This view of things is supported by a new analysis from @leahstokes.bsky.social. Where IRA moved fast enough to put benefits on the ground, it *did* shift things, including vote shares! It measurably improved Harris's vote totals in those areas. Just not enough for her to win!

Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think

Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.

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It was Barzini all along.

West Side Rag@westsiderag.bsky.social · 6h ago

Barzini's is not planning on closing, according to multiple employees. www.westsiderag.com/2026/08/05/e...

FIFA falling apart? Gianni Infantino offered 2030 World Cup final to Morocco in exchange for support amid calls he should resign: Report sports.yahoo.com/soccer/break...

Gianni Infantino offered 2030 World Cup final to Morocco in exchange for support amid calls he should resign: Report

Gianni Infantino is trying to rally his supporters.

sports.yahoo.com

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

wired.com

@nmdoj.bsky.social’s complaint alleges that "the federal government has refused, without adequate legal justification, to share records that could help investigators identify witnesses, corroborate evidence, and determine the full scope of crimes that occurred in New Mexico."

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

2. With an active legal fight over the quiet period's scope playing out in the courts, election experts recommend eligible registered voters be vigilant about checking their registration status before their states' deadlines. Find links for checking your voter registration status here:

How to register to vote and check your registration status

For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

apps.npr.org

Today is the start of the "quiet period" before the midterm election, a longstanding legal protection for eligible voters. Forty-four states, plus Washington, D.C., are banned from doing mass purges of voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election under the 1993 National Voter Registration Act

A federal law bans late voter roll purges. Republicans are pushing to reinterpret it

There's a ban on most states systematically purging voter rolls within 90 days before Election Day. Republicans are pushing courts to reinterpret that longstanding protection for eligible voters.

npr.org

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

David Ellison tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his New York Times essay in brutal comments to us, pointing to the Paramount chief's disastrous record at CBS News. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

status.news

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

NYC icon, Kaity Tong, to retire from PIX11 News "After more than 34 years at WPIX, Kaity has opted to move into a much-deserved retirement at the end of August. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone in the NYC area who doesn't immediately associate PIX11 with Kaity. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...

NYC icon, Kaity Tong, to retire from PIX11 News

Editor’s note: The video above aired in a previous newscast. NEW YORK (PIX11) – It’s officially the end of an era in New York City and at PIX11 News. PIX11’s very own Kaity Tong has announced her reti...

yahoo.com

Yes, America has two major political parties, and one of them supports violent attacks on America, believing that seditious conspiracy should be covered up or celebrated. It’s… not great.

Welsh rarebit@welshrarebit.bsky.social · 15h ago

The majority of Republicans in Congress voted against confirming Biden’s election, making them in effect the insurrectionary party. The party should change its name.

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

nytimes.com

NEWS: Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) just dropped out of his re-election race at 3:32 a.m.m. He said he’s done running but will finish out his term. This after the House Ethics Committee found “substantial reason to believe [he] violated House Rules related to sexual harassment and hostile workplaces.”

UFC loses $30m on Freedom 250 event at White House Tickets were not sold to the general public, and initial costs were predicted to be more than $60m (£44m). However, UFC was able to recoup some money through sponsorships, media exposure and other partnerships. www.bbc.com/sport/mixed-...

UFC White House: UFC loses $30m staging Freedom 250 event at White House

UFC owners lose $30m (£22m) staging the Freedom 250 event, which was attended by US President Donald Trump, at the White House in June.

bbc.com

AI music generator Suno lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA Filed Jan '25, GEMA argued Suno was illegally using songs including Boney M’s ‘Daddy Cool’, Lou Bega’s ‘Mambo No. 5’, and Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’ – to train its AI models. www.nme.com/news/music/a...

AI music generator Suno loses copyright infringement legal case

AI music generator Suno has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA.

nme.com

BREAKING: A US judge granted the US Justice ‌Department's motion to dismiss January 6 prosecutions of members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia, according to a court filing reut.rs/457JSU8

One of my great frustrations with the media is they know Trump is full of shit on things like this. But because they don’t know if he’s lying or delusional they type up neither possibility. But they should be loudly writing that those are the only two possibilities and both are disqualifying!

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...

Jeff Flake endorsed Jon Ossoff. When a member of the other party endorses you because their own party is such a threat to democracy, that’s not just momentum, that’s a tailwind.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

NEWS: Former Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) has endorsed Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) for re-election Flake: “I’m still a conservative Republican. But character matters. And I want someone in that seat who takes the institution seriously and will protect the institution.”

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

Listen here to Nimoy’s 1975 recording of Ray Bradbury’s 1950 science fiction short story (and chapter in “The Martian Chronicles”) “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which hauntingly envisioned one potential future arising from unconstrained nuclear testing and arms races. archive.org/details/brad...

iFold / AKA Folding iPhone?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · yesterday

APPLE IS PREPARING FOR ITS SEPTEMBER IPHONE RELEASE BY HOLDING A LOTTERY FOR WORKERS.

I have a theory that a big chunk of the socialist fear mongering by liberals is really about the fact that it’s perceived as a youth movement and godforbid the young exert political power

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

The Democrats' midterm ad practically writes itself.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

Whitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."

This is what happens when Republicans confirm an arrogant, inexperienced, alcoholic, abuser to run the defense department.

CNBC@cnbc.com · 2d ago

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

My dirty city #NYC #BlueskyPhotography

Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”

democracydocket.com