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They spent $60M+ in pro-Trump, pro-war money trying to buy Michigan's Senate seat. They lost. A movement for the people and by the people will always win. Tonight we celebrate. Tomorrow, we get to work to defeat Trump puppet Mike Rogers in November. Congratulations, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.
Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"
Mr. Holani was: 1. Unlawfully detained without due process, 2. Shackled & coerced to sign a document, and 3. Lied to about the document, which authorized the gov’t to deport him. This is a government without decency, without respect for the constitution, & not worthy of your respect.
Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h agoJudge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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“We should return to an older and more accurate name for the Civil War: the Slaveholders’ Rebellion. If a country unquestioningly adopts language that obscures its bloodiest crimes to absolve their worst perpetrators, how can we expect successive generations to remember the new assaults on democracy
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
nytimes.com
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
trib.al
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Ukraine spent 40 days hitting Russian aircraft, refineries, ferries and logistics. Russia intensified pressure on Ukraine’s ports, air defenses and energy system. In Sumy, guided bombs killed two girls and an elderly woman. Ukraine targets the machinery of invasion. Russia makes civilians pay.
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Extraordinary win! Overcomes 10:1 spending and the entire establishment in Michigan and in Washington! On Israel/Palestine, it's revolutionary day.
to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo agoStephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"
Hey seems bad that the "moderate" Democrat is totally cool with gutter racists
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d agoWow, you got us! Arabs say Inshallah!
I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.
‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating
The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.
politico.com
Not only am I told that CBS News staffers are alarmed by Ross Douthat being appointed as a "60 Minutes" correspondent, but industry veterans are aghast. "The idea that Ross can be a ‘60’ correspondent is a joke," one TV exec told me. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
Bari's New '60' Slate
CBS News’ decision to appoint a conservative opinion columnist as a “60 Minutes” correspondent sparked consternation inside the network, Status has learned, while also drawing sharp criticism from ind...
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Capped at $10 billion ...,
Austin Kocher, PhD@austinkocher.com · last wk.ICE is seeking builders for up to 14 new or expanded detention sites, from the Virgin Islands to Guantanamo Bay, under a plan capped at $10 billion. It is shifting from renting detention to building it. Full edition: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
for a very long time the republican party has been moving towards people who actually believe the slop they consume instead of people who view it as a tool, but the slop has been moving as well the fox news grandpas are now being outflanked by the groypers in the fever swamps
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d agoNot only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
the personal awfulness has also somehow increased, college republicans these days are basically universally guys who you should never leave your drink unattended around
Mike the Mad Biologist and PM of the "Islamic Republic of Japan"@mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 4d agoCollege Republicans have been awful people for a very long time. Now, they’ve combined that personal awfulness with overt, unapologetic white Christian supremacy, and, well, here we are.
So I woke up this morning to find out that Ozzy Osbourne’s son made a video falsely accusing me of using AI to write a Rolling Stone article about the Tate brothers.
bsky.app/profile/adag... Think Pennsylvania regrets casting a vote for Israeli asset John Fetterman, Michigan? Gonna make the same mistake with Haley Stevens?
Durchbruch@adagietto7.bsky.social · 4d ago
As Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed vie for the Democratic nomination, voters are debating which way the party should go: establishment or insurgent; progressive or more moderate; new media or old.
In the race for Senate in Michigan, multiple party fights are colliding for Democrats
As Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed vie for the Democratic nomination, voters are debating which way the party should go: establishment or insurgent; progressive or more moderate; new media or old.
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I don't have any hot take on this, it is just so deeply nutty and absurd that OpenAI and Anthropic are both fighting to boost their valuations pre-IPO by competing to see who can depict their own products as the most irresponsibly dangerous and risky and this is just treated as normal
Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?
OpenAI and Anthropic say their models broke into other companies' systems during testing, raising security concerns amid a heated debate over how to regulate AI.
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As Bowie would say to Mark Goodman two years later: “.. Having watched MTV over the past few months, .. I’m just floored that by the fact that there’s so few black artists featured on it. Why IS that?”
Israel Bombards Gaza, Days After Trump Announced Deal to Advance Cease-fire www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/w...
Israel Bombards Gaza, Days After Trump Announced Deal to Advance Cease-fire
Palestinian officials said at least two people were killed. The deal announced by President Trump calls in part for Hamas to give up its weapons and Israel to stop its attacks in Gaza.
nytimes.com
Exclusive: The top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon that he lacks sufficient naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, illustrating how the ongoing Iran war has imposed constraints on the military.
U.S. general warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces to protect Israel
A shortage of Navy destroyers, used to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks, will force the head of U.S. European Command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials said.
washingtonpost.com
this is the funniest thing adams ever did and it's not really close, being fully aware of the depth of eric adams content
Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.
Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the Law
People have gone to prison for comparable schemes.
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Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d agoMusk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?
YIL that Woody Guthrie was a tenant of Trump’s slumlord father and wrote a song about the racist bastard. #woodyguthrie #Trump
"Old Man Trump" ~ Woody Guthrie
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Laura Helmuth@laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 3w agoEarnestly for a sec: #TIL, for Today I Learned, is such a delightful, humble, generous hashtag and label for that burst of joy you get when you learn something interesting. What are some of your favorite recent #TIL experiences? lastwordonnothing.com/2026/07/15/t...
