Is it the White House today, or the April 1962 edition of The National Eagle published by Portland’s leading white Christian Nationalist antisemite?

TERFs: "STOP TEACHING SCIENCE! YOU ARE OPPRESSING ME WITH SCIENCE! TEACH MY FEELINGS AND MEMES OR ELSE YOU ARE WOKE!"

What a surprise

www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...

State-level polling is very hard to do well. Likely voter modeling is always very hard. Multiply those difficulties by 10 for a primary race.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 16h ago

Takes like this are very tempting but IMO go too far. The polling miss last night was historically exactly average for a primary — no evidence polls have gotten worse recently. And remember 2022 had the most accurate House and Senate polls in history! bsky.app/profile/gell...

Musk's wealth has been approximately halved since the top of the SpaceX IPO

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

Blind Squirrel moment

JoeMyGod@joemygod.bsky.social · 8h ago

@jigarshahdc.bsky.social would like you to redirect some of your data center hatred to utilities.

Data centers didn't jack up your bill—utility greed did | Opinion

Data centers didn't break the grid—A regulatory model that rewards building over optimizing did.

newsweek.com

El-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "

I know this is Kansas, but Roger Marshall is an utter dipshit who has spent a lot of time on television saying stupid spiteful things and Democrats should at least be able to make this a tough seat to hold.

The Cook Political Report@cookpolitical.com · yesterday

After Rev. Adam Hamilton's win in the Kansas Democratic Senate primary to take on GOP Sen. Roger Marshall, we shift the race into a more competitive category, from Solid to Likely Republican. Read this from @jessicataylor.bsky.social:

This is pretty much just describing fascism, right?

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h ago

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

The Senate has confirmed nearly 60 Trump-nominated election deniers to the judiciary. The attorneys who prosecuted the Jan. 6, 2021 rioters want them to stop. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Jan. 6 prosecutors urge Senate to stop confirming Trump's election-denier nominees

“The institutional denial of truth — especially by potential federal judges — is dangerous, yet it’s become all too clear that President Trump expects his nominees to provide evasive answers about bot...

democracydocket.com

I've missed this feeling, however fleeting it might be

At least that wasn't a homer

Bring Varland back out!

ERNIE!!

Indeed, for 2026 Democrats, the "fringe opinion" is unwavering support for Israel. Centrists who pretend to be gobsmacked that someone criticizing Israel's genocide in Gaza might do well in a Democratic primary are announcing that they don't know anything about the current state of politics.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 10h ago

I mean this sincerely: I think pro Israel people really need to begin internalizing that this is not a fringe opinion anymore and in fact is very statistically likely to be the average view of any brown Democratic candidate for office or any candidate under the age of 50

There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.

AILA@aila.org · 15h ago

"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m

RFK Jr: "I'm announcing that HHS has begun the decertification of Network for Hope, the organ procurement organization."

Forget Waldron, go grab this guy Ross. He's a potential platoon mate for Sanchez if he can get back to previous results. www.mlbtraderumors.com/2026/08/whit...

White Sox Designate Austin Hays For Assignment

The White Sox are moving on from a veteran outfielder who's missed most of the season. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

mlbtraderumors.com

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

Spencer Miles is a beast

What do you think would happen if "Democratic Socialist" was replaced with "FDR Democrat"?

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cronan, you're already on the district court. Who won the 2020 election? CRONAN: Joseph Biden received the majority of electoral votes B: You have nothing to lose. You have a lifetime appointment, and yet you're unwilling to state the simple fact that Biden won the 2020 election

BOOKER: Let me make this easy. Be a man. Yes or no -- did Joe Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: ... the Congress certifie-- BOOKER: There you go. Stop! Can you please tell me yes or no, did President Biden win the 2020 election? CANDEUB: The Congress certified-- B: You are showing cowardice.

Albert Speer would be so proud! The Times takes us on an exclusive video tour of Washington remade in the image of Donald Trump. It furnishes a perfect demonstration of the psychopathology of fascist architectural design. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

Inside Trump’s multimillion-dollar DC makeover — a visual guide

The president has grand designs for Washington, including a White House ballroom, independence arch and Dulles airport redesign. How much does it cost?

thetimes.com

X-Files: I Want To Believe!

ALT: X-Files: I Want To Believe!

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Mitch Bannon@mitchbannon.bsky.social · 11h ago

The Buffalo Bisons have activated Ricky Tiedemann from the minor-league IL. After a couple clean appearances in Dunedin, he's back up to AAA. The big thing remains staying healthy. But he's getting close to the #BlueJays now.