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What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...
Simon RosenbergWhere is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
My @bylinetimes.bsky.social investigation reveals a network of criminal complicity at heart of Reform UK rooted in identity fraud by George Cottrell - the criminal fraudster secretly funding Farage and Reform - in cahoots with a Reform treasurer and a casino owner 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder's Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial StructuresWhy did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how hi...bylinetimes.com
Had fantastic conversations with SO MANY folks at the Des Moines County Fair! No matter who you’ve voted for in the past, or even if you’ve never voted before, I’m always willing to listen to you. I believe in representing everyone — and putting all Iowans first!
NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.
Florida’s MAGA Attorney Threatens to Defund Catholic Schools Over Vaccine MandateFlorida’s attorney general gave the bishops until August 7 to accept vaccine exemptions their own doctrine calls dishonest. Nearly nine in ten of the state’s Catholic school students sit downstream.www.thelettersfromleo.com
I no longer live there, but while my sense of self now includes Illinoian & Chicagoan I will always be a Michigander & a Detroiter I not only did politics in both the Jewish & Arab-American communities, I was engaged with them socially & culturally. And this Senate primary makes me sad.
Where is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to IranMichigan and Minnesota are among at least seven states coping with cyberattacks aimed at disrupting water systems nationwide.www.nytimes.com
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger announced Friday that she has restored voting rights for 66,085 people who otherwise wouldn’t be able to vote due to past felony convictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored voting rights for 66,000 people with past felony convictionsThe volume presents a dramatic reversal of prior Gov. Glenn Youngkin's tenure, when he restored less than 10,000 voter's rights during his entire four-year term.www.democracydocket.com
“Over the last few months—as China (and Russia) have provided aid to Iran in its campaign which has not only killed and wounded a large number of US soldiers but also regularly resulted in effective attacks on US allies in the Gulf—Trump has tried to pretend this aid was no big deal…”
Simon RosenbergThis week hackers penetrated critical infrastructure in 7 US states. Rather than developing a plan to mitigate and counter Trump blamed.....Tim Walz? It's a searing sign of how vulnerable US has become under Trump & why we must fight now for a better path 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-ter...
I’ve been thinking a lot about this storey, combined with the news that Elon Musk helped cut funding for wildfire prevention, combined with the news that the Trump administration only sends emergency aid to Republican states.
Lindsay BeyersteinI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.
Just remember the level of indignation she exhibited in this presser and compare it to the motion she just filed dismissing the case
Aaron Ruparthis Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy. listen to this shit
Acting attorney general Todd Blanche has insisted for weeks that President Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is completely, undeniably dead. But on Friday, Trump twice undermined Blanche’s sworn testimony.
Why senators fear Trump’s DOJ payout fund isn’t dead, despite Blanche’s promisesLegal experts say that changes to a deal would ordinarily be put in writing, but the acting attorney general says the administration’s word should be enough.www.washingtonpost.com
You can read entire articles by commentators about how Dems should handle immigration that literally don't mention ICE at all. It's as if the last 18 months never happened. It's utterly baffling.
G Elliott MorrisTo be making the argument in 2026 that immigration is a Republican leaning issue so Democrats shouldn’t campaign on it, and especially Trump’s overreach on deportations, is to be completely ignorant of the data and events of the last 18 months
He lied. Yet another major scandal for the Trump regime. Everyone involved should be fired and brought up on charges.
Aaron RuparBASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it
Denzel Washington as Alonzo Says Boom!ALT: Denzel Washington as Alonzo Says Boom!static.klipy.comMeidasTouch🚨 BREAKING: The DOJ is moving to dismiss the indictment against David Hearn in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool case and is admitting the damage was the result of a flawed, botched installation job, not vandalism.
New Hopium article from @simonwdc.bsky.social that makes you feel warm & fuzzy inside… …but also keep talking to ppl & teaching them to teach ppl to teach ppl to GET OUT THE VOTE for the midterms. #AllGasNoBrakes
This Trump Thing Is Rotten, Everyone Knows It, And People Have Had Enough“We’re preparing for the bottom to fall out,” a GOP operative working on midterm races told Playbook.www.hopiumchronicles.com
Feels easy to look at the news and lay out a platform that's like: - No more killing in the street - Jail the people who do - End the ungovernable agency doing it and put in a humane system And if you're really feeling ambitious, can even promote immigration as a return to "Ellis Island borders."
Greg SargentThis is the problem with the idea that Dems can't go on offense on immigration. It's not okay for Collins to have a clear field on TV to sell herself as a moderate on ICE. CNN has Trump 22 points underwater on this. Two other polls have Ds *tied with the GOP* on it! newrepublic.com/article/2138...
Vandal
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.
If I lived in Ohio, I'd be calling Sen. Moreno's offices every day to ask why he's obsessed with the doctor who led our fight against COVID -- which killed 44,000+ in Ohio -- but refusing to say a word about the man his daughter said abused her and his granddaughter. www.moreno.senate.gov/contact/
Kevin M. KruseDid Fauci throw scalding water on your daughter, though? Did he put a gun to her head? Did he break your granddaughter's collarbone? Has your daughter just put out a restraining order against Dr. Fauci? www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
Sounds like Trump has the same crack negotiators working on Hamas he has dealing with Iran.
Bill GrueskinTrump: "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas." Hamas: "We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons." www.wsj.com/world/middle...