AKgrrrl
@akgrrrl.bsky.social
Antifa baby wrangler. AK grown; AK politics...groan. Слава Україні! 🌻
In 19 states alone, more than 1 million children have lost food benefits since last July.
Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
npr.org
Co-host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast whose book was blurbed by DJT, Jr and JD Vance. Don’t call them fascists though.
As his confirmation to lead the Justice Department hung by a thread last week, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told faith leaders on a private call that he was preparing to take action to roll back abortion access nationwide. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
politico.com
GOOD NEWS! A new cancer treatment has demonstrated unprecedented results in a large trial for cancer patients whose disease has become resistant to chemotherapy AND immunotherapy. Tumors shrank in OVER a third of participants, with 15 patients experiencing COMPLETE eradication of their tumors.
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive." --James Baldwin
Elon Musk is betting that Maine voters will consider him, the Hitler-saluting white nationalist trillionaire father of 14 children with 4 different women who wants to send people to Mars, as a more trustworthy figure than a 5th-generation Maine logger who wants more spending on healthcare. Good luck
Troy Jackson@troyjackson207.bsky.social · 3d agoMy response to Elon Musk.
Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d agoThose who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.
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.
futurism.com
Credible reports that ICE abducted someone in Fairbanks on Thursday, July 30. Credible reports that ICE abducted someone in Fairbanks at 8:30am on Friday, July 31 during a traffic stop near Fred’s East. ICE has been staging downtown in the federal building parking lot around 7am 7/30 and 7/31.
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
newrepublic.com
Latest in the newsletter from me: Big-ticket contributions — the kind that'd be banned under the campaign finance limits voters will be asked to enact in this primary election — accounted for just 2% of all contributions but more than 52% of all the cash. #akleg #akelect
With no limits, deep-pocketed donors play an outsized role in shaping Alaska's elections
Just 2% of all contributions made to non-congressional candidates account for 52% of all the money they've raised.
akmemo.com
"Many are receiving the letters not long before the scheduled appointment — in some cases, the same day...If they cannot make it, they are told to write a reason on the form, then scan and send it to a provided email within 24 hours of receiving the letter."
Some Springfield Haitians summoned to ICE office, outfitted with ankle monitors
Several Haitians in Springfield have received letters from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security telling them to go to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cincinnati field office for an
springfieldnewssun.com
Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran
Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran
Federal agencies, including the FBI, EPA and CISA, have warned that attacks on U.S. water utilities first detected in Minnesota are expanding across states.
dlvr.it
An additional scoop within this piece: Tina Peters on a podcast said that in her Oval Office meeting with Trump she urged him to fire members of the Election Assistance Commission, which he subsequently did.
Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · 6d agoSCOOP: A group of election deniers claim they met with CISA & said they've pitched the Trump administration on a midterm “election-security plan." The group includes Tina Peters; Clay Parikh, who's served as a “special government employee” for the Trump administration; & two podcast hosts.
Pirro repeatedly and strenuously blames the Dept of Interior for this debacle, alleging they withheld info that the lining was botched. "Had DOI been forthcoming with the information clearly in its possession, the government would not have sought a grand jury indictment."
emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 5d agoJuicebox Jeanine files a 20-page Motion to Dismiss the case against Davey Hearn that ... claims to have been helpless before DOI told them how Trump's incompetence ruined the pool. Not sure when I've seen this Olympic class ass-covering before. legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade is now 0-19. A federal judge dismissed its Illinois case with prejudice, ruling that Congress never gave DOJ “a general auditing power” over state election officials.
After brutal Illinois defeat, Trump DOJ’s voter roll crusade is 0 for 19
DOJ has appealed nearly all of its voter roll defeats. Yet no court to date has ordered a state to provide the department with an unredacted statewide voter database.
democracydocket.com
It's also worth sharing this great documentary again, which came out last week, and was produced by another S-Tier ICE Air journalist, Chris Hansen, from KUSA-TV in Denver. I'm happy to share constructive criticism - I don't have any notes to improve this piece - it's exceptionally well-done.
WATCH | ICE AIR: Inside America's Secret Deportation Network
YouTube video by 9NEWS
youtube.com
I am not sure if there is any going back, but a reminder that as recently as about 16 months ago, it would have been considered beyond the pale that government accounts would be used as partisan mouthpieces (let alone ones that pushed conspiracy theories).
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d agoWhat “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?
"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
inquirer.com
Congrats again to Chief Keyser Söze, whose greatest trick was convincing the world that actual John Roberts does not exist: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d agoNYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.
A lot of people talk about “saving democracy.” The real question is: who is building the power to defend it? Democracy survives when people organize.
Huh? I pick up prescriptions all the time without an ID. I just give the pharmacist my date of birth and they hand me the meds. The only time I get IDed is when I'm buying Sudafed, and that's because they want to know if I'm going to cook meth with it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoRep. John McGuire on need for the SAVE America Act: "You can't go anywhere, you can't get medicine, you can't go to the Obama museum without a photo ID."
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
writing these words in this order made me feel like i was having a stroke, i am pleased to share it with all of you
Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d agowww.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
What “they” did to your kids. Remind me again, who was president in the spring and fall of 2020 when the majority of in-person school closures happened?
Pls read & share--incredibly important info about preventing ovarian cancer by offering prophylactic removal of fallopian tubes during any other abdominal surgery. This cancer is usually found far too late--I would do this in a heartbeat 💓 "Most ‘Ovarian Cancer’ Isn’t. And That Fact Can Save Lives"
There’s a Way to Prevent Ovarian Cancer. Few Know About It. (Gift Article)
The vast majority of cases begin in the fallopian tubes — and removing them can reduce the risk by nearly 80 percent.
nytimes.com
Navarro and other similar rants about Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine have appears hundreds of times today on US media without anyone bothering to point how how ridiculous all his claims are. So, here's Peter Hotez to do so.
