Here's a strange one to consider if you're bored with the other election news

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 16h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

Nichols has this right. Trump should resign, and failing that, it should be the easiest call for our politicians to impeach and remove him. He didn't deserve the second chance. He's already a massive failure. He can't do the job, can't keep us safe. Every day he weakens us more. Trump needs to go

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 22h ago

The war in Iran has shown that Trump’s inability to perceive reality has become truly dangerous. Iran is a disaster, but Trump’s irrationality could create other, even more perilous situations. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is a big part of the Bluesky experience. A lot of the labels don't even make sense. But they stir a lot of emotions. Good luck to all in the elections

Hakeem Jefferson@hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 18h ago

I have little to add to the chat, but I will say this: Those of us who spend a lot of time talking about politics overestimate how much other people care about, or are even familiar with, the labels we use to describe, denigrate, or celebrate candidates. Sometimes we’re high on our own supply.

Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door

Voters Reject Republicans’ Attempt to Ban Abortion in Kansas Through Back Door

Kansas voters foiled state Republicans’ latest scheme to snatch back their abortion...

talkingpointsmemo.com

1/ The Pentagon under Fox News host Hegseth got caught running an AI fake news site & they can't even fake it right. Garbled headlines.A White House missing columns. Image files literally named after the AI tool that made them. Your tax dollars built this #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Haven't been keeping up and only realized now that Barnes dropped out of the WI Gov race

FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social

Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

aip.org

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

It's been reported that Grace Chang, Hong Kong's preeminent Mandarin screen diva of the 50s, passed away this afternoon, one day shy of her 93rd birthday. Watch Mambo Girl and The Wild, Wild Rose to see her at the height of her powers.

A corollary to all this that is not discussed enough is how much damage the Trump-Miller administration's atrocities against immigrants has done to the country. From the deficit, to healthcare services, to college finances and anything driven by demographics, we are in worse shape and headed down

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d ago

MAGA is raging at DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin for discussing immigration reform. But the real reason MAGA is so furious is he admitted immigration can be managed in a way that benefits our country. This is absolutely lethal to white nationalist ideology. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

Why did the Reflecting Pool cases blow up? Thank Brady v. Maryland, a Supreme Court case requiring that any exculpatory information the government has be turned over to the defense. A Brady violation is a big deal at DOJ (See Justice Manual 9-5.001). ⬇️

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

There is a lot to worry about in terms of what the last ten+ years have done to governance in this country, but one of my bigger fears is that people - even ones ostensibly on our side - have forgotten that Congress isn’t just a fucking reality show with people being shitheads on Twitter all day

THIS. My brother has worked in the paint and wallpaper business in NJ for fifty years; he absolutely refuses to do business with the Trump Organization. They're notorious for reneging on contracts and payments.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.

U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)

Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.

nytimes.com

Haberman also spent the Trump presidency refusing to call Trump a liar and trying to explain there was thought and good intention behind every debacle. Meanwhile she jumped to call Marc Elias a liar when for all we know he just refused to be a source and told her she was wrong before hanging up

VP Kamala Harris: These midterms are coming up, check your voter registration status. Make sure you aren't someone whose names got purged inappropriately. Turning out the vote in the greatest numbers we have ever seen, so that in this environment where they're cheating, we will be too big to rig.

Lesson to minions in far reaches of the government: if you are helping in any way to assemble bogus cases and think you are too remote for it to blowback, even Pirro will throw you under the bus when implosion in court is imminent

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d ago

Juicebox Jeanine files a 20-page Motion to Dismiss the case against Davey Hearn that ... claims to have been helpless before DOI told them how Trump's incompetence ruined the pool. Not sure when I've seen this Olympic class ass-covering before. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Once again, Black voters are out here doing the heavy lifting for the rest of America…

"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us." --Declaration of Independence

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

Despicable. We knew it already, but he is truly such a terrible person. He simply cannot do the job. He cannot keep us safe. The world gets more dangerous every day he's in office. He should resign

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: Can you rule out that Iran is behind the water attacks? TRUMP: I don't think so. I think that Minnesota is behind it. You know who is behind it? Minnesota. Because they're grossly incompetent. I don't think there was an Iranian cyberattack. I think Minnesota ought to get its act together.

Romania scrambles two jets after aerial targets spotted near river border with Ukraine: Defense Ministry on X

It started with scolding the "establishment" for unjustly calling out a conspiracy that was championed by Giuliani, Bannon, Guo Wengui, the Plandemic movie, Pompeo saying unknown best experts believed it was man-made, a natsec reporter alleging knowing conspiracy by virologists ...

Today is Brian Sicknick Day in NJ. Brian was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer who defended the Capitol and our democracy on January 6, 2021, and died after being brutally attacked. 1/2

It's worth dwelling on this first figure. While debt-to-GDP has risen rapidly, debt-to-wealth has been pretty level. The levels we're at now are slightly elevated compared to the latter half of the 20th century, but are about half of the level we hit during WW2.

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Was a state Covid contact tracer. The guidance & scripts were constantly & rapidly evolving as the CDC learned more about the novel virus at the time. They did the best they could with what they had to protect us. They stuck to best practices & the do no harm motto. The GOP can go fuck itself.

Republicans were forced to postpone Todd Blanche’s confirmation because they knew he was too corrupt to get the votes. He went from being Trump's personal lawyer to running the Epstein files cover-up. We will not stop fighting until Donald Trump withdraws his nomination.