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 · 4h 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

Let’s level set. MICHIGAN is a must-win if we want to flip the Senate. A word caution: This race was tighter than many predicted. El-Sayed needs Stevens supporters in the general, so it’s not smart strategy to keep them angry. Welcome them. Focus on issues. Time is short, so healing must be quick

“If you are tasked and paid by a Russian state entity to say something, that is not freedom of expression. That is subversion by an enemy state.” open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

France Moves to Expel a Russian Propagandist

Will the move set up a court battle to test the line between freedom of expression and protection of the constitutional order?

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“The documents suggest that the administration was ‘lying or spreading misinformation about these fantastic public lands’ when it justified cutting the protected areas…” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/c...

Documents Undercut Trump’s Claims About Bears Ears National Monument

President Trump said recreation in Bears Ears National Monument was virtually impossible. Documents reviewed by The New York Times show officials knew otherwise.

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Talarico’s argument is simple: Stop treating marijuana like a crime. Legalize it. Regulate it. Tax it. Stop wasting police resources on low-level marijuana offenses. Clear the records of people whose lives have been derailed by nonviolent marijuana convictions.

They are the Epstein Party. Every single one of them.

In 1996, Congress imposed fines on undocumented immigrants. For 30 years, the government did not enforce those laws, and they were basically irrelevant. Enter Trump, and the US government is now fining dishwashers and delivery drivers more than rich friends of the President who stole billions.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 23h ago

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

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Part Two: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA & Destroyed Everything Else | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

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Trump’s criminal lawyers….

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Buster Poindexter and Charles Brown - You Do Something To Me

YouTube video by B. Poindexter

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If Emmett Till had lived, he would be just over 85 years old today.

“If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi

More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit and companion book ask how the world would be different “If Emm...

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Correct

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

How good will it feel when this sob is out?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

Trump on Venezuela: "They had the tragedy the other day with the problem, as you know. That was a terrible problem. The uhhh, earthquake I guess you would call it." (The quake was in June)

I never had one bank account closed due to money laundering, let alone hundreds

What sorts of things would such a one do? The diminishing of standing is the point of that image, as much as attention management; keep your eye on the idiocy card; not the treasonous crime card; Want to win? Keep your eye on the idiocy card, pick the idiocy card to win, no treason card. Meanwhile..

Hey, good to see ya@blueskysisee.bsky.social · 13h ago

What would it look like if a US President was elected who was covertly acting on behalf of soviet origin transnational criminal organization headed by a mob boss with both Russian and Israeli citizenship? 🤔

This is why this is not just about Max Miller. It’s about “devout Christian” House Republican leadership who is standing with this guy because they crave power above all else. It’s the culture of MAGA and it comes straight from Trump. Vote them out.

"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."

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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“The pattern is one that involved modeling agencies around the world serving as fronts for human trafficking…This may very well be what Trump is trying desperately to keep quiet in the DOJ’s Epstein files.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...

The transnational dimension of the Epstein case—a hybrid warfare against the West

The Epstein case is not an issue about Trump and the US but rather about all the Trumps of the Western world with ties to Russia

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Russia's agricultural industry is collapsing due to rising fuel costs and falling revenue. Food prices in Russia are predicted to almost double again this winter.

I’d be pissed AF if I’d served in the military and my draft-dodging POS of a president posted this. Americans are dying because of his incompetence and he thinks it’s funny???

“.. Trump has leveraged his control of the federal government to instead escape the scrutiny that every other modern president, not to mention every other regular taxpayer, has been subject to.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Jeanine Pirro should take note but instead, she will continue to be Trump’s dog until he fires her. #Pinks

Bill Nye knew.

Here is the good news: DOJ is now 0-20 in lawsuits to gain access to voter files and tomorrow is the 90th day before the election which means states can't purge voters -- even if DOJ wants them to. The bad news: Trump won't give up trying to use DOJ to undermine the elections.

If you thought John Mitchell or Bill Barr were bad… just you wait.

ffs

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

A civilian medevac plane crashed into a New Mexico mountain after losing GPS during a U.S. military jamming exercise, killing all four onboard. WIRED reveals that during May's NAVFEST exercise at White Sands, the Air Force tested GPS disruption. The FAA warned signals could fail up to 400 miles away

He’s Saruman without the intellect and fashion sense.