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"That's my secret, Cap: I'm always angry.”
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
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We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.
SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision
Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour
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As some attempt to legislate trans people out of public life, we stand firm in our values and will continue to advocate for, celebrate and protect trans people at every opportunity. Check out the Good Law Project for more detailed updates on the EHRC guidance: goodlawproject.org/were-support...
We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project
The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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Veterinary students at the University of Georgia learned to care for honeybees, which are vital pollinators for U.S. agriculture. Between 2024 and 2025 more than half of the managed colonies in the U.S. have been lost. nyti.ms/45Knh00
the really legit debate in america is should we spend a good amount on social programs vs should we spend a giant fuck ton on social programs
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn 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
Their goal is to end girl’s sports entirely. Boys are assumed to be athletically superior and thus don’t need to be protected from trans kids, according to these abominable people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The Heritage Foundation only wanted to protect women's sports when it was about trans athletes
Not anymore.
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The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking | CNN Politics
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...
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When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d ago1. This is bullsh*t & an epically stupid policy completely detached from any empirical evidence: bsky.app/profile/mcop... 2. We could simply avoid this entire issue by <all together now> Funding. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Maddow asked #JamesTalarico about attacks on #trans people and those who think that to win, Dems must "moderate" on trans rights. Talarico answered, "I don't believe we win by selling people out." #Texas
The family court system also makes it *harder* for women who accuse their husbands of abuse to protect their children, penalizing mothers who don't come across as cooperative. Criminal accusations increase this risk. Fathers with restraining orders are statistically *more* likely to gain custody.
Slow clap and mad respect to all the local journalists in Spokane who have been covering this nonstop over the past 30+ hours, delivering updates to people desperate for them while also feeling heartbreak for family, friends, neighbors, and in some cases preparing to evacuate themselves. Thank you.
Here’s the thing that frightens me. Everyone executed their roles almost perfectly in the response to these fires and it was still this bad. Everyone. Responders, city, county and fed officials. Detection and warning systems. Everyone did their jobs very well. This was a best case outcome.
Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d agoThe front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
Three years ago, our reporter received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of thousands of files: years of secretly recorded conversations, private militia chat logs and videos sent by a man named John Williams. (Published Jan. 2025)
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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“The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump’s family business.” File under ‘no surprise that the Trump family is involved in money laundering’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump
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A 58-year-old letter carrier collapsed & died on his mail route in triple-digit heat. He's the third DFW letter carrier to die since 2023. Yet House Republicans JUST advanced a bill to block the federal heat rule. Working shouldn't be a death sentence.
Despite high-profile deaths, ‘nothing has changed’ for USPS carriers working in heat
Less than half of Dallas-area postal workers have access to air conditioned vehicles, the USPS said in a statement.
dallasobserver.com
January 1, 1808. Jefferson signed the law, so anyone younger than 53 had been “native born” But lawbreaking “heratige Americans” illegally brought in up to 50,000 additional humans until the Slavers’ Rebellion was finally put down.
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves - Wikipedia
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What kind of country does this to children?
Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 5d ago"An estimated 26,000 children who entered the U.S. without parents or guardians are expected to be left without independent legal representation as soon as Monday, according to lawyers who help represent them." www.npr.org/2026/08/01/n...
it is vital that Rowling maintains the false image that she is fighting for women and not trampling on trans people.
The biggest Republican donor in 2026 is also the world's most vocal advocate for ethnic cleansing. That's a big deal, right? So why aren't you hearing about it? presswatchers.org/2026/07/the-...
The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s virulent racism
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"A new analysis of Black voters in the South indicates that Republican attempts to dilute their political power is driving them to the polls in larger numbers and shifting their counties further left."
Republican disenfranchisement bid drives Black voters to polls, study finds
Black voters in south motivated to turn out by Republican push to redraw maps after supreme court ruling
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Great news; yet another court finds that ICE and the DOJ were wrong to declare that Congress secretly mandated detention of millions of noncitizens in 1996 (specifically, anyone who entered unlawfully at some point in the past, no matter how long ago), and that no one had noticed until now.
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6d ago9th Cir., 2-1, joins the 2d, 6th, 10th, and 11th Cirs. in holding that DHS cannot detain unadmitted noncitizens found living inside the United States without the possibility of bond while their removal proceedings are pending. Circuits split with 5th and 8th. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
now imagine this era's equivalent of paris hilton making this argument daily on tiktok. im all in.
RevDJEsq says Abolish ICE@revdjesq.bsky.social · 6d agoI've often thought the best sell for clean energy isn't science, but rather "fuck the Saudi Royal Family bonesaw murderers: let's bankrupt them by making oil unnecessary."
It’s really not funny… it’s a genocide bsky.app/profile/erin...
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · last yr.1. After the Skrmetti decision, the New York Times has published 6 articles dancing on the graves of trans youth and spreading disinformation on care. It was cited 7 times in the ruling. Read my latest on what will be a black stain on the NYT for a generation. Subscribe to support my journalism.
