All the money in the world can't defeat the power of people with a common purpose.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2h ago

Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.

"That’s because this is war by other means, a war without bombs, bullets, or boots on the ground, a new, sophisticated, asymmetric hybrid form of “nonlinear” warfare consisting of covert operations, active measures, disinformation, and cyberwarfare." shorturl.at/HYSxt Republican Party vs. the USA

Nothing Moves the Needle

Not that long ago, the press could root out corruption, topple presidents, and end wars. Now, even the biggest scoops have little impact. Here's how and why the media lost its mojo.

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Democrats, left, right, or center are never going to defeat the billionaire class, their media empire, and their Republican Army. The only force on Earth capable of stopping the fascist juggernaut is a vast public rejection of everything they have planned for us. Only voters can decide our future.

💙🏳️‍🌈 Kh’ymm (aka Goldie) 🏳️‍🌈💙@thegoldfishmind.bsky.social · yesterday

Let's talk about these new Progressive Dems. Are Americans ready for Progressive Dems? Are they electable? Shouldn't we play it safe? FULL STOP: We've had Prog. Dems since the 60s. But we've gone in the opposite direction. And we know why: power, money & control. See more 👇 #Pinks #DoBetter

Betting on (and bankrolling) Republican/fascist government. shorturl.at/3zEmW

To be clearer: the Republican Party, top to bottom, is waging civil war on the rest of America on behalf of the super-rich.

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d ago

To be clear: Senate Republicans are caving on a deal that gives Donald Trump and his family immunity from tax audits potentially worth $100 million.

We're experiencing a crisis of greed + incompetence, a few talentless, amoral, know-nothings, running a handful of multinational corporations which control each industry. Antitrust must be an element of reform to save the country from a small bunch of bloviating assholes ruining everything.

Among the worst legacies the Republican Party will have bequeathed is the moral degradation of tens of millions of Americans who place their faith in and elect Republicans out of inculcated blind hatred of liberals and Democrats. It has, perhaps irreparably, shredded the social fabric of America.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s not a cult. They just keep finding new domestic abusers to cheer for. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Constitution rights come secondary to, you know, being alive.

Politico@politico.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr. tells CNN host that constitutional rights take priority over public health

At this point, you should really be wondering how much of our politics and government operate strictly on elite blackmail.

Adam Parkhomenko@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5d ago

Something is brewing

This is fascism.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.

It's conditioned reflex to blame Democrats because everyone is conditioned to hold the Republican Party harmless, for bad faith, for stripping people (particularly women) of human rights, unnecessary wars, rampant gun violence, even outright treason. The Mommy Party is left to blame for Dad's abuse.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Virtually EVERY SINGLE time someone says, "Dems haven't done X," a simple Google search will show that, in fact they did, and the speaker was just too lazy to check. Yes, communication is broken. That's a two-way street, always, especially now.

The things is, Republicans can't ruin Fauci's reputation with anyone who matters, to MAGA he's a villain and to everyone else he's a public hero. They're mostly feeding red meat to the base to distract them from their growing unease with an outcome they hadn't planned on or hoped for.

Jonathan@frakitall.bsky.social · 6d ago

While they try to vilify Fauci over words like "convinced," let's be serious. This is an obvious witch hunt to ruin his reputation because Sen. Paul is upset that Fauci basically called him a "quack" in their first Senate hearing on COVID.

The operating principle of the corporate press is Amoral False Equivalence. Flogging unimportant stories which may be suggested are Democratic wrongdoing provide some balance to the underreported cesspool of Republican bad faint, corruption, and malfeasance. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/leg...

Legacy media’s embarrassing feeding frenzy on New Jersey voter registration error

The legacy media has pounced on the story of New Jersey’s voter registration error. But the volume and tone of the news coverage have been embarrassingly out of proportion to the scale of the issue.

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Trump should be thanking Fauci instead of persecuting him. No one would have watched any of Trump's clown-show COVID pressers if it wasn't to hear something sane from Dr. Fauci.

Dan🌹🔵🌊🇺🇸@arepublic86.bsky.social · 7d ago

Just an appreciation post for this guy. The COVID pandemic would have been far worse without Dr. Fauci's decades of experience as guidance through it. Had he been working under an adult president and not the child that presided over 2020, he would have saved even more lives without having to contend

Once believed the mixed economies of the Nordic countries proved that capitalism can work but now think the US doesn't have what it takes. A government structured in weirdly undemocratic ways and a culture of self instead of common good do not help capitalism work. open.substack.com/pub/wonkette...?

