Hello I reinvented Cliff’s Notes so adults can revert to being lazy 8th graders who didn’t do their homework. Give me a billion dollars now.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4h ago

Axios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...

I hope to see a future where a congress exists that would stop this fucking psychotic madness. The guy did nothing, the crazy old man with the nukes is experiencing a near constant psychotic break.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3h ago

OUTRAGEOUS! Would mark a shocking first: Bringing back from the dead a case that the DOJ lost by its own admission that it lacked evidence to convict. It would add another bizarre turn to a sad chapter in the DOJ’s history—& further harass an innocent man. Cocounsel at DDF, WLG & Steptoe will fight

Example: Saying Thanksgiving is bad is a thought-provoking hot take. I don’t fully agree with it, but it raises attention to some nuance in a deeply imperfect holiday. It is not on the same level as supporting a terrorist attack meant to overthrow our democracy. These are nowhere near the same.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2h ago

“Silly” is a good way to put it! There were excesses in 2020 but they were mostly low-stakes efforts by well-intentioned people to address real injustices. The excesses of the right during the same era were far more harmful. The reckoning we need now is about how elites lost sight of that.

“What we find is that across multiple cities, multiple data sets, and multiple time windows, we find no effect that violent crime actually did change post the National Guard deployments in any of the cities.”

Fuming TV Addict Trump, 80, Erupts as His $1.7B Failure Is Exposed

The president vowed to take legal action in a deranged name-calling rant.

thedailybeast.com

jackee and john oliver on a soap opera together? this is peak television.

LateNighter@latenightercom.bsky.social · 6h ago

If you though GH gave John Oliver a lot to work with, wait til you see him on Days of Our Lives. Full story and more clips here: http://dlvr.it/TTyYT0

hidin' donald they call him. he's always hidin'. he's hidin' in the bunker of the white house, hidin' in a food service cart. very low energy!

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 7h ago

I suspect those who've speculated are right. Trump went ballistic on round one of the QatarForce One story because underneath it was this pretty humiliating episode of Trump getting smuggled out of Turkey in a food cart. And he'd do anything to stop that from getting out.

joe biden walked in a war zone with zelenskyy trump hid in a food service cart and the white house bunker

NEW: I had the pleasure of profiling Paulina Borsook, whose book Cyberselfish, about the early tech industry, is a great key to understanding why it’s so bad today. For her trouble, Borsook has had a very weird and bad 25 years, something she calls “a curse.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A Tech Prophet Finally Gets Her Second Coming

In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.

motherjones.com

If you're wondering why Trump's approval isn't lower, remember that Nixon had about 25% approval even through his resignation and Trump probably has an even larger core of cultists. This is still staggeringly low. Republicans on the ballot this fall should be in full panic.

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 6h ago

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 % who approve | disapprove of Donald Trump's job performance U.S. adult citizens: 33% | 62% Democrats: 4% | 95% Independents: 18% | 71% Republicans: 79% | 21% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Ok. But I think much of the ongoing affection for Bourdain is reaction to the rise of vacuous, MAGA masculinity. Bourdain was swaggering and manly, but also driven by empathy, self-reflection, and the humility to learn from other people and cultures. His was a better, more decent sort of manhood.

The Gospel According to Anthony Bourdain

Fans of the late writer and chef are cultlike in their devotion. But have they misunderstood his message?

nytimes.com

Liking Jennifer Welch, And The "Dementia Duck" Comment.......

Insanity. They've terminated contracts with the groups who have represented migrant kids for years and awarded them to shady, far-right groups with no experience with these cases and who are more likely to use the kids as props. Disgraceful.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 7h ago

Trump just gave a massive contract to Our Rescue to represent unaccompanied immigrant children. That's the group that does international anti-sex-trafficking stings, whose founder was dramatized in Sound of Freedom and who left because he himself was accused of sex trafficking his own employees.

EXCLUSIVE: Members of Trump’s political team asked Ohio Republicans last week not to wage a public pressure campaign against embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller, after they became increasingly convinced he wouldn’t end his reelection bid.

