AI companies scraping websites at scale is a real problem. But a proposed NY law could make it harder for libraries, journalists & researchers to preserve the web and investigate the powerful. That's why we've joined @eff.org & others in a letter to Gov. Hochul. blog.archive.org/2026/08/04/i...

I wrote about how weird and bad it is to have a future AG going around claiming he'll make Dobbs "permanent in every single state"—unless he understands Dobbs to be a national abortion ban, and thinks his job is to force states to comply

Todd Blanche Is Claiming That He Can Ban Abortion In Any State

As he fights to be confirmed as attorney general, Blanche is trying to appease Christian-right groups with wild legal theories about restricting abortion.

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El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

Already have the Destiny books but snagged a copy of Cold Equations Book 3…have 1 & 2 but couldn’t seem to get 3. Thank you!!

Not just great Trek, but great science fiction full stop. Someone should have made this in a miniseries or something.

Looking to read some STAR TREK books but short on funds? Check out the monthly eBook deals! August’s biggest bargain? An eBook of the omnibus version of my STAR TREK DESTINY trilogy for only $1.99! That’s for the COMPLETE TRILOGY in one book! www.simonandschuster.com/p/star-trek-...

Cached US #KindleBookGiveaway, courtesy of @princejvstin.com: 10 copies of The MidnightFront (Dark Arts Book 1), by @davidmack.pro, which I *have* but *haven't read yet*, so if you read it please let me know what you think... First giveaway for this author!

The article quotes the tired saw of the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, but our government has been offering agricultural subsidies for a very long time, and it turns out that we have yet to run out of other people's money.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Legal immigration as most Americans conceive of it does not meaningfully exist in the United States. "Just come here the right way" is one of the most pernicious lies in contemporary US politics, accepted across the aisle as the goal of the immigration debate when it's impossible in reality.

And the worst part of what and who we are in India right now? You will find journalists, doctors, lawyers, teachers, ordinary people who will whole heartedly defend the decision to grind a family into the dust because a 15 yr old girl was "mean" to their daddy PM. Indians and our cults.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Big strong Prime Minister of the most virile and glorious superpower India sending cops and rapist mobs and his regime's Goebbelsian media after a child for abusing him.

“These children, some too young to speak for themselves, will be forced to face trained government attorneys by themselves, in a language they may not speak, in a system they cannot navigate without help.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The administration’s decision to end this contract goes against a nearly two decade precedent in which Republicans and Democrats alike supported legal assistance for the most vulnerable children who came to the United States alone.” acaciajustice.org/trump-admini...

They’ve added trillions in new spending. None of that has gone to Social Security or Medicaid. They will now say both are broke and must be cut. America needs new leadership.👇🏼

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

'A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold steps to provide good, affordable food.' jacobin.com/2026/07/zohr...

Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One

A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold ...

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Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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This kind of response belongs on an episode of SVU. Not in Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

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...

Yet another reason why I love Rush’s new tour drummer, Anika Nilles. I got to see this moment happen live tonight at the end of the band’s third of four nights playing at Madison Square Garden.

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

I didn't expect this early work to be THAT good [maybe falsely judging from the hideous American book cover(s)], so I won't waste any time to get from killing to healing and No. 47 of my #startrek anniversary reads: "Star Trek - Zeit des Wandels 8: Heilen" by @davidmack.pro ("A Time to Heal")

Ruben Schmitt@krautundruben.bsky.social · last wk.

No time travel shenanigans from Q this time but let's go back in time nevertheless to the "A Time to..." series for No. 45 of my #startrek anniversary reads: "Star Trek - Zeit des Wandels 7: Töten" by @davidmack.pro ("A Time to Kill")

And now I'm getting philosophical about Snoopy's Van Gogh. The painting was stolen from Snoopy in January, 1966... but he tracked down the thieves and got it back, and so it was in his house when it burned down that September. Had the thieves gotten away, that masterpiece might still exist.

Mike Sterling, Funnybooks Guy@mikester.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just sitting here processing comics when the question "did Snoopy have the Andrew Wyeth painting in his doghouse before or after the fire?" popped unbidden into my head. (It was after...it replaced the Van Gogh he lost when the doghouse burned down.)

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 5d ago

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

Maaaaaybe you'd like to give this a read? **gently shoves it toward you**

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 2w ago

Darlings!! Today, I am over at The Big Idea ( @scalzi.com ), talking about poetry and storytelling — who gets a voice and how powerful that voice is! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/21/t...

I somehow don't think that I can avoid posting this photo of William Shatner and birthday lady France Nuyen on Broadway in The World of Suzie Wong.

How Johnson can turn this: True independence is protecting your community, not covering for a secret police you gave a license to kill. Susan Collins handed ICE $70B in blank checks, voted down oversight, and now wants credit for photo-ops after a tragedy.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d ago

Susan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...