El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u... @nytimes.com since when is it ok to call sexual harassment "lavish gifts and affection"?
House Ethics Panel Finds Rep. Chuck Edwards Likely Violated Sexual Harassment Rules (Gift Article)
The Ethics Committee called for the censure of Representative Chuck Edwards, Republican of North Carolina, who showered two female staffers with lavish gifts and affection.
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The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Navalny, in prison: “I don’t for a second regret it… the only thing we should fear is we’ll surrender our homeland to be plundered by a gang of liars, thieves & hypocrites. That we will surrender without a fight, voluntarily, our own future and the future of our children.”
In its most recent quarterly financial report, Palantir reported $1.28 billion in total US revenue. Of that amount, $687 million came from U.S. taxpayer-funded agencies—an EIGHTY FOUR PERCENT INCREASE year-over-year. Cool. Cool … 1/
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
Declaration (has been made public) from 16 year old when she was in Dilley:
Talking with Dilley lawyers (fucking heroes) about what's actually going on. I struggle to put it into words. They are contracting with firm CIA uses, paying agents known to torture to track down & seize kids alone only because they've already taken their parents.
This is not about the OP, but honestly, I think the constant harping on "no do THIS not THAT as a consumer" is designed to make you give up on climate. This is a job for good old fashioned government, one that regulates pollution, including greenhouse gases.
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.I'm getting dietary fatigue at this point. This is an OLD reality, but the solutions aren't as straightforward as some of the coverage would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations
The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.
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Using children as bait. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of children, sponsors arrested by ICE after tips from US child migrant agency
More than 12,000 people have been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities following tips from the Office of Refugee Resettlement during President Donald Trump’s second term.
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It's obviously not on the same scale as what Elon has done, but everyone involved in Trump's deportations should be viewed as mass murderers for all the people they've sent back to countries where they face a high risk of death. And of course there are all the other murders here in the U.S.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
a thing a blue state government should do is set up a barely-above-cost solar installation company that competes for rich solar wanters by not being predatory and unpleasant like most of the big solar installers
The FDA is not withhold info about food contamination. There are like 6 fucking ppl to run recall comms for the entire US and about the same number of ppl in the field to track and trace. You cannot report what you don’t fucking know. There is a difference and this is not helping.
Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Pentagon is withholding causality and hit numbers. The CDC is withholding infection rates. The FDA is withholding information about food contamination. The EPA is withholding pollution and climate data. This corrupt administration is ALL about concealing the consequences of its incompetence.
🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 👉 Young men & boys in shackles are herded by hired thugs from a chartered Eastern 737 to a waiting bus, to be transported to GEO Group's Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington 👀
JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 3w ago🧊✈️ SEATTLE ⛓️😲 ⚠️ GEO Group thugs prepare to load three busloads of chained humans from the Northwest Detention Center on to a plane bound for ICE's notorious East Montana Concentration Camp near El Paso, Texas 👀
Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m...
this may be more of a narrative move than a policy move—it’s not about vehicle stops, it’s about violence with impunity www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/u... (link to live update source)
The entire credibility of judicial review rests on the fact that there's a reasoning behind orders that can be applied going forward. Otherwise it's just arbitrary rule by ayatollahs, which happens to be what the Supreme Court is right now.
Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w agoAmy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.
Lindsay Graham and I often disagreed on whether you should overturn Democratic elections, starve the hungry, bomb anyone and bomb everyone dark, but nevertheless I hope his loved ones stay off the internet and the rest of you have some fun.
The kneejerk rosy statements from Dem leaders about Graham's death show how lazily and carelessly they apply their purported values. This absolutely affects how they legislate, and it's part of what's ruining your life. This crop needs to get lost, and fast.
Lindsey Graham has died after a decade of groveling, humiliating subservience towards a political movement that will, if anything, celebrate his passing.
Forgot this one. I’m curious why NYT thinks this kind of vile racism isn’t disqualifying for an op-ed writer. I imagine that if an author said something similarly vitriolic about, say, Lutherans, the NYT would face massive blowback for publishing them.
I bet they'll have a good laugh about this at the White House Stenographers Dinner.
Peter Baker@peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 4w ago"The appearance of federal law enforcement agents on the doorstep of news reporters should shock the conscience of any American who believes in the Constitution and the press freedom it protects." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
Is it too early to call Count Binface a neoliberal sell-out?
I do think we should stop using the term "unitary executive" in public discourse and simply call it what it is: dictatorship
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 4w agoIt's important to do what's Sam's doing here and parsing the law & Constitution, but we must keep in view the forest: This is a huge advance in the US's transition into a presidential dictatorship. It gives the dictator effective authority to cancel laws by firing those tasked with enforcing them.
