BIG VICTORY! After a years of fighting, a Michigan court shut down the permit for Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel. The pipeline would have gone through the Great Lakes, the largest source of fresh water in the world. But the Michigan Supreme Court said no.👇

Michigan Supreme Court Overturns Line 5 Tunnel Permit, Delivering Major Victory for Tribal Nations

Overview: The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned a key state permit for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that regulators failed to comply with Michigan envi...

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🇵🇷 Senderismo y actividades de voluntariado este fin de semana. 2 maneras de ayudarnos lograr la ruta escénica nacional para caminantes y ciclistas. 👇🏽 1. Limpieza de veredas – Este viernes a las 8am 2. Recorridos guiados – Fechas disponibles para viernes, sábado y domingo

We need to help reintroduce impostor syndrome in economists, its absence is only hurting them

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

The NYPIRG summer canvasser stopped by today. Focus is on stopping data centers. He said he's had a ton of first-time conservative voters who hate data centers. Bipartisanship! (New York Public Interest Group FYI)

The environmental cost being churned out by AI data centers is getting absurd. It spells out a worldview where tech capital and extreme power moves matter more than people, nature, and democracy. It’s a system operating completely without a moral compass.

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Cabo Rojo frontline communities under threat by luxury coastal developments that threaten habitability and permanently alter nature reserves. These megaresorts receive public subsidies and tax breaks but create parallel governments that restrict who can enjoy “public enhancements”.

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.

FWIW here's Senator Tillis's DC phone contact: 202-224-6342. Maybe ask him to demand restoration of tax audit accountability.

A group of historians is called an Argumentation.

Alexandra Bravo was killed while investigating boat strike survivors’ claims that they were tortured by US gunmen.

Prosecutor Investigating US Boat Strikes and Torture Assassinated in Ecuador

Alexandra Bravo was killed while investigating boat strike survivors’ claims that they were tortured by US gunmen.

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this is extremely good, not because I think Harris is likely to be the nominee again but because this is how expanding the Court becomes table stakes for everyone who wants to run for President

Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 5d ago

Harris Says Supreme Court Should Expand to 13 Justices https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/31/harris-says-supreme-court-should-expand-to-13-justices/

We can’t end gerrymandering until we expand the Supreme Court.

Pete Buttigieg@petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4d ago

Gerrymandering lets politicians choose their voters instead of the other way around. Until we end that, it will remain difficult to achieve the things most Americans already agree on.

192 years ago (Aug 1, 1834) enslavement was abolished in the British Empire. Those "freed' endured/resisted four more years of often brutal "apprenticeship" in colonies including Belize, Barbuda, St. Lucia, and Guyana. This is why Toronto Caribana is now! www.caribanatoronto.com

It's Guam, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Mariana Islands. Here's the actual bill morgangriffith.house.gov/uploadedfile...

Also, a big fuck you to Brett Kavanaugh for writing a whole concurrence in Barbara literally explaining to Congressional Republicans how to do this

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

WTF? Deport Puerto Ricans from Puerto Rico?

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

Of course, this bill doesn't obviate their tax obligations or grant them independence. It would, instead, allow for the deportation of people *from their own birthplaces*. I cannot overstate how evil and racist this bill is. Please call your Congressional representatives and tell them:

Let's just be clear that it's *statutory* birthright citizenship which is why Congress can mess with it.

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 5d ago

A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This is one of the most impressive and memorable films I've ever seen. Not streaming yet but might be at a film festival near you. filmthreat.com/reviews/the-... FYI: photo is of tertiary character

The Soundman | Film Threat

PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! The Soundman is a picture that never begs for attention, never shouts its themes, and never underestimates its…

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I truly believe that the next trend in AI-generated fuckery will be the manipulation of operational images, such satellite images & medical scans—technical visual documents whose default (para)empirical status can be leveraged. Google playing its part in recreationally extinguishing the evidentiary.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

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‘The number of remains is difficult to determine’: civil war death site dug up for landfill in El Salvador

Despite a 2018 ruling to stop waste being dumped where civilians were executed in the country’s civil war, diggers are working at what campaigners call a place where ‘human life, biodiversity and the ...

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www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Caribbean bears brunt of £43bn climate-fuelled damage to developing islands

Findings can inform conversations about global climate reparations and financing for mitigations, researchers say

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#PuertoRico in summer/fall 1940, esp military context: deep US/UK concern with Vichy-controlled forces in Martinique including fighter planes. British blockade/US-led talks with pre-Vichy High Commissioner contained threat. Deeply involved, Gov of PR named ambassador to France.

Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Literally every Puerto Rican person, every scholar of Puerto Rico, hopefully every student in a course on PR or US formal empire is very familiar with the Jones Act.

Few Know About This Law, but Everyone Is Paying for It

The past few months have shown just how anachronistic and costly the Jones Act is.

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Few Know About This Law, but Everyone Is Paying for It

The past few months have shown just how anachronistic and costly the Jones Act is.

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FYI @morelle.house.gov www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Act Free to Be Free

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Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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Ever grateful SUNY hired me with my dissertation on Belizean women's political history. Small place, big historical themes.

United University Professions@uupinfo.bsky.social · last wk.

The UUP Contract has been ratified! The contract was approved by 97.7% of eligible voters who cast ballots. Thank you to all who voted. Special thanks to Chief Negotiator Bret Benjamin and the Negotiations Team for their work on this historic five-year agreement. uupinfo.org/communicatio...

Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.

Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · last wk.

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...