FWIW, both of VDARE’s founders were on the masthead of the National Review in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Peter Brimelow was also a staffer for Senator Orrin Hatch. This white nationalist thread has been present in the conservative movement for a long time. Screenshot is from 1997.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

VDARE?!?!? We are seriously considering VDARE authors for Senate confirmation???

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

Incredible run of photos, showing Randolph St (Millennium Station) in early 1977, by Lou Gerard.

Congrats, China!

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · 22h ago

couple months ago: let's show these assholes why americans are drowning in medical and other personal debt now: wait what we don't even have the weaponry now either

The faster the bubble pops, the better.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · yesterday

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

This stinks.

Politico@politico.com · 23h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

If you want to know how Flock got so big so fast in Illinois, look no further than our sitting Attorney General (who refused to comment for this story!):

Eyes on the heartland

A vast network of new license plate cameras has exploded across Illinois in recent years—paid for by state grants to fight retail crime. With the federal government clamoring for more information on p...

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Madison, WI. Today, 4August Police brought a wheel loader. Protesters clung to what they called "an autonomous zone," where a cop killed Corey Ruiz. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Laura Schulte, captured the scene at 7:44 am (local time). "Police have removed protestors." URL: x.com/SchulteLaura...

I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev

Amtrak Bicycle Access

Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.

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It’s Amy Coney Barrett all over again. Collins, facing reelection, will vote no on an anti-abortion nominee who gets confirmed anyway

Alice Miranda Ollstein@alicemiranda.bsky.social · 24h ago

BREAKING: Susan Collins cited our report on Blanche's promise on a private call with religious activists to restrict abortion pills in announcing today she will not vote to confirm him. www.newscentermaine.com/article/news...

"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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Lemmy's Glamour Shot nipple follows you around the room like the eyes in a painting from a Scooby Doo villain castle.

I think the "I am just a smoll bean" joke is overdone, but the Senate of the United States can't do anything to rein in the President is that joke.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

The fires in Washington had me thinking about this favorite video of early footage of hang-gliders at Chelan Butte. I know little about the sport but watched them in the sky many times as a kid.

Chelan - The Early Years

YouTube video by olsonspeed

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makes you wonder why some people think we should hire 1000 more cops

Jared Rutecki@jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 2d ago

There were 37 homicides in the city last month, the lowest total for any such month dating back to at least 1970. That total is down 18% compared to July 2025, and is less than half the totals of July 2020 and 2021, which each saw more than 100 killings.

Just wanted to profess my undying love for Rockpile. Get Stiff!

Rockpile - Live At Rockpalast 1980 (Full Concert Video)

YouTube video by Repertoire Records

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The lakefront seems more popular than ever this summer.

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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I was on Chelan today

WIRED has made this article free for all to read because it is primarily based on reporting from Freedom of Information Act requests. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

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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Hell yeah.

Live Tapes@livetapes.heads.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d ago

Budgie - 1972-02-25 Peel Session https://archive.org/details/budgie-1972-02-25-peel-session

This is a world-class spot for hang-gliding and paragliding.

Zeb Palmer@zebpalmer.com · 4d ago

I've been watching the Little Giant fire near Chelan, WA, all day. On satellite, you can see it's HELLA HOT and pumping a TON of smoke. Pic from Chelan Butte, which is dear to my heart, as I spent a lot of time working a fire at Chelan/Manson 25ish years ago.

It's not just that our university presidents have failed to engage in loud, public collective action to oppose the existential assault on our institutions. It's worse. They've been actively complicit. A total moral failure. A total collective action failure. Adverse selection in authoritarian times.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

This story is so absurd that I think it didn’t get enough attention. Chicago police is violating the law to the tune of hundreds of thousands of secret traffic stops that it’s not reporting as the law requires. When Pascal discovered this, they said they’d fix it… but secrecy has only increased!

Pascal Sabino@pascalsabino.bsky.social · 3w ago

Chicago Police officials said they would address the 200,000+ secretive traffic stops I had uncovered two years ago that were hidden from oversight. But now as CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling retires, the issue is worse— *half* of all stops in the last year were not properly documented

Beginning to think oil traders would give their wallet to the local inspector.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d ago

*BRENT OIL SLUMPS 6.7% AT OPEN AS TRUMP HOLDS OFF IRAN STRIKES

Yikes, the amount of tanker aircraft assisting with the fire in Spokane is incredible - visible are 5 Canadair Scoopers and Super Scoopers, a Boeing 737, a Dehavilland tanker, at least three Sikorsky helicopters. There has also been a DC-10 tanker and now a DC-9 tanker. Just amazing coordination.

I maybe got a little emotional looking at this photo 🪐🔭🚀🛰️ via NASA astronaut Don Pettit: “I finally have all 1.2 million raw image files from my latest mission to ISS! Here is a sample of one of my favorite Milky Way photos, taken from the Cupola.”

Spokane 3:41 pm. Wind blowing strong, smoke spreading over Five Mile Bluff, many homes located on Indian Bluff road along the top of the rimrock are under threat of burning. Tree tops now flaming out.