Cruelty for cruelty's sake, evil for evil's sake, in our name. Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Father of USS Lincoln sailor taken into ICE detention while son deployed in Middle East
Joshua Aviles says he is on a nine-month Middle East deployment and learned his father has been arrested while he was waiting for green card approval
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Here's a more fully articulated version of the argument I'd make: simply shaming people about their AI slop isn't an effective strategy for stopping Big AI. There needs to be a power-aware theory of change. www.anildash.com/2026/08/21/a...
Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
A five-year-old boy and his father were arrested by ICE while they were on their way to a soccer match. Video shows the arrest stemming from a vehicle stop in Austin, Texas.
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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Mass surveillance company Palantir paid zero US federal income tax despite reporting a record $1.657B profit in 2025.
I wrote about Big Bend, the power of nature, and the Trump administration’s assault on our national imagination. www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-desec...
Trump’s Desecration of Big Bend Reminds Us Nothing Is Sacred In His America
Yet another example of how his nationalism prioritizes exclusion over veneration of what makes that nation great.
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Well, we can't let that happen. Our nation's history belongs to all of us, not this administration
NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2w agoArchivists, genealogists, historians and family researchers fear the Trump administration may be about to bury a large chunk of the nation’s past, including immigration records, by closing federal records facilities in Northern California and Chicago.
Ossoff: "They see the rebuke that is coming and fear the accountability that will follow it. They recognize the president is deeply unpopular. He's reviled. The public is awake to his corruption and self-dealing…The truth will come out. Mark my words. The truth will come out.”
This is really bad
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2w agoNew, by me: For the first time, the Trump administration says it's going to allow some vetted U.S. private companies to launch cyberattacks and surveillance operations against overseas criminals and hackers, like ransomware gangs. Ad-block bypass: web.archive.org/web/20260813...
Using the presidency for personal financial gain while everyday families face rising costs erodes public trust & integrity and also conflicts with public stewardship. Public office must serve the American people—not enrich the officeholder. #ItsTheCorruptionStupid meidasnews.com/news/trump-p...
Trump Pocketed $2.2 Billion in 2025 While American Families Lost $219 Billion to Rising Costs, New Report Finds
New calculations from the Joint Economic Committee, Minority, show a staggering gap between how President Trump fared financially in 2025 and how ordinary
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is right. Over the past 15 years, the Supreme Court has eroded trust in our democracy. It’s time to build it back by ending Citizens United.
The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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Get a grip, pundits. "There is a revolution happening right now. It's not a woke one, it's an authoritarian one."
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Reporter: DHS plans to spend $10-20M on Taser gloves so when they arrest people, they will be tased. Hochul: That appears to me, on its face, to be a civil rights violation. James: It appears to violate several laws. Courtesy of @acyn.bsky.social
So Taco Bell potentially saved a ton of people by revealing that the lettuce came from Taylor
Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2w agoThe deadly Cyclospora outbreak, it turns out, is just another Trump corruption story. A big donor gets a favor. And causes a massive public health crisis. Let me explain.
jfc I forgot the expletive in question was just him calling "bullshit" stupid reason to get thrown out of a meeting anyway. but then tracking him down a week later to arrest and jail him seems designed to make people fear standing up to power in a critical forum bsky.app/profile/jenr...
Michael Barajas@michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 2w agoTarrant County officials have now arrested and charged two different people for speaking out during last week’s meeting over a plan to cut nearly half of election day polling sites—a local activist and a former state rep fortworthreport.org/2026/08/12/f...
Speaking truth to power is not a crime--it is a right. Resisting far-right, extremist attempts to take over our elections by limiting polling sites is patriotic and in the best interest of all Americans.
Michael Barajas@michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 2w agoTarrant County officials have now arrested and charged two different people for speaking out during last week’s meeting over a plan to cut nearly half of election day polling sites—a local activist and a former state rep fortworthreport.org/2026/08/12/f...
Prediction markets have the potential to cast fog over free and fair elections, open up opportunities for election influence, and incentivize elections be regarded as sport rather than fundamental to our democracy. Not to mention corruption risks. Maybe we should make this whole practice illegal.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoPrediction markets are not predictive and should not be covered as news
A shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court allowed this to happen www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/m...
He Was Deported to Eswatini in Southern Africa. He May Never Go Free.
As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.
nytimes.com
BREAKING: We just filed a lawsuit, on behalf of @freedom.press and @theintercept.com, over Trump's $100,000 subscription for early access to his official government statements on Truth Social. Not only is this latest scheme obscene, it's a blatant violation of the Constitution.
Truth Social's $100,000-per-month subscription for early access to Trump posts is unconstitutional - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
President Trump's scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social violates the First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution.
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She was cancelling FEMA/DHS contracts while working as a contractor for a DOGEr seeking government contracts. Basic conflict of interest.
This Tuesday will mark one year since the National Guard was deployed to Washington, DC against the will of the city's residents. It costs the American people ~$607 per guard member daily. Given we have ~4,600 guard members here right now, that's more than $2.79 million per day.
Our first-of-its-kind complaint challenges a DOJ deal with President Trump that would create unlawful IRS immunity for him and his family. But as @skyeperryman.bsky.social says, we will fight to protect our IRS worker clients, the public, and the Constitution from the president’s scheme.
Forcing Haitian neighbors onto electronic tags in Ohio while stripping their TPS protections is pure cruelty. Watching long-term residents broken down in tears just for checking in exposes a deeply heartless system. We must demand human dignity, respect, and immediate protections! 🎥freedomnews.tv
The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president By Russ Buettner, who covers the Trump family’s finances. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...
Trump Crypto Took $100 Million From a Businessman With Red Flags (Gift Article)
The curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president.
nytimes.com
“As Trump has blown $1.8 billion on construction projects, he’s also been busy profiting off the presidency through stock purchases that reek of insider trading, foreign licensing deals, crypto sales, and even the stocking of Trump wine and cider in stores run by the Coast Guard.” Absurdly corrupt.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago"The private sector money flowing into Trump’s vanity projects is also costing taxpayers. His ballroom is funded by hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars as well as private donations. In this way, we’re all forced to fund Trump’s corruption." — @justinglawe.bsky.social
The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline | Ahmed Moor
The US-Israel war on Iran is accelerating de-dollarization and America’s decline | Ahmed Moor
De-dollarization promises to reorder the world, reducing American power globally
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