Words…what are they?

Words…what are they?

@manyphases.bsky.social

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Please please please media: focus on the moment as it is now and grows rather than prognosticate on theoretical future elections. Stay in the actual moment and report on that as it happens!

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Replying to @atrupar.com

More of this, Donald! Indeed, LOTS of it leading up the midterms. Voters will *love* it. You are such a smart, special boy to do this!

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Has the show “Lioness” always been this overtly pro MAGA or is it new this season? It’s just cheesy Like the Dems in the show are owned by russia. Yet today… we learn that Russia paid for Trump jrs wedding

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There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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MYSTERY MEAT: Trump says he struck a deal to flood the U.S. with cheaper foreign beef. There’s just one problem: He refuses to tell Americans which countries the beef is coming from. And U.S. ranchers are furious.

meidasnews.comMystery Meat: Trump Refuses to Say Where His New Flood of Foreign Beef Is Coming FromTrump says he has struck a deal to bring 300,000 metric tons of cheaper foreign beef into the United States. There’s one detail he won’t reveal: who the deal is actually with.

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Tyson Foods just settled a price-fixing lawsuit and has almost doubled its profits this year compared to last. Its CEO makes $34.5M — 798x more than his median employee. Remember this as it closes plants in Illinois and Utah, laying off 3,200 with little notice.

kwqc.comJoslin workers describe tears, chaos after learning Tyson plant shutting down permanently Tyson Foods is permanently closing its Joslin, Illinois beef plant, leaving more than 2,500 workers without jobs. The f

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No way.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), 92, gave a floor speech today about Caitlin Clark, calling out her "unfair treatment" and saying WNBA refs aren't doing their jobs. He ended with this:

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Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

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SCOOP: After pardoning hundreds of allies over the course of his 1st 18 months back in the White House, Trump this month quietly rejected clemency applications from nearly 6,000 people who mostly lacked connections & had been waiting in a queue at the Justice Department.

nytimes.comTrump Rejected Nearly 6,000 Clemency Applications Amid Hope of Pardon Wave (Gift Article)Expectations were raised for a raft of pardons in connection with the country’s 250th birthday but the president granted fewer than 20 on July 3.

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Well that makes sense of the murder spree. Prosecute everyone.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING NYT: Federal agents around the country were told in recent days that the FBI would no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents — cases that sometimes yield evidence that could be used to prosecute DHS agents implicated in violent encounters.

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People should be prepared for this to be technically true. States audit their own “voter rolls” (registrant database) and find a few hundred ineligible registrants The sleight of hand is that when they check how many ineligible voters cast ballots that were accepted, it’s single digit numbers

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Sen. Alsobrooks tells Vought "I have been waiting for the opportunity to come face to face with you" and repeatedly calls his actions "depraved" and "evil"

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This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

David Roberts@volts.wtf

An amazing quote from Lindsey Graham in this Atlantic story. It really captures an essential truth about politics that too few people ever really come to terms with. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

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SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply.

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DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

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When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

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Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Nancy Armour@nrarmour.bsky.social

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

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Replying to @marceliusb.bsky.social

"...Slave traders lived and slave traders died. Funeral sermons were preached over them, and of them it was said that they died in the triumphs of the Christian faith and went to heaven among the just..." /19

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Replying to @marceliusb.bsky.social

Context for why Haiti and the Haitian Revolution was so important: 1. The Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) was the only known slavery uprising that led to the founding of a state free of slavery and ruled by non-whites/formerly enslaved. /2

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Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

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Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

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JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

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MAYOR MAMDANI: “We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis.” Zohran does not back down on his comments about AIPAC “monsters” perpetuating a genocide - after Rep. Gottheimer and others yet again tried to claim they were antisemitic.

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Something I’ve glimpsed during the NBA finals and the World Cup are how much we need—and how much cities thrive on—experiences of shared joy. The understanding of how important this is (which might simply be the state of not being a sociopath) should be a big priority in 2028.

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Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "What we told the Iranians yesterday is that when you guys engage in what us millennials might call trash talk, you can't expect the president of the United States not to respond and not to correct the record." (Trump threatened to assassinate Iran's negotiators yesterday ... )

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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?