The same thing happened in Ohio to a trans man a few years ago. He used a public bathroom (that the owner of a campsite, who knew him, TOLD him to use) and a mob attacked him. He didn't fight back but when police showed up, they still arrested him. So. This is why trans people are afraid to pee.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2h ago

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

INBOX: NIOSH researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia (Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia) are suffering from the incurable and fatal black lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. (h/t @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social @kentuckypublicradio.org )

New Study: Black Lung Disease Rate in Appalachia Is the Worst in 50 Years as Coal Miner Protections Stall - Public Health Watch

It's now as bad as it was in the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying.

publichealthwatch.org

If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

theguardian.com

Our story details how, researchers at the @ttp-updates.bsky.social stumbled across a batch of ads—including face swapping a minor into a sexual act—after publishing a report on "nudify" ads on Meta last week. The researchers reported the findings to US clearing house, NCMEC

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.

wired.com

#MIsen

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."

Big Bend holds a special place for me: it was the first National Park my wife and I visited together when we were dating, a big road trip we’d planned during spring break one year. This is heartbreaking.

The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park

Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project

ourpubliclandsandwaters.substack.com

I always feel the need to spread props for @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social when I see student debt forgiveness wins.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h ago

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.

There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.

AILA@aila.org · 7h ago

"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m

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Ms. K tweets@whatmsksaid.bsky.social · 7mo ago

hello community ~ my north minneapolis school community has been greatly impacted by the federal occupation of our city and coordinated abduction of our beloved neighbors, many of our parents. our Camden immigrant neighbors are in need of ur financial support. plz donate here: gofund.me/287e233f3

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

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Politico@politico.com · 21h ago

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

I join union nurses in calling for Debora Kapisha's immediate release from ICE detention. To those who can make it, I encourage you to join Maine union nurses for an emergency demonstration today at 10:30 AM outside Maine Medical Center in Portland.

"RFK Jr. is wrong. Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S." 🔸Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate per capita from January 2020 to March 2023 with 665.84 deaths per 100,000. The U.S. rate was nearly half at 341.11 per 100,000 people, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Peru had the highest COVID-19 death rate, not the U.S.

During a CNN interview, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the U.S. had the highest death rate from COVID-19. Peru’s was higher.

politifact.com

Mike Johnson told Politico that he's standing behind Max Miller despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him. Pro tip: if Mike Johnson is for it, do the opposite.

Unfathomable

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Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 23h ago

"It’s as if we launched a war against nature, and that has turned place after place into something that resembles a war zone," writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. "The climate movement is a peace movement, a movement to end this war and its casualties."

Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

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.

Climate crisis is no fun

Unless we ban the use of fossil fuels for energy generation and surface transport, no company will ever leave this stuff in the ground. Why would they when they're making money hand over fist?

Oil Giant Saudi Aramco Reports 33% Profit Surge, Despite Iran War Disruptions (Gift Article)

Higher oil prices propelled a quarterly earnings jump for Saudi Arabia’s energy giant, which used pipelines to work around disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz.

nytimes.com

'Powerless': Indiana families describe the toll of losing Medicaid access

'Powerless': Indiana families describe the toll of losing Medicaid access • Indiana Capital Chronicle

Indiana families describe delayed care, confusion and financial strain as Medicaid coverage lapses ripple across the state's health system.

indianacapitalchronicle.com

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

trib.al

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 3w ago

Some know how hard it has been to obtain paid work as a fat brown queer disabled immigrant woman trauma survivor in this political climate, so if able, please contribute to my continued existence: ko-fi.com/equitablefor... "Canadian" e-transfers can be sent to krystaljagoo@gmail.com Please share!🙏🏾

Facts.

David Bowman@dlbowman76.com · 2d ago

I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Extreme weather is complicated (there are over 150 definitions of drought in the literature!), the Earth system is complex, models are imperfect, and we still have much to learn. But it's remarkable how spot-on most of our predictions have been: drawdown.org/insights/is-...

Is climate change unfolding faster and fiercer than scientists expected?

Climate change is undeniably here, and it’s bad. But is it, as some are claiming, worse than even the scientists expected?

drawdown.org

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

I cannot find words. This is ONE of many horrible events happening to people right here ....to say nothing of the other horrors we are inflicting elsewhere. They do everything in our name, on our dime. Start w voting out the magagop responsible for all this. #iceOut #v4v #dv2 #usDemocracy

If you want a perfect capsule to demonstrate how completely divorced from reality the broligarchs and their toadies are, look only to the fact that someone thought a winning strategy is to bring a disgraced one-term NYC mayor to Wisconsin to sell angry residents a data center lol

Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d ago

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

this is generally part of a broader conservative goal to kill women's sports so girls are more docile and feminine with trans panic the spice on top