MacFarlane: We are near the new gold-plated statues the Trump administration unveiled near Memorial Circle, Memorial Bridge, and the Lincoln Memorial. It’s really, really gold.…

You really have to feel for these poor dogs! 😹

This is Brady. He gets excited to wake up his bunny every morning. Promised he would be a responsible pet owner, and we think he's doing an excellent job. 13/10 (IG: goodboyscann)

Deploying troops or armed federal agents to election sites is illegal under federal law. And voters have the right to vote free from fear and intimidation. Here is what you can do to protect your vote if federal agents show up at your polling place. bit.ly/4wpSGAH

Vote Safely in 2026

Sending troops or ICE officers to the polls is illegal. Here’s how you can protect your vote and your community’s voice, even if federal agents unlawfully show up.

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BREAKING: Trump melts down as his candidate appears on verge to flip Texas blue

Plus: an analyst says Trump is drowning in failure, and the president spent Sunday announcing he beat everyone at his own golf club.

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Good morning SheShed!! Wonderful message!! #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

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She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.

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Don't we all need it?

Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Todd Blanche claims to stand for law enforcement, but he supports an insurrectionist slush fund. His rehearsed lines are meant to protect Donald Trump’s feelings. That’s the through line—he’s the President’s lawyer.

They’re just showing how much suffering they can squeeze out of people who already don’t have much left. And the worst part is they’re proud of it. The cruelty isn’t a side effect - it’s the whole damn point. Read here: prospect.org/2026/07/31/t...

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 · 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 ... "

Republican megadonor Ronald Lauder has closed his checkbook for political donations. In this case it may be due to financial and family considerations, but the ROI for billionaires is gonna need examination.

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

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Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛

Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦@angel-shalagina.bsky.social · yesterday

Imagine going to work in the morning to sell fruit at your local market… Then a russian FPV drone starts chasing you. That happened today in Kherson. The 52-year-old vendor survived with blast injuries, a concussion, and shrapnel wounds. Just another civilian hunted by russia.

Carbon pollution makes droughts and wildfires 20 times more likely in Spain and doubles risk in France https://www.europesays.com/3173983/ Global warming driven by carbon emissions has made droughts and wildfire weather at least 20 times more likely…

Carbon pollution makes droughts and wildfires 20 times more likely in Spain and doubles risk in France - EUROPE SAYS

Global warming driven by carbon emissions has made droughts and wildfire weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain, and doubled the risk in France,

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Life has tested you, but it hasn’t defeated you. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. Your story isn’t over. It’s still being written. This is your fight! This is your story! And you’re stronger than you know! 🎵 Fight Song says it perfectly! 💜 #SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance #KeepGoing

Cyclospora Outbreak Is Just the Warning—Experts Fear What’s Coming Next. The diseases are coming. Thank trump and RFK jr. www.newsweek.com/cyclospora-i...

Cyclospora outbreak is just the warning—experts fear what's coming next

Cyclospora has sickened thousands. But experts warn other foodborne illnesses could strike next—and hit harder.

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The entire party knows now, the more lies you tell, the more the base believes it. Truth is dead in murica.

Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · 3d ago

Rep. Mike Turner really watched Margaret Brennan read court docs alleging a politician shoved his wife and held a gun to her head and replied, "that type of speculation is better for TMZ than CBS." Accountability is apparently just trashy gossip to these people.

Sen Whitehouse explains that trumps DOJ is withholding "302" files. One is 32 pages of agents notes from interviewing a 13 or 14 YEAR OLD that TRUMP abused.. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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 ... "

I will be voting NO on Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche. The President’s personal lawyer should not be America’s lawyer.

Painted in Watercolour - a Pet Portrait of a cat called Casper! #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #WhiskersWednesday #art #watercolours #paintings

I love this photo of my son's cat Oliver and just had to paint it! #cats #catsofbluesky #petportraits #art #watercolours #paintings

We the People are not distracted. epstein! Epstein!! EPstein!!!! EPSTEIN!!!!!!!! E-P-S-T-E-I-N!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Chant with me: Stop protecting pedophiles Now release the Epstein files Stop protecting pedophiles Now release the Epstein files N-O-W!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God@thegodshow.com · 2d ago

We didn’t ask you to release Fauci’s diary. We demanded you release the Epstein files.

From Stuart Greenberg: GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are assholes!! If they really wanted to do the right thing, they’d use their new found power to get all the Epstein Files released before voting to advance Todd Blanche. Instead they roll over, sit up and perform on cue.

DHS Sec. Markwayne Mullin says he's still trying to find "the worst of the worst". Repost this important reminder to help him‼️

Mindcite💥@mindcite.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Let's work to get the worst of the worst off the streets, and then you won't see me in your cities and states like you do... in fact, you probably won't even see us at all." --DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin

Support Democracy Docket! Marc Elias and his team are doing OUTSTANDING work to protect us all.

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · yesterday

Keep 'em coming

ICC CHIEF PROSECUTOR: “Oppose Israel and we will go after your family — You have been warned. Rubio, McConnell sent me a letter… what’s liberating is accepting mortality.”

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