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One of our favorites is reportedly acting badly:
... [Rep. Jasmine] Crockett should be trying hard to ensure that Talarico wins. She’s not. “I personally don’t feel like the excitement necessarily exists within the Black community. Right now, I don’t feel like they’re excited,” Crockett said on the Front Page podcast recently of Talarico’s candidacy. That might sound like Crockett just giving a political analysis. And it’s likely that Talarico (like most candidates) has work to do to improve his standing among Black voters.
But Crockett has suggested several times over the last few months that Talarico is running a lackluster campaign, particularly with regard to appealing to Black voters. She could air those critiques in private. Or she could campaign aggressively for Talarico to Black voters, to address this shortage of excitement that she is asserting. She’s doing neither. She refused to speak at the Texas Democrats’ convention in June, even after Talarico reportedly personally called and asked the congresswoman to give the keynote address. She has suggested that she will campaign for other Democratic candidates in Texas but not Talarico...
For her own political future, not to mention for the sake of Texas and the nation, we hope this is a brief aberration. Disappointing, but easy to address if she does the right thing right now.
We can't have this in this race, or in any race this year. We're in a struggle to save American democracy, and egos, hurt feelings, and grievances need to be put aside in the greater fight against fascism.
The Epstein-Trump files coverup / rats scurrying away? --
Thomas Massie warns Speaker Mike Johnson might send everyone home to avoid another vote on the Epstein files. Why are some of these politicians bent on protecting pedophiles?
— PatriotTakes πΊπΈ (@patriottakes.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Operation Epic Quagmire affecting Trump's "Golden Age" economy --
US Diesel Hits Highest Since April as Wars Strain Global Supply finance.yahoo.com/energy/artic...
— #Nov2026 ππ Vote for Democracy π³️ - ICE❌ (@kdjs-1.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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JUST IN: Report says Iran conflict could cost American farmers billions
— Ashley Seybolt - News (@ashleyseybolt.com) September 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Global bond yields hit their highest levels for decades over concerns about inflation, debt burdens, and central banks raising interest rates. www.semafor.com/article/09/0...
— Semafor (@semafor.com) September 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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Yeah, man, it's really irresponsible of countries to get involved in wars that screw up oil-producing regions, I hope they had a good reason for that, we'd never do anything like that, no sir.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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What are friends for, eh Trump? --
Russia pledges support to Iran amid war with US "During this difficult time, we are trying to provide you with the assistance you need," Putin told Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian on Sept. 1.
— BenB πΊπ¦ (@benborges.xyz) September 2, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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Texas Republican voter suppression, and more --
How the dying majority spent Tuesday stripping polling places, praising Charlie Kirk, and giving a sheriff a plaque for 81 deaths
— Michelle H. Davis (@lonestarleft.com) September 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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We will see what happens in November, but forcefully telling elected officials that you will punish them for limiting voting access is exactly the way to go.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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The "leopards ate my face" party supporter has regrets --
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... If there's a better example of only beginning to care about oppression and fascism once you are personally affected by it I've yet to see it
— JazHowe1968 (@jazhowe1968.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
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Dumb as rocks DHS Secretary ("fearmongels," "look as worse") and ICE --
I could handle this shit so much easier if they weren't all dumb as rocks.
— Matt Ortega (@mattortega.com) September 2, 2026 at 6:53 AM
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I’m sure Milo Yiannopoulos is on the case.
— Smedley Hunkerbunker (@joaquindead.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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"The most absurd general-election candidate in America": Ken Paxton? Maybe not --
Te Brown is the GOP nominee for House in FL-24. Te Brown is also a criminal defendant in a federal wire-fraud case going to trial this year. Brown the candidate insists to me that she is not Brown the accused fraudster. She's lying. Read more: www.thebulwark.com/p/we-found-h...
— Andrew Egger (@eggerdc.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Hypocrite MAGAt House members deep in prayer --
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Matthew 6:5-6
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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After a long hiatus, multiple Grammy-winning band Alabama Shakes is back with a new album, "I Must Be Dreaming." Led by singer / guitarist Brittany Howard, their songs reflect a more laid-back, trippy feel this time around. "I Feel Hope Coming" is one such track on their album. Enjoy.
