Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Ronald Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis—and his “dear friend” from Hollywood, Rock Hudson, who asked for help. Dr. Fauci jumped in and helped. Guess which guy the homophobic ghouls in the Republican Party revere today.
I think pollsters will be surprised by how the numbers shake out in next week’s Michigan Senate primary, especially in Detroit. The idea that the Black community doesn’t care about Israel/Palestine may once have been true, but Trump’s Middle East fuck-ups have likely put it on everybody’s radar.
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last wk.New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:
what are people talking about?! No one has any power to do anything unless McConnell resigns the seat. Ds benefit by Rs being a seat down. How is McConnell fucking over the Rs a sign of D corruption or complicity?! W.T.F.
Navy Man (descendant of ANTIFA since the revolution)@navymanhy.bsky.social · 2w agoI have to admit, the longer this goes the more I suspect the Democrats made a deal...
What is the “dO soMetHiNg!!!” crowd smoking these days??? One Republican Senator is preferable to two Republican Senators any day of the week. Massie votes with Trump over 90% of the time. Leave it vacant and tell Kentuckians to blame the GOP for the fact they’re not adequately represented in DC.
Long Island Jim@jim-hughes.bsky.social · 2w agoHe can appoint a republican and Massi is available.
It is political malpractice for Democratic senators to be helping Trump fill judicial vacancies four months before the midterms. Completely unserious people.
I Am Begging Senate Democrats to Do Anything Other Than Help Confirm Trump Judges
Four months before the 2026 midterms, three Democratic lawmakers have decided to give a historically unpopular president a little boost.
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Closing off the ability of pro-Israel liberals to conduct a rearguard maneuver to preserve the more obscure elements of America's policy suite designed to insulate Israel from accountability is the vital project of the next few years.
It seems as tho the Haley Stevens supporters got some memo to go on the offense on socials. My Dem friends are split between Stevens & AES, with more of them leaning toward Abdul. But I’ve never seen so many of the Stevens crowd vociferously posting as I have in the past 48 hrs. They’re exhausting!
Let's not beat around the bush, here: they're trying to paint Abdul El-Sayed as a misogynist simply because he's Arab.
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
Just watched a CNN clip from last night where Dana Bash, interviewing Lis Smith, says that Democrats who voted to cut aid to Israel aren’t getting the right information and that Palestinian leaders are responsible for Gaza starvation. It’s unbelievable how awful and complicit American media is.
Absolutely this! Most YA is pablum. For me, it wasn’t SFF but rather murder mystery and thrillers. 10-yo me reading Agatha Christie didn’t know how to pronounce “rendezvous” (thought it was ren-DEZ-vuss) but absolutely knew its definition and that of its close cousin “tryst.”
Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 3w agoAs far as "books for kids" go I do sometimes wonder if the existence of a YA shelf robs young folks of the joys of early unsupervised exposure to the ranting of depraved communists and libertarian sex-weirdos in the SFF section, an important inoculation when it doesn't destroy 3-10 years of yr life
The logical conclusion of what Favreau saying is that he is too dumb to be trusted. All it takes is someone lying to him and Favreau will ignore all the actual evidence to the contrary and believe them.
I find it absolutely astounding that someone who has spent considerable time at a reputable medical school has so little understanding of how this all works. Does he think Marconi would have developed the wireless without previous discoveries of radio waves? 7/7
Hermione Granger's Iconic 'What An Idiot!' Moment
ALT: Hermione Granger's Iconic 'What An Idiot!' Moment
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The NIH is an ENORMOUS bargain for the American people. Do folk think that private industry will do the background slog work for drug discovery for 250K direct costs?
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last mo.Scott Atlas, the champion of herd immunity as an Fox News commenter and the Trump Advisor during COVID, weighs in with a DEEPLY MININFORMED op-ed in the WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... 1/7
It's like Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Hearn embarrassed the administration by exposing how ludicrously they're acting, so now they're gonna try to destroy his life as revenge.
Not sure people appreciate how difficult it is to literally have NO PEOPLE at the National Mall, especially in the summer time.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Did the rapture happen overnight? Fox & Friends is broadcasting from a completely empty Trump state fair on the National Mall
Eight months after the ceasefire, Israel is still blocking the importation of cement, steel and glass to Gaza. So, residents are building homes out of clay and mud, while scavenging reinforcing bars and concrete from the debris that is everywhere. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Gazans turn to clay and rubble to build new homes
Palestinians construct makeshift mud huts to escape life in flimsy tents amid Israel’s ban on concrete and steel imports
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Friday, & here you are! Not too much further to go. Stick to your course, as it has been serving you so well. A slight lean into those curves will help in you navigating, but watch out for the edges; as they can catch you. Let's go! Be careful. Be safe. Be shiny. Be glimmer. Be you. Take no shit.
Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."
Last night rand paul switched his vote, so did bill cassidy, who had remnants of a fucking spine for like three seconds. So any time you see a story about 'Senators clashing with trump', just know it's all complete fucking horseshit designed to garner clicks and attention abcnews.com/Politics/rev...
In reversal, Senate votes to block war powers resolution, delivering Trump a win
Sen. Bill Cassidy voted with the majority of Republicans late Wednesday to block a resolution aimed at reining in the president's war powers.
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Will be interesting to see if the same Dems who rightly blasted leftists for sitting out 2024 will themselves sit home and pout or even vote Republican if El-Sayed wins the MI Dem primary. The martyr complex among some is insane, especially when they overlap with DSA candidates on nearly every issue
Aunt Jules@japulver.bsky.social · last mo.Socialists hate Democrats more than Republicans do. Why should I vote for people who hate me?
I love how guys like this act like modern-day Scandinavia and Castro’s Cuba are one and the same.🙄
Mark Zaid, Esq@markzaidesq.bsky.social · last mo.We are witnessing MAGA equivalent of destruction of Democratic Party through election of progressive Socialists. If you think this ends well for country, I believe you're sadly mistaken. Extremism on one side simply fuels opposite growth on other side. We need moderates.
these are the sentences for 8 of the Prairieland federal trial defendants Judge Mark Pittman: Benjamin Song: 100 years Maricela Rueda: 70 years Elizabeth Soto, Meagan Morris: 50 years Judge Reed O'Connor: Zachary Evetts, Savanna Batten, Autumn Hill: 50 years Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada: 30 years