Duty to stop and to report crimes by other police (only one cop is accused of rape)

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2h ago

Pakistan precinct suspends all 78 officers and staff over alleged rape at police station

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

ms.now

Seems bad for morale (& maybe even regime control of the military) apnews.com/article/mili...

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.

apnews.com

Do you ever think about how there are no surviving members of Musk and SpaceX's planned 2018 Moon landing and their planned 2021 Mars landing? It's really very grim.

Masked secret police roaming the country, abducting anyone they want, sending them to large prison camps, especially targeting liberals exercising their First Amendment rights. www.npr.org/2026/08/03/n...

She protested ICE raids. Then agents showed up at her door

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists.

npr.org

What is truly "shocking" about the polling miss in Michigan is that it is completely average for a primary "The expected error on the margin between two primary candidates in a race for governor or U.S. Senate is a whopping 13.0 points." blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/2026-texas...

Do we really know who's leading the Texas Senate races?

Primary polls have historically been rather unreliable, and a surge in new primary voters means turnout assumptions matter more than usual

blog.fiftyplusone.news

|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 8h ago

Polling is like really fucked. Strikes me as a huge problem honestly.

the whole 'nothing has gotten better' discourse is of course fucking stupid in a million ways, but I just wanted to note that average dog lifespan in the United States has increased by two years since 2000.

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

We probably need to ban cars until we figure out why this keeps happening.

Pakistan is an acronym

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h ago

Punjab. Afghan. Kashmir. Sind. Balochis-tan. The I was added for pronounciation and because the whole thing also means 'land of the pure' in several languages. it's pretty clever!

Crap. Nobody drowned, fortunately. Boat-drone? And apparently it's an older Mechanized Sailing Vessel that had last docked in Djibouti, not a Saudi port. Indiscriminate. gcaptain.com/indian-cargo...

Indian Cargo Vessel Sinks After Apparent Attack Near Yemen

An Indian-flagged cargo vessel sank in the Red Sea on Monday after being struck by what appears to have been an explosives-laden boat off Yemen, marking another escalation in the...

gcaptain.com

Information asymmetry ‘lemon problem’ - unable to tell at a glance *which* goods are high quality, consumers assume they are all relatively low quality and thus only pay for cheap ones

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

A lot like white supremacist propaganda. This may not be official government stuff - which tends to be boring, in China - but the regime has tolerated ultranationalists and not tolerated anyone who might oppose them

Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Chinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵

IDK. Is interspecies friendship the same as having a pet? Primates are very social, either way defector.com/can-a-monkey...

Can A Monkey Have A Pet? | Defector

In the spring of 2004, researchers monitoring a population of wild bearded capuchins in a Brazilian woodland saw an infant clinging to Chiquinha, one of the adult female monkeys. The baby was not a ca...

defector.com

The actual reason Morocco would want to cause problems for Spain: Algeria and the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara. (Algerian news article, from early July) The Ceuta drownings are apparently a product of Moroccan police actions. www.echoroukonline.com/moroccan-reg...

Moroccan Regime's Campaign to Sabotage Pedro Sánchez’s Visit to Algeria – الشروق أونلاين

The Moroccan regime is attempting to undermine the upcoming visit of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to Algeria, scheduled for July 20, by circulating misleading information through media outlets...

echoroukonline.com

This article is hilarious. First, panic over a reseller buying used books for destructive scanning by AI companies because they must be rare books, but turns out none are particularly rare, booksellers are happy to get rid of them, and the reseller has nothing to do with AI cos or digitization

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d ago

‘More than just objects’: Australian book sellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI

And here he is staring pretty unequivocally that he sees aid to Ukraine as different from aid to Israel (or Egypt), so please update your priors or fuck off with claims to the contrary.

The prime number few. Fat people eat accumulates. The florist sent the flowers was pleased. The horse raced past the barn fell. Missing woman remains found. 😕😵‍💫

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 3y ago

A garden path sentence is one that, while grammatically correct, is almost always read with the wrong interpretation. The classic: "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." requires you to re-parse the meaning of each word carefully to identify the correct meaning.

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Donate to the candidates on the front lines of the fight against MAGA gerrymandering

These are anti-MAGA state candidates in *extremely* close races

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Republican memo: people are scared of communism but not socialism, so lets talk about communism a lot www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

House GOP memo shows party’s ‘socialist’ scare tactics are not working

Ahead of the midterms, a conservative firm is warning House Republicans to smear liberals as communists instead of socialists.

yahoo.com

Everyone who is talking about this story should be reading Abby‘s original version. She actually read through over 1000 pages of court documents, and she did it first. And shamefully, some large outlets have chosen to not credit her (@nytimes.com)

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, is running YouTube ads featuring an AI-generated Trump assisting Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan campaign. “Don’t Help Trump’s Candidate,” the ad warns. Meanwhile, United Democracy Project’s largest donor is Paul Singer, a major Trump fundraiser.

From Reddit, a reminder that different places have different environmental issues. Here's the Buriganga river going through Dhaka, Bangladesh, one of the mass of rivers that flow into the Bay of Bengal. A beautiful place with a lousy, corrupt government that has zero interest in providing services.

the most annoying thing about the What We Should Have Done With COVID discourse is that the actual viable option to accept more health risk in exchange for less disruption was not to rawdog the plague, it was to push the vaccine wide earlier with worse trial data

what i mean is that the dominant strain of opposition to antisemitism right now is "pick us or them" rather than "bigotry is bad," and so we have entered a frightening period of, well, picking between bigotries where one is asserted to be mandatory

Yeah, pretty much the only difference between that and an actual Andy Barr campaign ad in Kentucky is that the actual Andy Barr campaign advertisement would also promise to make it safe to be white again.

Maj@lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 4d ago

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

The Florida AG *is* Catholic and says that gives him the right to determine church teaching. Like a lot of historical Catholic monarchs, really

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, facing ethics inquiries for misconduct, has threatened to strip state scholarships from Catholic schools unless the Church rewrites its vaccine doctrine. It is an unprecedented attack by an American state on the religious liberty of the Catholic Church.

Islamist party to become binational? Context is that Israeli Arab communities want more police presence and less "who cares if Those People kill each other" www.timesofisrael.com/in-major-shi...

In major shift, Yesh Atid MK reportedly set to run as No. 2 in Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party

Yoav Segalovitz, Jewish lawmaker who won trust among Arab public for fighting violent crime, will reportedly meet Abbas to join revamped, historically Islamist party next week

timesofisrael.com

I think that I once opined that there isn't anything analogous in U.S. history to the inter service rivalries in Japan. But I've also said that the current administration is more comparable to Imperial Japan than other Quasi-Totalitarian States. cc: @sharonk.bsky.social @aelkus.bsky.social