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NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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"Hi there! I'm the Secretary of Agriculture in a nation where just about every single kind of food has been recalled because it will give you explosive shits and then kill you dead. Well, I'm here to tell you about how government regulation and oversight is baaaaaaaad."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Brooke Rollins: "Do you remember, especially the moms out there, when they told us what light bulbs that we could screw into our light fixtures, which washing machines we could use, and which toilets we could flush?"

Fuck polite whispers. Retaliatory tariffs hurt Canadians. Stop letting him pick the matchup and the venue. Export taxes on oil, gas, potash, and electricity means revenue that can be used to help industries hurt by US tariffs. And directs the pain where it belongs, south of the border . Elbows up!

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca

What’s next in the U.S.–Canada tit-for-tat tariff war is likely to get even more painful. Loud whispers of export taxes on Canadian oil, gas, electricity and potash are now being bandied about in polite company.

ICE cannot be reformed. It has to be extinguished and everyone involved investigated and prosecuted. We need a “Minneapolis Trials” for ICE patterned on Nuremberg.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

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People need to go to jail for this. Full stop.

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Canada didn't start this trade war—Trump did. Trump's tariffs are a tax and you're paying the bill for his pointless and embarrassing tantrum. And just a reminder: Republicans could vote with us to BLOCK Trump's tariffs and bring down costs—they REFUSE.

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It's hard to fathom that anyone thinks ICE can be reformed or retrained. ICE needs to be dismantled and then cauterized so it can't grow back. #AbolishICE

Chris⚖️Justice@chrisjustice01.bsky.social

💥 ICE drag mom & teen daughter out of hospital room—in middle of being treated after car accident. Still wearing hospital gowns. Both victims of car collusion, with asylum case pending in good standing & valid work permit. Grace Calero 39, & Giulianna Carriel 19, from Ecuador.

I hate most that tariffs 1) deliberately shift the tax burden from income to consumption — yet another way to cut taxes for the rich and 2) create endless opportunities for manipulation (suspending beef tariffs until the election) and corruption (donate to his ballroom for tariff relief).

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

One of the things I hate the most about tariffs is that we knew they were illegal, and when the court finally decided they were illegal, they forced Trump to refund the tariffs. But the refunds went to the corporations, and not the people the corporations raised prices on. What a scam.

A Ukrainian unit with drones wiped out a conventional America one in a training exercise and the lesson this idiot took away was “we need to get back to basics”!? This administration has people who embody weaponized stupidity making decisions that will needlessly cost lives

Laurie Loves Data@laurelann.bsky.social

As the world moves on, the US gets left further behind The Army is disbanding a unit created to learn drone warfare

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It’s really impressive that anyone could watch the wars in Ukraine and Iran and determine that we… don’t need drone battalions. What are we even doing here?

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When did it become normalized for the President of the United States to threaten to "bomb the shit out of" our allies—our *allies*—without that immediately leading to a serious conversation about whether he's mentally fit to serve as president

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The guy who did such an incredible job with the Reflecting Pool, Ballroom, Kennedy Center, National Mall, and Great American Fair is going to redesign our warships. What could go wrong?

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If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

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The Fauci hearings made me remember- Counties with the lowest vaccination rates also had the highest mortality rates from Covid Counties with the highest vaccination rates had much lower mortality rates And the economy is currently NOT in a golden age And Biden won the 2020 election

Such irresponsible nonsense. Trade policy being decided by bullies who understand neither trade nor economics. Mighty tempting for Canada to respond with a 10% export duty on oil, potash, and electricity sold to the US.

Laurie Loves Data@laurelann.bsky.social

Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on Canada to punish them for wildfires that are affecting air quality Since this would be clearly illegal, members of his administration had to say the wildfires and 50% tariffs that were recently enacted are unrelated Who is in charge?

Obligatory 🎶I hope the smoking man’s in this one (It’s been one week)

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.

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He should have gone to prison for pressuring Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes. That’s the very definition of election interference. We all heard the call.

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OSSOFF: If there's one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it's Donald Trump—when he dialed up our state's senior most election official, and tried to bully him in a recorded phone call to “find” the exact number of votes Donald Trump needed to win in a state

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Kicking Graham Platner to the curb is not showing you are the party without the hunger to win, it is showing that you are the party, unlike the alternative, that has moral standards. That can only help the party in the long run.

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Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.

Simplifying the defense? Maybe. Bigger and meaner? Certainly. But it was also about replacing 5 more years of M-Petey with 2 of Oleksiak at about the same cap hit and adding a future first round pick in the process. Solid move and great sign #canucks are serious about a patient rebuild.

jbpoldprof.bsky.social@jbpoldprof.bsky.social

Why did the Vancouver Canucks move out Marcus Peterson, and move in Jamie Oleksiak? Is the move about improving the team's defence, or was there a more forward-looking reason? www.professorspressbox.com/posts/the-ol...

The pre-war average was just over 150 ships per day. No one should be reporting that the Strait is open until daily transit levels are at least close to those numbers.

Tero Kuittinen@teroterotero.bsky.social

Weirdly enough, it never opened. We never hit 20% of normal volume. Media has obscured this key fact fairly aggressively.

Americans have permanently forfeited the right to call any foreign nation “surrender monkeys”. Total capitulation.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

Holy shit this is bad. Strait of Hormuz = free transit for 60 days, after that it’s up to Iran and Oman Nothing on missiles. All Iranian sanctions removed. $300 billion to Iran on top of releasing all frozen funds. We didn’t win a single point. Holy shit.

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NBA players wore BLM shirts and were told to keep politics out of sports, NFL players took a knee to protest racial injustices and were called unpatriotic… UFC fighters praise Hitler, dance for Trump, disrespect female athletes and call Michelle Obama a man… silence from the media

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Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.