I think this is the beginning of the end of the keminaissance.

Patrick Andelic@pkandelic.bsky.social · 3h ago

Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.

Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Mayor of NYC is a huge position of power, maybe more powerful than anyone in the country (outside of the White House, ofc) and if regular voters start seeing you can do this job without selling out, they're gonna expect that from all their representatives. Totally gonna sink establishment trash

Nothing can constrain Trump? Warren: No. Republicans have the majority. They could constrain Trump on war, slimy tax deals, on his corruption. The list is long. But to do that, they would actually have to grow a spine. And so far, what we have around here is a bunch of gelatinous blobs. PabloReports

the biggest presidential scandal in history. jeffrey epstein was a close friend and business associate of trump and they did crimes together! against children! its all pretty much out in the open now but its a smaller story than hillary's email server was for some reason

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 3h ago

BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.

SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏

Who doesn't love America's pastime: getting wrecked on two pounds of hotdog meat?

Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/pala...

Tip for fellow journalists, this has made my life so much better: Over the past week or so I have invested something like 10 hours in unsubscribing from everything possible, blocking all press flacks that send me stuff unrelated to my beat, and setting up an auto-filter for newsletters. 1/2

It’s exactly the same if the U.S. government had come to me, a voter, and asked “how many Americans would u be ok with dying so Donald trump could eat a piece of cheesecake today” except it’s worse because the administration never really asked, they just did it

just had a horrific vision of the future in which Zack Polanski and Kemi Badenoch have a podcast and now I need a lie down

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

"At least we're not giving him a national platform!" saying Badenoch, on the BBC's flagship political radio show.

🇺🇦🇪🇺 The European Union will transfer €1.4 billion to Ukraine from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets, according to Ursula von der Leyen.

🇺🇦🇷🇺At least 17 people have been killed and 34 injured as a result of Russia's ballistic missile strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.

I'll be honest: I'd buy this a lot more if his main outlet wasn't abusively attacking opposition politicians via AI slop in ways which obviously nod to other forms of prejudice.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 11h ago

ConservativeHome has always been a critical friend of the Conservative Party, and a place for all of its wings and views to debate and discuss. So in addition to the above editorial, Bonehill-Paine is also in today’s Comment section making his own case conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/j...

This is a new view of the bulldozed White House complex. The criminal monstrosity subhuman filth won’t stop until he destroys everything, makes me sick to my stomach.

Latest podcast- what happens when the right is split three ways? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

The right is split three ways. What are the consequences?

Podcast Episode · Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards · 4 August · 37min

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed a memo formally rescinding the $1.776 “anti-weaponization” fund, but which leaves intact immunity for Trump by barring the federal government from any investigation, review or prosecution of any action by Trump... TAT: [Corruption | Undermining democracy]

Blanche order keeps intact immunity deal barring investigation of Trump and his family

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Sunday night memo formally rescinding the $1.776 “anti-weaponization” fund leaves intact another key provision for President Trump: an order offer…

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A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

Badenoch tripling down in defending a Nazi on the Today programme. I genuinely think she should be forced to step down over this. It’s fully, fully revolting.

This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?

Trump's been issuing McCarthyist warnings about communism for years. It's a scare tactic and it wouldn't shock me to see this ramped up by his administration the closer we get to the midterms.

American Friction@americanfric.bsky.social · 10h ago

Donald Trump says communism is the greatest threat to America. It isn't. It's not even close. 👀: youtu.be/qgnaGUnveDQ

ICE agents raided the family dormitories at the Dilley detention center and snatched this Bluey coloring page from a child before they could finish. I sued ICE to get these drawings back. You can what they sent me here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

Insane. Republicans have to go.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterday

BREAKING: The nomination of Trump's former personal lawyer to be Attorney General just advanced to the full Senate. Judiciary Republicans caved: All 12 Republicans voted in favor of Todd Blanche. All 10 Democrats voted against.

Everything White House just said plus this

🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."

Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"

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When Whitehouse is on, he's on. This is a flamethrower.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

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 ... "