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This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China. www.wsj.com/world/russia...

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

Bo Hines never worked in government or crypto. But Trump put him in charge of the White House crypto council and he helped write the first real crypto law in U.S. history. He got so rich from it he bought a bigger house and his dad bought a private jet. Full story at the link in the comments below:

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@timmiller.bsky.social says Troy Jackson and other Democrats need to continue pressing Republicans on their support for the Iran war: "If you're Susan Collins, you were for the war. You voted for it five times…This is her war."

Hahahahahahahaha this ad is awesome

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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One does not just *stop* petting suddenly #dogs

they really think we are all idiots

this is a genuinely crazy story

"Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica."

"The generation of young people coming up on the right are not your father’s conservatives. They are Trump’s heirs, and they are here to stay. And if we want to save America from MAGA authoritarianism…It’s going to mean tackling this entire movement." plus.briantylercohen.com/p/exposing-t...

This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!

A little thread on Trump's CRYPTO ventures because I don't think ppl are seeing how totally corruptive it is to the system. Let's start w this. When investors dump millions into Trump’s crypto ventures, what are they actually paying for? It has no intrinsic value.

Siding with the enemy over one of our longtime allies. AGAIN. He is unquestionably an existential threat to our Democracy. #Impeach-Convict-REMOVE

Trump loves the most communist dictator of them all.

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

"This is the example of how we are all being dominated by Trump's ego...He doesn't pay attention to the material needs of Americans." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on how Trump's obsession with vanity projects exposes where his priorities really are while Americans deal with the consequences.

I'll never steal your pen.

I don’t agree with all Abdul El-Sayed’s views, but GOP “othering” is a disgrace. He was born in US, educated at Bloomfield Hills Andover, where he captained football team; Univ of Mich; Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar; Columbia, where he earned an MD. Debate his views, not whether he’s a “real” American.

It’s important to understand that no matter what you care about most — national security, economic growth, American dominance — Donald Trump is, above all, an idiot, and he will undercut your objectives through sheer incompetence, even if he claims to share them. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...

El-Sayed: "Notice how they used my full name, in echoes to exactly what they did against President Obama. At the end of the day, it's not radical to believe people should be able to afford their groceries, they should have healthcare, that the president should not be able to deny elections ... "

This seems awfully on the nose: People in distress. Billionaire sails on by. Regular people help out. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruis...

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

The Interior Department is lying. DOJ is lying. DOD is lying. It goes without saying DHS is lying. And whatever setbacks they suffer (which are good!), they will keep on lying. The Trump administration won't change. It can't be fixed. The task is to weaken it, and limit the damage it can do.

@officialjackwhite.bsky.social the crap with the cameras in bags sucks. No fun waiting for 30 minutes to get thru the lines

Guess who the conservatives are now?

"Once upon a time, the CIA had a bunch of people dedicated to trying to understand the mental and physical condition of members of the Soviet Politburo....I promise you that other countries are now doing the same thing regarding the American president."

Three years ago tomorrow, I very nervously gave this speech. I knew my career as a TV journalist was dunzo, cooked, filleted, kaput the morning I wrote it. (Thanks to Kat insisting I go for it anyway.) The end is awfully prescient at this exact second, though. Big ups to Scott Pelley for fighting.

CBS is dead to me!

A total U.S. surrender.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

The apple of his eye. #dogs

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

My thoughts are that this prediction is not looking great.

Let's be clear: The reason Trump wants to grant Maxwell clemency is to keep her from saying what she knows.

Shoutout to The Atlantic reporters for publishing these massive scoops instead of waiting years to put them in a book.

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Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

All honor to the Hungarian people for showing the way.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”