Clarlune (Bayou Miles)

@clarlune.bsky.social

Mostly repost what interests or inspires me. Cats, coffee and books nourish me. Voices I miss: Carrie Fisher, Molly Ivins, Ann Richards she/her he/him they/them Me, myself and I #AntiFa #BLM #ICEOutNOW 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇵🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇱🇧

This is what a decade of Trumpism has encouraged -- a GOP gubernatorial candidate in Colorado who's unsure of how many people he's killed but positive that his Jewish opponent is a tool of Satan. These people were in the tent before, but the rest of the party seemed embarrassed about them. No more!

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data centers in Calvert County’s June primary election. marylandmatters.org/2026/08/04/a...

Amazon abandons plans for a data center at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...

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A great maker of theatre and one of the last of the postwar heyday. Rare that someone listens so closely to working class voices and monkeys with form and timelines so deftly. Interviewed him for my first piece for a national paper, along w his assistant director, one Josie Rourke. He was a gent.

David Benedict@eggsbened.bsky.social · yesterday

No-one in British theatre had a finer ear for dialogue than Peter Gill (1939-2026). The most meticulous of directors, unfashionably loyal to talent not stardom, he was also a superbly compassionate writer whose charged, emotional plays charted gay sexuality and working-class lives like no other. RIP

Instead of helping to fight western forest fires, Idaho National Guard troops subdued and tied up a decorated veteran in Washington, D.C., who posted signs criticizing the NG occupation of the nation’s capital. The perpetrators should be prosecuted. Trump, too. www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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The U.S. Senate is about to advance the nomination of a man who has helped Trump unconstitutionally evade releasing the Epstein files, and tried to use federal funds to pay insurrectionists. If the purpose of the U.S. Senate is to defend against tyranny, it has failed in its purpose.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

new, from Renee DiResta: "How Matt Taibbi was groomed by Mike Benz in a Twitter Space, uncritically ate up a truly wild conspiracy theory, and started touting it in a congressional hearing as if he had evidence of “millions" of censored tweets" Read here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

When Matt Taibbi Met Mike Benz

How independent media turned an obscure political operative into a "whistleblower"—and his claims into government action.

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If the New York City Council bans horse-drawn carriages in Central Park, what will carriage drivers do? Kirk Skodis thinks he has the answer: transition the 68 licensed carriages to electric ones. (Skodis sent Hell Gate the accompanying image, created via AI, as an example.)

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This system was broken and now it is horribly broken almost beyond repair. Journalists used to doggedly go after stories. Now, they are tame and docile and do not want to anger their billionaire owners or their interests. We have to rethink media and who to trust disseminating the news. Period.

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If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

This is not a surprise. While there are non-frivolous legal arguments for these laws, they were always going to be an uphill battle given the Supremacy Clause. So far, no state mask ban aimed at ICE has been successful. That leaves it to Congress alone to rein in the highly unpopular use of masks.

Gothamist@gothamist.com · yesterday

New York’s effort to make immigration agents show their faces was put on hold by a Monday federal court ruling: gothamist.visitlink.me/Ny_LYW

“You can keep tabs on what’s happening in Arkansas, as well as get involved in pushing back, with the help of the Arkansas Right to Read Project. Additional organizations doing essential work in the state include the Arkansas Library Association and the Arkansas chapter of Authors Against Book Bans.

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

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What we're reading - Proportional representation was “long dismissed as a fringe idea in the U.S…no longer.” @starrprospect.bsky.social argues that attention is shifting. The fix to gerrymandering isn’t better maps. It’s a system where seats reflect the votes, no matter how the maps are drawn. ⬇️

Proportional Representation Gets a New Look - The American Prospect

Supreme Court decisions and unrestrained partisan gerrymandering are focusing attention on a fundamental election reform. But one version is more feasible than the others.

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