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!
Ted Kinnaman
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I enjoy traveling, reading philosophy, and marking the destruction of essential democratic institutions.
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoSo Trump and McMahon now are trying the velvet glove approach to get universities to submit. It’s just a watered down version of the compact they tried to impose last year. No self-respecting university should comply. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
I can’t tell who’s right about what happened with this, but I definitely think the comment about Democratic strategists being financially secure is on target. #democrats www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
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He looks like Elvis Presley’s corpse on the bathroom floor.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d ago“Many people say that I look like a young Elvis Presley.” *By “many people,” he means absolutely no one on Earth.
. Unsurprisingly "The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries
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Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
inquirer.com
I know I covered the vote, but here's some "color": US diplomats walked out of a UN SC meeting on July 27, 2026, as France's amb spoke. It followed bitter online dispute over the US opposition to UN human rights chief and French criticism of America's human rights record.
Q: There's a report that the US has taken in $13b from Venezuela. Where is that money going? T: Even more Q: But where is it going? T: We've paid for that war many times over Q: Where is the money going? T: Running the country Q: No, the money US is taking in -- T: Running the country
How to pick one horror from among the many on offer today? Vladeck: "refusing to hear the claim doesn’t protect American diplomacy—it announces to the world that the United States offers no forum when its own contractors and companies are accused of grave human rights abuses."
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · last wk.In Cisco, #SCOTUS not only (unpersuasively) eviscerated the Alien Tort Statute, but it effectively neutered a 22-year-old precedent for no other reason than that the Republican appointees disagree w/ it. Today’s “One First” goes deep into the ruling—and why stare decisis is really *is* for suckers:
Polling Averages Among Men: 🔴 GOP: 49% 🔵 DEM: 48% - July 26, 2026 - unitedstatespolling.com/p/the-midter...
The Midterm Map Is Refusing to Budge
Every new poll tells a story, but the overall map continues to resist change
unitedstatespolling.com
Kitty Carlisle and Jenny Linsky have discussed my performance in the past year and would like to talk about possible areas of improvement. #caturday #catsofbluesky #cats
New poll from Strength In Numbers and Verasight this morning: Black voters and Democrats are systematically more likely to say they couldn’t process citizenship. These are **currently registered voters** — and so presumably citizens being disenfranchised.
Poll: These Americans say they’d be disenfranchised by Trump’s election law
Few Americans have heard a lot about the provisions of the SAVE Act. Support declines the more someone hears about it
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WATCH: Hunter Biden is warning that America is a “dictatorship” under Trump, defined by “buffoonery and utter incompetence” and a “giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen.” Share if you agree! substack.com/@rawstory/no...
Raw America (@rawstory)
WATCH: Hunter Biden is warning that America is a “dictatorship” under Trump, defined by “buffoonery and utter incompetence” and a “giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen.” Share if...
substack.com
#ICE in Glendale, California causing chaos and terror in broad daylight. PA
Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
notus.org
"To know that you can parent freely, that you can drive freely, that you can do an Uber Eats drop off without fear, that men with guns are not going to shoot you or detain you or take your children from you. That is the American way of life."
A Modest Request: Don’t Grow Numb to This
Goons with guns are bad.
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🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w ago🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ GEO Group thugs prepare to load three busloads of chained humans from the Northwest Detention Center on to a plane bound for ICE's notorious East Montana Concentration Camp near El Paso, Texas 👀
Believe it or not, I just listened to American Idiot for the first time. Pretty good, but I think these had the same idea and executed it better. #punkrock #punk m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSM-...
American Society (Remastered)
YouTube video by L7 - Topic
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This is fun as a hateread. I don’t know whether this guy’s viewpoint is warranted. I’m interested in hearing what people think. #AI
Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · 3w ago‘Without OpenAI, the AI industry doesn’t exist, and the justification for trillions of dollars of capex evaporates. Its failure would be a watershed moment — the Lehman Brothers of the AI bubble, and an event that would define the end of an epoch.‘ www.wheresyoured.at/the-openai-b...
One step closer to a dictatorship. #freeDC www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/u...
Trump Administration Argues for Fencing Off Park Next to White House (Gift Article)
The Commission of Fine Arts is set to consider the administration’s proposal regarding Lafayette Square Park, which has been the site of numerous protests.
nytimes.com
Ninety percent of the 71 detainees contacted in the concentration camp on Fort Bliss say they were beaten by guards are witnessed beatings, in addition to inedible meals and lack of access to medication or lawyers.
Report: Detainees at ICE facility in Texas report frequent beatings and other human rights abuses
A new report from human rights advocates says 90% of detainees interviewed at a sprawling ICE facility in Texas say they were either beaten by guards or witnessed others being beaten.
apnews.com
As millions of Americans prepare for another brutal heatwave, it’s now harder to find information about ways to stay cool while saving energy and keeping utility costs down. At least 1,662 Department of Energy webpages with guidance on protecting the electrical grid during heatwaves have gone dark.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Joan Sebastian Guerrero Ruben Ray Martinez Alex Pretti Renee Good Dozens of other innocent lives. These deaths aren’t mistakes. They’re the result of choices. Policy choices. Funding choices. Choices to not hold this Administration accountable. It’s time to SHUT. IT. DOWN!