Have kept thinking all day about this story, full of starving moms and grandmothers trying to feed 3-6 kids each on virtually nothing and Republican men cheering and patting themselves on the back for kicking them off food stamps. Congrats, boys, you really did it

Andrew Russeth@russeth.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

An unrepentant draft dodger cynically putting self-serving words into the mouths of fallen soldiers. This should be career ending. Instead, it will barely register.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

"His nickname in high school was 'White Boy David,' if that tells you anything,' she said."

Jacqueline Sweet@jsweetli.bsky.social · 3w ago

www.npr.org/2026/07/17/n...

Yeah, man, Gabby lived a floor below me in grad school. You're never going to be remotely in her league.

Shannon Watts@shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 3w ago

Norman drew his weapon after a conversation about domestic abuse legislation turned to a debate over gun violence prevention policies. He laid the gun on the table for about 5-10 minutes, stating, "I'm not going to be a Gabby Giffords.” abc7news.com/post/congres...

The President’s cabinet member oversees a federal law enforcement agency. He threatens literal bloodshed if the opposition party refuses to suspend using their first amendment speech rights. He’s threatening state violence in response to opposition free speech.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

It feels ridiculous to be told my entire life the importance of reducing my energy usage and switching to stuff like LED bulbs and then read reports of energy prices spiking in many US communities due to data centers.

Graham began his career as a tool for Newt Gingrich, who began the descent of the GOP into full amorality, and ended as a tool for Trump, who completed the process.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism "Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of the GOP. Has America ever seen a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader?"

Appreciate a dem running in Texas who will say this so bluntly

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 4w ago

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

NEW: I just uncovered more evidence that Donald Trump is spending hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars to print giant banners of his face and put them on government buildings. Not only a terrible waste of the hard-earned dollars of the American people, but also an illegal use of public funds.

Have to admire Trump for remaining true to the relationship by submitting Lindsey to a few more days of ritual humiliation before the funeral.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on Lindsey Graham: "He had one bad moment in the January 6 thing when he stood up -- 'alright, now I've had it, that's it, I can't do it anymore' -- then he called me about 40 minutes later and said, 'Did I really said that? I can't believe it.' And he took it back."

The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.

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The ICE account is the same lies we’ve heard time and time again. This case also shows why masked agents operating from unmarked vehicles should not be conducting enforcement actions without clear, visible identification. When people don’t know who is confronting them,confusion quickly causes chaos!

Admitted killer wins GOP governor’s nomination in Colorado www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Admitted killer wins GOP governor’s nomination in Colorado

Republican primary voters really one-upped the contest for who can pick the most unpalatable nominee, officially choosing Victor Marx—a lunatic who has made wild claims about everything from killing…

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Remember folks: Paxton Protects Pedophiles

James Talarico@jamestalarico.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ken Paxton just denied our public information request for the Hoffman Files. Adam Hoffman — an admitted child molester — should be in prison, but Ken Paxton let him off the hook. Texans deserve to know why. We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Not only very reminiscent of Renee Good but also Marimar Martinez who was shot six times in her car and remarkably survived.

Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The three men who were with a 52-year-old Houston man when he was fatally shot by an immigration agent earlier this week said Lorenzo Salgado Araujo never tried to run over anyone and that agents repeatedly fired into the vehicle from the side of the van" www.texastribune.org/2026/07/10/t...

Trump's face droops while he struggles to stay awake at the NATO summit (Burak Kara/Getty)

“A pragmatic conservative” LOL we’re not still doing this, are we? She literally decided that our votes didn’t need to be counted & she could pick the president

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · 4w ago

45 years ago today, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court. He was fulfilling a campaign promise to appoint a woman — and found a pragmatic conservative who respected precedent and worked with all her fellow justices. #TodayInHistory #OTD

rich mentally ill man takes like 110 supplements a day in a country too corrupt to adequately regulate them

Biohacker hoping to live to 160 reveals alarming diagnosis: 'My stomach is eating itself'

Longevity entrepreneur Bryan Johnson says he has been diagnosed with autoimmune gastritis, an autoimmune disorder that damages the stomach's parietal cells and can interfere with the body's ability to...

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This is a really moving and thoughtful interview

Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him

Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.

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Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · last mo.

“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”

Also, "one nation under God" was coined in the post-WWII era and only added to the pledge in 1954. It's younger than Donald Trump. Somebody wrote a book about this.

Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · last mo.

In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

obviously the democrats have to appeal to the center, peeling off gop women -- by being tough on immigration and foreign policy. thats why hillary, al gore and harris all won. and they shouldnt appeal to progressive populism like ending the war, health care reform, blm. thats why obama/biden lost

Mitch McConnell should resign Immediately…..

NEW: In 2020, the Montana U.S. Atty cut a plea deal that let a tribal police officer who sexually abused a 6-year-old girl serve less than a year in prison + dodge the sex offender registry. That U.S. Atty is now Montana GOP Senate nominee Kurt Alme. www.huffpost.com/entry/montan...

Montana GOP Senate Nominee Kurt Alme Let Child Sex Offender Off The Hook

As U.S. attorney, Alme cut a plea deal in 2020 that let Mychal Thomas Damon serve less than a year in prison after sexually abusing a 6-year-old.

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Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

I would like a side-by-side account of the cost of: the Iran war, the reflecting pool, the ballroom, the Qatari plane, the WWE fight; DOJ settlement payoffs (like to Ashli Babbitt) and any other vanity projects I'm missing; compared with all of the "waste and fraud" supposedly saved by the DOGE cuts

Watching a flu outbreak sweep through a major military training installation after Hegseth pointlessly politicized the vaccine requirement is a reminder that viruses are unimpressed by amateur political theater. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

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