Theodore Grunewald
@tedgrunewald.bsky.social
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(regular voter voice) Well ah I don't really know about Israel and all that but it sounds like this group wants to help Trump keep the Senate and enable his ongoing crime spree and I'm against that
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 12h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
A simple declarative statement of fact. Refreshing!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoEl-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
oh my god: a trump-endorsed candidate lost the GOP primary to a guy who suspended his campaign last month: www.politico.com/news/2026/08... trump completely washed, juiceless, cooked, it's over, lamest of the lame ducks, many people are saying it
Trump-backed candidate in battleground Michigan district loses to opponent who dropped out
Amir Hassan lost to Tom Smith, who had suspended his campaign but is now jumping back into the race for the purple 8th District.
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The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 23h agoSeems 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.
A bracing read that hilariously calls out legacy media's pathetic narrative on El-Sayed's stunning success
Ken Klippenstein@kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 8h agoAbdul El-Sayed's victory is the most significant Dem primary upset since Obama — who actually won by a narrower margin than El-Sayed www.kenklippenstein.com/p/chuck-schu...
AIPAC is a lobby group for a foreign government that is openly hostile to liberal democracy and completely in bed with MAGA.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 12h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
NEW: The National Design Studio is a curious corner of the government staffed by DOGE veterans. @telliotter.bsky.social spoke to an engineer who was recently interviewed by “Big Balls” about a role there; they were not super impressed.
The National Design Studio Became a DOGE Landing Pad. Now ‘Big Balls’ Is Recruiting
WIRED spoke with an engineer who was interviewed by Edward "Big Balls" Coristine for a government engineering role at the NDS, the White House agency staffed by other DOGE veterans.
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Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterdayDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
The purest expression of corporate capture in Congress: With an explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping the country, Republicans are simultaneously trying to ram through a provision that would repeal hundreds of food safety/animal welfare provisions. Incredible. 📹: @calltoactivism.bsky.social
2026 in a headline: Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients. futurism.com/health-medic...
Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients
Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.
futurism.com
It's ok to be silly. But the fact that every other AI company is rolling out variants of the same story after it earned OpenAI so much coverage should make you suspicious.
if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.
Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h agoIt keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
If you're not terminally online, you might not recognize VDARE, but trust me: VDARE is blatant, overt, not even remotely hiding it white supremacist stuff.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h agoGonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
We have a white supremacist government now, it’s not even debatable. All of the worst racists in the US have come out of the shadows and are tearing the nation to pieces.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
The dude on the right looks like Vance and Miller had a baby.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
BIG VICTORY! After a years of fighting, a Michigan court shut down the permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel. The pipeline would have gone through the Great Lakes, the largest source of fresh water in the world. But the Michigan Supreme Court said no.👇
Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations
Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...
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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
Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.
So far. They kept going after that, and so will the people who put them in jail in the first place.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16h agoA paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Aug 5, 1936: Mack Robinson (Jackie Robinson's older brother) won the silver medal at the Berlin Summer #Olympics 90 years ago today. The Pasadena athlete "finished second behind Owens, crossing the line four-tenths of a second after the gold medalist." www.jackierobinsonmuseum.org/learn/storie...
Almost on the day Palantir reveals growing revenue from mainly public contracts and soaring profits, new report reveals it hardly pays taxes robbing us from funding for public services A corporate business model: leeching on tax payers to fund the rich @taxjustice.net @purgepalantir.bsky.social
Palantir pays almost no corporate tax in Europe while benefitting from public contracts: new report
A new report reveals that Palantir is paying little to no corporate taxes in Europe while building massive profits and share value off the back of public contracts.
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"Less than two cents on every dollar. That was US tech giant Palantir’s effective global corporation tax rate in 2025, according to a new study."
Follow the Money EU@ftm.eu · 21h agoPalantir earns billions from government contracts around the world, including across Europe. Yet European trade unions say the US tech giant pays next to nothing in tax. How does a company profiting from so much public money contribute so little in return?
Now AIPAC will stop spending on the Democrats in Michigan (Haley Stevens) and will begin funding Mike Rogers. AIPAC is finished and so is support for Israel In the Dem. Party. www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/05/l...
Lessons from Michigan: How Standing Up to Israeli Genocide Could Win Democrats Congress
At 2 AM Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC's candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens' defeat in Michigan's Democratic Senate primary is the last na...
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FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