The corrupt and criminal Malignant Fascist sees the handwriting on the wall for the upcoming mid-terms, so he's been doing his worst to rig them, from gerrymandering voting districts to attempting to impose voter ID restrictions. Now, his move to undermine mail-in voting has brought forth a whistleblower at the U.S. Postal Service, which is central actor in the MF's rigging scheme. From ABC News:
"An anonymous government employee whistleblower has come forward to Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, warning that a 'rushed, chaotic and fundamentally flawed' effort by the U.S. Postal Service to implement President Donald Trump's mail-in ballot executive order risks a 'catastrophic failure' of the election system that could 'derail the midterm elections.'
The whistleblower's concerns were made public in a report released by Blumenthal, who said in a release Tuesday morning that the allegations show that the system USPS is creating to track mail-in balloting is 'set up to fail -- and risk the right to vote for millions of Americans who cast their ballots by mail.'
The whistleblower is described in the report as someone with direct knowledge of potentially "catastrophic problems" in the development of the USPS' new electronic federal mail ballot portal. [snip]
The whistleblower described a 'secretive, rushed, chaotic and fundamentally flawed process' creating and implementing an 'untested' federal ballot mail portal that USPS will use to screen ballots.
The rushed effort to create the portal could cause 'significant operating' problems and the failure to verify ballots this November, the whistleblower said. It could also mean, the report alleges, that 'potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner or at all.'
The report details a 'slapdash' production process for the new IT software, which the whistleblower alleges hasn't been sufficiently tested or debugged. At the time of report, the whistleblower said there was insufficient time to test the system before a Sept. 1 deadline to deliver it." (our emphasis)
Of course, USPS efficiency was never the concern of the MF, who is only seeking to sow chaos in the mid-terms (which are looking more and more like a Dem wave) and to discourage voters from voting at all. The U.S. District Court for Massachusetts now has the whistleblower's report and analysis to use in determining whether a permanent injunction on the MF's scheme is required. That determination should come swiftly; eventually, on to the Republican SCOTUS.
Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America on its Maps app, after an order from US President Donald Trump as part of Washington's trade spat with Canada.
The change was made for US-based users, while those in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario displayed...
Apple‘s new CEO John Ternus officially took over the company Tuesday, and the veteran tech executive will be getting a hefty pay raise alongside the new title and responsibilities.
According to an SEC filing Tuesday afternoon, Ternus will receive a $3 million salary, paired with annual equity awards valued at $55 million. He will also receive a one-time prorated $2.5 million RSU grant. His annual equity award will see 25 percent of shares vest over time, and the remaining 75 percent vesting based on Apple’s performance compared to other companies in the S&P 500 index.
The nature of equity grants and RSUs means that the final value of the shares he received will depend on what happens with Apple’s stock price.
Meanwhile, former Apple CEO Tim Cook will still receive a hefty compensation package in his new role as executive chair. Cook will receive a $2 million salary alongside a $45 million equity award, with half vesting over time, and the other half vesting based on Apple’s performance...
The Epstein class oligarchs like Tim "Apple" Cook, who earned 533 times more than the average Apple worker, are compensating themselves handsomely compared to their workers as they bow the knee to their fellow Epstein class oligarch/ president, the Malignant Fascist. Today, with this petty crap, that dynamic rankles more than ever.
In a better world, Democrats will have the sack and moral clarity, once back in office, to cap and claw back the obscene compensation packages, and end the New Gilded Age of public and corporate corruption and collaboration with fascists. In the meantime, remember the collaborators. Oh... and change their maps.
BONUS: As we've noted, MapQuest refused to bend the knee on "Lake America," "Gulf of America," etc. Reward them by downloading their free app!
(Photo: not the first time Cook bent the knee; presenting the MF with an engraved glass disc, August 2025/ Win McNamee, Getty Images)
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"... When we try to name everything after ourselves, we lose a sense of who we are. What is “America” if it is hollowed out as bluster, over and over again? Who are “Americans” if we serve as the brand name of one man’s flailing imperialism?
If we want some kind of self-definition, if we want to get through this self-made catastrophe, the words “United” and “States” are worth remembering, and stressing. They name our constitutional republic.
To have states is to have a form of politics that goes beyond the grasp of a single man. And to be united is to have a larger sense of the history and the future of the people. We lose that dignified sense of purpose when we allow power to remain in the hands of someone who understands neither unity nor statehood, who seeks only to divide us for personal profit, who cares nothing for the continued existence of our country, who senselessly alienates those who have been our loyal friends." -- Timothy Snyder, concluding an essay in his "Thinking About..." Substack on "Our Trade War Against Ourselves." Snyder writes about the Malignant Fascist's insane trade war with Canada and the various inane byproducts ("Lake America"), and how it not only demonstrates that the MF has no understanding of how markets work, but that "... it is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak. And his weakness becomes our weakness, his nihilism our national embarrassment, or really tragedy." Good read.
