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"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.
Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 9h agoPresident Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
ICYMI: ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI's criminal database in a single year. Most of the people swabbed have no criminal conviction. CBP records show 492 children under 14 sent to the FBI. 21 of them were five-year-olds. One was 4. By @dmehro.bsky.social
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Politico@politico.com · yesterday26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center have noticed contamination in the drinking water. Last week, we reported on footage from inside the facility that showed evidence of the inhumane conditions inside the facility. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... 🎥: Aisha Wallace-Palomares
"It's as if we have to mourn the future."
Repeated heatwaves fuel eco-anxiety and anger among youth: 'It feels like we're living in a dystopia'
In the wake of the third heatwave to hit France since May, frustration and anxiety have gripped part of the younger generations, faced with what some call 'the coolest summer of the rest of their live...
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The success of the AI industry amounts to the degradation of people’s lives, but the thirst among our representatives for this industry to succeed in that mission is intense. There is no shared prosperity here.
Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 3d agoDo you use Instagram or Gmail? You could be helping to train AI. Big Tech has turned what all of us helped create into a trillion-dollar industry. It’s time to tax AI so you can share in its success.
AI companies are trying to do this, but with human knowledge. It's why they're destroying the books. Wipe out our ability to think for ourselves, then own the means of thinking.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.
“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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Let’s be clear: what these bastards are doing to these books isn’t digitizing. Digitizing is about preservation and access to the original material. They’re gutting and destroying to make Soylent Green. Don’t let them get away with pretending to do this for humanitarian reasons.
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.
“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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NEW: After abortion clinic staff called police about threatening language posted on social media, officers were photographed praying with protestors—including the person who made the threatening post. It’s just the latest instance of officers praying outside US abortion clinics while on duty
Cops Stopped to Pray With Anti-Abortion Activists Outside Colorado Clinic
An abortion opponent wrote online that it was “kill day” at a clinic that provides later abortions. Boulder police showed up, then prayed with the author of the post.
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It would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
Last year, TSA began sharing passenger manifests with ICE, and ICE began arresting people at airports. After some initial arrests led to backlash, ICE pulled back a bit. But with the pressure on from the White House right now, we're seeing a lot more arrests at airports recently.
Jenn Budd@jennbudd.bsky.social · 2w agoJust received this from immigration attorney Mo Goldman. This is why ICE is in the airports. Please share! @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
this is a problem. solidarity and mass movements often involve making common cause with all sorts of douchebags. but it's also the fact that these guys are just temporarily homeless republican operatives. giving them money and eyeballs is probably counterproductive
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w agoThe vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA. If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
The Portland Police Bureau promoted Corey Budworth to Sergeant on July 16, 2026. He was the PPB officer that was indicted for using unjustified force against a photojournalist, by pushing her to the ground and hitting her in the head with his baton while she was seated. bsky.app/profile/marc...
Marc Poris@marcporis.bsky.social · 2mo agoCONTENT WARNING: Here's the incident. During the hearing in which he could have lost his certification, Officer Budworth said that he is next on the list for promotion to Sergeant at PPB. youtu.be/s6hOw5TqLi8?...
Since 1989, when Oregon got its first trans-Pacific fiber optic cable spanning from Pacific City to Alaska to Japan, the state lands department has only mandated companies pay an application fee that, since 2001, has been frozen at $5,000.
Oregon Capital Chronicle@oregoncapitalchronicle.com · 2w agoThe Oregon Department of State Lands is proposing for the first time to charge multinational telecommunications and tech companies for using the seafloor off the state’s Pacific Coast for fiber-optic cables used to transmit internet data and international calls.
Video available online shows police shot this man at point-blank range while he was already on the ground. Police in the United States have killed more than 10,000 people since 2016 alone.
Sami Schalk@drsamischalk.bsky.social · 2w agoPolice murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
People are like defunding the police isn’t possible but look at us out here defunding education. We can do anything!
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago
"It’s not asking you to speak up for people you like. It’s asking us to fight for people we can’t even stand. "Because our choice is either we have a society in which we are allowed to be different from one another, or we don’t. And in the latter kind of society, a lot of us will be dead."
Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week's post is about how the Red Scare is a big enough tent for all of us. With an explainer about socialism vs anarchism vs communism, complete with a diagram. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/a-red-scar...
Lawyers working for Harmeet Dhillion refuse to act like lawyers by putting things in writing for fear doing so will be used against them. 👀 This is WILDLY suspect behavior from the people trying to seize voting records from every state. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
