"LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders. O’Neil did not identify the investor..." 🤔

LIV Golf has lead investor and planning ahead for another season

LIV Golf says it has a lead investor that will allow the league to plan ahead for 2027 and beyond. The rival league has been in survival mode since March when the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabi...

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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 · 3h 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

To mitigate tsunami impacts, a project in Japan has planted over 680,000 trees along the coast, drawing on traditional "guardian forests." While these natural barriers offer proven protection, many communities continue prioritizing concrete seawalls. Jonathan Vit reports for #Mongabay.

In coastal Japan, one project is planting forests to stand against tsunamis

MINAMISOMA, Japan — Kazuo Monma stepped out onto the small stage and looked at the large crowd with a sense of relief. The weather report had called for rain all weekend, and the mayor of Minamisoma,…

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Attention anti-tax politicians: even in red states voters know the money has to come from somewhere. They even understand the difference between progressive and regressive taxation. I mean REALLY.

🧵Those same voices are trying to paint opposing kidnapping your neighbors off the streets, the poisoning of your neighborhood by data center exhaust, or the poisoning of the world’s knowledge by the slop exhaust of AI as terrorism as well.

Things I'm reading

Terrorist is a word utterly devoid of meaning

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AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Not only was she loudly right about everything and reviled for it, in 2017 O'Connor donated 30 years worth of clothes and makeup to trans girls in Ireland.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor

Is this public safety? Also Define a gang. If it's a group of ppl who engage in criminal activity together and pledge loyalty to each other, well...

CBS News New York@cbsnewyork.bsky.social · 15h ago

A high-ranking Mount Vernon police official is accused of helping her son plan a shooting outside of Bronx criminal court. She has now been fired.

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

The US is governed by a racist regime. But you know that. "The State Department is making permanent a program under which citizens from 50 countries, mainly in Africa, are required to post bonds to apply for a U.S. visa, & raising the cost as well, to as much as $20,000." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

U.S. will make visa bond program permanent, affecting mostly African countries

A draft notice published Friday in the Federal Register says a nearly year-long review “provided sufficient data” to suggest the bond program effectively enforces compliance with visa conditions, and ...

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ICYMI: In a win for voters, a federal judge blocked Trump's recent ban on nonpartisan groups helping newly naturalized citizens register to vote — which has been a key avenue to boost voter turnout. The court found the ban was likely driven by intentional discrimination against new citizens.

Court blocks Trump ban on voter registration help for new citizens, finding likely intentional discrimination

Senior Trump administration officials have repeatedly portrayed immigrants' political participation as an electoral threat.

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“Ben-Gvir, who presides over Israel’s prisons as national security minister, has said that the idea was inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ the immigration jail in Florida that was shuttered after reports of horrific human rights abuses.”

Truthout@truthout.org · 20h ago

An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

Reading a lot @ the French Revolution. Seems Dr. Guillotine didnt invent this but was more of a BASF who made it better. And something like 85% of ppl executed were just working class. First set of a few thousand mostly prisoners. And just like today, mostly poverty crimes. Real bummer.

✙ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🖇️ 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽@unauthorizedbeast.bsky.social · 23h ago

I fucking love Oregon 💙

Community rallies after death of Plainfield man in ICE custody newjerseymonitor.com/2026/08/04/p...

Community rallies after death of Plainfield man in ICE custody • New Jersey Monitor

A crowd gathered at a Highland Park church Tuesday urged officials to close Delaney Hall after a detainee died in custody Saturday.

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NJ lawmakers demand Delaney Hall probe after second detainee death

NJ lawmakers demand Delaney Hall probe after second detainee death

Pallone and Mejia call for inspections and closure of facility

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Y’all.

Truthout@truthout.org · 20h ago

An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

Check out our (recently updated!) toolkit covering ways YOU can interrupt the death-making ICE machine:

Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization

interruptingcriminalization.com

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective@crimethinc.com · 2d ago

Another person has died at Delaney Hall, the second in a period of months, supposedly of an unspecified "medical emergency." His name is Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. He was just 41 years old. When we fight against ICE, we are fighting to save lives. This is urgent. crimethinc.com/DelaneyStrat...

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Another community member detained by ICE at Delaney hall. Please take a second to sign and demand Iemad’s release. actionnetwork.org/petitions/64...

Free Iemad Saifo from ICE Detention!

Iemad Saifo was detained by ICE and separated from his family on July 31, 2026 at a routine check-in, despite entering the US lawfully and following the proper legal procedures. Iemad Saifo is an 6...

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ChatGPT’s role went far beyond giving the accused FSU shooter tips on guns—they chatted about brutally violent sex, how many dead kids would “grab more media attention,” sharing “intimate pictures” with an underage girl and using a Hummer for a deadly explosion www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 2x

Rick Scott, scamming the Gov't since before office, and yet somehow he still holds it. Can't remember if billions or millions in Medicare fraud from his FL co, but like c'mon. No American citizen should be cool with him continuing to profit like the POTUS off of decisions!

This is why shutting these things isn't good enough. They must be completely dismantled.

MinnPost@minnpost.bsky.social · yesterday

Prison industry giant CoreCivic announced Monday that it has finalized a five-year federal contract to reopen a long-shuttered prison in Appleton that will now hold immigrant detainees.

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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🧊 is so bad out there. There's been a bunch of abductions in Jersey City already today. Please look out for your neighbors. Anywhere in New Jersey you can call the DIRE hotline and they will be able to get sighting info to ppl who can help. 888-347-3767 Please call if you see anything.

The most famous #Florida man to ever paint a happy tree was Bob Ross of "The Joy of Painting," and he's the subject of our latest "Welcome to Florida" podcast. We talked to the man who now presides over the Bob Ross Art Workshop in New Smyrna, Nicholas Hankins. www.buzzsprout.com/1169570/epis...

Episode 317: Bob Ross - Welcome to Florida

The Florida Department of Environmental "Protection" refuses to investigate a Key West utility company that has been injecting waste water underground only to have it surface elsewhere.Everyone knows ...

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Leon County Circuit Judge David Frank ruled last night that, while Florida's Amendment 3 can remain on the ballot, the description of the amendment as it exists misleads voters and contains political slogans and must be rewritten.

‘More akin to a political slogan’: Judge orders rewrite of property tax amendment’s ballot language

The amendment stays on the ballot, but Attorney General has 10 days to rewrite the sales pitch as a description.

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The first thing a woman visiting Delaney told me last year was "my son is not a criminal." I wish to god she didn't feel the need to make that distinction. Appreciated this conversation getting into that. organizingmythoughts.org/the-fight-ag...

The Fight Against ICE Has Entered a New Phase

“This is a time to build on organizing on the ground and sustain it over time,” says Silky Shah

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Outreach organizations worry the closure of the sidewalk outside the MLK Library will simply move people elsewhere, making it harder to connect them with housing and services. “People don’t just disappear when you evict them from an encampment," Shannon Clark of @remorahousedc.bsky.social says.

Why has DC's MLK Library banned sleeping outside?

New enforcement includes rope barriers and police to keep homeless people from sleeping under the library's overhang.

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"Let's make a base of modest, affordable apartments available to the working class" "And then let's rip those apartments away from them when they reach some arbitrarily-low means-tested line because the numbers are calculated from a county near Buffalo" "And let's charge poor people full rent"

City Limits News @citylimitsnews.bsky.social · yesterday

“This line of argument can appear sound—why shouldn’t the poorest New Yorkers get sole access to rent-stabilized apartments?—but it is ultimately a distraction from the real dynamics at play in the rental housing market.” citylimits.org/opinion-rent...