I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

There we go.

Haley Stevens for Senate

Haley Stevens is running for Senate to continue to fight for Michiganders and our economy while standing up to the Trump-Musk chaos agenda. Learn more here!

haleyformi.com

It looks like the market isn’t a big fan of moon factories staffed by humanoid robots.

our obsession with data and knowing everything makes people think polling is way more accurate than it is and we'd be wise to remember it's astrology for people who were in student government

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 11h ago

What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...

We are not going to get our moon bots with this sort of attitude

Sean O’Kane@okane.fyi · 8h ago

SpaceX down more than 12% at the open, now hovering around 10%

i would feel bad for the planner trying to figure out PM schedules for factories on the moon except i know they’re not paying anyone to do that because none of this is real

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

Something you do not want a jury to hear about

Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 8h ago

"TikTok’s algorithm pushed him thousands of videos about suicide, sadness, hopelessness and loneliness, right up until he killed himself." The company did this "by design" to test the effect on "daily active users" "one of the top data points by which Wall Street judges social media companies"

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

Monday begins 1L orientation week at UofL Law. I'm sure many other schools will also be welcoming their newest future lawyers. Reupping this post, in which I offer some neo-Luddite advice on how to approach law school in a technologically cynical era. joedunman.substack.com/p/so-youre-g...

So You're Going to Law School

Advice to New Students in a Cynical Age

joedunman.substack.com

A random sampling of things that are better today than 40 years ago: 1. Records. I love records. And a lot that I buy used are thin, almost floppy, definitely cheaply made. (I love them! They sound great!) When I buy a new record, though, it's probably a 180-gram thing of perfectly-mastered beauty.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 18h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

Kitties in the Hall.

And I am not saying you can’t be a white attorney and be amazing at immigration law: actually, you just need expertise in immigration law (which none of these individuals have).

Maybe if the folks you hang out with are defending sex with 12-year-olds, you should read the petitions they ask you to sign (and also, stop hanging out with them).

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

'but surely this was just theory gone too far right? Now to have a big swig of wine and check out petition creator Gabriel Metzneff'

I’ll Congress that on social media I mostly don’t admit to struggle. But that’s largely because, while I love you all, I use Bluesky mostly to talk about politics and law, with some discussions into eg music, coming, and cats. 1/

New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterday

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

IMO some of this is an influencer problem. People want the immediate gratification of making videos with cute outfits and cool gadgets. And SHEIN/Temu junk will last long enough for you to make that one viral video on Instagram or TikTok.

Tammy Duckworth, oddly enough, isn't swanning around with a Nazi tat and a string of abused exes

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

Fun fact: I just published the full story on this topic mere minutes ago. By my count, at least 12 pastors, seminarians & former clergy have launched campaigns for federal office this year, and 5 are already nominees. In response, the GOP is attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...

'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith

(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...

religionnews.com

Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · yesterday

Highly recommend listening to @jackjenkins.me in conversation with Dr. Amanda Henderson:

In fairness, if I were running as a Republican in Trump's America, I would also pretend that I didn't have to vote on the unpopular things that Trump is forcing votes on.

I mean, no. Absolutely not. I've known too many excellent people who served in the military to believe garbage like this.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

It absolutely does not cause Trumpism. Can we please stop trying to medicalize/explain away arseholery. Sometimes people are just arseholes. This thinking does more to stigmatize TBI, PTS and Moral Injury sufferers. Platner is just an arsehole.

Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d ago

A watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

…til from a mis-addressed promotional email that my approach to buying ice cream is unusually lax

For some reason, each time I open a tub of ice cream to take a taste before I buy, HEB expresses its disagreement with the way I buy ice cream by making me leave.

Charlotte Garden@charlottegarden.bsky.social · yesterday

…til from a mis-addressed promotional email that my approach to buying ice cream is unusually lax

Tell me you don't understand a medical bill without saying you don't understand a medical bill. (Like, I get it: I also generally don't understand medical bills. But there's nothing here about solvency or government money: 1/2

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁭󠁸󠁣󠁨󠁰󠁿@kevincarson1.bsky.social · yesterday

Entire industries kept solvent by money government spent into existence, or banks lent into existence, but we can't have UBI because "where would the money come from?"

I was at the grocery store yesterday and saw bags of produce marked “Taylor Farms” and I’m going to assume that the next time I go to that grocery store those same bags will be in the same place.

There is a difference between legislators who put their little name on the Medicare For All supporters list and those who actually mean it and have the expertise and conviction to make it happen

Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn@citizencohn.bsky.social · yesterday

El-Sayed has said Medicare for All is his Mount Everest I asked him how he imagines scaling it www.thebulwark.com/p/the-medica...

No one more discredited than the anti-globalization folks of the 1990s.

I mean, what's 49 years, ~360 days between friends?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump vowed his Reflecting Pool changes would last 50 years. They lasted a few days. Our deep dive into a saga that has embarrassed the administration, ensnared passerby and threatened Jeanine Pirro's job. More with @jakespring.bsky.social @megkelly.bsky.social and more.

Trump vowed his Reflecting Pool changes would last 50 years. They lasted a few days. Our deep dive into a saga that has embarrassed the administration, ensnared passerby and threatened Jeanine Pirro's job. More with @jakespring.bsky.social @megkelly.bsky.social and more.

How Trump’s claims of vandalism at the renovated Reflecting Pool crumbled

Trump has lashed out at U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro after she dropped vandalism cases and blamed damage at the pool on rushed and flawed work by a contractor.

washingtonpost.com

I mean, no we can't? That strikes me as deeply unconstitutional and deeply ageist. Like, if we don't want elected officials over a certain age, we always have the option to not vote for them! In the meantime, I'm not a big fan of arbitrary limits on my rights. 1/2

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pilots have to retire at 65. FEderal law enforcement officers, 57 (with some extensions to 60.) Surely we can agree that people over the age of—70? 75?—should not be allowed to run for federal office.

I’m not sure “we must remove choice from the hands of voters” follows from “have age limits for jobs that have unusually intense physical demands”

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pilots have to retire at 65. FEderal law enforcement officers, 57 (with some extensions to 60.) Surely we can agree that people over the age of—70? 75?—should not be allowed to run for federal office.