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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
100% I have a preferred candidate but of course whoever wins must be sent to the Senate!
Micah@rincewind.run · 17h agofolks this is what Vote Blue No Matter Who actually means we buckle down and beat Mike Rogers in November no matter how this finishes
Grocery stores were half the size they are now. Most produce was only available in season, so once a year. Anyone who lived with canned vegetables as a kid still has a mild PTSD reaction to the very thought. Lowenbrau was the height of imported beer. *blech* SOOOO much better now 💯
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 18h agoGen X and millennial hipster craft gastronomy genuinely changed the world.
And if an issue appears to be dominating politics out of nowhere despite not affecting the overwhelming majority of society, perhaps you should think about who decided to make this an issue, at whose expense, & why do they want you distracted by this?
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you're a cis person insisting that the prospect of trans children playing youth sports is not only "a problem" but in fact one of the biggest problems we currently face as a nation, I'd be happy to introduce you to literally a million other things that should be worrying you more.
“No one knows more about construction than me.” —A president who stupidly built a helipad on a slope, so it had to be torn apart and rebuilt because it, duh, wasn’t level.
GOP displaying its view of women: Brandon Herrera, running as a Republican to represent Texas’ 23rd Congressional District, is facing fresh controversy... A video of him referring to children as “cum trophies” & dismissing the political opinions of mothers
San Antonio-area congressional candidate calls children 'cum trophies' in latest controversy
Brandon Herrera (left) and former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz clasp hands at a San Antonio rally during Herrera's first failed House run. Brandon
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Well, there's this: democrats.org
We Are the Democratic Party. - Democrats
Democrats are focused on lowering costs, improving healthcare, creating jobs, ending corruption, and protecting our democracy.
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
What is wild about the revisionism is the centrist types seem to only remember how much lockdown sucked. But even if you were vaccinated, that first bout of Covid was a nightmare for most of us. How do people forget that? www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/the-...
The great Covid bait and switch - Lawyers, Guns & Money
I find it fascinating how the entire Covid epidemic has undergone some sort of almost Orwellian historical revisionism, and not merely among the right wing, although they are of course by far the wors...
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My brother in the PNW sent me the same a little while ago and I had exactly the same thought.
Dina James@dinajames.com · 23h ago“Climate change isn’t real.” Photo credit: screenshot of the Watch Duty app, Tuesday August 4, 2026 at 2:17PM
Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
This is excellent, and so, SO necessary. Thank you for it 👏🏻💜
Micaiah Johnson@micaiahjohnson.bsky.social · 2d agoI was beaten to it by the amazingly generous @mollytempleton.com but yes! The blog I was nervous about yesterday is a reality today. She’s free. She’s long. She contains multiple cat photos. www.patreon.com/MicaiahJohns...
Had gastro problems my whole life, but today it's a rousing game of "Is it just the usual, one-off nonsense, a new food sensitivity, or cyclopsoriasis?" Elon and DOGE did this. A pox on *all* their houses 😡
This news makes me so happy! A well-deserved recognition for an excellent book 👏🏻🎉
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 3d agoI'm proud to announce that Separation of Church and Hate is a recipient of the 2026 American Book Award. Oh and they gave one to Colbert, too- abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
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Kindergarten. GENITAL CHECKS. FOR 5 YEAR OLDS. WTAF #Washington?
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn 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
Profoundly, *achingly* stupid. And so PROUD of it. Just... yikes.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoPeople in this country used to be afraid of announcing to the world that they were stone-cold idiots who shouldn't be allowed behind the wheel of a car. Now they're out here bragging about how dumb they are.
So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
Bunch of great "Do something!" action items posted by Dworkin today. The links make speaking up easy 👇🏻
Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 2d agoRepublican senators are stalling on Blanche right now, this week, before the vote gets calendared. That window closes the second they schedule it. Send this while it's still open. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
#Cats are weird, part zillion. (Thread) We give our megachonker, Booster, food in a slow feeder on a bench. He can't heft his corpulent mass to the dresser where the other cats eat as they wish from a gravity feeder. 1/-