If you are an administration official DESTROYING protected documents to cover for Donald Trump, you should lawyer up.

CNN@cnn.com · 4h ago

House Democrats are demanding that the Interior department retain documents related to Trump's construction projects around Washington after whistleblowers warned that key paperwork has already been destroyed before Democrats take power, congressional sources tell CNN. https://cnn.it/4k7pJX9

Ed Luce: Stephen Miller "is the unmasked face of immigrant deportations, champion of history’s “iron laws” of might makes right and of an unbound US presidency. In other words, Miller is the architect of what Americans just said no to." www.ft.com/content/66e7...

Charles Ponzi didn't have an exit strategy either.

I've been puzzling over this for a week and I've got nothing. There's just no good option on the bench of senators or governors anymore. Conditions seem ripe for another "outsider" to swoop in like Trump did in 2016. Tucker Carlson?

Michael McDonald@electproject.bsky.social · 36m ago

Who can save the Republican Party in 2028? Rubio and Vance won't be able to wipe off the Trump stink. DeSantis showed he's a terrible candidate. A serious question: Who is there? A Governor or Senator who can thread the Republican nomination? I'm drawing blanks here

Incredibly well done and damning. Making this shit legal was like putting lead back in gasoline.

Aaron W. Gordon@agordon.me · yesterday

In 2023, Massachusetts legalized online sports betting. We used 3+ years of transaction-level debit card data to follow 2,441 people who placed a bet the week of legalization. Most rarely bet again. But they're not the ones sportsbooks get revenue from. This story is about the ones they do.

Weird frikkin' coincidence! -> Corruption was #1 concern of 2026 election voters according to exit polls.

Tom Hearden@followtheh.bsky.social · yesterday

The Huang affair has finally blown up: -NVDA/Huang gifted Trump <$25 million> for his ballroom -NVDA Huang agreed to pay Trump 15% of sales of certain chips to China -Trump gave Huang the “National Medal of Science” -Huang on AF1 for last China trip This is a story about corruption

No, the COVID vaccine doesn't cause cancer. But the fact that researchers have to spend any time refuting totally unfounded social media nonsense is an indictment of the current state of science and science communication. 🧪 #episky #COVID link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on cancer trends: a nationwide interrupted time series study - Biomarker Research

Background A recent population-based cohort study of Seoul residents in South Korea reported increased incidence of several cancers within one year of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination. We examined whether a sho...

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First Draft: Run, Chris, Run! Prem Thakker makes the case for Chris Van Hollen to become Senate majority leader. Read/share/subscribe:

First Draft: Run, Chris, Run!

Prem gives the case for Chris Van Hollen to become Senate majority leader, as Neera Tanden plays one of Democrats’ favorite hits: ‘It's not a time to pressure Congress.’

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Making up a word like "narco-terrorists" doesn't change the fact that you murdered a bunch of fisherman who'd been charged with no crime, like you were playing Call of Duty in your mom's basement

Interesting 🤔

The only way to a hyper-competent administration is to shun people like Chris Rufo. Turns out that “whipping up hysteria against Black people with good jobs” means being against competence.

Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 22m ago

Yes sir, Mr. Fix It

“Experian now says that its data were never supposed to be used to scrub Mississippi’s voter rolls in this way…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

An Electoral Mess in Mississippi

Tens of thousands of voters in the state were shifted to “inactive” status.

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Billionaires, along with Gov. Gavin Newsom, sowed doubts and fears about Props 40 and 42, such that many Californians may not have fully realized they were voting to protect the largely untaxed megafortunes of some of the richest human beings on the planet.

Oligarchs got crushed on Election Day, but still managed to kill California's wealth tax dreams

Their millions tanked Prop. 40 and may have crippled the state's ability to curb excessive wealth.

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Pete Hegseth: Only history can judge the noble mission that I am on Future historians: Did this idiot really say "no fatties, no trannies and no beardos"??

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage" while Jordan turned a blind eye to a student sexual abuse scandal that happened on his watch. Finally, the showdown to determine which faction of the Republican Party will reign supreme. Decision 2026: Racists vs. Rapists

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15h ago

With Speaker Mike Johnson’s forthcoming demotion, U.S. House Republicans meet at 9am to choose a new House GOP leader The candidates are Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH)

I knew OpenAI was cooked when Sam Altman did that San Francisco sizzle reel with Jony Ives. If you really have something, you keep it under wraps until it's ready to announce, like Return of Jobs-era Apple or Nathan Fielder. Otherwise it's clearly fundraising off the fantasy.

The outgoing lieutenant governor urged Republican senators on Monday to trim the sails of the Democrat who defeated him in the midterm elections.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says GOP senators should strip Vikki Goodwin of power

The outgoing lieutenant governor urged Republican senators on Monday to trim the sails of the Democrat who defeated him in the midterm elections.

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I grift on all my channels!, a refreshingly honest response

maia arson crimew 🏴@crimew.gay · 21h ago

lorenz is just fully gone at this point

I suspect Senate Republicans have been egging on Fetterman for months, telling him that if he threw Dems under the bus he would be in a powerful position in the next Congress. But they misled him. And now he’s realizing

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social · 15h ago

Dude thought he was going to be important and now he’s completely irrelevant 💀

New England didn't just reject MAGA. They wiped Republicans off the Senate map. Six states. Twelve seats.

Sherrod Brown there like a guy from a 1980’s sitcom who gets sentenced by a judge to go through highschool again

Juliana Stratton@julianastratton.bsky.social · 17h ago

First Freshmen Senator selfie! Couldn’t ask for a better team.

It's not like a woman spy is going to dress like Spy vs Spy, oh, wait.

Trump’s defense of Huang - that he had no idea the woman he was having an affair with was a spy - is so so funny.

Love is love

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · yesterday

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Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders got basic information about her state wrong on ‘The View,’ where she told Sunny Hostin the minimum wage was $15 per hour.

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders incorrectly answers basic question about her state on ‘The View’

Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders got basic information about her state wrong on ‘The View,’ where she told Sunny Hostin the minimum wage was $15 per hour.

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Your private data was leaked. Democrats are set to make Musk pay. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Your private data was leaked. Democrats are set to make Musk pay.

The incoming chairman of the House Oversight Committee said Democrats are planning to bring in racist billionaire Elon Musk for questioning, citing data breaches and other disruptions of the…

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the thing about alaska that makes it difficult to count is that the ballot drops all have to be delivered by sled dog like in balto. it just takes time