Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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Abdul El-Sayed is inviting everyone into the same fight: getting corporate money out of politics & deliver a healthcare system that actually covers everyone! That’s a movement worth showing up for. #BlueWaveIn90Days

Many academics have to find the money to publish books from grants. This is a job on top of a job and they earn no royalties on anything.

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 10h ago

Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.

It is a GENIUS messaging strategy to link AI and data centers to dick swinging toxic masculinity and I want more of it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

El-Sayed: "Mike Rogers is a guy who wants to put a data center in your backyard so he can make himself feel a little more manly by making an AI video ... he's a guy who went back to Florida so he could lick every single boot Donald Trump owns to bet for his endorsement."

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

Close the camps

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 9h ago

“This Is an ICE Murder, Too”: Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary

This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Democrats are consolidating as predicted. Excellent. Whitmer, Stevens, McMorrow and even Schumer rally behind Abdul El Sayed. He can and will beat Rogers who is weak and tied to an unpopular Trump and GOP. All gas.

Look at Trump's serial failures, his obvious decline, the disastrous poll numbers for the GOP, the abysmal quality of their candidates, their complete absence of accomplishments, their betrayal of their base, the absence of post-Trump leaders emerging...and tell me the Dems are the ones w/problems.

My term for what Google's new feature threatened to unleash: epistemic terrorism. Per Wikipedia, "Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge." "Epistemic terrorism" attacks & undermines the possibility of shared knowledge, facts, and truths.

"Drone found at German airport after cargo plane collides with object mid-air" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Drone found at German airport after cargo plane collides with object mid-air

Investigators looking into whether incidents at Leipzig are linked after DHL plane forced to make emergency landing

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You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

One of the biggest problems with centrists is that they consider close elections that they lose evidence of their electability

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 23h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

I love how rich and powerful people who are "long accustomed to direct access" to power are now said to be "shunned." Only they can be the arbiters of reality, not a democratically elected mayor.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 23h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

NYT still not calling it

he won by the same margin as Trump, which represented "a huge mandate" back then.

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Das nächste linke Ausrufezeichen: Abdul El-Sayed hat in Michigan die demokratische Vorwahl für den US-Senat gewonnen – gegen das gesamte Establishment und AIPAC-Millionen. Seine Prioritäten: Medicare for All, Abolish ICE, Tax the Rich, US-Außenpolitik entlang des Völkerrechts.

The movement beat money

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 19h ago

I think the close result tells us is a) tv ads still work on low-info voters and b) Abdul's ground game is real

way closer than expected, but an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending is an Arab leftist besting 70 million in outside spending: a political earthquake and a new dawn 25 years after 9/11

👇🎯 American Ostalgie

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 22h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

“He is the second man to die after being held at Delaney Hall. Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old man from Haiti, died on December 12, 2025, the same day ICE detained him, and ICE attributed that death to natural causes.”

Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · 2d ago

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...

Normalcy bias afoot: Thune gets Trump the most corrupt Attorney General ever to head his secret police, Dems may back a crypto bill, and weak Russia sanctions expand tariff powers. Meanwhile, Trump starves blue states and wages war on fair elections. Not things you'd want to alarm the public about!

Thune’s roadmap to recess

The Senate’s ability to clear its pile-up of legislation and nominations before a five-week summer recess may come down to two GOP decisions.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 2d ago

Listen, I'm no expert on the Senate. But dealing with Senate Republicans as if we're heading into a normal, business-as-usual election seems completely wrong. Bad morally, bad strategically, and disastrous for democracy itself.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

Trumpism is largely about hating women and using women as an excuse to hate everyone else

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d ago

"It has completely infected the white supremacist realm," Beirich said. "Misogyny is as important, I would argue, as racism or neo-Nazi-ism now to people that traffic in these kinds of ideas and live in these cultures."

Your friendly reminder that the DNC is planning to ban ranked-choice voting when they convene in 2 weeks.

It’s on open.substack.com/pub/teresari...

Money vs. Movements

Liz and Teresa revisit the question of whether Trump was a good candidate -- still yes -- and why. The upcoming primaries in WI and MI demonstrate that we need movement above monied candidates #LFGAES

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