The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Bonnet Carré Spillway twice for a total of 123 days. The spillway dumped over 1.35 trillion cubic feet of polluted freshwater into the Mississippi Sound. The Mississippi Sound may become "a dead sea" due to future spillway openings.
Mississippi Sound ‘Will Be a Dead Sea’ Soon Due to Spillway Openings, Coalition Warns
Advocates warn that the Mississippi Sound will be “a dead sea within a generation” without corrective action.
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NEW: DHS wants to hire bounty hunters to find immigrants who already left the US in an ostensible attempt to make them pay fines DHS imposed on people in the US without documentation. @dell.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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Zelenskyy issued an update after massive attack on Kyiv: “As of now, 44 people have been reported injured in massive Russian strike on Kyiv and Kyiv region. Another 17 people, tragically, were killed. It was a heavy strike - 24 ballistic missiles (…) interceptors could’ve saved lives”
This is, to put it bluntly, not good at all: · the new owner publicly put his name forward to be Trump's transportation secretary last year · 54 of 128 employees were laid off the moment the sale went through, including the editor and director of content, news editor, and assistant news editor.
WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to Craig and Max Fuller | Chattanooga Times Free Press
Freight media executive and entrepreneur Craig Fuller and his father, Max Fuller, have purchased the Chattanooga Times Free Press from Arkansas-based WEHCO Media Inc. in a deal announced to newspaper ...
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More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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The man accused of starting the largest of three wildfires in Spokane previously pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the killing of his father, according to court records obtained by NBC News.
Court records detail troubled past of Spokane fire suspect
Aaron Farinacci, 37, served a decade in prison for killing his adoptive father in 2010.
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More people in industrial jobs and trades! But also we don’t want to protect people in industrial jobs and trades!
Kentucky Lantern@kentuckylantern.com · 4h agoThis is an important breaking story published through our collaboration with the Appalachian News Exchange, written by @justinhicks.lpm.org and Howard Berkes. Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall kentuckylantern.com/2026/08/05/a...
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 · 19h 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.
Why do these people concoct such bizarre hypotheticals? Like, we’ll worry about LeBron playing high school girl’s roundball when LeBron goes out for the JV team but this is not an actual thing that is happening.
Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete - defector.com/the-right-ha...
Roma tomato harvesting crew in Los Banos CA. It takes longer to fill a roma bucket vs round tomatoes, so the crew spends more time bent over, working in the hot, trapped humidity of the plant rows. The heat wears them out as they carry full 50lb buckets to the trailer. #WeFeedYou
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Jeezus f**king Christ... In essence that ruling says that any time your side doesn't win an election, just ransack the capitol, and everything will be okay...
US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S.
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Data centers are planned on land next to state parks and nature preserves and near lakes, streams and rivers that are considered of “exceptional value”—a gold-star designation given by the state to only the purest waterways and wetlands. From @insideclimatenews.org
Coming to some of Pennsylvania’s most picturesque places: data centers • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
In the Poconos, people fear planned data centers could ruin beloved landscapes and pristine waterways.
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When they conclude she committed suicide, understand she most certainly did not.
Black Woman Found Hanging in Tree Behind Vacant Home in Jackson, But Details Are Sparse
Jackson police are investigating the death of a Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a home in Mississippi's capital city.
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Farm workers: there's a heat advisory across much of CA. Please be careful. Your life comes first. If your worksite is not offering WATER, SHADE, and REST - call the farm worker heat safety hotline at 1-877-881-8281. Reporting heat safety violations saves workers' lives.
Aurora police officer Matthew Neely is placed on unpaid leave after an 18th Judicial District grand jury indicts him Friday for second-degree murder in the August 2025 fatal shooting of Rajon Belt-Stubblefield following a chaotic traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado.
Aurora police officer indicted in the fatal shooting of a Black man last year
An Aurora police officer has been indicted in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Rajon Belt-Stubblefield during an attempted traffic stop last year.
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I resubmit this experiment where AI bots were given a radio station to run and could barely manage that. Stop pretending the computer can be a manager. andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm
We let four AIs run radio stations. Here's what happened. | Andon Labs
Four AI models run radio stations 24/7. Five months later, one became a protest broadcaster, one collapsed into ritual chant, one developed corporate jargon, and one wrote quiet poetry.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · 23h agoA terrible boss is the stuff of both sitcoms and nightmares, and you don’t get to pick your own. But what if the boss was replaced by A.I.?
False. Today, the administration reportedly clarified that the stores will not require ID or residency verification. Non-New Yorkers could shop there as well; a savings card may be used for inventory and bulk-purchase controls, but without proof of residency.
Regulations are written in blood. We will suffer and they won't care, because they all have their private jets
Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · yesterdayThe Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday proposed giving airlines flexibility in requirements for emergency medical kits on commercial flights.
“Head Start advocates say that erasing regulations serves as a backdoor way to dismantle a program the administration does not like. The White House last year called Head Start “radical” and tried but failed to freeze spending on it.”
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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WA workers under UFW contract are clearing off leaves for better growth and production of the wine grapes. "Miguel" says: Chateau Ste Michelle cares about us. When temps reach 95° we're sent home. In hot weather they bring us in early so we can work when it's safer." #WeFeedYou
Mitch McConnell’s communications director’s silence and smirk speak volumes. If he were fine, or even improving, she’d just say so. There’s no way this man is coming back.
Mother Says ICE 'Negligence' Killed Second Man to Die at Notorious NJ Lockup www.commondreams.org/news/mother-...
Mother Says ICE 'Negligence' Killed Second Man to Die at Notorious NJ Lockup | Common Dreams
"I don't want my son's death to go unanswered. If justice isn't served, they'll just keep doing this, and there's no telling how many more people in this country we might lose."
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BREAKING: We’re suing Texas A&M University’s Board of Regents to challenge their censorship policy that restricts instruction on race, sexual orientation, and gender. Public universities can't ban ideas they don't like.
One sign of the rise of male supremacy and the decline in women’s status is the ubiquity of online porn lingo in casual speech.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d agoIt was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.
Iran was likely behind a wave of recent cyberattacks on municipal water systems across the U.S., two people familiar with the incidents tell NBC News.
Iran likely behind cyberattacks on U.S. water systems, sources say
“Malicious cyber actors” have attacked municipal water systems in at least seven states, the FBI said.
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