boygobong

Lean and slipper’d pantaloon🌛 Temporary sojourner on the tumbleweed racetracks of the Intermountain West🌛 One-quarter 🇨🇦 (& growing)

[Rick Hasen @rickhasen]

#ELB: Federal District Court Quashes DOJ Attempt to Get a “Staggering” Amount of Personal Data from Fulton County, Georgia Workers and Volunteers Who Helped Run and Certify the 2020 Elections https://t.co/b0tdHsK1oz

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Studies now present a striking picture of what happens when private equity firms acquire hospitals and nursing homes: predictable increases in harm and deaths. One landmark study shows: patient deaths up about 11% after such acquisitions.

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

I am sure other states have received this letter, too. No evidence NV not complying with these laws about noncitizens on rolls or that there are vast numbers. Sounds innocuous, but Dillon is a Trump/GOP hack and this is more laying predicate for federal interference in November.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

One of the most brazen lies in American politics told by MAGA and Christian Nationalists is that we were "founded as a Christian nation."

The founders themselves left a clear record demolishing this narrative. @americansunited and I bring the receipts: https://t.co/0CdpBcj3BS

[boygobong @boygobong]

@MichaelKarlis The wandering eye…

Also, why is his bimbette wearing some kind of princess dress? Are they just coming from a ball?
https://t.co/hFWtNyF7Ox

[Michael Karlis @MichaelKarlis]

VIDEO: Ken Paxton caught vacationing in England on July 4th during America’s 250th birthday.

[Lawfare @lawfare]

Michael Feinberg and Julia Curlee trace how ODNI arrived at Bill Pulte: an office built after 9/11 to enforce analytic rigor, weakened by its own directors' missteps, and now positioned for abuse just as Congress removed the guardrails meant to stop it. https://t.co/NBIBO80OnU

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

New US trade data came in today, and even though I know the tariff exemption for data centers is gigantic, I'm still in awe of just how massive it's getting

A record $58B in computers came in tariff-free last month, nearly as big as the next 3 largest tariff carveouts combined

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

This should remind us two things:
1. If you want to save a repressive govt under pressure, the best thing you can do is bomb it.
2. A country's diaspora in the West is almost never representative of the people who actually live there (esp when demanding those people be bombed).

[boygobong @boygobong]

Blowing literal smoke up America's a$$

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Chris Wright accuses Democrats of "betting the farm on the sun and the wind" and says, "that was a disastrous bet that drove high electricity prices and stopped any growth of American electricity production"

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Canada will provide Ukraine with 900 million Canadian dollars ($633 million), in new military assistance, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced.

The package will include vehicles, ammunition, air defense equipment and other military aid.

Photo: Andrej Ivanov / AFP

[The Moscow Times @MoscowTimes]

Turkey has deported a Russian activist wanted by Moscow for protesting the invasion of Ukraine, in what appears to be the first known case of Ankara returning an anti-war Russian to their home country.
https://t.co/G9FIMKVboW

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

Congress held a hearing on private equity's role in turning youth sports into a fee-extraction machine. Average family spending on a child's primary sport increased 46% between 2019 and 2024, widening the participation gap between lower-income and affluent families.

Bipartisan lawmakers looked at firms buying up local leagues, tournaments, and sports facilities turning a community institution into a consolidated, profit-driven commodity.

They examined rising fees, mandatory add-on costs, "stay-to-play" hotel requirements, vertical integration across leagues, tournaments, and camps, and the way large operators can squeeze out smaller community programs.

Youth sports should be about easy access for all children instead of finding new ways to extract money from parents.

I haven't seen anyone talk about this, so I just wanted to bring this to everyone's attention, especially all the parents who follow me.

These Wall Street firms are colonizing everything in sight, but private equity doesn't run our country. Soccer moms do! And the fight for youth sports is an important one. Pricing millions of children out of sports is not in our nation's best interests.

[Lindsay Ballant @lindsayballant]

It's true many people aren't talking about this, but @moetkacik did a whole lengthy print feature about private equity and youth sports earlier this year for @TheProspect

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

Take the $1,000 but don’t put a cent in a Trump account, says @DeanBaker13

And fire any financial advisor who suggests otherwise.

https://t.co/dmyNkUfJfk

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Republicans have historically championed overseas votes, particularly those from active-duty military members.

But as civilian voter participation abroad has risen, the GOP has changed its tune, launching a multi-pronged effort to suppress overseas votes.

Here’s why: https://t.co/gvI7UlCLrs

[Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 @celinegounder]

.@GrantWahl, I am so proud of you.
https://t.co/QRxWuIXzoR

[boygobong @boygobong]

it's been a long time since i resorted to "roflmao" but here we are

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kevin McCarthy on Platner Allegations: That one thing I know about Republicans is when we had a very bad candidate, we didn't vote for that person. We walked away.

[Jelmer Visser @DieTukkerfries]

USA vs Belgium #usabel

[bmaz (also same at bsky) @bmaz]

Ouch, but maybe fair.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@USMNT I’m proud of you! This team will do great things, specially without political interference’s! USA wills win a @FIFAWorldCup soon one day…!