Fox Propaganda wanted President Obama in jail for ObamaCare and called President Biden a dictator for trying to erase student debt, but haven’t said one word about the orange felon trying to fund Jan 6 terrorists, protecting pedos or committing money laundering. Funny how that works.

It’s terrifying that deranged chaos agent RFK Jr admitted on national tv that he has no idea how to stop a future pandemic and what’s worse is that he truly doesn’t give a fuck either way. We went from having top scientific medical experts leading US Health to this looney basket.

Nor do we want to be on Truth Social. I would hate to find a welcome home there. I would hate to be somebody who would be palatable to such a place. We don't go on Truth, because nobody needs bullies. They *do* try to come on Bluesky, because bullies need the rest of us.

Ruth Zakarin@ruthz.bsky.social · yesterday

The burden is always on us lefties to welcome them, debate them, compromise with them, find middle ground, and generally make them comfortable. It’s totally one directional. No one is calling for Truth Social to make any room for us.

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

RFK Jr. throws around the word "lockdowns" as if it has a specific meaning. Public Health measures included a broad range of interventions that, collectively, prevented an estimated 850,000 US COVID deaths. How do we know? 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Estimating the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID mortality using reductions in influenza mortality as an effect indicator - Journal of Public Health Policy

This study uses influenza mortality reduction (IMR) as an indicator of the aggregate effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI’s) on the spread of respiratory infections to assess their impact o...

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:

Bible thumping MAGATs.......

Means-tested programs like SNAP are shaped not just by benefit levels, but by hassle. And hassle is regressive: it hits hardest when you lack a car, flexibility, cash, or time.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/how-snaps-new-rules-make-eligible

As I said repeatedly during Trump 1.0, Trump sees the U.S. Treasury as his personal piggy bank. But back then, he couldn’t find a way to siphon it to himself. This time around, he has: shakedowns, crypto, and the slush fund. With the added bonus of paying off his own shadow army.

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Jeanine Pirro should be disbarred. It is absolutely indefensible and gross misconduct to rush through a criminal indictment for political reasons before an investigation has been completed, which resulted in false evidence being presented to a grand jury.

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.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

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I imagine it's hard to be the editor of a general interest opinion section where only 2.5 specific opinions are allowed: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...

Adam O’Neal Resigns as Washington Post Opinion Editor (Gift Article)

Adam O’Neal inherited a mandate from the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, to shift toward “personal liberties and free markets.”

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There are only three possible futures: a) everyone in the Trump admin goes to jail, rule of law partially restored; b) Dems retaliate in full, and maybe that's a deterrent; c) neither (a) nor (b), so lawless authoritarianism wins again, and when Republicans regain power they ramp it up even more.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Decided to write something about a dumb and obnoxious Washington Post column I saw the other day www.readtpa.com/p/imagining-...

Imagining a Guy: Names Edition

The Post found a progressive who doesn’t exist and caught her betraying a belief she doesn’t hold.

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There's a lot of things I won't get over from the past decade, but people's willingness to try to memory hole the extremely deadly pandemic we all lived through and killed actual people, on their watch and partly because of their idiocy, is high on that list.

It constantly astounds me that there is no elite upper level of power, commerce, or politics where people consistently behave like responsible professionals, but this story is downright bizarre—even in a world with Musks and Trumps and all the other weirdos

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 7d ago

what—and i cannot stress this enough—the actual eff www.ft.com/content/1ed4...

Ok, that's it. Now I know for sure that humanity is going to be destroyed by artificial intelligence. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b...

The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors

A.I. labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Who’s underemployed now?

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Another day, another LLM-written junk paper on the Collatz conjecture submitted to a journal I edit, the Journal of Integer Sequences. I really wonder how people seriously think to themselves, "I hear LLM's are solving unsolved problems, I'll try Collatz, no one else must have tried that before."

Dear press, Don’t yuck it up with Nazis

The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.

The nazis originally planned remigration (the Madagascar Plan) before settling on outright extermination. Which is 100% where he is trying to take this.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · last wk.

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.

ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data

NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.

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The orange felon is threatening Canada with more tariffs because of wildfire smoke drifting to the US. For context, Canada sent fire crews to the US when Southern California was being ravaged by catastrophic blazes. He’s a piece of shit. Sending love to our Canadian friends. 🇨🇦

I remain grimly fascinated by how a YouTube channel that has the backing of The Washington Post (ok, it’s the Post’s dreadful Opinion section, but still) can spew out more than 300 videos and still can’t find even 1,000 subscribers.

For weeks now they've claimed they didn't have body cams because Dems shut down the government. NOW we find out that they did have body cams and they didn't turn them on. Unbelievable, and the excuse shows how the billions being spent are corrupting government...

Losing almost $800 million to a defamation suit can make you a little jittery about jumping back into a bunch of election lies.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

"Fox News has not seen the evidence yet and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president's statement and claims"

Another Trump administration effort to smear a man they murdered goes down in flames. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Substance FBI agent saw in van of man fatally shot by ICE in Houston was salt, family attorney says

An FBI search warrant application said an agent found bags in the van that he believed could contain drugs, which was disputed by the DA and a group representing the victim’s family.

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I think this is PROBABLY right, but I also don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that he’s built a massive loyalist paramilitary force, radically reshaped the actual military, and had federalized troops deployed in the capital for the past year for no intelligible reason.

Jonathan Bernstein@jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please listen to Rick. Trump will lie about the elections. He will attempt to subvert them. It may succeed...on the margins; it's unlikely to do more. That's still terrible! Impeach and remove terrible!! It's costly to the nation. But people are fighting back, and he will likely mostly lose.

We are sadly at a point where I don’t think we can just dismiss as paranoid the prospect that he will attempt to prevent legislators from being seated by pure force majeure if he declares their elections “rigged.”

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

Profiles in poltroonery: Senator Thom Tillis

Recognizing the cowards who choose Donald Trump over our republic

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