OSSOFF on Trump Address: At a moment when his war spirals out of control, instead of focusing on the nation's needs, as always, he nurses his grievances and he forces the rest of us to help him process his shame.

taco bell figured this out and took action first because taco has profit motive, while FDA/CDC/etc has "make general secretary trump not look bad" motive www.cnbc.com/2026/07/17/c...

Well... bsky.app/profile/mich...

Three congressional Democrats say that as much as $21.5 million paid by ABC, Meta, Paramount and X to settle lawsuits brought by Trump is now missing or has been spent without explanation and requested a full accounting from the foundation building his presidential library.

its very much in the general pattern with trump where he is a fuckup who screws up anything he attempts to do directly but has a huge media apparatus behind him (both conservative and mainstream) to do cleanup duty and bury embarrassments or retcon them into successes

"Before he can vote for himself in the primary, Mike Lindell needs to register to vote in the state he wants to lead as gov The Secretary of State’s office said Lindell, Trump’s preferred candidate, 'does not have an active record' A review shows Lindell has an active voter registration in TX"

How come I can't coast on doing something once in 1992 like Carville has for the past 34 years? I can't believe that he has made it into a career that has spanned this long.

DHS is "the worst of the worst". They violate Americans' rights with impunity and lie about it constantly bsky.app/profile/mcbr...

GD “Daddy’s Cup” might be my my favorite story song of all time

I’m not going to say I have seen YMCA games of higher quality than Summer League but I’m not saying I haven’t

CDs don’t make you listen to 10 minutes of gambling ads before playing 3 songs.

I expect better from you @politico.com canceling my subscription. Great reporting by @talkingpointsmemo.com How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie - TPM – Talking Points Memo talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-p...

30yrs ago, I heard a consumer advocate at a press conference say, “The corporate culture has changed, they used to believe they had a fiduciary duty to break a contract, but now they believe they have a fiduciary duty to break the law.”

Essential reading by one of our best scholars of criminal legal governance, power, and politics. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Decent, hardworking Americans who play by the rules -- almost all of us -- are disgusted with seeing cheaters prosper.

...tax evasion in its MANY varieties, campaign finance violations, fraud against public procurement. What else? Create a bounty program. Reports leading to conviction get larger of $10K or 5% of damages. Such cases are tough to prosecute. People who help do socially valuable work.

Public and private corruption, wage theft, environmental degradation, discrimination, insider trading, workplace safety, union suppression, sexual harassment, price fixing, telemarketer scams...

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

They really do just want to make it harder for students and Black people to vote, don’t they? Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/u...

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn

periods of social dislocation and societal fracture often produce a lot of artistic ferment. they're not pleasant for people to live through.

Thanks, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social's paper looks great! FWIW I think "loss leader" is a good way of thinking how these devalued media assets still hold significant political power for oligarchs. I theorize the layers of capture here & currently finishing a book on it: lpeproject.org/blog/the-ame...

ICE contractor apparently got mad at protestor outside ICE facility he worked at and opened fire with personal firearm. Arrested, facing charges of assault and attempted murder. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

All the while, Moraff and the other consultants behind Platner's rise, like Morris Katz of Mamdani fame, kept hyping up Platner. In a 2025 email to fellow Democratic operatives, Moraff even called Platner "a cross between a rugged JFK and Bernie Sanders." www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

However, they absolutely agree that the *worst* way to run things is to simply trust in capitalists' generosity. They're right, of course. As Lina Khan likes to say, companies that are too big to fail become too big to jail, and thus too big to care. 12/

I'm finally digging into the cross tabs underlying the @searchlightinst.bsky.social memo telling Dems not to talk about climate change. It surprised me, but may not surprise you, that the memo lies about what US swing voters actually said in the polling. Let's have a look, shall we? 🧵

Completely forgot the Bad Place tortured Ted Danson’s architect Michael with a stack of New Yorkers - the only thing is his 10x10 for eternity “But I’ll never read those…” Shawn: ofc not but they’ll keep coming and coming hahahaha

From laptop twee and tweemo to glitchy bedroom pop, a new generation of artists is reshaping the genre while preserving its tender, proudly dorky heart. Explore the shape of twee to come.

