TBF, it doesn't really look anymore ridiculous than his old combover.🤷♀️
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 43m agoTrump’s rug looks ridiculous.
Khashoggi's Ghost
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Democracy is the way. Truth and justice matter. Russia can end the war today by leaving Ukraine. Less proud to be an American than I used to be. I really thought we were better than this. #IStandWithUkraine #NAFO Fellas fan
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 43m ago
I’m sure Fauci texted: “I’m so glad the virus we created in a Chinese lab will allow us to lockdown Americans and enact vaccine mandates, all while hiding the truth about ivermectin.”
Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · 3h agoThey're really going all out. The less they find, the harder they look. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Hey Pennsylvania peeps, please send your senator a list of all the court orders Trump has defied.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 38m agoFETTERMAN: “Trump hasn’t defied a single court order.”🤔 STEWART: “Well… He has. He defied court orders, and congressional law.”
America used to mean something other than, “We take stuff because we can and everyone else can get f***ed.” Great Conservative leaders like Dwight Eisenhower understood that. Leaders who understood where true power comes from. Character, honor, values.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoTrump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela -- billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils."
It was revealed the president's bank accounts got shut down by Capitol One for money laundering but the media is too obsessed with Francesca Hong's take on Thanksgiving to notice.
Save the canary and shove these four dipshits into the mine
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3h agoOh no not James Carville, Bill Maher, Mark Penn, and John Fetterman
Jair Bolsonaro's failson (Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro) is running for president against Lula in October and Trump has been sending people to Brazil to meddle on his behalf.
Trump administration revokes visa of Brazil's ambassador to US in escalation of spat with Lula
Officials said the step had been delayed several times to give Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva room to back down, something he did not do.
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This would be a clear, unambiguous, unequivocal, explicit, no-doubt-about-it, you-don't-have-to-be-an-expert violation of the domestic emoluments clause of the Constitution (ArtII.S1.C7.1).
Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 1h agoNYT says Trump is going to take the Qatari bribe jet AND one of the old Air Force Ones when he leaves office. He can put the broken down old one in his presidential library and do what he likes with the new one we just paid billions of tax dollars to retrofit. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
The leopard has not yet eaten Pete Hegseth’s face. Looks like it’s starting to get hungry, though
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 48m ago"Trump’s frustration over the Iran war boiled over at Camp David, where he demanded answers from Hegseth on why he had apparently been misled on extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options ... "Hegseth defended himself and blamed his deputy for the shortages ... "
What’s happening is that America’s liberal majority is fed up with being told they need to hold the center while the political right moves more and more to the extreme. The status quo is everything getting worse, and they’re over it.
The misinformation going around right now about Todd Blanche is burying the real threat—and squandering an opportunity to mobilize voter outrage against it
They'll try to make hay out of something there, but I suspect they'll be disappointed with what they find.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 1h agoGOP Sen. Ron Johnson says he's obtained a copy of Tony Fauci's phone. News comes as Republicans prepare to hold a contempt vote on Fauci tomorrow after he declined to testify last week.
2/ value of **all crude oil produced in the entire world**. Again, that is an almost unimaginable sum. And this is purely protection money. This isn’t like the Panama Canal or suez, man made passages that require upkeep & maintenance that someone has to pay for. Yes, it’s small but it’s the ocean!
Perhaps I’m not understanding how this works. But these are unimaginable sums. Let’s say Iran wants a 5% fee, the low end of the demand Trump is accepting. Approx. 20% of global oil production goes through the strait. So 5%, 20% … this means Iran takes a 1% cut off the top of the export …
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
And Biden was dealing with global inflation from the global pandemic, and then the additional rise in gas prices from Putin's war in Ukraine. Trump did this all by himself.
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 1h agoRemember how weak the Dems' position was in 2022, in part because gas prices were so high? They've now risen almost as much since Trump's inauguration as they had since Biden's on Election Day that year. link.ctinsider.com/view/6650ab5...
Theft
Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 1h agoNYT says Trump is going to take the Qatari bribe jet AND one of the old Air Force Ones when he leaves office. He can put the broken down old one in his presidential library and do what he likes with the new one we just paid billions of tax dollars to retrofit. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Well it was a nice run, you guys ...
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h ago“.. Weeks before they escaped a closed test and launched a cyberattack without any human prompting, some of OpenAI’s most advanced artificial intelligence agents secretly began sharing tips on how to cheat their way through an internal hacking evaluation ..” www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
“Overwhelmingly, these sources said that what was most unsettling to them was that for many months, they’ve been wargaming & meticulously planning how to defend their upcoming elections from Trump in ways that mirror how they’d plan to protect elections from a foreign adversary, not the president…”
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 1h agodisturbing the level of resources & time that election officials, elected Dems, & others across the U.S. are devoting to preparing for if Trump tries to sic ICE, troops, or armed feds on their polling sites @justinglawe.bsky.social & I take you behind the scenes on how: zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...
Hard to put into words (I might) my anger at this Washington Post Editorial Board piece, which I share in its brief totality here.
Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 1h agoWho is the audience for this lie, from CIS, from the WP ed board shamefully parroting it? Is somebody out there meant to believe it? Or is it doing something else
This is Fox. They'll do everything possible to paint the entire Democratic Party as a bunch of insane radicals with kooky ideas based on what one non-Democrat said one time. And sadly it will work. Fox viewers still believe the 2020 BLM protests were violent and whole cities burned to the ground.
Decoding Fox News@decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 1h agoLast week Megan Romer the National co-chair of the DSA appeared on Fox where she was interviewed by Shannon Bream. I made a montage of how many times Fox featured the clip in one day. Fox News is a propaganda machine. Any Dem should approach the network with caution.
UPDATE II: In new filing, BBC opposes Trump's bid to amend the complaint, also argues it won't narrow discovery because his "financial records are directly relevant to assessing his purported reputational damages." Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
BBCTrumpOppAmend080626.PDF
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Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 7h agoUPDATE: BBC says there's no emergency and they're not engaged in any political attack on Trump. Also, it looks like Trump's attorneys have offered up a date (unspecified) for him to sit for a deposition in the suit, assuming it isn't thrown out by then www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Trump in Nevada: “Michael Whatley should be your governor.” Minor detail: Whatley is running for the U.S. Senate in North Carolina. 25th Amendment now!
Good luck everyone
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 1h agodisturbing the level of resources & time that election officials, elected Dems, & others across the U.S. are devoting to preparing for if Trump tries to sic ICE, troops, or armed feds on their polling sites @justinglawe.bsky.social & I take you behind the scenes on how: zeteo.com/p/inside-dem...
How fitting would it be if the end came due to random stupidity?
Get Smart: Missed It By That Much
ALT: Get Smart: Missed It By That Much
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Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h agoBreaking: A helicopter carrying Donald Trump just came within less than a mile of colliding with a jet in a major security incident over Washington, DC. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
US has appointed new commander for its air operations in the Middle East — Lt. Gen. Daniel T. Lasica has taken over as commander of Air Forces Central and Combined Forces Air Component Commander for CENTCOM. Change of command took place Aug. 4 at Shaw Air Force Base, SC.
EU is investigating Russia’s possible involvement in information campaign surrounding Ceuta crisis. According to Ukrainian officials, pro-Russian networks published more than 1,5K posts about the events, prompting EEAS & Europol to examine whether Moscow coordinated or amplified the online campaign.