A Starry Knight 🗽⚖🗽
@a-starry-knight.bsky.social
TIRED I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two- And see what worms are eating At the rind. - Langston Hughes
The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
New Mexico Sues Blanche, DOJ For ‘Withholding’ Epstein Files
The state said it needs the records to investigate allegations of abuse at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch.
forbes.com
Residents of Puerto Rico, who are US citizens, are suffering severe #water crises from underinvestment, bad management, and insufficient maintenance. Some communities have had no safe running water for months. english.elpais.com/internationa...
More than 100 days without water: The crisis hitting thousands in Puerto Rico, on top of the blackouts
Years of underinvestment and inadequate maintenance of key infrastructure have been compounded by a drought that threatens to trigger partial rationing
english.elpais.com
The extreme heat & drought in Puerto Rico have gotten too little attention in the rest of the US. Things there are very bad. apnews.com/article/puer...
Puerto Rican cities hit with water rationing measures as record dry conditions persist
Puerto Rico will implement water rationing measures in San Juan and other major cities as a drought grips the U.S. territory with no relief in sight.
apnews.com
BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
SHOUT OUT to Mike Luckovich: one of the all-time great political cartoonists. 🏆 With corporate media doing such a poor job in these most perilous of times, his work is more vital than ever! THANK YOU @mluckovich.bsky.social!!! 🙏
Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
For a year and a half, we’ve been subject to the daily onslaught of Trump and his cruel, corrupt, and incompetent second regime. My question to you now, in the middle of the summer of our discontent, is what strategies you’re using to cope with this horror.
Office Hours: How are you coping?
Friends,
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The fruit seller from Mykolaiv, who survived the sick "human safari" attack in Kherson. 52 year old Yuri and his doctor spoke to @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social, he told how he was sorting garlic at the farmer's market when the drone started to chase him.
Mountainish inhumanity. Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Video shows Russian drone chasing Ukrainian street vendor in 'human safari' attack
Ukraine said the video - showing a terrified civilian being hounded by a remotely-controlled drone - amounted to a war crime.
bbc.co.uk
Ukrainian vegetable seller targeted in 'human safari' drone attack
Ukrainian vegetable seller targeted in 'human safari' drone attack
A video shows a Russian drone pursuing a street vendor in the Kherson region before exploding.
bbc.co.uk
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Sorry but the OP is so funny. "Oh you hate AI? Well what if all these things that suck and burn natural resources, and that also stole from you, which you have never used even once went away?" What point is this meant to prove?
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 15h agoI have one answer.
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21h agoFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
Zimmerman wins Democratic primary for St. Louis County executive | St. Louis Magazine www.stlmag.com/news/jake-zi...
Zimmerman wins Democratic primary for St. Louis County executive
County assessor Jake Zimmerman notched a decisive victory in the Democratic primary for St. Louis County executive yesterday, besting state Senator Brian Williams (D–University City), 46 to 33 percent...
stlmag.com
When generals start emailing the ranks…begging for “creative and unconventional” ideas, you’ve moved past confidence …and into desperation. That’s not the sound of a winning strategy. It’s the sound of leaders…searching for an exit.
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
The Ellison Bullshit machine CBS had to shovel their crap back from their LIES about Mamdani THEIR STENCH IS STRONG popular.info/p/update-cbs...
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
popular.info
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
Trump the money launderer. No one investigated. “Were these 300 accounts ever subjected to a federal anti-money-laundering investigation, and it not, why not? Investigators should have traced the transactions, identified the counterparties…” open.substack.com/pub/mitchthe...
Capital One Says It Closed 300+ Trump Accounts for “Anti-Money-Laundering Reasons”
In a July 31, 2026 motion to dismiss filed in federal court in Miami, Capital One told a judge it closed more than 300 Trump-affiliated accounts in 2021 “for anti-money laundering (’AML’) reasons,” af...
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This AML closure of those folks accounts should be a BFD & the only reason we know is because their dumbasses decided to sue
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 20h agoSo now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...
God bless my nerdy kids watching the election results. Lol. Tear of pride.
