If regular people see rich and powerful assholes thrown in jail, that will clearly send the message that all criminals will face consequences and make them think twice about crime. Dems need to "Get tough on (white collar) crime."

While touring the Dilley ICE prison, I got to meet Emely. She plays volleyball, loves Bad Bunny, and wants to be an engineer one day. I'm so relieved that she & her father are out, but they should have never been detained to begin with. We must close Dilley, end family detention, and abolish ICE.

It's insane that legacy media isn't beating down Patel's door demanding to know why he's flying to Moscow when the Kremlin is giving Iran coordinates to bomb in the ME. It's the first question the WH press secretary should be asked every day.

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦@olgalautman.bsky.social · 21h ago

So this is very disturbing. A Russian outlet known for publishing info for Russia’s security services (FSB) wrote an article speculating Patel’s upcoming visit to Moscow. Everything from providing kompromat on Dems to him serving as a back channel. They even discussed what they could get in return.

Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.”

Break up car dealership cartels and you break the back of the Republican Party.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d ago

holy moly the comments on this about dealerships

Worth noting that, like other things recently, part of the issue here is that cameras are being introduced in the absolutely worst way possible - with Flock, which shares indiscriminate data, is used for stalking, overrides local control - as the face of it

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · 4d ago

Driving a car is incredibly dangerous, it should be one of the most regulated experiences on earth, and it is very upsetting to watch people who correctly don’t trust the cops turn against automated enforcement because the alternative is relying on a cop’s judgement to enforce the laws.

JD Vance calls for Trump to be imprisoned

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

JD Vance: "If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer"

I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Just gotta say: Abolish ICE and Nuremberg style trials are the moderate position. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

The conversation is changing because immigrant communities have refused to stay silent. Our communities are safer without ICE. ✊🏽 https://www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2026/07/more-new-york-dems-are-calling-ice-be-abolished/415090/?oref=csny-homepage-river

More New York Dems are calling for ICE to be abolished

A letter to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries now has 143 electeds’ signatures.

cityandstateny.com

"The people who work on farms often don't own them" is something that would have been completely intuitive to 99% of people for 99% of human history but is completely unintelligible to the people who make US public policy.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · last wk.

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

My most redneck trait is that I actually believe in yeehaw fuck the law

Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.

It’s completely nuts that Trump won by less than 2M votes with near universal media help and worldwide rage at incumbents and the media treated this like a permanent sea change towards MAGA and now less than 2 years later he’s the least popular President in history and there’s no media reckoning

This is a massive scandal. Not "should be," but "is."

Ways and Means Committee Democrats@waysmeanscmte.bsky.social · last wk.

Every day, this Administration unlocks new levels of corruption never thought possible. At a time when families are struggling to stay afloat, they’re being denied jobs and opportunities by their president because of their political views.

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

No shocking WSJ writes an article about business backlash to bike lanes and the primary “business owner” they interview is an Uber driver 🙄 (gift link) www.wsj.com/us-news/chic...

Chicago’s New Bike Lanes Spark a Rebellion From Businesses

Local business owners protest Chicago’s ‘complete streets’ design that cuts car parking spaces in favor of protected cycling lanes.

wsj.com

The media isn’t treating the regime’s refusal to release the Epstein Files as a scandal because Democrats and progressives aren’t driving any conflict around it. I don’t know why no one—besides the survivors themselves—is still pushing on this.

It’s crazy to me this isn’t a daily refrain from Democrats.

Did it 👍 (eventually) [ #cuteart #illustration ]

The link between content purchases and user accounts needs to be urgently addressed by regulation. Companies should not be able to invalidate all of your purchases by deleting or denying you access to your account: if you made the purchase, they should always be recoverable.

Weebs Posting Their L's Online@weebspostingls.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a 20-year-old Gamecube that still works like a dream. So up yours, asshole.

perfect election year pitch, no notes

Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2w ago

Marc Thiessen argued that if Americans “can't handle $4 oil for a period of months,” then “we are not a superpower anymore.”

For the love of God run on prosecuting the bejesus out of every criminal in this administration for every applicable crime in every applicable jurisdiction.

Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him

If the people who cut USAID—causing many avoidable deaths—weren’t in a public panic about fertility rates while opposing immigration and blocking refugees but making special accommodations for white South Africans based on false conspiracy theories, that might be different. But, you know, context.

Ed@notdred.bsky.social · 2w ago

To me cutting USAID is like, you put a quarter into a slot every day to keep millions of people alive. You don’t have to do it but it causes you no hardship. Then one day the job falls to people who are overtly white supremacist and they decide to stop doing it. It is most obviously murder

Economists estimate the ‘missing innovation’ would be worth 100 to 400 billion dollars in social value annually(!) How do we solve this?

Today learned that selvage denim gets its name from fabric salvaged from sunk Great Lakes submarines.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 3w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.