Polymarket has millions of dollars in wildfire-related bets & more than $1M in beds were placed on the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires! DESPICABLE! THE PREDICTION MARKET PROMOTES THE OBSTRUCTION FIREFIGHTERS OR FOLKS TO GO OUT AND COMMIT ARSON! It's absolutely nuts!

Jacob Gellman@jacobgellman.com · yesterday

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

some good local news. the rancid "take money from the climate fund and write a blank check to the pigs instead" ballot initiative failed to qualify due to fradulent signatures www.portlandmercury.com/news/enhance...

Effort to Send Climate Dollars to Cops Won’t Qualify For November Ballot - Portland Mercury

A ballot initiative that sought to direct 25 percent of Portland’s Clean Energy Fund toward hiring additional police officers failed to gather enough valid signatures to qualify for the November ballo...

portlandmercury.com

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

Aurora police officer Matthew Neely is placed on unpaid leave after an 18th Judicial District grand jury indicts him Friday for second-degree murder in the August 2025 fatal shooting of Rajon Belt-Stubblefield following a chaotic traffic stop in Aurora, Colorado.

Aurora police officer indicted in the fatal shooting of a Black man last year

An Aurora police officer has been indicted in the fatal shooting of 37-year-old Rajon Belt-Stubblefield during an attempted traffic stop last year.

denver7.com

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Using spectroscopy to measure velocity dispersion Image date: 17 September 2002, 18:00 Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected places to find them. The previously undiscovered...

I think it's pretty clear that two of the events in our recent past that we still do not understand the full implications of are the COVID pandemic and the Israeli genocide in Gaza and US support for it.

The Party of Family Brutality unites.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.

Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers

The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”

nytimes.com

Seattle voted Yes! For Seattle Public Libraries! Thank you for supporting workers Seattle! ♥️ Local 2083

“The first time Miller shared the folder, it contained private images of Miller and Ms. Moreno's daughter and left her name unredacted. At least one of those images could be considered Child Sexual Abuse Material (SAM) because the daughter's genitals appear to be visible. ...

Another likely Mississippi lynching.

Anita@anita1956.bsky.social · 14h ago

When they conclude she committed suicide, understand she most certainly did not.

Woman on a bus (reading from an article): Have you ever discussed your fantasies with your partner? Her friend: Like the one where I’m in a cottage by the sea completely on my own with a book and a cup of tea?

The regime's secret police pull a gun and threaten a civilian for engaging in perfectly legal behavior. ICE must be abolished.

Olivia 💙 4thTransformer@olivia4t.bsky.social · 4h ago

🚨 #BREAKING (CHICAGO SUBURBS) ÏCE agents pulled a GUN, and a TASER, on unarmed U.S. citizens for recording them from a public sidewalk… while threatening, “you aren’t going to like the outcome.”

I'm glad to see this. Frankly, I didn't expect it. Good to see that I was wrong.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2h ago

A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…

Incredible nonsense from John Cornyn. True, the harm to Epstein’s victims can’t be remedied by a “no” vote. But why should Blanche’s corrupt cover-up of the Epstein files—in violation of a Congressional mandate(!)—be rewarded by “yes”? Can’t get any more craven than this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn justifies his support for Blanche: "That's one of those things that can't be remedied by a 'no' vote"

Activist and grassroots organizer Will Lawrence has won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, with a campaign focused on data centers’ regulation and demanding accountability for big tech and AI companies. www.wired.com/story/anti-d...

The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics

Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.

wired.com

I'm done with Politico This is an insane take on an incredible win which I believe will be good for Michigan and good for the D party Get rid of Chuck Schumer and any other D Senator that is more committed to preserving the status quo than moving the bar

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 9h ago

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

Smoking causes cancer. Saturated fat causes heart disease. And Fox News causes brain rot.

The US is f*cking with Brazil: "(B)reaking with diplomatic norms, the United States did not consult Brazil before selecting Mr. Perez for the job, according to two senior officials who did not want to be named publicly discussing the matter." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...

Trump Administration Revokes Visa of Brazil’s Ambassador in the U.S.

The State Department has canceled the visa of the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, deepening a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

nytimes.com

This. It has definitely taken a toll this year (and every year prior, but this year feels especially noxious).

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 14h ago

This is another way we live in rape culture; we live in a culture where we have to hear about monstrosity all the time. Sometimes I look at those top stories lists and wonder if I'm the only one who notices that two or three or four of the ten are about violence against women.

Garbage workers in the city of Bitonto, Italy recovered a €1M lottery ticket, after having to search through an entire truck full of trash. Company SANB administrator Roberto Nicola Toscano told AFP news agency that the ticket was found "miraculously still in one piece." www.dw.com/en/italy-gar...

Italy: Garbage workers help woman find €1 million jackpot

A woman who won €1 million mistakenly threw her lottery ticket in a trash bin in Bitonto, southern Italy — prompting her local sanitation company to launch an hourslong search.

dw.com

These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Trump is rolling back protections apps.npr.org/troubled-wat... #Project2025 #environment #nature #oceans #climate #EPA #Blues

These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections

The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, spar...

apps.npr.org

Not a single Israel defender has ever been able to defend this. They just pretend it doesn't exist, even though it defies any of their supposed 'arguments'.

The New Arab@thenewarab.bsky.social · 7h ago

Israeli forces used small aircraft to cross the border and spray high concentrations of the herbicide glyphosate over farmland in southern Syria and Lebanon, a new report has revealed. According to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the spraying halted the growth of several crops

Trump surrender? "The possible agreement emerging from talks between Iran and Oman calls for ships to enter the Persian Gulf through an Iranian-controlled route and exit through a route controlled by Oman... Service fees would be charged.... " www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/05/w...

Trump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday - The Boston Globe

Oil prices eased on hopes of progress for a deal that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again and deliver crude around the world.

bostonglobe.com

SpaceX announces its first Moon landing.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h ago

(AFP) - A four-ton piece of a SpaceX rocket was believed to have unintentionally crashed into the Moon on Wednesday .. @afp.com $SPCX www.yahoo.com/news/science...

North Korea started deploying a missile unit of around 90 personnel&is preparing to transfer 120 ballistic missiles to be launched at Ukraine- Reuters Russia plans to integrate the unit into its 112th Missile Brigade&equip it with up to 120 ballistic missiles&six launchers for attacks on #Ukraine.

“El-Sayed barely won” Haley Stevens spent ~79% of total spent on ads to El-Sayed’s 9%. He was outspent by over 8x and yet still won. That is an amazing feat considering all of the odds stacked against him! Also, he was racistly and Islamophobically slandered the ENTIRE race and yet he STILL won