they should invent dishwashers for all the other chores

I'm doing my frantic best

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!

I like Canada.

Bee babies should be called beebee’s.

NEW: @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.

The level of projection for these people is staggering

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Dr Oz: "When you steal money from the federal government, you ought to go jail and go to jail for a long time"

Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/

The labor market is frozen. Hiring and quit rates are both running below pre-pandemic levels. While unemployment is at historic lows, this dynamic presents obstacles for job seekers, particularly young college grads.

Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

There would not be a progressive movement in America without Black Americans.

Donald Trump thinks it’s “incredible” to make your life more expensive.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

FOX: What's your big message on the economy? TRUMP: Tariffs have been incredible

BREAKING: Rep. Chuck Edwards says he is withdrawing from his re-election campaign, days after the House Ethics Committee recommended censure over sexual harassment allegations. He has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.

Rep. Chuck Edwards drops re-election bid after censure recommendation over harassment claims

“After much prayer and reflection, I’ve decided to withdraw from my re-election campaign,” Edwards, R-N.C., said early Wednesday after mounting pressure over his conduct toward two female staffers.

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Breaking News Piece of SpaceX rocket believed to have crashed into the moon via Reuters

Oil prices move higher after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claim Saudi tanker strike

Oil prices move higher after Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis claim Saudi tanker strike

Crude prices rose Wednesday after Yemen's Houthis claimed they had struck a Saudi Arabian oil tanker in the Red Sea.

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Elon Musk said lots of antisemitic things and shared lots of antisemitic posts written by antisemites and then sprinkled on some sugar with two nazi salutes on telly and Jonathan Greenblatt said "no he's alright, he isn't one" and now has spent over a year painting Zohran Mamdani as Hitler Part II.

A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

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the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Neither socialists nor communists destroyed 237 years of Constitutional democracy. In 2010 SCOTUS passed "Citizens United", the most deceptively named Republican ruse since Fox "News" (aka GOP TV), which unleashed unregulated capitalist greed. And the biggest billionaire feeding frenzy in history.

Mindcite💥@mindcite.bsky.social · last wk.

Republicans are so pathetic they're recycling Red Scare dogwhistles as old as Trump: NB reporters: "McCarthy's reckless and unfounded attempt to impugn my loyalty is just one more example of his typical tactic of attempting to tie up to Communism anyone who disagrees with him." --Edward R. Murrow

Max loves you.

If you are a person who bitches about Dems never doing stuff like this I think you are obliged to share Whitehouse’s speech

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.

Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth

For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained

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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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A man from El Salvador has died while in ICE custody at a New Jersey detention facility that has faced protests over living conditions and medical care, federal officials say. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Man from El Salvador dies in immigration jail in New Jersey, ICE says

Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested June 18, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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i24NEWS IRGC conducted an overnight drone attack targeting US base in Kuwait, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to i24NEWS via i24News

when katy was still rehabbing hazel and we weren’t sure if hazel could use her back legs or not fee was like oh i know what we can do. thankfully the carrot baths and katy did such a good job hazel didn’t need it, but this stuff is so neat

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2d ago

An injured kitten named Gelato gained the ability to walk thanks to a wheelchair that staff at a Cincinnati animal shelter built with toy cars and rulers. Read more: https://wapo.st/4hIOSpF

public libraries ftw

Denise Okuda behind the scenes of STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1991)

History isn’t made by waiting for permission. It’s made by stepping up to the plate! Congratulations to Denae Benites on hitting the first home run in Women’s Pro Baseball League history! ⚾💥 Every first inspires countless more to follow! #WPBL #WomenInSports #SheShed #ViVaHerAliance

CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦@corrina.sheshed.rocks · 3d ago

For the first time in more than 70 years, women took the field in a professional baseball game. Dreams that generations fought for are finally becoming reality. Here’s to every girl who has ever been told, “Baseball isn’t for you.” Keep proving them wrong💪 #WomensSports #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play