God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...
Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS
Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.
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David Brooks affair while "She was his research assistant for a book about morality and ethics called “The Road To Character.”
NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · last mo.David Brooks character: "I'll never get over that his wife converted for him, changed her last AND first name, then he left her and his children with her for a research assistant less than half his age And then the moment he got married to a millennial every oped was "Millennials are annoying af"
After 30 years they’re going to do something? They wrecked education during that 30 years.
An experienced fact-checker, Linda Qiu, at the most well-resourced and serious news organization in America, STILL cannot manage to call a true statement true: "Susan Collins helped Trump slash Medicaid to the tune of $990 billion.” —Troy Jackson This is true. Here's why Qiu gets it wrong:
Fact-Checking 3 Competitive Senate Races in Maine, Michigan and Ohio
Republican attacks have focused on terrorism and illegal immigration, while Democrats have sought to capitalize on the unpopularity of President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid.
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The USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.
Seems like a good time to interview Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and find out why this is all somehow Joe Biden's fault.
Dale @dalejohn.bsky.social · yesterdayThe USDA is projecting the wheat harvest to be cut by almost half in the US. The state of Kansas is the largest producer of wheat and it is projected to harvest 44% less than from 2025. The American Farm Bureau sees a continued increase of Chapter 12 bankruptcies from 2025 as well.
In any prior era, a windfall for the president of that size from a foreigner with no signs of access to that level of wealth might have spawned an investigation. Instead, the curious case of Mr. Zhou illustrates how buyers can use the anonymity of cryptocurrency to shower Mr. Trump with money.
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · 15h agoThe curious case of Guren “Bobby” Zhou shows the ease with which investors with shady backgrounds and unknown motivations can funnel money to the president By Russ Buettner, who covers the Trump family’s finances. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/u...
Israel has charged a settler in the death of Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, more than a year after his killing in the occupied West Bank. The move comes after the rights group Al-Haq compiled evidence and urged the International Criminal Court to step in.
The Death of Awdah Hathaleen: Report Details Settler Killing of “No Other Land” Producer in West Bank
One year ago, an Israeli settler shot and killed the Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen in the occupied West Bank. Hathaleen, an English teacher and father of three young children, played a key role...
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👀 “The Powell memo outlined a strategy. Unite corporate special interests, privilege corporate perspectives in the media, appoint sympathetic judges to the court, and buy politicians in both political parties” - @jamestalarico.bsky.social This is good stuff.
Empowering Main St. Before Wall St.@rchady.bsky.social · yesterdayTalarico Explains Infamous 'Powell Memo' to Texas Voters, Making Right-Wing 'Master Plan' a Campaign Issue . “The top 1% put the American Dream behind a paywall." www.commondreams.org/news/powell-...
PM’s ex-chief of staff says he blocked demand for all staff at office to ‘sign pledge of loyalty’ to Netanyahu family www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-e...
PM’s ex-chief of staff says he blocked demand for all staff at office to ‘sign pledge of loyalty’ to Netanyahu family
Yoav Horowitz, now a candidate with the opposition Yashar party, details Sara Netanyahu's vast influence on policy and decisions, says PM 'perceives himself as something between a king, emperor or pre...
timesofisrael.com
Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time
Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · 3d agoReally? Because I keep seeing them in charge of everything from car dealerships to the White House, and they seem to doing just fine despite their obvious handicaps.
In which an idiotic Tesla driver tells the cop who clocked him going 20 over the limit that he demands to speak with his manager.
e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · yesterdaydude gets pulled over for speeding and tells the cop—fingers tented Elon-style—that he wasn't actually driving, his Tesla was it does not go well youtu.be/kOa9iZmlfnk
Cornell University has banned the processing of wild game in residential kitchens on campus after two students carved up a bear carcass to make “black-bear pastrami”
Students Skinned a Bear in a Dorm. Cornell Realized It Should Ban That.
After two Cornell University students skinned a black bear in a communal kitchen last year to make a meal, the school changed the rules.
nytimes.com
Trump's average disapproval at this point in his term is the worst of any president on record, per Silver. His net approval is worse than any president on record. He's underwater at -20.6. At this point in Trump's first term, his net approval rating was 9.3 points higher, at -11.3.
It’s so telling and pathetic that center right pundits can’t just admit that Biden was a normal president and Trump is profoundly abnormal. Your political party sucks dude! If you were serious about democracy you’d be telling people to vote for Dems, not drawing false equivalencies.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d agoLie. Biden definitely wasn't "maxxing out" on "illegal immigration." Immigration activists denounced his policy as too draconian, and Dems tried to pass a hawkish immigration bill. Similar point re: Starmer. NYT thinks the op-ed page is for publishing lies, at least if the lies are right-wing. 6/x
They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.
American Oversight@weareoversight.bsky.social · 2d agoICE is planning to make sure field agents have body cams by the end of September. But its policy to only release footage that is in the agency’s “best interest” means taxpayers may be paying millions for cameras without benefitting from their oversight. apnews.com/article/ice-...
The entire allegation about Fauci lying to the public is based on a private diary entry from *January 2020* politifact.com/article/2026...
Please say a prayer and whatever else you can muster to my family and friends in Summerland BC. The whole town has been evacuated and the photos they are sending are breaking my heart.
Waking up to see friends and family using the Facebook "marked as safe" function. Glad they're all evacuated but what a harrowing night in the Okanagan, they don't know what they'll have to come home to.
20,000 flee as explosive B.C. wildfire races toward Summerland, burning homes in path
Evacuation orders cover the entire community of Summerland, population 12,000, while a further 8,000 were told to flee in and around Peachland, both on the western shore of the lake in the B.C. Interi...
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Very interesting. According to Politico a big reason slimeball Rep. Andy Ogles got whacked in Thursday's primary is because he was targeted with $2M by a super pac funded by solar execs. They didn't user solar or enviro arguments. They used standard right wing ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How the solar industry helped take down Ogles
An aggressive new PAC backed by renewable energy supporters notched a major win last night by helping unseat Rep. Andy Ogles.
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"Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s latest dismal jobs report. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July: Women lost 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000."
Trump’s Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women
And the number of women who have left the workforce since January is more than double the number of men.
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Bill Cassidy's speech where he mentions Bill Barr giving him advice explains why I saw Bill Barr a few times on the Hill the last few months. Unrelated: Bill Barr's dad hired Jeffrey Epstein.
The biggest pain in the ass of a generation project and the thing slowing everything down is the interconnection queue and the cost of transmission system upgrades So the easiest thing to do is stick panels next to a dead coal plant and use their existing interconnection facilities and capacity
Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · 2d agoMinnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.
"The watchword of patriarchy is women’s service with a smile. Every woman alive is hence in the service industry to some extent or other, in being subject to the constant expectation of our emotional and intellectual, as well as sexual and domestic, labor." Brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social.
A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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So, SCOTUS rules against Trump on 3 things: tariffs, removing birthright citizenship, and firing Fed governors. And he moves forward with all three...
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Trump is trying to fire Lisa Cook again. The Trump administration, rebuffed by the Supreme Court in its first attempt to fire Cook, just sent the Federal Reserve governor a letter saying it was "considering" removing her from the job.
