This is not going well for Bhattacharya 😬 BHATTACHARYA: Talk about misinformation: the decisions during the pandemic led to many people losing faith in public health BRENNAN: Trump admin officials BHATTACHARYA: No. I mean Biden. BRENNAN: The pandemic began during the Trump administration
incredible book title, bravo
Gil Durán“The Nerd Reich is a fantastically unputdownable must-read…Durán documents his case persuasively and convinces the reader that he is not misusing the F-word when he alleges his key figures qualify as fascists. He’s done his homework…and now raises an urgent alarm.” —The Irish Times
WHERE ARE THE DEMOCRATS?? I swear, if Dems take back the House and Senate and don't publicly and loudly investigate stuff like this, I will lose my mind.
Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red FlagsThe curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.www.nytimes.com
“For the first time in more than a decade, 2026 will see no women promoted to the US Navy’s admiral rank — even as women now account for one-quarter of all Navy officers, nearly one-third of the service’s midgrade ranks, and about 20 percent of the service overall.”
RIP Don Nelson, he retired to Hawai’i to play poker and smoke weed and look like this, he’s literally the goal
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social This "Who are you with?" shit has to stop. "Who are you with?" "The United States of America, sir. Who are you with?" The first journalist to do this should get our nation's most prestigious journalism award.
Hard, hard agree
USMC Vet M-3-7/MarineBarracks, NAS Alameda 🇺🇦@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social This "Who are you with?" shit has to stop. "Who are you with?" "The United States of America, sir. Who are you with?" The first journalist to do this should get our nation's most prestigious journalism award.
Kushner got played for the punk he is and out-scammed - paid $120 million for stolen land from a drug running Albanian title swindler - so much for honor among thieves. www.wsj.com/world/europe...
The Suspected Gangster Causing Headaches for Kushner’s Albania DealVillagers say they warned Trump’s son-in-law their beachfront land was stolen by Artur Shehu, who now faces drug-related charges, which he denies.www.wsj.com
Commissioning a transphobic bigot to write an article about a UK academic scandal to somehow indict US higher education (a completely different system about which this case has literally no bearing) for being too woke is peak New York Times brain. Not a great thing, just an unfortunate one.
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsWho at @nytopinion.nytimes.com decided: “hey, let’s get Jesse Singal to do some racist schadenfreude!” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/opinion/cambridge-plagiarism-arday-higher-education.html
Bill Cassidy gave us RFK Jr. Now he gives us Todd, Blanche as attorney general. What a legacy. He obviously doesn’t believe in an afterlife.
Given the president’s penchant for igniting costly trade wars on a whim, the last thing that Congress should be doing is handing him more authority to impose massive tariffs. It’s like giving matches to a pyromaniac. wapo.st/44V7sU6
Opinion | The Senate’s Russia sanctions bill has two big problemsIts tariff proposals could affect other countries more than Russia.wapo.st
Call out reporters who say "ballroom" even after Trump quits pretending. This was never about a ballroom. It's always been a crazy scheme to armor the White House against attackers, likely domestic ones. And it didn't likely come from Trump, who's obsessed with gilt and marble. Ask who wanted it. 2/
capitolhuntersCorrection: it is NOT A BALLROOM. It's a bunker. Even Trump has dropped the pretense and now calls it his “Great National Security Facility and Ballroom”. Please correct this, and give your readers the truth. Do WaPo editors control every post by their reporters? Don't you want to stand for truth?
Update on this: This bill just passed the Senate, 86-11. Efforts to strip the sweeping new tariff authorities from the bill failed. Lunacy
Catherine RampellI don’t know how you could look at Donald Trump’s record to date and think it’s a good idea to give him more power to levy tariffs. But that’s exactly what the Senate is poised to do, on a bipartisan basis, in a bill coming up for a vote today www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-vot...
A teacher in Kansas was arrested for clapping for speakers who spoke up against a data center. Now, the city of Emporia is moving to virtual only meetings, citing "public safety." In their own words, Lux Claridge, tells us what happened. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/city-that-ar...
There are ~16 Black students out of 227 in Duke's class of 2028. law.duke.edu/apply/classp...
Justice Department Accuses Duke Law School of Racial DiscriminationThe federal government said the school’s admissions policies, which promote diversity, allowed for racial preferences.www.nytimes.com
Two days ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Strait of Hormuz would be open by today. Now his excuse for Trump’s reckless war upending global oil transit is that the Strait will be irrelevant in a few years because oil will go by pipeline. And fertiliser for the world’s food supply? 1/
