ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 16h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

an unfathomable amount of stuff has got better over the last 40 years - hell, even over the *last 15* - and anyone convinced it hasn't does not remember or know what things were like 15 or 40 years ago.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

The race between Shri and Donovan hasn’t been called yet, but the fact that Donovan (a progressive) is up on an incumbent should be part of the story of MI’s primary, this was a big shift inMI that is bigger than just El-Sayed.

also, this is going to be amazing content

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · yesterday

can imagine the personal relationship between Senators Slotkin and El-Sayed going anywhere from “buddy cop movie” to “literal homicide”

chew o'clock

y'all bar trivia tonight is PACKED including two teenage teams and their parents as separate teams and shit is getting t i g h t

okay genuinely what is UP with men in this country refusing to wipe their asses

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Me trying to contribute to the conversation: "No. I had not considered that."

this is a drum I will beat about Spider-Man any time the subject of his day job is raised: for nearly twenty years we've been saddled with "Peter's day job is Scientist" because comics writers haven't realized he's not a Tony Stark or Reed Richards regardless of how brilliant he might be

Mark O. Stack@markwwc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Spider-Man hasn't fully left the Daily Bugle behind because J. Jonah Jameson is one of the all-time support cast members, but Peter Parker has been removed from being a photojournalist for so long that I do really miss it as a flavor.

On a scale of Bernie Madoff to SBF, what level of fraud do we think this guy is doing off the side of his desk cryptobriefing.com/anthropic-am...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns new hires prioritize money over mission

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says new hires prioritize money over mission, refusing to raise salaries to match rivals at the $300B AI safety

cryptobriefing.com

Put away my laundry? I am not bound to the confines of mortal trivialities

1) We gotta kill the term "deliverista" 2) We have like 5 cops getting paid to loiter in the lobby of my office building right now and I feel like at least one of them could go loiter on the corner at Lexington and ticket the delivery guys riding their e-bikes on the sidewalk

Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · yesterday

I love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterday

Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

OPINION: (RNS) — If you want political power in the South, you have to vote in Republican primaries.

Why Black Southerners should become Republicans

(RNS) — If you want political power in the South, you have to vote in Republican primaries.

religionnews.com

”We have nothing to fear but fear itself” was a great, succinct description of markets as social phenomena, and this year has shown that there’s a corollary “everything is great if we all believe together that it is” to some degree as well.

This is the kind of stuff you do when you have your regulator in your back pocket

Sam Ro@tker.co · yesterday

Polymarket is a streamer now? And it's gonna be the only place to get Italian soccer in the U.S. markets.ft.com/data/announc...

I know way too much about mayoral elections in cities I don't live in and have only visited once at most

Just remembered I’ve this on my calendar for the better part of a decade. Happy Dying Smart House day to all who celebrate.

Aaron Meyers@aaronmeyers.bsky.social · yesterday

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

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Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d ago

Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’

of course she was there, she's the original Salt of the Earth™

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

They should include this title card whenever an actor returns to a franchise after their “serious” career takes off.

he is O U T

Starting to think some of you need to go work in an office and play some ice breaker games so you can learn how to deal with people who are not strongly invested in politics and barely believe anything.

Unless you're in the NFL you're probably gonna die.

Boneless Wings…Lover@coachd21.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do you think you take a hit from a NFL player and not fumble the ball at your age?

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

It's so funny to have the fun College GameDay setup behind you for a sullen lunatic sitting there lying about COVID in the register of voice Ryan Gosling maintains for all of "Drive." As he's interviewed by a guy with the IQ of a German Shepherd.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s August 2026 and Aaron Rodgers is having a full blown meltdown about Anthony Fauci.

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

Buying stock in "I live on a busy street, gandalf"

Counterpoint: they're actually craven morons who aren't smart enough to know they've been had

Diana B. Henriques@dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ask Senator Cassidy about the assurances on vaccines from RFKjr. Ask Senator Collins about vows to respect RoevWade from Kavenaugh. Ask Trump's former bankers, bondholders, shareholders, vendors, wives about how he keeps his word. Tillis and Cornyn are too smart to believe this.