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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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NEW: Major corporations—including Microsoft, General Motors, Home Depot, Koch Industries, GEO Group, Altria Group, BNSF Rail, 1-800 Contacts and Zillow—have donated to multiple attorney general candidates with a record of election denialism, according to CREW analysis.

1. Historical analogies are always dicey but hoo boy, with the state of the economy, the price of oil, and a new round of polling, Donald Trump is giving off serious Jimmy Carter vibes.

I'd go further: at this point, the NYT and other mainstream journalistic outlets -- given their business-related need to continuously ship both-sides polarization porn -- are doing way more than El-Sayed is to keep Piker relevant and make him a more influential figure than he otherwise might be

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Your daily dose of new Trump corruption with zero oversight from Republicans in Congress. Vote them out!

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley: "You gotta remember that this opposition to data centers is not organic. This is being ginned up."

2. Most of the money Whatley has spent on private jets has gone to an LLC linked to Carl Andrew “Drew” Boggs — a felon convicted of defrauding the federal government.

1. Michael Whatley, the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in North Carolina, launched his general election campaign with an ad emphasizing that he travels in his GMC truck. A Popular Information investigation has found that Whatley has spent over 130K reimbursing donors for the use of private jets.

You cannot go a week without these two falsehoods popping up in the ‘discourse.’ Add it to the Dems silenced me/us during covid claim especially popular with tech bros.

President Donald Trump's son-in-law held a secret meeting with a high-ranking Democrat to discuss "common ground" as the White House grapples with the possibility of a future impeachment, the New York Times reported Sunday.

MUST READ: China’s Quiet Role in the Middle East War www.onestnetwork.com/chinas-quiet...

An Open Letter to Scott Bessent https://robertreich.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-scott-bessent

Deep Dive: What Does a Billionaire Owe the State? From California and Britain to Monaco and China, governments have radically different answers. Tesla shows why taxation is only part of the story. www.onestnetwork.com/what-does-a-...

He didn’t change. They did.

Good morning. Just a friendly reminder that Ghislaine Maxwell is currently protected, enjoying pampering and puppy time while America's service members are forced to drink diseased water, eat rotten meat, and huff air infested by mold. She does yoga while they choose drowning.

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, there are tiny islands that few have seen. The oceans around them are full of marine life, from thriving coral reefs to sharks and tuna. The Trump administration is rolling back protections for these places. NPR got a rare visit to a remote area to see what’s at stake.

JUST NOW: @marshablackburn voted to advance the A.G. nomination of Trump-Epstein cover-up specialist Todd Blanche on the same day her phony Epstein crusade was exposed in a new report. More: www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epst...

Heads up: The Trump Justice Department says it's monitoring polling sites in four Michigan cities today: Detroit, Lansing, East Lansing, and Hamtramck.

* Tariff Refunds Have Wiped Out Tariff Revenue Since May @taxfoundation.bsky.social @scottlincicome.bsky.social taxfoundation.org/blog/tariff-...

Among the first pieces out post Blanche vote, this essay argues that the "deal" that sealed his yes vote was a completely empty arrangement that left Trump with all he had before. open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

A consummately shameful week for the R Senate majority. We have a Pres proven to engage in self-dealing into the $ B and to be 100% indifferent to the constitution, law, & norms there to constrain him; and an AG. nominee proven to have no limit in enabling him. What do we think is going to happen??

Republican Senators are voting to confirm Trump’s lawyer to be AG when it just came out that Capital One shut down Trump’s accounts under suspicion of money laundering and Trump wants exemption from being investigated for tax fraud. THESE PEOPLE ARE CRIMINALS.

here's Thursday's post: "it’s time to leave Dr. Fauci the fuck alone" — Republicans are being shitweasels again. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

For a deep dive on the Kahanists -- and their resurrection in Israel and the US -- read this: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-no-wor...

Dear Trump voters, You wouldn’t be so confused about why he isn’t even trying to keep his campaign promises if you accepted one simple fact: Trump never cared about you, and he still doesn’t. He’s said as much himself. He used you. Now we’re all paying the price.

Time to play hardball. Republicans did. Kentucky Republicans changed the Senate succession law to stop a Democratic gov from appointing McConnell’s successor. Beshear says the state Constitution gives him the power to fill statewide vacancies. @govandybeshear.bsky.social #KYSpecialElection 1/2

NEW: FBI Director Patel is planning to go to Moscow and St. Petersburg in October. w/ @nahaltoosi.bsky.social, John Sakellariadis, @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Homeboy is almost back he where he was at the SpaceX IPO launch. stopthetrillionaires.com/trillionaire...

Tillis prodded a rape survivor to go public with allegations against Hegseth, promising her that it would sink the nomination of a dangerous man to a powerful position. She did, at significant risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote in favor of Hegseth. He has always been a coward.

Hey, remember that video Trump posted showing him shitting all over the country? prospect.org/2026/07/16/h...

Among all of the tother things going on it is not comforting to know that our planet (and us) are pretty much fucked because of what the rich assholes in the petro and coal industries have done so they can get richer...

Senate Dems are gonna have to account for Fetterman's Manchin'ing

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Documents reviewing the research on peptides note lack of good evidence of efficacy or safety. Yet an FDA panel will consider easing access to them later this month. n.pr/4v5Y0YC

Please stop making excuses for the civic indifference of American voters. "Oh, newspapers got too expensive" No, they didn't. People spent their money on other stuff. We became a decadent, sated society and abandoned our responsibilities as citizens.

LIVE NOW: @samsteindc.bsky.social and @citizencohn.bsky.social discuss the major SCOTUS ruling that will allow Trump to deport hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian refugees

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER

Trump has agreed to let Iran sell oil... to 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢. Today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social looks at this oil deal and how America benefits from the deal.

Trillionaire Elon Musk spent Monday night posting and re-sharing posts online in an apparent effort to defend his record spearheading massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid – which reporting increasingly suggests may end up causing millions of preventable deaths.

Q: "…U.S. intelligence estimates that Iran still retains roughly 70% of its pre-war ballistic and cruise missile stockpile. When did the U.S. decide to abandon that mission?" Vance: "…You can't expect any country to give up its right of self-defense."

ICYMI — Trump admits he was manipulating the stock market with fake news about Iran