She's real psyched about beating the odious Ken Paxton.🙄
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 9h agoAsked Jasmine Crockett last night in St. Louis if she thinks James Talarico can turn Texas blue this fall. “I don't know,” she said. She doesn’t buy the polls. “I watch money… When I look at the money, if Republicans start spending money in Texas, then I'll be convinced.” MORE:
It gets better: The guy in charge of big DOD strategy literally wrote a book on how we should never do this, with the threat of China being his main reason as to why we should avoid more wars in the Middle East. It’s idiots and hypocrites all the way down.
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterdayI have zero knowledge about military stuff. So correct me if I'm wrong: Basically we spent decades building up a big stockpile of advanced weapons so we could be ready for any potential conflict with China or Russia? And then Trump used ALL OF THEM in a literally aimless war with Iran?
I wrote a story right after election on CoreCivic stock soaring. Investors saw a bonanza from jailing immigrants.
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.
Fun fact: The last time a Cabinet pick failed on the Senate floor was 1989. John Tower. No Cabinet pick has been defeated on the Senate floor in Susan Collins’ nearly 30 years as a senator.
THE $168 BILLION WAS TAKEN ILLEGALLY AND THE GOVERNMENT DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. Kill me I’ve wasted my life.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."
Someday soon, everyone will claim to have known this all along.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · yesterday"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
They didn’t lose it - they threw it away
Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · yesterdayGOP senators have lost the plot.
Has it been explained why the White House needs a helipad right outside the door? Is it because he can’t walk across the lawn anymore?
The final tally for making life worse for 99.9% of the country is going to be astronomical.
There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
Also, btw, and not for nothing — Cornyn’s lying here. He’s an attorney, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, and was the Texas AG.
Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · yesterdayOh for the love of all that is holy...
Oh for the love of all that is holy...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Doesn't make it any better. Or less of a lie. Or less cowardly.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterdayFull quote: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund, that he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter it's dead and that's all we could do under these circumstances."
WaPo has run exactly one story on Trump trying to buy off suburbanites with subsidized "Freedom Fuel" stations and has run 2 news items and 4 opinion columns and this video on Mamdani and subsidized NYC grocery stores. So that's 7 to 1, so far. 8 if this crap counts.
Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · yesterdayMamdani’s grocery delusion
Great timing on Ellison’s op-ed bsky.app/profile/wyde...
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayYep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.
Stop the false equivalence. No other President sued his own government to secure immunity for himself and his family, created a fund to reward cop beaters, and demanded prosecution of his political enemies. Trump’s weaponization of DOJ is unprecedented and you just endorsed it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
We've gone from "Time machine to kill baby Hitler" to "Time machine to give Adolf a heads up about Normandy."
"It doesn't take courage to vote against Todd Blanche. It takes common decency."
Dawn Alene@dawnalene.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you list all the crimes Trump has been credibly accused of, even just the ones he's confessed to, it genuinely reads worse than a mafia don. No wonder we feel like we're losing our minds when the media treats him with presidential deference.
If Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.
Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Should be a huge scandal. And yet we know it won’t be.
HuffPost@huffpost.com · 2d ago“A careful review...suggests that the United States has killed individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking," Kaine stated.
Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
Politico@politico.com · 2d agoMichigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.
"they didn't die OF cyclospora, they died WITH cyclospora" incoming
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
