Screaming Well
@richardcarkeek.bsky.social
Humor, resiliance and character win! (For me, each sentence is an escape room) Developmentally disabled.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 18, 2026: Russian state-owned bank VEB fired Chief Economist Andrey Klepach following media reports of a negative economic assessment he offered that contradicts Putin’s theory of victory in Ukraine. (1/5) Read the full update: isw.pub/UkrWar081826
They should have just been honest and said it was an AI hallucination.
Polling Firm Released Fake Data in Hong and Bass Races as a ‘Social Experiment’ (Gift Article)
Median Strategies revealed that recent polls from the firm were intended to expose how easily false results can be spread.
nytimes.com
If you can decide it’s legit to murder someone because you don’t like something that they did, then aren’t we just a lawless vigilante country at that point? @PreetBharara.bsky.social & I discuss Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider podcast: cafe.visitlink.me/ZGXW-E
1/2 🧵Six months in, the Pentagon is asking factories to make more ammunition. Somebody is filling those orders. Nobody's disclosed who profits from a war that won't end...and nobody with subpoena power can make them. November.
Penny escaped one too many times. #Dachshund #DachshundLove #DachshundLife #WienerDog
Remember when Pam Bondi lined up 16 alleged cop assailants for trophy pictures in January? Virtually all those cases fell apart, but DOJ used those imaginary assaults to excuse spying on MN's anti-ICE community. They were fake assaults to justify spying. emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/d...
DOJ Used Pam Bondi's Trophy Arrests as an Excuse to Spy on Minnesota's Anti-ICE Community - emptywheel
In his filing showing a grand conspiracy theory DOJ is attempting to concoct, Isaac Sant also showed how the trumped up assault defendants Pam Bondi paraded as trophies served as the excuse to predica...
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This blockbuster story about DHS's and DOJ's joint investigation of individuals and orgs who committed no crimes should be getting ALL the attention. With a functional legislative branch, it would be kicking off a major Congressional investigation as well. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)
The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.
nytimes.com
August 11, 1968 - The Atlanta Braves signed famed Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige to a contract. At the time, Paige was in his 60s, but the Braves took the action so Paige could qualify for a Major League Baseball pension.
A U.S. District Court ruled today that the Interior Department violated federal laws when it gave away federally protected lands to the King Cove Corporation to make way for a road in the Izembek Wilderness. The decision vacates the land exchange. wildernesswatch.substack.com/p/court-says...
Court says Interior’s Izembek land swap broke the law
Sole purpose of the land exchange is to facilitate construction of a road through the Izembek Wilderness
wildernesswatch.substack.com
"These are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand," said Deep Throat to Bob Woodward in the parking garage in the film All the President's Men. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
#ResistanceRoots Margaret “Mardy” Murie was born on this day in 1902 in Seattle. Known as the Grandmother of the Conservation Movement, she dedicated her life to protecting America’s wilderness, playing a key role in passing landmark environmental laws and establishing protected areas in Alaska. /1
Disneyland hotel workers help make magic happen for millions of visitors every year. It’s time they got the fair pay they’ve earned and deserve. Solidarity with our @unitehere11.bsky.social union siblings!
UNITE HERE Local 11@unitehere11.bsky.social · 5d agoNOW: workers demonstrate outside of Disneyland and the #D23 Disney fan event carrying signs reading "There's no magic in our paychecks" and "I can't eat fairy dust." Workers are calling on Disney to provide fair wages for the people who make the guest experience possible.
Robot arms kept catching on fire. Machines kept ruining artillery shells. A $533 million General Dynamics project failed to produce a single usable shell. “It was a waste of government money, and it was a waste of our time,” one former technician said.
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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@sfubiosciences.bsky.social prof Isabelle Côté and the Fraser Riverkeeper team swam through Prince George yesterday, now heading south toward Quenesl. The group aims to raise awareness and funds for conservation by swimming the length of the Fraser: www.princegeorgecitizen.com/local-news/f... 🌎
Fraser River Challenge team swims into Prince George
They're swimming the length of the waterway to raise awareness of rivershed issues
princegeorgecitizen.com
This conduct by ICE is unconscionable. ICE should know they cannot enter private property without a judicial warrant. Instead of complying with the law, ICE agents chose to threaten violence against a law firm because of whom they represent. We intend to investigate this incident.
Armed men claiming to be ICE agents tried to enter Sacramento immigration law firm
Multiple employees said the men identified themselves as federal immigration agents who said they wanted to tour the office for beds.
sacbee.com
On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.
USS Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Hegseth ‘hid’ that Iran destroyed main U.S. base. It hasn't dawned on US yet that we've apparently lost most of our Middle East bases. Untold lives of OUR Military & hundreds of billions of dollars in assets!
Sat night Fever kept these boys alive & living well!🎵 youtu.be/I_izvAbhExY
Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive (Official Video)
YouTube video by beegees
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Again, the fact that Harmeet Dhillon did not insert herself into this was your tell.
Noah Shachtman@noahshachtman.bsky.social · 14h agoThe Central Synagogue attacker is not who the New York Post and the Israeli consulate says he is. "If anything, Montes may have believed that the Reform congregation was too progressive. After his arrest, Montes called the congregants 'fake Jews.'” forward.com/news/845474/...
Gaza does not live; it fights to survive amidst ruins & fear. Its children grew up with loss instead of safety, yet its people cling to hope despite the agony. Keep them in your support & prayers. 💔🇵🇸 #Gaza #Palestine Please donate tinyurl.com/AhmedinGaza
This is one of MAGA’s creepiest propaganda tactics: scour the Instagram pages of 18 and 19-year-old sorority girls, turn their videos into political content, then invent a culture war by claiming “the libs are furious.” Nobody’s furious. It’s manufactured outrage. And it’s weird.
Trump's illegality is so outrageous that even the Roberts court, w/ its authoritarian-enabling tendencies, has been forced to turn him down again & again So a plaque replaces his name at the KC, tariffs return under a forced label & the ballroom ask goes to SCOTUS I explain for @ms.now👇 -TN
The courts keep blocking Trump. He keeps searching for loopholes.
A senior administration official says that Trump won’t allow his objectives “to be undermined simply because one tool may be limited by a court.”
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