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UFC Lost $30 Million On Event at the White House https://politicalwire.com/2026/08/04/ufc-lost-30-million-on-event-at-the-white-house/
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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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DOJ loses for the 19th time in efforts to obtain state voter rolls, this time in Colorado, courtsey of Judge Philip Brimmer, a George W. Bush appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Maybe I'm missing something but shouldn't somebody have benn watching the Ukraine War and, you know, taken notes?
Aaron Rupar"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
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This will get a fraction of the attention that Zohran Mamdani got for calling Netanyahu a war criminal.
Kyle ClarkDepicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
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Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.
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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
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The founders are calling. They suggest you read the damn Constitution.
Aaron RuparCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
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Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead - www.techdirt.com/2026/08/03/t... @masnick.com spells it out
Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is DeadSometimes it helps to just write out everything that happened leading up to a situation so we don't lose sight of just how ridiculous it is. I mean, would you believe that a President would sue his own IRS for something that happened under his own watch and did him no harm, demand $10 billion,...www.techdirt.com
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One might think 'Trump wouldn’t make any public effort to say...the fund should still exist. But...we live in the upside down world, where if Donald Trump wants something, he just throws a temper tantrum until he gets it' @masnick.com on the glory of the Golden Age www.techdirt.com/2026/08/03/t...
Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is DeadSometimes it helps to just write out everything that happened leading up to a situation so we don't lose sight of just how ridiculous it is. I mean, would you believe that a President would sue his own IRS for something that happened under his own watch and did him no harm, demand $10 billion,...www.techdirt.com
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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...
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these guys all insisted that even the meager COVID restrictions we had in place would last forever because "government never gives up power" and instead of admitting they were wrong, they decided to just become full-time liars
Jonathan HowardThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
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Let’s Fake a Deal
Aaron RuparBessent: "We've seen President Trump last week threaten what would have been the largest military campaign since World War 2 against the Iranians, and now because of that we are in talks with the Iranians. I think there's a chance we may have a deal today or tomorrow to open the strait."
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Booker: "I love the state of Texas, but I'm going to say it very clear: This is all hat and no cattle. It's hard for me to say this as a plant-based guy, but where's the beef? This is ridiculous! We got nothing! No guarantees whatsoever that this slush fund can't still go forward...Dear God, folks."
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Unfortunately for David Ellison this is transparently laughable after what Bari Weiss has already done at CBS and it will be very funny if her genius moves fuck up a $100 billion merger www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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I think the "I am just a smoll bean" joke is overdone, but the Senate of the United States can't do anything to rein in the President is that joke.
Aaron RuparCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
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Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
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Wow. If this isn’t the mentality of Trump’s party in a sound bite I don’t know what is.
Aaron RuparCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"