The Trump-Epstein files: showing up at Trump's "convention" --
NEW — The GOP is making their midterm convention entirely about Trump, calling it “Trump-a-palooza.” So we’re parking all 3.5 million Epstein files outside of the event so folks don’t forget who he really is. They want confetti. We’re bringing the paper.
— Miles Taylor (@milestaylor.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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The Postal Service / mail-in ballot conspiracy. Executing the Malignant Fascist's plan --
BREAKING: A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a “secretive rushed” effort to implement Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a court order blocking those plans. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
— Allison Gill (@muellershewrote.com) September 1, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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— Brendan Nyhan (@brendannyhan.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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Whiskey Pete Hegseth's toxic mismanagement of the Pentagon --
I'm of the belief that Trump will never get rid of Hegseth because he'll never get anyone as willing to turn tanks against Americans. But Democrats should still be demanding it at every chance they get.
— π½LOLGOPπ½ (@thefarce.org) September 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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MAGAts: please keep lining up in support of tech bro data centers for the mid-terms --
“You don’t really hate data centers. You’re just stupid” please God let Republicans run with this into the midterms
— Chris Jackson (@chriscjackson.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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it's finally september. silly season is over. time to hunker down and hammer out the message: vote Republican so we can investigate the opponents of data centers.
— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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Texas voters: the Malignant Fascist's attack on your hospitals about to get real --
bsky.app/profile/pbum... www.texastribune.org/2026/08/31/t...
— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) August 31, 2026 at 9:20 PM
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Vance's vicious and racist attacks on Haitian immigrants claims a life --
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
— Tom Joscelyn (@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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See B. S. News' Bari "Bad News" Weiss continues to corrupt that network --
Weiss started her activist career in college going after a Muslim professor and decades later she is sticking with it.
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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The MF invites Russia to G20, along with white supremacist Musk and others --
Elon Musk, Sachs and Co to attend G20 ministerial in NC
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) September 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
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Make America Sick Again: Bobby Brainworm and rabies --
This is really good news for people, like MAGA, who want more Americans to die of rabies.
— Max Berger (@maxberger.bsky.social) August 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Dem candidate facing domestic abuser Max Miller shows how it's done. Donate here. --
Here’s my first ad. I’m running for Congress to fight for my daughters – and yours. So in my first ad, I decided to turn the mic over to them.
— Brian Poindexter For Congress (@poindexterforcongress.com) September 1, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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House Squeaker "Moses" Mike Johnson's prayer before the mid-terms --
“I said ‘take the wheel, Jesus,’ not the House.”
— ππ¦ππππ πΎπ¦π£π (@sundaedivine.lol) September 1, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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It may not rank up there with the Malignant Fascist's $600-900 million Golden Ballroom/ FΓΌhrerbunker, or his $100 million triumphal arch, but still:
President Donald Trump’s White House is planning more than $250,000 in work on its private bowling alley, reviving a renovation target that previously sparked Republican outrage over taxpayer spending during the Obama administration.
The General Services Administration awarded a nearly $253,000 contract on July 28 for lighting work at the two-lane Harry S. Truman Bowling Alley, according to public contract awards reviewed and reported on by Politico on Monday. The contract was awarded under the Executive Office of the President to Charles Mann Enterprises.
The company received another $8,800 contract on Aug. 18 for escort services related to the project, which entails accompanying outside workers through secure areas. Neither the White House nor GSA immediately responded to Politico’s request for comment.
Republican cult hypocrisy alert!
The project comes 12 years after GSA attempted a much more extensive renovation under former President Barack Obama, the outlet noted. In 2014, the agency proposed completely rebuilding the lanes, which it deemed “irreparable.”
Yet that plan lasted only about 90 minutes after Time reported on it before GSA canceled the project as Republicans criticized the prospect of using taxpayer money on the bowling alley...
We await the Republican weasel cult outcry on this, just as we await their outcry on the ballroom, the arch, the Epstein-Trump files coverup, the war with Iran, the trade wars with Canada and other allies, the $2 billion the MF amassed since January 2025, etc. ad nauseam.
Also, what would the morbidly obese MF want with a refurbished bowling alley? It's inconceivable that the human bowling ball rolled a ball down an alley in the last 75 years, if ever. Someone notify fraud czar JD Vance that there's fraud, waste, and abuse going on right under his nose!
