Pew showed that 29% of voters care most about the economy, while just 4% care most about foreign affairs. Apparently, that 4% runs CNN.
#StupidSuezCNN had Abdul El Sayed on last. night and asked him five questions in a row about Israel and zero on healthcare, affordability, housing, or local Michigan politics.
In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.
ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate changeFrom late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...www.mediamatters.org
User of the web, have you ever asked yourself, "where is this coming from?" I have. We all know this, of course, but it is well described here by Siva Vaidhyanathan. "Having organized the web, Google now proposes to replace it." www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...
Showing up and taking the 5th is not contemptuous, it’s a constitutional right. NOT showing up at all like Jim Jordan didn’t when he was subpoenaed? THAT is contempt.
The Associated PressBREAKING: A Senate committee votes to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress over his refusal to answer questions at COVID hearing.
Two Republican mayors from the reddest parts of Georgia are breaking ranks to back Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reelection bid, telling the @ajc.com that the Democrat’s work for their communities outweighs partisan differences. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Why 2 GOP mayors are crossing party lines for Jon OssoffValdosta Mayor Scott James Matheson and Tifton Mayor Julie Smith aren’t household names, but their willingness to cross party lines signals a weakness for Mike Collins.www.ajc.com
Knicks come up short on Finals sweep.
PoliticoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money.
Intellectual bigotry is the worst kind in that it thinks about ways to seem high minded in order to make gutter hate seem respectable. Beneath contempt.
davidrlurieDOJ nominee Candeub contends that "Muslim immigrants ... could overturn monogamy’s fragile basis" and induce men "[l]acking a deep connection to Christianity or Western values" to "succumb" to polygamy.
Republican leaders are growing increasingly worried that allegations against two GOP House lawmakers may end up costing them in the midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.
GOP leaders scramble as ‘national spectacle’ risks handing Dems major victories: reportRepublican leaders are growing increasingly worried that allegations against two GOP House lawmakers may end up costing them in the midterm elections, Punchbowl News reported Wednesday.Those two House GOP lawmakers are Reps. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) and Max Miller (R-OH), both of whom have faced serious...bit.ly
This should be considered a crime against humanity.
Harms Committed"A rare archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert was bulldozed by a Department of Homeland Security contractor involved in building the latest sections of Donald Trump's border wall." "There won't be any vegetation on it at all." #USA #Borders #Climate
🎥 NEW: The DOJ is now 0-20 in its voter roll cases. Marc Elias breaks down why federal judges have unanimously rejected the department's demands and why today's 90-day "quiet period" deadline may have shut the door on Trump's scheme just in time for the midterms👇
This Just Killed Trump's National Voter DatabaseYouTube video by Democracy Docketwww.youtube.com
And beat 60mil in PAC and AIPAC funding against him. They smeared him, they contorted his resume and played racist anti Muslim games and they got nothing. We don’t want it anymore. We want justice, we want fairness ,and we want your money out of our political system. Get out.
ForbesAbdul El-Sayed, a former public health official, was backed by prominent progressives, including Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel MalorFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
From @jhollymc.bsky.social : “The Memphis (un)Safe Task Force shot and killed 4 men in two months, wounded another three. All the men killed have been Black. There’s been painfully little news coverage.” 🦗 🦗 tennesseelookout.com/2026/08/03/s...
From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social : Trump is buying stock in obscure companies that build the wildly unpopular data centers while easing regulations and pushing them into 🇺🇸 communities that don’t want them
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its CriticsAgency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.www.wsj.com
Trump endorsed both Ashley Moody and James Uthmeier in advance of the August 18 primary yesterday. Both are implicated in the suspected theft of $10M in Medicaid payments to use for political purposes--basically what Trump is trying to frame Tim Walz for. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...