A little-known Microsoft program was allowing engineers in China to maintain the Pentagon’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel. Until @reneedudley.bsky.social found out. This is the story of how she changed government policy:

CBS too. Tony Dokoupil signed off CBS Evening News tonight saying, "For all of us here at CBS News, thank you so much for watching, and President Trump's prime time speech will stream on CBS News 24/7, 9 p.m. eastern"

Alright read the actual post. Astonishing ignorance of the most basic facts of this issue by the politico reporters. A quick look at their bios shows neither reporter has any background in voter rights, election security or voter suppression coverage. A wild embarrassment.

Listen here: Before he was Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanche worked for Paul Manafort, Trump's longtime friend/neighbor in Trump Tower. Manafort is a Kremlin operative who helped bring Ukrainian Trump, Viktor Yanukovych, to power. Ran same playbook for Trump in US gaslitnation.libsyn.com/we-the-peopl...

Here's something I saw here on Bluesky that I wish Democrats would say every day: "Trump was elected while Obama was president Trump was elected when Biden was president Trump lost the election while he was president But the democrats are cheating? How?"

Says the potato head Senator who doesn’t actually live in the state he serves….

yesterday we posted our new monthly feature, Dropping Science, which features a handful of intriguing/interesting science stories synopsized. Check it out.

we talk about declining mobility and what that means for America

It's throwback thursday, and its one of my fave journalist moments, a story in MIT consumer-facing science mag, Undark on the advances in Light Microscopy, allowing me to speak to an absurdly influential Nobel Prize winner (3* total lifetime)

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

definitely -- the Elon-loving idiots should be the ones to lose their shirts, not innocent people who thought they were safe investing in market indexes. Of course, the folks who changed the rules to get SpaceX added to the index early need to go to jail.

Yes, some dumb ppl repeat it. And also many con artists who know very well that they are lying when calling the GOP the party of fiscal responsibility, after they keep exploding the national debt over and over.

A whole lot of people, at every level, are acting like they’ll never go to prison for their actions, and they’re probably not wrong—bankrupting them up and down the org chart, though… leaving them no guy to turn to for a bailout, a new job, a new grift…

also sharing this timely essay from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social exploring the role of memory and the politics of truth in the Brazilian left's anti-authoritarian struggle. there's much we can learn from them: "Our time will come, and when it does: no amnesty." www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...

In a capitalist system, making someone poor is a far worse fate than putting them in jail. We should make every member of the Trump admin poor.

Trump's "communist" panic isn't just senile ranting. It's a strategy. It comes straight from a book Bannon and Vance endorsed, a genocide-themed screed that calls for dehumanizing Democrats as demons who don't deserve rights. The "Unhumans" playbook, exposed: www.thenerdreich.com/why-trump-ke...

I never again want to hear public debate, from Ezra Douthglesias or anyone else, about which party has moved further from the political center in the 21st century. This is not a question serious people ask when things like "should we annex our NATO allies" are on the table from Republicans.

If there had been meaningful accountability for those responsible for the Iraq War it might have reduced the likelihood of the current Iran debacle.

wow -- Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts & tells him, "My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B Dalton's books when you were putting yourself through law school...I don't love the idea of DOGE shit we're picking up because people did it wrong"

Isn’t that risky given how we already have sharia law here according to them? We are moments from a communist take-over according to them How freaking irresponsible

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul ErinReed Dem candidate for OH Governor, in a dead heat with Vivek Ramaswamy, tells local paper that anti-trans sports bans are "settled law" causing an immediate intra-party rupture that could threaten her chances. OH hasn't elected a Dem Gov since 2006.