New Koch Daughter Just Dropped To Teach Us That Socialist Nordic Countries Totally Capitalist Actually!

Fine, then we'll take whatever flavor of 'capitalism' that is, please and thank you.

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Robert's folly. To allow him and his corporatist allies to achieve their goal of wrecking regulatory government, Roberts had to help the Evangelical right also wreck the social compact with women and POC. But extremism is right's only virtue and the SC could never be radical enough to satisfy them.

papaesoco.bsky.social@papaesoco.bsky.social · last wk.

www.commondreams.org/news/supreme... A record high 61% of Americans said they disapproved of the Supreme Court, according to a Gallup poll.

"...this defeat shows how deeply and pervasively Trump and Hegseth have crippled the U.S. military. Their incompetence, corruption and irresponsibility have weakened us with incredible speed. And it will take many years for America to recover, if it ever does. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...?

The Putinization of the American Military

When poseurs and yes-men run a war

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This is fascism.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

Waltz: We can both confirm and deny.

Justin Jest@justinjest.bsky.social · last wk.

I understand completely. 😏

A category error many on the left make a habit is the idea of Democrats as power-players, when their power-position is beneath the donor class and its Republican army. Democrats can't defeat all of corporate oligarchy without the reliable support of a large voter-block, something they never have.

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · last wk.

How much will Democratic leaders and donors burn down due to their fealty to Israel and billionaires? Most of it? All of it? We're seeing it in real time

Not the Post: "McConnell presumed dead six weeks after his disappearance with no proof of life."

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2w ago

WaPo: deceased person faces growing questions as to his whereabouts....

This is civil war. "...federal officials admitted that the $7.5 billion in cuts from clean energy projects begun under former president Biden were “based solely” on whether states had voted for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...?

July 24, 2026

Tony Romm and Brad Plumer of the New York Times reported this afternoon that the Trump administration’s claim last October that it was cutting programs in order to protect taxpayers against waste was,...

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This is fascism.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2w ago

criminal laws that punish people for being poor in public are cruel, and cruel & unusual punishments are unconstitutional in 2024, the Supreme Court upheld such laws anyway since then, 350 cities, 11 states, & rising have passed laws criminalizing homelessness ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Ouch, Bluesky mean. This was one of now endless "arguments" over whether Republicans or Democrats are better for the people and causes you care about and, if you think Democrats, is it a good idea to help Republicans by painting the Democratic Party with a dirty, broad brush. Rinse. Repeat.

It's their child-like simplicity and the stubborn inability to think in terms of qualitative differences which makes them so cute and terrifying. Probably small comfort when they're thrown into reeducation camps by the Republicans currently writing laws to criminalize them.

Lewd Jaw ꙮ@elvery.northsky.social · 2w ago

democrats who side with the fascists *are* the fascists, which makes your question “is A better than A?”

"...the bad news is that would be only a small piece of the ongoing takeover of U.S. media by oligarchs...just part of the extraordinary exercise of power by the extraordinarily wealthy small number of men who have been wreaking so much havoc with America as we know it." shorturl.at/JfBO1

The Republican Party used its DOGE dodge to decimate the entire government system crafted over decades to protect the public from unforeseen catastrophe. People currently tearing their hair out over $4 gas and $8 ground beef are sleepwalking toward the graveyard of our future.

Ms. Misanthrope 🇺🇸@lilmsmisanthrope.bsky.social · 2w ago

The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.

Lest we think Republican politics has just jumped the shark, wildly successful Republican political strategy has long been: slander the opposition and fear-monger to the uninformed. History and hindsight always proves they're lying, after the MSM fails to do so in real time and the damage is done.

Julie Witt@julie-witt-39.bsky.social · 2w ago

I can't wait until this very odd looking little man is gone.

This is oligarchy.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

The price hikes and the product disappearances were not the blips of supply and demand – they were the results of behind-the-scenes pressure by Amazon, according to internal emails reviewed by the Guardian and court claims against the world’s largest company. From @georgejoseph94.bsky.social:

An indisputable fact at this point, you simply can't conclude there's anything rational about our political choices, including the choice to let others decide for you. Guess the one place the mainstream press rarely (if ever) goes when explaining politics to the rest of us: the psychology of voters.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2w ago

I tend to believe psychology explains most politics. That's why I think all this talk about McConnell's death is subtext to another terminal event that many people around here are looking forward to.