Cyber attacks- Minnesota 😡👇🏼

The Manhattan Institute has always been a stalking horse for authoritarian shit. Now more than ever

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing how many respectable liberals, and even leftists, in New York media continued to speak warmly of Reihan Salam is what made me first realize that some journalists have no criteria for moral judgment other than whether someone is personally nice to them. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/n...

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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If a Muslim did this they’d be in Gitmo indefinitely

Hemant Mehta@friendlyatheist.com · last wk.

Evangelist Whitney Lynn says she preaches on planes because she loves “a captive audience.” She's not alone. It's becoming a trend. If spreading your message requires listeners who can't escape, maybe it's not as compelling as you think. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/christian-...

Great piece on the largely imaginary shoplifting surge: I do think one thing the piece misses is that a bunch of major police departments started years-long work slowdowns in 2020 where they refused to do their jobs (often falsely claiming their hands were tied by woke prosecutors)

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Historic achievement in: now they tell us

People are impersonating ICE here in Clackamas County, Oregon. Sooner or later the funniest and most predictable thing you can imagine will happen.

Not only does it NOT EXIST, the State Department is being run by open 1488ers www.salon.com/2026/07/23/t...

Trump's antifa terrorism threat does not exist - Salon.com

The Trump administration made up a group to spread fear and conspiracy theories.

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Idk man kinda feels like they’re more interested in Israel than America to me and we should start treating these entities accordingly

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 2w ago

American Jewish organizations are waging war against one of the most popular public figures in the country, on behalf of a blood-drenched serial killer. I wonder how that will work out.

Derek Chauvin was a field training officer for Minneapolis PD. More training won't help unaccountable right-wing thugs be decent. If you want a phenomenal dive into a microcosm of this problem, you would do well to read @awinston.bsky.social's book "The Riders Come Out At Night", about Oakland PD.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 3w ago

I keep hearing about how the poor training of ICE agents led to the recent killings. But as I argued for @ms.now after the Renee Good murder, it isn’t really about training. It’s about what DHS is designed to do now. www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

Footage shot from aboard a ship owned by the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater environmental organization showed the U.S. Coast Guard and New York Police Department vessels directing the tall ship away from New York Harbor's Sail4th 250 parade on July 4. reut.rs/4gX4oxR

The Brennan Center for Justice sued the Trump administration Thursday seeking records on whether the Department of Justice has created lists of voters for states to remove from the rolls. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Pro-voting group sues Trump DOJ over its alleged voter purge lists

Brennan says DOJ sought extraordinary power to tell states which voters to remove from the rolls — and now wants a court to force the Trump administration to disclose whether it has already created th...

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Always amusing to watch these characters show their ass

Uzza@uzzamodea.bsky.social · last mo.

Chat is this true

BREAKING: A federal judge has halted the Trump administration effort to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and others in an immigration enforcement probe.

Federal judge halts Trump administration effort to subpoena Walz in immigration enforcement probe

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”

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BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing a new system she says is "actively" and "haphazardy" purging "non-citizens" from voter rolls using inaccurate data. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

The president of the Phoenix Police Sergeants and Lieutenants Association is defending the plainclothes cop who showed up to a high school anti-ICE walkout while armed and tried to bait students into assaulting him so he could arrest them. Wild choice for an op-ed in the Republic here.

azcentral@azcentral.com · 2mo ago

Opinion: Before we rush to judgement on the Phoenix police officer fired for harassing protesting teens, he does have First Amendment rights too.

New: it appears ICE is buying immigrants' tax identifiers through a data broker. ICE has repeatedly tried to get this sort of data from the IRS. Judges have repeatedly blocked that move, calling it illegal. Now it looks like ICE is just buying related data instead www.404media.co/ice-appears-...

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court or...

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NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

In a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI's polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War.

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This is not reporting. It’s profiteering

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So this is for a book that comes out in eight days. Which means that Haberman and Swan knew about this months ago and it's just being reported now. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Erdoğan’s playbook

Reuters@reuters.com · 2mo ago

Newsom says Trump has directed Justice Department to investigate him reut.rs/43BjfWY

@awinston.bsky.social called this one earliest and most clearly. thebaffler.com/latest/cedin...

Ceding Ground | Ali Winston

Zohran Mamdani has ceded control of New York City Police Department to an ideological opponent.

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jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2mo ago

Yeah, I mean, he made three specific campaign promises about the NYPD and he’s walked them all back. They weren’t particularly ambitious promises either www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/n...

Early warning systems like this are a scam and a way for Internal Affairs to not work or claim they can’t work without more money

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

Chicago taxpayers have paid $2.7M for a system designed to alert officials about which officers have been the subject of repeated police misconduct allegations, according to records obtained by WTTW News. But it is not clear how — or why — Benchmark Analytics was selected by officials.

A couple of courthouse clerks in Utah are accused of helping immigrants evade ICE officers. After allegedly doing this, they "were spotted on a surveillance camera waving and smiling at it," with one using "her middle finger in an obscene gesture at the camera.” www.sltrib.com/news/2026/06...

2 former city employees in Utah face federal charges for allegedly helping someone evade ICE

Two justice court clerks heard ICE was at their courthouse, so they ushered three people out the back door, federal prosecutors allege.

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The sad part of this World Cup is how not just Trump has poisoned the USMNT’s presence - but also Pulisic’s MAGAtry & the conspicuously Christian displays by so many of the current squad.

Jeff Rueter@jeffrueter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Run, don't walk, to @us.theguardian.com's ranking of the USMNT's goals from 1990 onwards. There were some simply sensational strikes. @anabnos.com, @mlsist.bsky.social, and I rated the importance, quality, and ✨vibes✨ of each. That's why we're here. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The NBA finals remind me how fucking disgusting NYC’s upper crust really is. Eat the Rich. Knicks in four

NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.

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Just like gang laws and surveillance practices, the media also revels in targeting “marginal” populations with new phrasing, framing and delineations of “correct” society and behavior. The Platner saga is going to be taught for years in journalism schools and sociology courses

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

About how this relates to NYT specifically: The Times systematically ran its reputation for fair, honest journalism into the ground with the trans community and others. It's coming back to bite them with folks not trusting their big investigated features, which is their own fault entirely.

The rag was always pretty sad but it’s been amazing to watch it turn into OANN-lite

The Economist@economist.com · 2mo ago

The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV