The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 12h ago

Wanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

the best of america

Jamie@crayonsocialism.bsky.social · 9h ago

I heard “inshallah and the creek don’t rise” the other day.

Do not like the growing trend of job applications requiring a pre-recorded video. It allows employers to discriminate for being too brown, too fat, too old, too visibly disabled, too gender non-conforming, having an accent etc. before they see any qualifications and commit to an interview.

New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin, “Notes on the House of Bondage”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h ago

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?"

Air quality. I grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 70s and 80s and remember having to stay inside because the smog was so bad - Stage 2 smog alerts, they were called. Apparently they haven't had one of those since 1988. Haven't had a stage one smog alert since 2003.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterday

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.

fuck that's a smooth answer

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 7h ago

Banger

"In 2023, the [EPA] under the Biden administration proposed creating stronger cybersecurity guidelines to better safeguard the nation’s water supply from hackers... The E.P.A. rescinded the order, however, after Republican-led states and industry groups sued to block its enforcement."

Suspected Iran Cyberattacks on U.S. Water Supply Follow Years of Warnings and Neglect (Gift Article)

Federal and state officials are racing to address an assault on the nation’s water supply that they believe is the work of Iranian hackers.

nytimes.com

Long before humanity, before the invention of time, before the sun, moon, and stars, there was only a dark, chaotic void. Even in our ordered universe, life can often feel very much out of control. Your #vss365 #prompt for August 5, 2026 is #chaos Join me in the bedlam! 🌀

#ColorADay #RedWed #keys #AOfoto

#ColorADay #RedWed #berry #AOfoto

#DiddleDaddleDoodleADay #TinyAndTerrible #DoAnArt #ArtYear #WackyWednesdayArt #ClassicMono #monochrome #greyscale #treerings #tree

I don't care and I don't want to know. This is what I learned from you today, Hank Green. Good job.

He's just talking pop-science gibberish. The contemporary Four Humors are just dopamine, cortisone, oxytocin and serotonin. All behavior is explained by too much or too little of one of them lol.

Man goes to see the Cyclops. Says he's depressed. He wants to get back to his wife and home, but he keeps running into fatal predicaments along the way. Cyclops says, "Prognosis is simple. Nobody can help you." Man starts crying. Says, "But Cyclops, I *am* Nobody"

Not incidentally, sex ed and social media, two of the big things the Think of the Children crowd want to restrict children's access to, are the first place a lot of kids encounter the concept that a person with nominal authority over you doesn't get to touch you without permission

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."

matthew got SUSPENDED. omfg

ali alkhatib@ali-alkhatib.com · 2d ago

anyway, if you're looking for Matthew Cortland, you should sub to their patreon since they're a disabled lawyer evidently getting deplatformed from places.

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

O, wither’d is the garland of the war, The soldier’s pole is fall’n!

Moby Dick@mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 2d ago

it was Moby Dick that dismasted me

ICE doing repeated starlight tours really needs to be talked about more. That’s premeditated murder

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

(One of the best bits of Tao's talk is where he talks about how research exposition shows friction. You can squint and see AI writing across the room because the paragraphs have balance and uniformity, which indicate mass-produced prose. Real thought is very spiky and arrhythmic.)

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The It's My Book They'll Walk If I Tell Them Too (ANIMATED)

YouTube video by Tom Cardy

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Adaptations: I guess we can cut out the walking. Tolkein: DUDE CHECK OUT THESE HILLS! FORESTS ARE AWESOME, MAN!

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

Devastating wildfires tearing through the South of France have been exacerbated by exploding undiscovered World War II munitions.

Wildfires Trigger Buried WWII Explosives in Terrifying Inferno

More than 100 loud explosions were heard in a French village consumed by a blaze.

thedailybeast.com

Can I point out that the "anti-establishment" dems the DNC is freaking about are... *checks notes* ...working to better their constituents' lives through civic action. The anti-establishment position is to literally do things voters want. IN THE DEMS. Check yourself, DNC.

Sink your teeth into its flesh and enjoy nature's sweetest, juicy treat - but watch out for the pit! Your #vss365 #prompt for August 4, 2026 is #fruit Go on... Take a bite! 🍋🍇🍒🍌🍎

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

I'll give AI this: It has somehow managed to make those of us who went to small liberal arts colleges even more smug about it than we already were.