my goodness the max miller situation makes me want to take several showers men in congress are having a Dreadful 2026 tony gonzales. eric swalwell. cory mills. chuck edwards. max miller. shit
The Seattle Sounders will never stop innovating. They're about to become the first MLS team to lose a Leagues Cup game in Mexico. You absolutely have to hand it to them.
This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.
Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 10h agoThe couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...
this guy losing in November is nowhere near good enough
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 9h agoNEW: @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social obtained body cam footage from the investigation into Rep. Max Miller's alleged abuse. In it, Emily Moreno alleges Miller held her at gunpoint while she changed their daughter's diaper. It also reveals him downplaying their daughter's broken collarbone to detectives.
An actually underrated potential positive for Dems in light of Abdul’s victory is that it gives traditionally centrist or otherwise poor Dems on Palestine on an easy out for polarizing against AIPAC and pro-Israel politics— they’re trying to cost Dems the Senate.
Yeah a very small but extremely loud section of Jewish Influencer Internet is dialing the racism up to 12.
WE WON!!!!!! Thank you to all of those who walked with us in this race! Let’s go win in November!
one of the transphobic state legislative candidates lost to his trans challenger:
Joanna Whaley@joannawhaley.bsky.social · 18h agoWE WON!!!!!! Thank you to all of those who walked with us in this race! Let’s go win in November!
Legal theorists obsess over the countermajoritarian difficulty, the idea that it is undemocratic for judges to stand in the way of legislation enacted by the elected legislature Voters, meanwhile, love it and will defend it
Douglas Keith@douglaskeith.bsky.social · yesterdayKansas voters sent a strong message tonight - they want a judiciary that stands up to the legislature, not one controlled by it or shaped by big money judicial elections
Great writeup from Chris, as always, but I feel compelled to add that Rosenbaum's dissent includes lengthy description (w/ photo!) of Jimbo's bologna performance. Which FL officials had previously used to justify trying to shutdown a drag venue. Despite the absence of any sexual content or nudity
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · yesterdayNEW: Eleventh Circuit, on an 8-5 vote, holds that Florida's anti-drag law is likely constitutional. A majority of the court, however, disagreed with Just Brasher that the court should rule on whether the statewide injunction entered in the case was an improper "universal injunction." Law Dork:
Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Cori 'Less Popular than Charles E Schumer' Bush rolls worst constituent services ever, asked to leave American politics.
WSJ AI-Powered Office Fish Vending Machine@njstopwonk.bsky.social · 9h agoSchumer is more popular than she is…SCHUMER
The #1 reason I wanted her to lose. Not because she was "AIPAC" but because there was no way those taps were going to keep flowing against Rogers
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 24h agoNo matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.
the max miller stuff is genuinely depressing
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9h agoBernie Moreno’s reaction to Max Miller and his granddaughter “The best part of my day is when I start FaceTiming her. She's a sweet little girl. I can't even express to you what it feels like to have her in my life, I just wish her dad felt the same way.”
This is beyond the pale for any Democrats to still take money from this horrid fifth column. They've made it clear: They will try to put Mike Rogers in the Michigan US Senate seat, they are declaring war on the Democratic Party when control of the Senate has never been so important. No more!
"Sophie Cunningham said Wednesday that she wants the focus to return to basketball after her comments on transgender athletes" Must be nice, to be able to expect that what she wants will just happen.
For my @xtramagazine.com column this month: "There are no trans women in the WNBA; there has never been an openly trans player in the WNBA... so it’s essentially impossible for a trans woman to play in the league or refute any of Cunningham’s statements." xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The WNBA should have never let it come to this | Xtra Magazine
After Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham came out against trans women playing women’s sports, the league has allowed things to snowball
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the mid-off between the Trotskyite and the secret homophobe has somehow resulted in neither of them making the top 2, which gives Adam Smith (D-Boeing) an easy November win
Strongly encourage the GOP to run with "just cook at home you stupid poors" as their general election message
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
And I worry that there are a lot of people on the left who don't care about this problem because they hate AI. But the truth is that as this technology continues to get jammed into everything from customer service to banking to fast food orders, having built-in fair right bias is bad.
both transphobic michigan state senator candidates also ate shit, as did Helena 'If we nominate Abdul we're fucked' Scott.
Opinion Haver@asinmarx.bsky.social · 13h agoDid I get the night I wanted? No I never want to spend hours waiting on Wayne County to count votes. Did I get the results I wanted? Absolutely, there was Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donovan McKinney federally, along with a ton of statehouse wins including Abbas Alawieh and Chris Gilmer-Hill.
Sure, it didn't work for Andrew Cuomo. Or Mallory McMorrow. Or Haley Stevens. Fourth time's the charm, though, I'm sure.
The DSCC puts out a statement from Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand backing Abdul El-Sayed. This is the first time since 2010 that a DSCC-backed candidate lost in a primary. #MISen
Elon Musk's exploding rockets are a front for the real moneymakers. www.theverge.com/science/9755...
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Maybe if the rockets were a primary focus of the company, SpaceX wouldn’t be in danger of blasting a new crater into the Moon with its space trash.
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DURBIN: You wrote an article in which you claimed 'Black inmates are most like to become sexual aggressors.' Why should people of color believe you've changed? CRONAN: I co-authored the article. I haven't re-read it in a long time. DURBIN: Do you believe it? CRONAN: I'm not in a position to opine