ICYMI, the blogger who "won in court against Kash Patel" has spent years threatening to sue me, claiming I lead a massive internet hate cult against him, and secretly work for Mike Flynn. Yet in the lawsuits against him by Patel and Flynn, my name never comes up. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

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ICYMI, the blogger who "won in court against Kash Patel" has spent years threatening to sue me, claiming I lead a massive internet hate cult against him, and secretly work for Mike Flynn. Yet in the lawsuits against him by Patel and Flynn, my name never comes up. www.patreon.com/MikeRothschi...

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Fighting for your life but still doing those TV hits. Welcome to the necrocracy, where you are never too ill to run for another election or get that precious TV time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h ago

Tom Emmer was on Fox Business *this morning* looking gaunt and sounding a bit hoarse

I am enraged at the idea that CA's housing crisis can be solved on the backs of Altadena survivors who have lost everything. More housing is important. So are the needs of a community that was nearly destroyed and still deep in trauma. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

'We can have seven homes or we can have 70.' In wake of Los Angeles wildfires, homeowners and developers clash

Many LA wildfire survivors are united against 'predatory developers,' who they say are exploiting vulnerable residents and changing their communities. Lawmakers are trying to balance the need to build...

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The Spokane fire conspiracy theories are almost identical to the Altadena fire conspiracy theories. These people have no understand of how fire works, how science works, or why some things burn. I'm writing a book chapter about it, but the people who need to read it don't read books.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social@lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h ago

The internet is filled with really dumb people who right now think the fires in Spokane WA were fake because the houses burned but trees didn’t. What they’re forgetting is that dead, thin, dry wood burns. Wet, dense, living wood is harder to burn. Old living pine and house vs fire: house loses.

LA County confirmed that SoCal Edison's unused transmission tower started the Eaton Fire, which destroyed much of Altadena. The tower had been dormant since the 70's, but was left up anyway. It energized in the high wind and sent molten metal into dry brush underneath. www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/u...

Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles | CNN

Sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by Southern California Edison caused the 2025 Eaton fire in the Los Angeles area that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 homes and businesses, ...

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This op-ed doesn't list a single "positive" and still insists on the existence of a media sphere where three TV networks and a few newspapers control public opinion. If you want positive spin on Trump, there are dozens of influencers with millions of fans who will tell you whatever you want to hear.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.

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It's petty, but his staff is letting his appearance go. Crooked tie, wrinkled shirt with the collar way too tight, overly bulky suit, uneven makeup, unkempt hair. Not sure if it means anything, but it's there.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Who I'm really voting for is Mike Rogers"

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The author of Democrats’ 2024 autopsy says a key chapter was omitted about Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election. He provided the chapter to The New York Times and spoke publicly for the first time.

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter

A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

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This was really the ideal outcome. Patel got his judgment tossed and gets nothing, and Stewartson can't go after Patel for attorneys fees because he defaulted on the suit.

Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 3d ago

Not a fan of this blogger, who has aired out brain-melting conspiracy theories about myself and others who covered the rise of the QAnon movement, but this lawsuit against him was plainly ridiculous and the resulting headline here is great

Looks like another wildland urban interface fire. I know how this dance goes. It's going to be a long night for these folks.

Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d ago

Holy crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.

"There is Q, there are anons, there is no QAnon."

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Nara Smith is now claiming she’s “not a tradwife” in a recent podcast appearance. This is a linguistic game that all kinds of people play! Sovereign citizens for instance began claiming there’a “no such thing” as a sovereign citizen as soon as the general public became more familiar with the idea.

Pirro should be fired and disbarred, along with every other attorney who touched this case. Hearn should sue the DOJ into the sun. The entire country is embarrassed for this having taken place.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d ago

BREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.

I think we've forgotten just how insane QAnon was for a while. Q believers got a charter school fundraiser shut down because they thought James Comey was going to attack it. They deluged a butterfly sanctuary with death threats. A guy killed a Mafia boss and wrote "Q sent me" on his hand!

I certainly have nothing good to say about Jim Stewartson, but this is the correct ruling. Patel's lawsuit was frivolous and had no merit. It only got this far because Stewartson spent a year pretending he wasn't served with the suit while fundraising off the suit.

Raw Story@rawstory.com · last wk.

A federal judge has tossed a case brought by FBI Director Kash Patel against anti-disinformation blogger Jim Stewartson.

As an ideological project, Trumpism is probably the most successful in US history. He took total control of half the country and a political party in just a few years, turning them into his personal cult and ATM. As a political project, it's much less successful - and will likely collapse soon.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Something I think that underlies a lot of debates within the Democratic party and center-left right now is whether or not you think Trumpism has been successful as a political and ideological project. (Not, obviously, whether it's been good or not).

So the governor of the most powerful state in the country makes considerably less in a year than the president does on one pump and dump of shitcoins or branded cell phones? I'm okay with that.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 5d ago

Breaking News: Gov. Gavin Newsom of California released four years of tax returns as federal investigators examine the finances of his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

My serious answer is who killed Seth Rich. His death has been part of the right wing conspiracy machine for a decade and we still don't know. My funny answer is whether the Patrick Ewing frozen envelope conspiracy theory is real. Probably not! But maybe!

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 5d ago

What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story

I've spent all year having never heard this song, and I'm not going to stop now.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

‘It sounds good next to almost anything’: how Choosin’ Texas became the biggest song of the year

As an affordable, middle class community, Altadena had a large population of below the line film and TV workers. They'd already been crushed by years of runaway production, COVID, and the strikes. Then the fires hit and many lost their homes. Some are leaving town and/or the industry for good.

Alvaro M. Bedoya@bedoyausa.bsky.social · last wk.

People think "Hollywood" is rich and famous. The reality? Film and TV is a national industry. It's a blue collar industry. And it is an industry free fall. My latest for @newrepublic.com on how the Paramount merger would crush blue collar workers who can not afford it newrepublic.com/article/2136...

The utilites that caused many of CA's worst fires, including the Eaton Fire in Altadena, framing themselves as "wildfire survivors" is as Orwellian as anything actually in Orwell. This is life as an Eaton Fire survivor. We fight off greedy developers. We fight off utility companies. We fight.

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 6d ago

The groups are speaking out against the purported bill package, which appears to align with the goals of Wildfire Survivors First, a campaign funded by utilities that, despite its name, has no wildfire survivors groups among its supporters. cal.news/4bW1x4X 📸 David McNew

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.