White House officials tamped down efforts to oust Max Miller in final days

Ohio Republicans now have no choice but to rally behind a candidate many GOP insiders warn could cost the party a traditionally safe seat this November.

politico.com

There's so much psychotic shit in this story about Max Miller, but this part of his origin story might be the weirdest

Sir O.D. Bastard, OBE@captainannoying.bsky.social · 6h ago

“‘He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen,’ a former Shaker Heights High School classmate and baseball teammate of Miller’s told Politico in 2021 for a story that documented no fewer than four arrests between ages 18 and 22 on criminal charges…” prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

Every reporter who was on board Air Force One when Trump abandoned it as a decoy to be attacked knows exactly which administration staffers were also left as sitting ducks there. There's a real opportunity here to get some inside dirt from people who have every right to be bitter and spiteful.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h ago

STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh

I'm not being funny at all when I say my family did similar things when my great grandfather had dementia.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h ago

There's so much psychotic shit in this story about Max Miller, but this part of his origin story might be the weirdest

Punchbowl: A new DOJ Office of Legal Counsel memo says Trump can assert executive privilege over communications with "private advisers … so long as they relate to official presidential decisionmaking, involve or reflect communications with the President or his direct advisers, and are confidential."

"They didn't do anything having to do with 'let me see your papers'" -- Trump brags that because of him you now have to show papers while traveling around Washington DC

Trump: "We had a radical left lunatic judge who basically declared sports in America unconstitutional" Big if true!

heres obama running in 2008, definitely taking the safe centrist approach to issues and def not very obviously taking the progressive line youtu.be/_ZvToGgImnc

Obama Ad Vows to Bring Troops Home From Iraq

YouTube video by antiwarcom

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ill never get tired of people pretending obama ran a safe centrist campaign in 2008 even though i lived through literally every single moment of that campaign and remember it in better detail than some parts of my own life.

my post: "Two of the strongest Democratic presidential candidates of all time had major buy in from progressives." was obama a progressive? no. did obama campaign on the progressive side on many issues (end the war) and cultivate a base among progressives to challenge clinton and win? yes.

Big C is on the case, Man!@onthecaseman.bsky.social · 5h ago

Now Oliver Willis is pretending Obama was a progressive. But he knows it's not true.

This man is unfit for office and a danger to every living creature on earth. Any news org, editor and journalist not communicating that clearly is sanewashing him and enabling his harms. h/t @atrupar.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Trump: "At one year, you should have 5 separate visits for vaccines rather than getting them all in the same day. I've seen proof of where they have a vaccination thing that looks like the size of a bottle of soda and pour it into a little child's body."

What happened and "changed our children?" The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990s that and included autism as a covered disabilities. Schools had to report how many autistic students they served. Who was a cosponsor of that bill? RFK Jr.'s uncle Ted Kennedy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

RFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"

I'm going to point out that Biden's presidency was as good as you were going to get from a moderate post Trump's covid fuck up. He got people back to work, he gave people personal hope their individual debts would be manageable and that we would build things in the country for the people to use. 1/

YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 6h ago

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 7-10 Net presidential job approval (approval - disapproval) at this stage of... Trump's second term: -29 Biden's presidency: -17 Trump's first term: -10 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

haberman is prob mad someone else reported on the catering truck story because she was probably sitting on it as a "scoop" to promote her next trump book

“the torch of the West” so it’s racist, got it

Naomi Saphra@nsaphra.bsky.social · 22h ago

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

The US fired on a Panama-flagged vessel the Vela Nova in the Gulf of Oman after it appeared to be trying to breach the US blockade of Iranian ports.

Literally yesterday in anti-Muslim bigotry -

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

New in PN: Rs roll the dice on anti-Muslim bigotry one more time "Today, naked statements of animus toward Muslims are not only more accepted than ever within GOP, they’re coming right from the WH. The mainstreaming of bigotry is a central pillar of Trump’s political project & has been from day 1."

seekingalpha.com/news/4626800... One of the chief architects of the 2008 Crash is upset that the state AG’s are suing to Block the Para Bros merger. Of course he is. He wants to monopolize the whole economy for the Oligarchs. You still haven’t paid for the crash, Jamie. Go away.