Susan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.

But I have no money

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterday

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

This is an important reality check ⤵️

Matthew Dowd@matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 6h ago

Nearly every one of El-Sayed's issue positions is supported by a majority. In fact, his stands are the center of American politics today. Saying he is far left/left wing is just so old. The center of American politics has moved over the last 30 years, and El-Sayed's position are center now.

Say it with me folks badfaithtimes.com/the-doge-boy...

The DOGE Boys Are Going To Pay

There is a real and furious chunk of the electorate demanding accountability for DOGE

badfaithtimes.com

Stop the Money Pipeline@stopmoneypipeline.bsky.social · yesterday

Mass firings. Exposed personal data. Critical agencies gutted. Life-saving international aid cut. DOGE wasn’t efficient - it was reckless. 🚨Tell lawmakers to investigate and hold them accountable. ➡️ stmp.link/DOGEemailmoc #InvestigateDOGE @teslatakedown.com @investigatedoge.bsky.social

I suppose you would probably believe that if you had made billions of dollars in the past 18 months

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "Then they say, 'On the economy, Trump is at 42%.' I shouldn't be at 42%. We have the greatest economy maybe in the history of the world."

In 2022 Haley Stevens moved pretty aggressively to the right on Israel to defeat a progressive Jewish member of Congress after redistricting made her old district more Republican. Tonight, the bill came due.

My girlfriend didn't fully appreciate my joke so I send it to bluesky....if my schlong is 8" then this thing is like 4'

www.maptap.gg August 4 96🔥 100🎯 92🏆 96🔥 100🎯 Final score: 968 Not bad

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

This is it right here. This is the shit people ignore. Trump is back in office and every single J6er got let out of jail. Why on earth would they NOT try it again. There were absolutely no consequences for doing J6. They won. They're back in power and the thugs are free.

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · 3d ago

Jan 6th worked out fine for them so it's pretty obvious they'll do it again

www.maptap.gg August 3 99🎯 99🎯 95🏅 85🎓 97🔥 Final score: 934 Three lucky guesses today.

Brilliant article

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d ago

Katie Nolan can't believe Sophie Cunningham would join the trans athlete culture war while embracing the UFC. awfulannouncing.com/wnba/katie-n...

A good commissioner steps in now before every WNBA game becomes a rightwing performance space, like school board meetings were during peak CRT. You just have to throw the hammer down on this. Do not give them an inch.

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

the wnba alienating their core audience for the sake of people who wouldn’t watch a wnba game to save their child’s life is a bold gambit, to be sure

this guy gets it

I just saw that the Brewers are leading the NL central, which caused this google. Yeah, im not a huge baseball guy...

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

A crude pothole graffiti tactic got Portland’s attention. Please don’t copy it, officials say

Nearby apartment dwellers had a bird's eye view of the graphic murals.

oregonlive.com

Every damn night...

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

The guy ran on a promise to destroy the Biden economy. Promises made, promises kept.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d ago

#Trumpflation price rises since the start of the year. Rice: +45% Cotton: +27% Wheat: +25% Wool: +21% Rubber: +20% Cheese: +16% Tea: +15% Sunflower oil: +15% Palm oil: +15% Lumber: +14% Soybeans: +13% (The Spectator Index)

Capital One’s lawyers would not have signed-off on closing Trump’s account unless the money laundering evidence was very strong; it would simply be way too much of a legal/reputational risk

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 4d ago

🚨 NEWS: In a new court filing, Capital One says Donald Trump’s accounts were closed in 2021 after months of analysis by its anti-money laundering (AML) professionals, not because of politics, as Trump has long claimed. 1/

My sister's dog Lulu is my spirit animal during this heat wave.

I forgot about this and now im happy all over again.

“I’m not an election expert, so I don’t know how possible it is to actually rig an American election. I’ve been assured time and again that such a thing is impossible, but I’ve been told many such things were impossible right up until the moment they happened.” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/drained

Drained

Amazing to me that the thing everybody knew they were totally lying about turns out to have been a thing they were totally lying about.

michaelianblack.substack.com

I got pretty damn lucky with the last two. www.maptap.gg August 1 100🎯 98🔥 97🔥 87🎉 96🔥 Final score: 941

This is really the endgame of AI, AI quotes arguing against AI that people use online to say they don’t like AI instead of coming up with their own words about not liking AI

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 6d ago

We messed up! During a segment earlier this week about the risks of artificial intelligence, we shared a quote purportedly by author Naomi Klein that was itself AI-generated. She joined us on today's program to discuss the viral spread of the words falsely attributed to her.

yeah seems bad

Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

The media is desperate to find some reason why Elon Musk's politics are complicated or more sophisticated than they seem, because the simple truth is too ugly for them to admit - an actual Nazi is the world's wealthiest person, and his companies hold substantial American government contracts.

it’s legitimately fucking offensive to me as a taxpayer that this entire administration is run by people whose only goal in life is to be on television

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 7d ago

Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...