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The megalomaniacal Malignant Fascist is infamous for looking out for himself above anything else. Now, he's angering his cult party by holding on to many millions of dollars in campaign funds that could provide a lift to their campaigns. From Politico:
"Money is starting to trickle out of President Donald Trump’s super PAC. But as September begins, GOP donors and other Republicans say it should be gushing.
MAGA Inc. sent Vice President JD Vance to Michigan on Monday for GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers. And it spent more than $827,000 to boost Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina.
But that’s not nearly enough to placate Republicans, according to seven GOP donors and fundraisers, granted anonymity to discuss party dynamics, who told POLITICO they want to see much more money sent out from the PAC, which has a $400 million war chest.
The concern comes even as Republicans maintain a large financial advantage over Democrats. But with the president’s poll numbers near record lows and Democratic voters appearing more enthused, GOP donors believe no resource should go untapped." (our emphasis)
If there's anything that unites Americans these days, it's that they don't want those mega data centers in their community, hogging energy and water resources and overwhelming the landscapes. The Epstein class oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Sergei Brin, and Sam Altman have been moving fast to get these centers up and running to power their burgeoning AI ventures before anyone can say "regulations." As you might know and expect, the utterly corrupt Malignant Fascist and his family are heavily invested in the AI boom and in companies that are building out data centers, leading to this lie- filled pronouncement yesterday:
Of course he wants data centers to bloom all over the landscape. He gets his corrupt orange beak wet every time one goes up and starts generating AI slop to pacify his credulous cult.
It would be political malpractice for any Democrat running for office not to tie the MF's endorsement of this Epstein class tech bro enterprise to their Republican weasel opponent. Hang it around their necks that their corrupt cult leader wants to let "Data Reign."
BONUS: Nick Anderson has it right --
(Photo: Zuckerberg's Meta Stanton Springs Data Center in Newton County, GA / Katie Tucker, The Telegraph)
"...And right now in this country we're being lied to every single day.
So here’s the truth, plain and simple: Our state is under siege. Not by protesters, not by immigrants, not by the deep state, not by the press, not by Canada or Mexico or Greenland, not by Antifa or by Jewish space lasers or pride parades.
No. Our state is under siege by a petty, corrupt man in Washington. A man who ran for president because he wanted to live in a palace and get rich or get richer.
Our state is under siege by the skilled sycophants who surround that president and use his base desires as cover for their own destructive agendas.
Our state is under siege by the many, many Republicans who are either too infatuated or too frightened to fight Donald Trump for the people they serve..." -- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, speaking at a campaign stop in Belleville, IL, on Saturday, speaking the plain, simple truth that seems to be so hard for so many to see.
The wonderful JoJo from Jerz (Jo Carducci) delivers an epic coup de grace on the smug, nose-rubbing Trump dinner guest's sick commentary on Dolly Parton's passing. Everything we wanted to say and much more. MUST READ her whole article!
(photo: Maher, left, with the Malignant Fascist. Bon appetite, Maher)
With the resumption of attacks on Iran yesterday, oil prices are seeing an increase as concern over the oil tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on oil production facilities in U.S.-allied Gulf states grows. From the Associated Press:
"The price of oil rose and stocks fell on Wall Street Monday after the U.S. launched its first military action in a month against Iran.
The S&P 500 index fell 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 361 points, or 0.7%, as of 10:50 a.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq fell 0.5%.
The losses were broad, with nearly every sector within the benchmark S&P 500 losing ground. Energy stocks, though broadly gained ground. Exxon Mobil rose 2% and Chevron rose 1.9%. [snip]
U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates said it intercepted an Iranian drone over its waters on Monday. The aggressive actions follow a lull in activity in the U.S. war with Iran, which has lasted more than six months.
The war has curtailed traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, which accounts for about 20% of the world’s oil shipments. Oil prices remain high after an initial surge earlier in the war and that has made everything from gasoline to shipped goods more expensive." [our emphasis]
Meanwhile, the mentally unfit and confused Malignant Fascist's fan girl / diaper changer Natalie Harp apparently can't keep islands in the Persian Gulf straight, creating for "Truth" Social an AI slop image of Iran's oil terminus Kharg Island being blown up, when the real attack was on Larak Island and a couple of rocket launchers there:
Poor Natalie got confused between Kharg Island and Larak Island--worshipping can be such exhausting business.
— Phillips OBrien (@phillipspobrien.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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