When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...

Colbert Savages NSA And Rep. Mike Rogers In 'See No Evil' Segment

Colbert Savages NSA and Rep. Mike Rogers in 'See No Evil' Segment

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The National Priorities Project (NPP) at the Institute for Policy Studies has estimated the federal government plans to spend $268.9 billion to undertake mass deportations throughout the second Trump administration. www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/202...

Trump Bill for Mass Deportations: $268.9 Billion, and Counting

Under the Trump administration, Congress and federal agencies have already committed a total of $268.9 billion in federal funds for immigration enforcement from FY 2025 through FY 2029. 

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CNN producer: El-Sayed is projected to win. Quick, get the biggest fucking loser you can find on air

This Day in Labor History: August 5, 1993. The Family and Medical Leave Act went into effect. This was an important, if not world-changing, piece of legislation that demonstrates the historical difficulties of groundbreaking expansions of the welfare state in the U.S.

This is perhaps the most insufferable 1.5 hours of podcast ever created. Fetterman’s incoherence is matched only by his inability to follow a single thought for more than 30 seconds. Distinguishable from a Fox pundit only by how inarticulate. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Sen. John Fetterman on the Democratic Divide

Podcast Episode · The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart · August 5 · 1h 30m

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The person who is electable is the one who prevails despite $60 million of dark money being used to carpet bomb the airwaves with attack ads against them.

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · 13h ago

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Unfathomable

This clip is INSANE

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 21h ago

Jon Stewart Puts Fetterman on the Defensive Over Israel, Reminds Him, ‘That Is Not Our Country’

"I am Michigan's whippersnapper" - Haley Stevens tells reporter after casting her ballot

This is a 1,600 bed facility, so it will instantly become one of ICE's largest facilities. It will also be one of (if not the actual) largest ICE jail/prison in the midwest.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.

the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

How resilient is democracy? Is campaign finance reform my fate? Today, Michigan answers those pivotal questions.

OJ@solidarityowen.bsky.social · last wk.

If Haley Stevens wins the Michigan Senate Primary, I will dedicate my legal career to restoring our broken democracy by eliminating the corrosive cancer that money represents in American politics. Over $60 million in dark money for one candidate in one primary election is fully radicalizing me.

Michigan, it’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls are open now until 8PM. Make your voice heard. Find your polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote!

My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

If we weren't so broken, divided and led by corrupt rapists, this would be the biggest story of the week. But barely a blip. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump accounts were closed in 2021 due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says

Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering.

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the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"

It's no coincidence that we now have a trillionaire and at the same time lower union participation than ever before. It's because the corporations that spit out billionaires and a trillionaire do everything they can to bust unions.

This fucking guy.

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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New levels of desperate pettiness and deceitful depravity from the Stevens camp in light of today’s Emerson numbers.

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

The Islamophobia **FROM THE TOP** coming out of Michigan is one of the biggest stains on the modern Democratic Party.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last wk.

This is absolutely insane, imagine if a progressive elected official was refusing to support Haley Stevens if she won! You’d never hear the end of it. Centrists are the ones who are dividing the Democratic Party with their Islamophobia and purity tests.

Medical debt should not exist to begin with.

Minnesota Mental Health Therapists at Lynn Lake Win Union with @SEIU Minnesota mental health therapists just crushed a $425/hr union buster to win a 93% union vote! We break down how they beat private equity greed and organized with SEIU. 🧵

*immediately gets triggered by an article paywall

OJ@solidarityowen.bsky.social · 6d ago

8 hours of sleep. 200mg of caffeine. Ain’t no mountain high enough.

8 hours of sleep. 200mg of caffeine. Ain’t no mountain high enough.

But clowning on LinkedIn union-busting content creators is so fun 😩

If Haley Stevens wins the Michigan Senate Primary, I will dedicate my legal career to restoring our broken democracy by eliminating the corrosive cancer that money represents in American politics. Over $60 million in dark money for one candidate in one primary election is fully radicalizing me.

The degree and status of the “fraud crisis” was manufactured by MAGA white nativists, and directly resulted in Metro Surge. This manufactured crisis is only inescapable as long as outlets pretend it’s serious.

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · last wk.

Peggy Flanagan wants the Senate race to be about her soaring progressive platform. But the fraud issue is inescapable.