My 24-year-old cousin with a motif for our times.

Still true btw for those who have an odd and totally not racist obsession with bringing up Dearborn or Uncommitted every day

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 4w ago

Do centrist Dems realize that the incentive structure they're establishing by admonishing one of the few major Arab American figures who unequivocally endorsed Harris despite nothing being conceded on Gaza? The lesson for those Arabs will be to uh, not do that again.

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

“I don’t care what the GOP thinks [about the rise of ultra-progressives]!” www.cnn.com/2026/08/01/p...

Smerconish: The growing power of the Democratic Socialists of America | CNN Politics

As Democratic Socialists (DSA) win primaries across the country, many have the same question: how will they fare in the general election? Smerconish speaks with Chris Rabb, a Pennsylvania State Repres...

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Well over a year since lawmakers first introduced House Bill 958, the monster elections bill has now passed both chambers of the NC General Assembly. Tell Gov. Stein to VETO this harmful mega elections bill and instead advocate for policies that make our elections MORE accessible at demnc.co/hb958.

Congrats to Chris Gilmer-Hill on winning the primary for a seat in the Michigan state house! Chris is a lifelong Detroiter fighting for affordability and environmental justice for all Detroiters. @detroitdsa.bsky.social

Just like this young woman, when I was 17 I also didn't realize I was pregnant until 20 weeks. Fortunately I was able to access a safe and legal abortion, an option which is no longer accessible to North Carolinians thanks to Republicans' sick power tripping. #ncpol

Keung Hui@keunghui.bsky.social · 4h ago

NC teen charged after allegedly taking abortion pills in third trimester. Police say the Durham 18-year-old took the pills to try to induce an abortion before giving birth 3 days later in a toilet and leaving the baby there. (Via @solomonlexib.bsky.social) www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c... #ncpol

For @prospect.org today, I wrote about the big report Sen. Wyden dropped about how bankers gave Epstein a pass bc he was generating a ton of money for them. The report names a lot of names of specific bank execs and also calls out CBS, Sen. Blackburn and Scott Bessent.

Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect

The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’

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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

30,000,000 dollars

The quoted AI bro reminds me of the guys there are like "every man has done [creepy rapey thing]" in defence of a creepy rapey guy, completely unaware that, in fact, they have not.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 8h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

FUND ORGANIZING *bangs pots and pan* FUND ORGANIZING

Wesley Bell is such a fucking scumbag, too. My beloved STL deserved better.

talia jane@taliajane.bsky.social · 16h ago

Cori Bush, whose campaign to regain her lost seat struggled to capture the spotlight as progressives largely focused on Michigan, has been defeated by Wesley Bell, who received significant funding from the pro-Israel lobby to secure reelection. Bell snagged +70%. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

"Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated [act of civic duty]." Blinding the cyclops, wrecking the panopticon. crimethinc.com/blindingthec...

All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Lost cameras valued at about $24,000

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“It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone. The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties.”

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · yesterday

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

a banner found above the front doors of the police HQ in Madison, Wisconsin this morning stated: “Arrest the killer cop, 608-266-4211.”

I’ve seen a lot of health care workers rightfully sharing their memories from 2020, and their anger at how their struggle is minimized. I hope that they understand this feeling of being forgotten is akin to how many high risk patients feel today, when they have to beg health care workers to mask.

people have hated congress & found it corrupt for a long time but the genocide in gaza is actually really bad and the portion of the electorate that reads the news is, right now, sending a pretty unambiguous message about how they feel about democracy being subverted to ensure it continues

Congratulations to Rashida Tlaib on winning her congressional primary! As the first Palestinian-American woman elected to congress, Rashida continues to fight for Detroit and international solidarity. @detroitdsa.bsky.social

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Jerry Chen@jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15h ago

why don't gulls live by widow's bay? because then they'd be widow's bay gulls

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

You can never just move on from this, even after he's gone. Without punishment and ostracism for everyone who has participated in his crime spree over the last 18 months you can forget it- we're all just treading water until the next tyrant

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

I guess while everyone is airing their pandemic grievances I’ll add that as a nurse, the most traumatic thing about the pandemic for me was the lack of appropriate PPE and the denial of airborne spread that STILL happens in healthcare

PEOPLE WHO LOST TWO ELECTIONS TO DONALD TRUMP: We are the only ones who are serious about defeating Trump

Excellent thread from Wyden names names at the banks and in Epstein's organization whom he will subpoena if Dems retake the Senate. This should be a major Dem talking point this fall but it won't be, I suspect in large part because centrist Dems often lunch with some of the names on Wyden's list.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Top JPMorgan Chase execs coached Epstein on how to withdraw cash through shell companies instead of his personal accounts, helping him conceal information from compliance personnel and government regulators.

Maybe these institutions should have been broken up and/or nationalised the last time they fucked up the economy, since apparently the knock on effect would have been fewer children getting abused, apart from everything else.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase likely violated federal anti-money laundering laws by failing to properly screen and report payments from Leon Black to Jeffrey Epstein, and underreporting Epstein’s suspicious activity to the Treasury Department.