So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

nytimes.com

Ooh I wonder if he's earned more in 18 months than in the rest of his life *and* than every other president earned in their entire lives, all combined?

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · last wk.

Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

The authoritarian narrative has a fundamental contradiction: they must make an "other" the eternal enemy AND claim victory as capable "strongmen" vanquishing that enemy. You are unsafe AND we are the ones keeping you safe. Their solution is to keep enlarging the category of "other"/enemy.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

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Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · 3w ago

Not using the Dem trifecta of 2021-23 to pack the SCOTUS, add states and aggressively prosecute Trump and prominent Republicans for the Jan 6 coup plot was a national disaster on the scale of Andrew Johnson's handling of Reconstruction. We might get one more chance to fix things, but it's not 100%.

🔔 What has been Tunisia's political and economic trajectory five years since Saied's power grab, and what does the future hold? Join us on Thursday, July 23, at 10 AM EST for an online event exploring these questions: timep.org/2026/07/09/t... Scroll down and meet the speakers!

I write in FT: Iran’s leaders suspected the MoU was a temporary retreat by the US, intended to relieve pressure on the global economy and prepare for another round of war. Iran believes to deter US and to compel it to negotiate in earnest Iran has to escalate the conflict. www.ft.com/content/22fd...

Why Iran is returning to war

Its rulers believe that further escalation will force the US to offer the security and economic relief it craves

ft.com

Trump already tried to do a coup. We should prepare for the worst. I've heard that Democratic officials are already gaming this out, but if they aren't, they should be getting regular presentations from veterans of Color Revolutions and other mass pro-democracy protests.

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m not a doomer, but we have seen Trump inflict suffering on millions in Iran and consolidate its hardline regime because he was hyped up after the “easy” Venezuela operation. He’s suggested regime change in Cuba. Who knows what he might try in our elections with all the power at his disposal?

“She was still in her bluey pajamas”

Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

A report on the ground from the ICE shooting in Biddeford that should make every parent in this country lose their minds:

Not all coups involve tanks

Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 4w ago

#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199

Holy shit (literally), the Curse of Ham! Part of my lectures on Rwanda and the roots of Belgian race science (by way of the Scottish Speke), students are always incredulous. “They believed what…?!”

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

"Trump is now going through something like the stages of wartime grief: Denial that America failed; anger, which has led to renewed attacks; and then bargaining, as if the Iranians could somehow be bought off like a gang of recalcitrant construction workers in New York. None of it has worked."

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4w ago

Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

#ETTD ALWAYS

#CleanSheet

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No one can take away this joy

About last night #TeamMelli 🇮🇷

Shervin Malekzadeh@swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · last mo.

My meditation on how Iranians persist by participating, against the odds, against certain disappointment, whether it be voting, getting a job, or watching their beloved Team Melli in the World Cup. (link below) #TeamMelli🇮🇷

My meditation on how Iranians persist by participating, against the odds, against certain disappointment, whether it be voting, getting a job, or watching their beloved Team Melli in the World Cup. (link below) #TeamMelli🇮🇷

Very Chile March - September 1973

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last mo.

Political Purges of U.S. Military Deepen Widely respected top Army commander forced out. His competence and his respect for his oath to the Constitution are among the apparent reasons for the removal.

One year ago

Shervin Malekzadeh@swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · last yr.

My latest op-ed for the @latimes.com out this morning. Regime change is once again on the agenda, treated as an obvious solution, a magic bullet for Iranians & the world. But very few voices are asking, "Then what?" Where does the magic bullet land? #Iran #Nationalism www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Iran's beleaguered World Cup team finds hope with draw against Belgium

Iran's beleaguered World Cup team finds hope with draw against Belgium

Story on the Belgium vs. Iran World Cup match at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, noon.

latimes.com

From the staff of the Tijuana Marriott Hotel to the Iranian national football team players before the match against Belgium in Group G of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Una cara, una raza 🇲🇽🤜🏽🤛🏽🇮🇷

This site is a real time-saver.

Procopius tells us that al-Mundhir III, the king of the Lakhmids, justified his continued attacks against the Ghassanids by saying that since “Arabs were not mentioned in the Eternal Peace of 532” between Sasanian Iran and Rome, he does not see himself obliged to abide by its terms.