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Same As It Ever Was...

Sen. John Fetterman is lashing out at former aides who accused him of showing indifference toward his work and of routinely skipping constituent meetings, dismissing them as "disgruntled staffers" pushing "smears" to tarnish his reputation. https://cnn.it/3Vfvp6J

It isn’t every day that Republicans admit that Donald Trump is harming their midterm hopes. After all, that would require an admission of Trumpian fallibility, which is unacceptable to MAGA. trib.al/Pl6rFF9

I hate this evil scumbag more and more every day. He’s literally the death of the United States. To hell with everyone who chose him as well as those who didn’t vote.

So now we’re supposed to hate Canada and love Putin? That’s where we are at with this corrupt gangster government?

Jennifer Welch Claps Back At Piers Morgan.......

While his sailors are starving and taking cold showers, the Secretary of Defense is yucking it up in a bar while inappropriately engaging in political campaigning.

Baby cuttlefish practices hiding: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

I don’t know what’s going on with Natalie Harp, but the mere mention of her name is driving all the right people crazy—-and that’s enough for me.

From creepyhorrorgal ICE SHOWING UP AT POWWOW ON NATIVE LAND - A WAKE-UP CALL TO EVERYONE Native Americans are not immigrants. We didn't cross a border. The border crossed us So when ICE shows up around Indigenous people on Indigenous land, spare the bs this is “only about illegal immigration.”

Everybody seems to forget the references to Harp during the Mar A Lago stolen documents case but I presume you have not, Marcy? Wasn't she busily scanning all the docs for Donald at one point? And with him in the room when he disclosed some of the details?

Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said.

Valuations flirt bubble, 1929 eclipsed. #econsky

You think we won’t notice?!? #econsky #shrinkflation

Trump’s proposed changes to historic #preservation law are a disaster in the making. Make noise about this. 🗃️ Paul Goldberger: Forget the East Wing. The Real Demolition Has Only Just Begun. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/o...

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One America, where the man on the left is so ignorant he had to pay someone else to take the SAT for him. Another America, where the man on the right is a Rhodes Scholar.

Our America as WE know it💔

I know you'll be extremely shocked to hear this, but the loudest "keep politics out of sports" folks were always full of shit.

Muslims aren't the United States' biggest threat. Christian nationalists like mean, crazy, and fake-Christian Nancy Mace are. (And Trojan is capitalized, you semi-literate troll.)

The billionaire wants to invest in the Maine incumbent’s Senate campaign. Democrats should be eager to drag her for the toxic association. trib.al/Md0qcDc

If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...

If the BBC can prove that Trump was aware of the violence he was fomenting, his whole defamation case falls apart. trib.al/UVXUtEG

"Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity." Carl Sagan

Maine Democrats pick Troy Jackson to replace Graham Platner as their Senate nominee with just over 100 days until the election. https://cnn.it/4wqXVAi

Heatwave windfall: rooftop solar $130M. #econsky

“This is such bullshit. His staff are liars.” trib.al/v9vhCcK

The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects

Union-busting burns billions, buries benefits. #econsky

The Thayer Amendment (an 1866 Act of Congress) forbids putting the image of any living person on U.S. bonds, securities, notes, or paper currency. As far as I know TFG is still alive. #Following #News #Econsky #Academicsky

Thirteen illegitimate voters cast ballots in Utah’s past four general elections. That's it. In other words, 99.72% of the state’s registered voters were verified U.S. citizens, undercutting false claims of widespread noncitizen voting pushed by “MAGA” to attack voting rights.

From nationalizing voter suppression to flooding the streets with federal agents, the president and his allies are using all the tricks in the authoritarian playbook to tilt the midterms in their favor.

Gavin Newsom signed a new law to boost California election security. Here’s how The law bans law enforcement from interfering in elections. It takes effect just in time for the June 2 primary

There are dozens, if not hundreds of Tina Peterses out there. And they aren't in jail. They are your elected officials. trib.al/9HomjTU

#EconSky

Between improvements in generative AI, Grok’s mass generation of nonconsensual sexual images, and a US administration using the technology for propaganda, the long-predicted threat of weaponized deepfakes is here. That's why we named them one of the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now.

The AI system, powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus model, had been handling a routine task when it independently chose to “fix” an issue by wiping the data - without any human approval. Whoopsy!

“People are terrified of Trump on the inside” Journalist and former adviser to the Clintons, Sidney Blumenthal, shares an insight into the behind the scenes of the Trump administration

Billions saved; thousands fired. Trickle-down? #econsky

“This case destroyed everything I had—my family’s savings, our ability to support each other, and even our emotional connection.”

Robert Mueller, who transformed the FBI and who later became special counsel investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has died. He was 81.

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