🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

nytimes.com

The End of Free Speech is the End of Science with Jay Bhattacharya

YouTube video by James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions

youtube.com

Timothy Caulfield@caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 10h ago

Chill science. Chill dissent. Chill reason. Doubtmonger. These are the goals. Fauci's legal woes could deter scientists from government service www.axios.com/2026/08/05/f... via @axios.com

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

This is how it's done. Fight it out in the primary, and then link arms to defeat the common enemy in the general. Great demonstration of post-primary leadership from @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.

"My Qatari slush fund is reaping $100s of billions in war spoils"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 20h ago

Trump on Venezuela: "We're taking out hundreds of billions of dollars"

NBC just called it for El-Sayed

A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

These are insane numbers. If El-Sayed wins after being outspent by this much, wow, watch out!

Ron Johnson, Like Donald Trump, is waging Putin's war on the USA.

Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · yesterday

there are no coincidences... www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/u...

This is pretty straightforward, and it's weird to me that people are against it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d ago

👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥

YOU COULD HAVE VOTED NOT TO CONFIRM HIS LAWYER AS AG! You literally had that power, you coward.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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

A lot of people who died of COVID despite ivermectin would like to have a word but they’re a little too dead.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

This should be the biggest news of the week. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns

The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...

npr.org

DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

The biggest cost Trump is imposing on us is the cost of doing nothing about three worsening crises that threaten the very survival of America and the world: climate change, AI, and widening inequality.

The Biggest Cost of Trump

It goes far beyond guns vs. butter

robertreich.substack.com

Corrupt AF.

𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱@photoframd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Trump stands to profit off US policy announcements by selling fast access to his social media posts #GrifterInChief finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

I prefer presidents who don’t have their accounts closed over money laundering concerns.

They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.

43-time Club Champion.

Batshit.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d 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

Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

theatlantic.com

Melania is the only First Lady to call a press conference to say that she is not a prostitute and a whore.

The man endorsed by Sarah Huckabeast in this video is Arkansas state Rep. Austin McCollum. McCollum was arrested today on charges of aggravated assault against a family or household member, first-degree false imprisonment, and third-degree domestic battery. www.nwaonline.com/news/2026/au...

Release the Files

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

Katie Phang vows to release the Epstein files if her lawsuit is successful: "The law was to benefit everyone -- especially the victims and survivors of Epstein, Maxwell and others, who continue to get the stiff arm, short thrift asshole treatment by Todd Blanche."

www.mirror.co.uk/sport/golf/g...

Golf course where North Korea leader 'scored 11 holes-in-one in first round'

Stunning pictures of Pyongyang Golf Course show where Kim Jong-il - current leader Kim Jong-un’s father - played his one and only game and outshone every pro golfer who ever lived

mirror.co.uk

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”

Living proof right here that one can live a good, long life without data centers, but couldn't have done it without a roof over my head. I like politicians who keep their priorities straight.