How Trump’s address was bluntly aimed at destabilizing the US electoral system

Oops! Blanche let the truth slip out… “Are you and Trump friends?” Blanche: “I’m his lawyer… was his lawyer.”

“I had hope Blanche would be an effective leader & responsible steward of DOJ, but he quickly proved me wrong. Two days after he was confirmed Deputy AG, he fired me from my position as career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of Trump & it cost me my job.”

You could write a whole thesis on the rhetorical brilliance of the wording "I think California transplants like Ken Paxton can become Texans"

“Palantir’s first outside investor was the CIA’s private venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel. The agency was its first customer. Thiel once joked that ‘the CIA is a front for Palantir.’” July 2026…1/

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Everybody involved with this movement can get fucked. And so can everybody who ever told me that opportunity doesn’t depend on gender. It was a lie when I was a kid and it’s a lie now.

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It is pure coincidence that I said I wasn't standing for Parliament because I'd need “a million a year” to cover lost earnings, then I was given £5 million and immediately stood for election.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Sen. Booker to Todd Blanche: "Your nomination should fail. The Attorney General's client is not the president, it's the American people. You've been protecting one person for most of your career…You should not be confirmed to this job."

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

It's a sign of how shockingly corrupt this country has become that a nominee for Attorney General is given a hearing by the Senate *the very same week* he has been referred by a judge for possible disbarment for unethical behavior. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Reform UK ~ funded by Russia Restore - bought and paid for by an American trillionaire GB News - owned by a hedge fund in Dubai The Daily Mail - registered in Bermuda. Is that Patriotism? #NotOnOurSide ⤵️ #ReformUKLtd 🇷🇺 #RupertLowe 🇺🇸 #GBNews 🔥🇬🇧 #DailyMail 🔥🇬🇧 www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1z...

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

"The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!" Yes, chefkiss

Wait’ll people hear about Republican Congressional Representative Tom Kean, who was missing without explanation for nearly four months

> Microsoft is promoting Copilot to enhance its profits. This does not mean it will enhance your organization's goals or workflows. Caution is warranted.

Africa's renewable energy transition is entering a new phase as the continent shifts from proving that clean energy works to building the institutions needed to deploy it at scale.

Well said by @normornstein.bsky.social; why can't Democratic Senators speak normally and honestly like this? bluevirginia.us/2026/07/sund...

Every democratic politician posting about Lindsay graham

Lindsay Graham and I often disagreed on whether you should overturn Democratic elections, starve the hungry, bomb anyone and bomb everyone dark, but nevertheless I hope his loved ones stay off the internet and the rest of you have some fun.

"More Reform corruption uncovered in [today's] Sunday Times...... Why don't they just admit the grift is over. It's finished, jail the bastards......." via We Demand UK

Quite the legacy you've left, Senator Graham.

Totalitarianism…..

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

🎯 @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social : “Any senator who votes to confirm Todd Blanche should know — you’re now part of the cover-up. You’re complicit in the cover-up if you vote to confirm the Todd Blanche for attorney general, who has led the cover-up of the Epstein Files.”

InvestigateTV+ Weekend: Cameras across the nation

Every time Farage gets questioned about any of his dodgey dealings, it’s always oh look over there a boat or migrants this, migrants that. He’s just a joke at this point. #NigelFarage

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

So ICE has thugs wearing “media” vests and masks filming protesters, something that is totally normal in a democracy www.ctinsider.com/news/article...

The Senate returns from recess Monday, nearly a month after McConnell was hospitalized on June 14.

“He dedicated his life in the United States to giving his family the American dream,” Ronaldo said. "He deserved to live a quiet life as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a husband, a father, and a job creator for dozens of men who also wanted the American dream.”

This is so powerful. Inspired by the March of a Thousand Robes in Poland, retired and sitting judges in the United States walked down the streets of Columbus, Ohio to stand up for the Rule of Law. #JusticeinMotion

He doesn’t care if he loses the election because he plans to steal it if he can. He can’t!

Reading about how many cops misuse flock to stalk women they date, want to date, their exes...I'm not shocked but it's still awful.

The best thing about Clacton is that Farage seems to feel forced to take Count Binface seriously, because otherwise the whole thing is a joke that makes him look incredibly silly. But by taking a talking bin seriously, he also looks silly. It's a Bin-Bin situation

Can an intergalactic space warrior defeat “joke” candidate Nigel Farage in the Clacton-on-Sea by-election? Katie Rosseinsky profiles Jon Harvey, the classicist, comedian and comedy scriptwriter who is the man behind Count Binface.

If Mitch McConnell is indeed brain-dead, then every one of the senators and congressmen who said they spoke directly to him should be impeached.

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

Anyone who follows this account knows I’ve been warning about Waymo since they went live. Waymo willingly works with I.C.E. as well as cops. It’s NOT written explicitly in their policy, but Waymo’s actions are clear. I’ve personally witnessed evidence obtained from Waymo. This is very, very bad.

NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org

You can't tell an LLM not to 'hallucinate', to be honest, or avoid mistakes, or stay faithful to the source material. The wrong answers are created by exactly the same process as the right ones, it can't tell them apart. It's like giving it the instruction: 'Do this, but don't do it by doing it.'

Before the whitewash comes in, a reminder that because of Mitch Mconnell American women are dying and bleeding out because they were denied abortion care. Because of McConnell the Russians were free to interfere in our elections. Because of Mitch billionaires are coddled while kids get screwed over.

“an almost-universal consensus that Brexit has been a disaster..majority of people now think this…nations have looked on in bafflement at the UK’s decision to shoot itself in the foot – or, as Finland’s president put it amputating your leg for no reason.” www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/us-...

FIFA announces that team USA can use their hands “just if they need to”