Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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A civilian was deliberately hunted down and murdered by Russian terrorists in Kherson today. At a food market in the city’s Tavriiskyi district, a Russian FPV drone operator targeted a civilian vendor standing beside his car, loaded with the vegetables he sold to make a living.
All the indicators I’m seeing suggest this is the Iran‑controlled route, with a service fee attached. Trump took the loss and is now going to try to lie and spin it as a positive outcome.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterdayU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: There has been progress in talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but no final agreement has been reached yet. We are hopeful that an agreement will be finalized very shortly.
Russia is trying to kill Ukrainian soldiers by luring them into dates with women who don't exist, using fake dating apps and messenger accounts The SBU said it has stopped more than 50 such "honey trap" attempts since the start of 2026 euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/04/r...
Russia uses old KGB trick to get rid of Ukrainian soldiers not on battlefield. It’s already tried more than 50 times this year
Russia is using "honey traps," fake dating profiles and staged dates, to lure Ukrainian soldiers to their deaths, the SBU says,
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Can someone explain how Axios could publish this and not note that DOJ has lost 18 of these cases and not won a single one? 0-18 is smart brevity.
Mitch McConnell’s Communications Director Stephanie Penn was asked by a media source about an update on McConnell and she only grinned awkwardly and when asked if she and the rest of the staff should still be getting paid when Kentuckians have no representation she laughed. /Suzierizzo1
Ukraine and the world have seen horrifying footage from Kherson today - a Russian drone hunting down a civilian. This person is Mr. Yurii, he sells vegetables. At about 6.30 a.m., Mr. Yurii was putting out the produce by the market, as he does every day⤵️
An estimated crowd of 15,000 White people attended the lynching. It was this incident where the term "spectacle lynching" was coined. Smith had been accused of raping and murdering a 4 year old girl. What they did to Smith is beyond words.😔 #KeepItWoke #DedicatedToTam✡️🕊 eji.org/news/history...
Racial Terror Lynchings
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Not pulling an all-nighter for the Michigan Senate race result, but let me say this: The fact that the race is competitive even after the Israel lobby & outside groups spent a staggering $62 million to smear & defeat El-Sayed is alone a reason to celebrate the shift in American political discourse.
NBC projects El-Sayed the winner of the Michigan Senate primary! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Michigan Senate Primary Election 2026 Live Results: Stevens, El-Sayed, Rogers and More
See live results from the 2026 Michigan Senate primary election as Republican and Democrat votes are counted by candidate and county.
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It's intended to cause post-election chaos
Katiesaurus@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 15h ago"The Republican-led North Carolina House approved a bill Tuesday that would make it easier for residents to challenge other people’s votes and county boards to toss those ballots, alarming critics who say the law could cause post-election chaos."
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
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If you want some scary viewing, do a search on Japanese macroeconomics right now. To say they are looking to sell USTs to repatriate money is an understatement
costrike@costrike.bsky.social · 5d agoWe would've also accepted, "Why Kevin just Warsh-ed out."
This is one of the main reasons for sanctuary cities. If undocumented people are afraid to call police, it’s open season for criminals and everyone is worse off. Republicans want to make you feel less safe in the hope some will turn reactionary and vote for them. It’s also red meat for Fox News.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d agoThis paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve
Mhm Mhmm: Man Reacts Skeptically
ALT: Mhm Mhmm: Man Reacts Skeptically
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · yesterdayTexas’s decision to start teaching Bible stories is meant to send a political message—“but regardless of your political or religious beliefs, there are good reasons to agree that the Bible should be part of young people’s education,” Adam Kirsch argues.
Nobody told me I was a good kid until I heard it from my former first karate teacher - when I was 43....
Grampa Jody@jodywagner.bsky.social · 2d agoJust in case you needed to hear it.... You matter. 🥰
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
"Platner’s first deployment, in early 2005, began at the Abu Ghraib prison complex, part of which the military had rechristened Camp Redemption." missed that detail the first time around!
Rick Perlstein@rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5d agoA watershed piece. America will have have a very hard time becoming less imperialist as long as combat service is sentimentalized and fetishized, when it actually tends to turn men into broken, hateful people, and helps make things like like Trumpism happen. www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...
