about the mindset of some Trump supporters. Even when Trump is gone, this white Christian nationalist section of US society will still remain.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

LOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently

2026 just not letting up.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 19h ago

🚨🚨🚨“Virginia Department of Health investigating dengue virus in Northern Virginia, first-ever documented case of virus being acquired locally.”🚨🚨🚨

For context, Bolsonaro’s son is now running for president…

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 6h ago

“U.S. sanctions Brazilian judge targeted by Trump over Bolsonaro case *** The sanctions come days before the U.S. is set to impose 50% tariffs on imports from Brazil, which are also partly in retaliation for Bolsonaro's ongoing criminal prosecution.” 7/30/26 … 1/

Update: “President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private [tech] investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down,” but did not eliminate, apparently Thiel-aligned “legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to fierce backlash.” 8/5/26… 1/

Milei Guts Bill to Ease Property Laws in Face of Public Uproar

President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to ...

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Newser: Washington’s US attorney's office dismissed vandalism charges against three more people. The reversals follow an internal finding that the "widespread damage" to the pool's blue lining stemmed from shoddy contractor work, not vandalism. #ProudBlue #Pink #SheShed

YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! GET THE BLACK VOTE OUT!!!

Donavan McKinney Defeats Shri Thanedar In Michigan Primary

McKinney’s win is another victory for the progressive insurgency toppling incumbent Democratic lawmakers.

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Wildfires don’t recognize borders, and neither does compassion!🇨🇦🇲🇽 Thank you to the courageous firefighters from Mexico who have traveled far from home to help protect British Columbia! Your bravery, sacrifice & solidarity will never be forgotten!❤️🔥 #BCWildfires #ThankYou #Canada #Mexico #SheShed

Honestly is anyone surprised? I'm not. This is what you get when you elect a criminal who wants to be king to be President. Project 2025 told us exactly what was going to happen. And here we are.

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

Lombardo: "So my team has advised me to stay on script. That way the Democrats can't clip my comments and make their own videos. They still will."

lol Hi Aaron.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Lombardo: "So my team has advised me to stay on script. That way the Democrats can't clip my comments and make their own videos. They still will."

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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