The OIG report “highlights the obvious: Corporations — not small immigrant-oriented healthcare providers, or undocumented immigrants illegally taking benefits — are responsible for the vast majority of alleged fraud in the American health care system.”

Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez@ramirez.house.gov · 3h ago

Big corporations and their lackeys in the Trump administration scapegoat immigrants to divert attention from their theft and abuse. While they lie to us about the problem they are the ones stealing from working people. Plain and simple, they want us divided and distracted while they rob us.

The recent hysteria over bike and ebike regulation is infuriating, dumb, and counter-productive.

Happy Ray Bradbury apocalypse day to all who celebrate.

Republicans will likely do what they always do and confirm Blanche as Attorney General despite all of this, and once again, women across America will pay the price.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Celebrate AOC's beautiful path to the 2028 presidency, as proclaimed by Andrew and Tristan Tate's lawyer. 'McBride saw it as a given that MAGA couldn’t afford to lose his clients, writing on Instagram, “AOC will be the next President without the Manosphere and Andrew Tate.” '

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Blowing a ton of expensive weaponry on an unnecessary war that leaves us in a worse geostrategic position than before we started and the country we attacked in a stronger one. www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, raising concerns about the...

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She cycles around, sets up her bench and a small table with coffee and cake somewhere, and chats with complete strangers. The goal is to strengthen the neighborhood and combat loneliness, particularly among seniors.

🔥🔥🔥🔥 “All of the speculation and hype around A.I. is hiding the fact that the technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation.”

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

Anyway, I made a reading list in public. I try to avoid doing that. The Twitter “syllabus” wars scarred me. It’s gonna be a touchy few days.

Every time I read something like this I wonder if my son (killed by a careless driver in 2010) is one of the lives that could have been saved

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · yesterday

​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

Credulous headine and framing: sigh. To its credit, story itself points out that basically every week or so Trump & Co try to juice the market with one of these "just around the corner" chimeras. www.cnbc.com/2026/08/04/b...

​New research shows that the US has been a global laggard curbing crash deaths. If the US had merely matched improvements in 14 peer nations, 500,000+ lives would have been saved from 2000-24. doi.org/10.1080/1538...

Spokane, WA. my god!

💞Sabrina💞@sabrinarina.bsky.social · 3d ago

The fact that every single person is accounted for and was safely evacuated with how fast this spread is a testament to the community we have here.

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Love this framing @tressiemcphd.bsky.social data politics doesn’t happen without data economics. Central to this must also be acknowledging the immorality of personal data as a market/good. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

nytimes.com

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

It will depress you! Sorry about that but it’s kind of my jam. I selected well-written books, some of them are even wryly funny at times — if you come from a culture with macabre humor. Still, the issue is big, complex, and scary. All the more reason for us to face it together.

John Robinson@jrobin.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reading list that I know will depress me, but one that also seems vital to understand (and fight this version of) the future. From the brilliant @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

This x1000. If you think there’s more to be extracted being the minority in both chambers as an opposition party to the president (and to SCOTUS, honestly), I’m not sure what to tell you. This *is* oppositional politics.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

it also feels like Max Miller was pretty sure that Trump would always take his side in the end--even if he was abusing other MAGA people--and everybody but him is finally realizing that might not confer absolute immunity from consequences anymore

A lot of people are reaching for a common understanding of what AI means — not what it does — and there is too much money invested in keeping people confused.

AOC introduced a bill that would put the brakes on new data centers until Congress can study the environmental, economic and social impact of AI. This should have happened from the very onset of these death traps. The ones that are already operating should be forced to go through the same scrutiny.

But if we don't reduce emissions to zero, the situation will get even worse, and eventually get out of hand with tipping points being crossed. So, logic has it that we need to reduce emissions to zero. Adults should be able to handle this. 2/

Went into ballot drop off box today. In addition to the Urbanist there is the Lefty Cheat Sheet: electioncheatsheet.org

Lefty Cheat Sheet — Aug 2026 Primary

A quick guide on how to vote lefty using sources YOU trust!

electioncheatsheet.org

It's time to post the current election turnout breakdown by age bracket chart again and remind you that ballots are due by Tuesday!

Every single nimby who claims apartment buildings kill orcas has voted. Now it's time for the rest of us.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's time to post the current election turnout breakdown by age bracket chart again and remind you that ballots are due by Tuesday!

Successful climate action is SO attractive! From 2015 to 2022 China spent $145M to make Tianjin's streets safer, greener, accessible. Evaluations found 100s of 1000s (70% of all trips) of people chose active/public transport. 𝗧𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗶𝗻'𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆𝘀

Melissa & Chris Bruntlett@modacitylife.com · 3d ago

In 2015, Tianjin launched the Urban Transport Improvement Project—the largest active mobility investment ever supported by the World Bank. Instead of focusing solely on roads or transit, it sought to create an integrated system where walking, cycling, buses and metro would work seamlessly together.🧵

Punk AF

Shocking.

@tkingfisher.com has a new White Rat book (Daggerbound) coming out on 8/25, so if you haven't already read Swordheart you might want to pick it up while it's only $2.99. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/swordheart...

Swordheart

Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.

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I don't think I can read this right now but I want to boost it and encourage everyone who can to have a look and also boost. This is Welland ON. You never know who might know something.

Anne Panke@arocc.bsky.social · 5d ago

For me, it would be solving this awful crime. It was my daughter’s horse that died. Police gave up pretty quickly (no surprise there!) but even Crimestoppers let us down entirely….