Michael Blevins

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: “Iran just stated that they are going to hit very hard today, harder than they have ever been hit before. THEY BETTER NOT DO THAT, HOWEVER, BECAUSE IF THEY DO, WE WILL HIT THEM WITH A FORCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN BEFORE! Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J TRUMP”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process

katherine fitzgerald@kfitz134.bsky.social

Bills HC Sean McDermott lists QB Josh Allen as one of a few players that will be limited today.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social

Watch the woman with a little girl in her lap running from this chaos around 0:09 second mark. I really cannot believe this is happening in America. 🥲

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: “The European Union’s economy is nine to ten times larger than Russia’s. “We fought Russia successfully before the United States even existed — so we should be capable of doing it today.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

JM =^D@jm539581.bsky.social

This Justin Fields pass attempt went off Dante Fowler's helmet and hits the overhead camera. "That's a new one"

Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus@jlazarus.bsky.social

Trump has done a lot of authoritarian things this year and IMO none of them is as authoritarian as restricting opposition legislators’ right to travel freely.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social

BIG UPDATE: The new changes in the Senate version of BBB that will cut funding for Medicaid do not apply to Medicaid non-expansion states, per sources familiar. In those 10 states (WI, WY, KS, TX, TN, MS, AL, GA, SC, FL), provider taxes and state-directed payments will be frozen at current levels.

Karl Bode@karlbode.com

the "made in USA" lie didn't even last two hours

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

This is insane. Republicans have lost their damn minds.

Jon Walker@jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

he has repeated something like this so often that i have to think he is just parroting back navarro or lutnick, who almost certainly said something similar to him

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "A young lady -- 10 year old girl, 9 year old girl, 15 year old girl -- doesn't need 37 dolls. She could be very happy with 2 or 3 or 4 or 5."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

WYDEN: Do you believe in a nursing home there should be a registered nurse available around the clock? DR OZ: As you know, that's a complicated question WYDEN: No it's not. We need a nurse in a nursing home. Not too complicated.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

As he faces Senate confirmation, remember that Dr. Oz: -Pushed Medicare privatization plans on his show -Owns ~$600k in stock in private insurers -Has ties to pyramid scheme companies that promote fake medical cures His main qualification to oversee CMS is loyalty to Trump.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

Embarrassing

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Reuters@reuters.com

President Vladimir Putin said that Russia supported a US proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle, but sought a number of clarifications and conditions that appeared to rule out a quick end to the fighting reut.rs/41Mnb5L

reut.rsPutin suggests US ceasefire idea for Ukraine needs serious reworkingPutin said that numerous details still need to be resolved.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rick Scott on AOC: "It sure seems like she's violating the law ... if she's done something wrong, I hope Tom Homan does his job and prosecutes her to the full extent of the law."

Jennifer Ouellette@jenlucpiquant.bsky.social

Unvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreak. It is the first measles death in the US since 2015. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

arstechnica.comUnvaccinated school-aged child dies of measles in Texas amid growing outbreakIt is the first measles death in the US since 2015.

Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social

Let's be perfectly clear here: the people who could actually stop the administrative coup of the U.S. government are any given half dozen Republican senators and representatives, if they had any courage at all.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

So this is a really weird interview on many different levels. But one thing I'd really start worrying about is that the CEO of Microsoft is saying that there "will be overbuild" of compute for AI. Good stuff!

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol

Yeah, Trump never badmouths others so what’s with Zelensky?

Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

rollingstone.comFAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air SafetyDonald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.