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Must-read piece from @kylietcheung.bsky.social: Mike Mazzei is likely to become the nation’s first sitting governor to openly endorse jailing abortion patients
The Likely Next Oklahoma Gov. Wants to Jail Abortion Patients
Mike Mazzei would be the nation’s first openly ‘abolitionist’ governor
jessica.substack.com
On this I cannot disagree. Mainstream media and legacy media have been bought and paid for and are willing turning a blind eye to an obvious coverup. No one is willing to go to the hospital and find out the truth? Shameful.
The Fox clip explains Paxton's homestead: he kept McKinney, didn’t reapply in Austin, and the 2018 Austin break was a prior-owner transfer. It doesn’t clear the mortgages. Three loans listed different houses as primary. Those cheaper rates stay locked for the life of the loan. 3 fraudulent claims.
What Ken is deflecting here is that he was voting in Colin County while he was living in Denton County, neither of which is anywhere near Austin. All of this is a result of his wife kicking him out of his house due to the divorce. The Austin home is irrelevant. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/07/k...
Ken Paxton’s voter registration may violate Texas election law - The Texas Tribune
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
texastribune.org
It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.
"The young woman ran for her life, but it was too late. A small Russian drone swooped down from the sky... As it tried to navigate toward a gas station, it crashed into a wall and exploded in a hail of shrapnel, killing Tetiana Bubynets, 19, a university student, and two others."
A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I. (Gift Article)
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
nytimes.com
Son on the USS Lincoln, father in ICE detention. The son suffering during a senseless war abroad, the father suffering during a sadistic war on ourselves. www.atfkw.com/p/navy-sailo...
Navy Sailor’s Father Detained in Key West Immigration Operation
Joshua Aviles Castillo was completing his ninth month aboard the embattled USS Abraham Lincoln when he learned that federal immigration authorities had detained his father.
atfkw.com
NOAA launches the weather balloons, floats the ocean buoys, flies the satellites, and staffs the forecasters that tell us when storms are coming. That data supports about two-thirds of the economy, roughly $1.3 trillion a year, and it paid us back $73 for every dollar we spent on it.
They want to pull another $1.6 billion out of NOAA next year. They want to hand the rest to private companies, so your town ends up paying a business for weather data your taxes already paid for, with no promise it will even be right.
Ossoff: It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults, public officials paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust.
NEW: Flock has said for years that its cameras "cannot track individuals." We found the code for its new AI tool. It's preloaded w/ prompts like "Find me witness" & "find relatives." One tracks visitors of multiple hotels, another if you visit banks after midnight. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
The US national debt just surpassed $40 trillion. At least $12.3 trillion (30.75%) of this total was acquired during the 5 yrs and 7 months Trump has been in office. FACTS.
We gotta bring back the headphone jack, man. It shouldn't be this hard to go to a busy waiting room anymore without hearing someone playing something on their phone.
Far right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has advocated for Israel to kill “30 to 40” Palestinians in Gaza every night, in the latest genocidal remarks from members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.
Ben-Gvir Urges Killing 40 People in Gaza Nightly, Says “They’re Not Even People”
The minister said Israel should go beyond “those who pose an immediate threat.”…
truthout.org
There's no reason to keep supporting Amazon. You can buy books and stream elsewhere. It's just not worth it.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w agoNew from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
Core Civic is paid $15.6 million per MONTH for just the Dilley facility (Houston Chronicle). The South Texas ICE Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas is run by the GEO Group. The process in all facilities is designed solely as a for profit enterprise.
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
They put the entire WHPC on a targeted plane and said nothing. Someday I really hope the subs in the WHPC realize their dom isn't playing when he says he hates them and wants them dead.
Aaron Schaffer@aaronschaffer.com · 4w ago!!!
Fuck Israel and fuck all the rabbis in new york who support it and conflate anti-Israel sentiment with anti-semitism. Bad faith manipulators. Toxic war criminal supporters.
Rabbis Plead With Mamdani to Tone Down His Anti-Israel Messaging (Gift Article)
In a private meeting at City Hall, an invited group of rabbis told Mayor Zohran Mamdani that his relationship with Jewish New Yorkers needed to change.
nytimes.com
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...
The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.
I prefer presidents who don’t have their accounts closed over money laundering concerns.
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Isn’t it high time to bring all the craven politicians, rabid media & profiteering big environmental exploiters to account - better still to trial with punitive damages, for all the destruction they are reaping on our planet? Over time people vote for survival www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out
As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer
theguardian.com
Sir #DavidAttenborough “Things are going to get worse. This is the new extinction. We are in terrible, terrible trouble and the longer we wait to do something about it, the worse it is going to get." #ClimateEmergency
David Attenborough, the voice of Our Planet: “Things are going to get worse”
The voice of some of the most stunning nature documentaries ever made is pessimistic about the future of wildlife on earth.
vox.com