Not having a gag reflex is sort of a requirement for a Trump cabinet post, in multiple senses.
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2d ago‘I Will Literally Eat Anything’: RFK Jr. Touts His Nonexistent ‘Gag Reflex’
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Tillis said Blanche had to meet with Epstein survivors. The survivors said he was condescending, rude & constantly interrupted them. They said he was just checking a box. Tillis wants slush fund order modified & IRS settlement gone. Blanche creates a sham order. Tillis wants performative nonsense.
This happened either during or after Judge Box-O-Whine's trip to the White House.
The Shallow State@ourshallowstate.bsky.social · 2d agoThe NYT reports that DC prosecutors are now dismissing charges against three additional defendants who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLROTFLMAO
The WashPost’s Opinion editor is leaving at the end of the month, but loyal subscribers like me would pay for him to depart tomorrow. Anything to avoid editorials that liken lawsuits by environmental groups against the EPA to Trump’s weaponization fund
In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission. The government has paid millions to private contractors to surface everything from potential threats to agents to
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Did Todd Blanche pull the wool over the eyes of Tillis and Cornyn? Or did they put on a dog and pony show of acting like they were fighting for some “concessions”?
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d agoIs Todd Blanche’s nomination back on track after he allegedly “rescinded” the $1.8 billion slush fund & limited the tax immunity provision in the “settlement agreement” in Trump’s collusion w/the IRS & Treasury Dept.? There's no enforceability to what Blanche has done: youtu.be/Em09xu3UGxQ?...
Today we filed a brief on behalf of the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Leader Schumer, and Leader Jeffries in the Supreme Court. We are supporting the stay entered by the lower court against Trump's second anti-voting Executive Order. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
Okay! So hello. My name is Allison Gill. For the last 9 years, you’ve known me as Mueller, She Wrote. I used to have to be anonymous. But not anymore. So, hello world!
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d agoChanged my name from Mueller, She Wrote to my actual name, Allison Gill. Hoping I can get my blue check back. @joshpetri.bsky.team can you help?
Isabel Peralta. She's going to jail. I hope Musk go there too, very soon. searchlightmagazine.com/2026/07/spai...
Spain's neo-nazi poster girl loses appeal against prison sentence | Searchlight
Five years after the speech that got her convicted the Spanish neo-nazi banned from Britain has lost her final appeal against a prison sentence
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Update: We initially thought the Trump IRS settlement had been eliminated. It wasn’t. Part of it was eliminated. The biggest change is that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche formally rescinded the proposed $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” a taxpayer-funded slush fund that was created as
It also states that future tax returns can still be audited. That is certainly narrower than the original language, but it still leaves special protections for certain past tax matters that ordinary Americans don’t receive. Last year Trump made 2.3 billion that he now might not owe taxes on.
James Talarico: Today is the the anniversary of Ken Paxton’s famous mugshot. What's fascinating about that story is that he was scamming his own friends. If Ken Paxton is willing to scam his own friends for a quick buck, what makes you think he's not going to scam you in the United States Senate?
James Talarico: Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire — all while most Texans’ pay has remained stagnant for decades. He now owns 15 homes, while most Texans can't afford one. We can't afford Ken Paxton's corruption.
⚖️ TODAY: Maryland lawmakers convene to take the first steps toward redrawing the state's congressional map ahead of the 2028 election. The Democratic-controlled legislature aims to eliminate the state's lone red district to counter GOP gerrymandering nationwide. Background below👇
Maryland Democrats take first step toward 2028 redistricting with special session
The Democratic-controlled legislature’s goal is to eliminate the state’s only GOP-held district, in order to counter Republican gerrymanders in Texas, Florida and other states.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services policy that bars orgs from providing voter registration assistance during naturalization ceremonies. A victory for Elias Law Group and our client the National Council of Jewish Women. www.democracydocket.com/cases/uscis-...
🚨 League of Women Voters v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Learn more.
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“Musk personally decided that this little girl should get no more food from us. She is starving to death, and the food that was on its way to her from the U.S. is now rotting away in warehouses … because Elon Musk decided that this little girl was getting too much food.” @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
Lawrence: The Trump-Republican budget bill is the work of 'sadistic zombies'
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Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · last yr.11/ He continues: The bill "takes food off kids' plates so Elon Musk can buy a new yacht." Also, biggest cut to food assistance in history, 5 mil Americans. "You guys picked a side, you picked the billionaires."
In retrospect, one of the funniest things about growing up in Central Texas in the mid-90s was folks finding out Shania Twain is Canadian. It never got old. You have this woman utterly dominating country music. Ubiquitous in the South. And convos would be like: "Wait, she's Canadian? Holy shit."
Sophie Cunningham is getting booed every time she touches the ball here in Minneapolis
Trump needs to sound "strong and powerful" and to have something to brag about. Facts and reality are irrelevant.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump says his now canceled attack on Iran was going to be “by far the biggest attack since World War II.” He said that because he thinks its sounds impressive. But it’s not. The United States has conducted massive bombing campaigns that dwarfed what it did during World War II many times over.
This is absolutely wild. There's so little enforcement of laws that these guys are just openly sharing all their AI slop product sales techniques (and turning THAT into a business too‼️). Great reporting www.404media.co/inside-an-ai...
Inside an AI TikTok Shop Slop Factory That Shills Supplements Recalled By the FDA
How a company called Rosabella used AI content to market its supplements: "If you’re trying to sell health products to a 50-year-old, well, make your avatar 50 years old."
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Had they been funding her enough to expect some loyalty?
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d agoThis evening on Kremlin TV, extended discussion by Vladimir Solovyov on how exactly Putin's assassinations bureau should go about executing Laura Loomer, since she turned against the Kremlin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqyV...
Nearly 500,000 public comments have flooded in since the Trump administration proposed a rule that gives political appointees control over research funding. “The United States will not just fall behind. It will step aside,” one physicist wrote.
How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery
A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...
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Trump wants Miller in, but he doesn't want to come out and say it. At least not today. He's hoping voters forget. "Well, I'm going to look at it. So far it's accusations," Trump said. "I'll be looking at it." TBF, he doesn't think abusing women is a big deal. www.rawstory.com/trump-max-mi...
'Hypocrite isn't nearly strong enough': Outrage as Trump downplays horrific allegations
President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Sunday after he seemed to downplay the allegations against Rep. Max Miller (R-OH). Miller has been accused of domestic and child abuse by his ex-wife, Emily M...
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Toldya Trump should not have pulled this bullshit when Norm Eisen was involved.
Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 4d agoSTATEMENT ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION REFLECTING POOL INFIGHTING
