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When I found out about midday today that it’s Thursday and not Friday:

Talking to @chrislhayes.bsky.social, @jamellebouie.net appropriately slams the political media for giving Elon Musk a pass for his horrifically racist tweets. Read his column: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

The imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.

Organize for and contribute to Hinojosa and you’ll earn votes to take the Senate seat as well because that vote trickles up. It’s a two-fer!

It feels like we’ve reached that point where Schumer and Bernie kind of cancel each other out in terms of least helpful endorsement. Detente!

Hey Gork, is this good?

I was wondering if anyone was keeping a running total on Trump’s waste and abuse. You have to check out this video. And there’s so much, I bet you forgot about some of it: 💰Ballroom: $1 billion project, taxpayers already on the hook for $300 mill 💰 J6 Slush Fund: $1.776 billion for his rioters 🧵

The Trump administration has gone months without paying attorneys who represent unaccompanied immigrant children as part of a years-old, congressionally-funded effort. The latest in a series of temporary bridge contracts ends tomorrow, with no replacement in sight: www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...

This is the first passage of Maggie and Swan's book. Consider the agency it sets up. Democrats. Partisanship. Why not focus on the "irony" that Maggie had done propaganda for the man for years? Why make this about Democrats, rather than her complicity?

This is a good thread on rural communities. Having reported in rural places (in farmer meetings in fact) I thought this matched a lot of what I saw.

Yesssss. Also, Cannonball Run & Super Troopers.

The streets are awash in fent because border security (and port security) are paid. Texas has been Republican controlled forever, so it's weird that all this shit keeps coming through. How are they winning on border security? They're in charge and have been in charge. No one mentions this?

The greatest asset Dems have right now should be our bench, but the party is almost as terrified to that as they are of the base. Our greatest asset is how mind-blowingly awful so many Republican candidates are. One or two keep getting through, but nominate someone normal and it’d be a problem.

Ah, well, nevertheless.

“… given the backlash that ICE agents have faced after large-scale enforcement operations in cities like Minnesota, making arrests at airports, behind the closed doors of security lines, provides ICE agents with relatively less public exposure and scrutiny,” according to one immigration attorney.

“Are you scared of AI taking over the world?”

bought candy at the pool for a 13yo and she tried to give me cash. i was like nahh it's nbd, and she goes "girl i have seen your car." 13yo girls remain undefeated. you think you're talking to a child but you're actually talking to whatever gods used to send to punish mortals for their hubris