Ty Swindel

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump's Medicaid work requirements are putting even terminally ill patients through bureaucratic nightmares to keep their health insurance — all to fund even more tax cuts for the wealthy.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

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“I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Oh look, the Commerce Department quietly announced 7 new equity stakes in private companies.

Brought to you by the people fighting "communism."
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[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Glyphosate is one of the most widely used herbicides on Earth. It's also what most people reach for when a dandelion pokes through a driveway crack. That's a significant chemical response to a very small problem, and there's a better one sitting on your stove.

Boiling water kills weeds on contact. The heat ruptures cell walls all the way down to the root, and unlike herbicide sprays, it leaves no chemical residue, produces no runoff into storm drains, and poses no risk to the soil biology around it.

Pour directly onto the weed and into the crack around its base. A kettle works better than a pot because you can direct the stream precisely. For established weeds with deep roots, a second application usually finishes the job. For new seedlings, once is typically enough.

Glyphosate applied to a driveway crack runs into the storm drain with the next rain. From there it goes directly to your local waterway with no treatment step.

The EPA classifies glyphosate as a possible carcinogen. The IARC classifies it as a probable one. Researchers continue to debate the exact risk level. What isn't debated is that it ends up in waterways.

The dandelion doesn't know the difference.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Fact check on some of President Trump's comments at his Cabinet meeting:

- On the cyberattacks against local water systems, there’s absolutely zero basis for Trump’s bizarre assertion that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was “behind it.” Trump made no mention of the governors of the six other states the FBI says have been targeted this week. CNN reports that US and state officials consider Iran a suspect in the attacks.

- Trump said Iran still has “some” missiles and “some” drones but then said a bit later, again, that “everything is all gone,” which he had implicitly fact-checked himself with his acknowledgment that not everything is all gone...

- Trump said he’s “ended eight wars.” He simply hasn’t; his list is wildly inflated; see my previous tweet.

- Trump said, “We're building more factories and plants in this country than we've ever built before.” The White House could not identify any source for this claim when I inquired this week. Federal figures show that spending on manufacturing construction has declined month after month this Trump term after a spike that occurred during most of the Biden presidency.

- Trump said, "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe. The last administration created the worst inflation in 48 years.” The inflation rate did hit a 40-year (not 48-year) high under Biden, 9.1%…but that was in June 2022, two-and-a-half years before Trump returned to office, when he inherited a rate of 3.0%, which was lower than the 3.5% rate of this June.

- Trump said, "This month, it was announced that inflation is dropping at the fastest rate in more than six years.” *Did* drop last month, true, but not “is dropping” now; the steep decline of June was largely because gas prices fell sharply amid the ceasefire with Iran. In July, gas prices have jumped back up.

- Trump said, as usual, that Biden let in “25 million” migrants, a massive exaggeration even wilder than the previous “21 million” figure he has further inflated without explanation; he also said, as usual, that Biden let in 11,888 murderers, a gross distortion of federal data on people who entered over the course of decades including Trump’s own first administration.

Details: https://t.co/mrIwoP10Gv

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hey guys, since you released faucis diary maybe now we can do the Epstein files?

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Trickle-down economics is not a theory, it is theft. They have been stealing the wealth that we all created. It’s why everything sucks right now. We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis. We don’t have a government of, by, and for the people. We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires”

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

As America celebrates 250 years of freedom, we should all be asking ourselves: who are the masked people handcuffing individuals on our streets without identifying themselves or being held accountable?

A free society demands transparency, due process, and accountability—not anonymous power. 😔😔😔🇺🇸

[AntifaPuddin’Pop @Andie00471]

My neighborhood has these. Five years ago I packed four cartons of my boys’ children’s books in the car and stocked all of them. It had frankly never occurred to me to donate children’s books until I saw a child peek get off the bus and peek in one. Duh! And there I was sitting on my lazy ass w $100’s of dollars of kids books no one was reading!!!🤦‍♀️ I still wonder who got the Narnia books? That series made for one magical preteen summer. 🥰

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Republican Senator Bernie Moreno was trying to act REAL tough just days ago. But when it came to defending his own daughter, his silence spoke volumes.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Leaving MAGA, a great organization that I recommend looking into

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! Tucker Carlson went off and said "every American needs to watch this." He was right.

Trump just said Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are too expensive—the same programs he swore he'd protect. Meanwhile he's piled $4 trillion onto the debt, defense contractors are getting rich off his wars, and Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the bank.

But here's the kicker: Democrats have been screaming this for years. Trump built a bogeyman and Republicans lost their minds.

The government "can't afford" your healthcare or retirement—but it can always find money for trillions tax cuts, wars, stock market gambling, and insider trading.

They'll vote against their own future as long as they think it hurts us.

Open your eyes. The only people fighting for your Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare are the ones they've trained you to hate.

[OK Go @okgo]

On this day in 2006, we released the Here It Goes Again music video. This video cost less than $5,000 and was shot in 17 very sweaty takes, but it took us to the Grammys, the VMAs, and to the email inboxes of millions of people (you couldn’t share videos to social media back then).

20 years later, we actually now can share this to social media. Enjoy!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

The dumbest argument against vaccines is that you don’t see the diseases anymore. That’s literally the fucking point.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Trump would rather the country had no Attorney General than give up his corrupt slush fund or narrow the tax benefits to his family from the phony “settlement” with the IRS.

He could care less about public safety or the interests of the public.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Insane….these masked Nazis don’t even have those stupid vests….these two could be anyone just kidnapping someone in broad daylight

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping
He approached her. She was standing still. That guy needs jail time.

If this goes viral, the city will seek charges.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Many of you recall that in 2020 I helped lead an effort to defeat Donald Trump more than 60 times after the election.

In 2026, DOJ is 0-19 in cases to obtain state voter files and Elias Law Group is helping lead the way.

We are not done fighting and we are not done winning.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “You know who’s extreme? The people protecting the Epstein pedophiles. You know who’s extreme? The people waging 8 new wars as they lie and say Trump has stopped 8 wars. You know who’s extreme? The people building concentration camps that ICE is using to shove immigrants in. The idea that Trump and Republicans would be looked at as moderates is laughable”