BREAKING: The New Mexico Department of Justice has sued Acting AG Todd Blanche and the DOJ, requesting the court for access to unredacted Epstein-related investigative files that the DOJ has been withholding.
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"The Hudson ICE facility stands to generate over $11.5 million in rent profit for real estate company Highlands REIT... '...Highlands REIT might be your landlord... It owns several apartment buildings in Denver'."
Bedrooms Are For People@boulderbedrooms.bsky.social · 3h ago"Real estate company stands to profit $11.5 million from Hudson ICE facility" #boulder
Strait of Hormuz deal does not foresee transit fees for ships, sources say. The Iranian-Omani proposal – that is currently under negotiation – to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would have no tolls or service fees for ships transiting the waterway, sources said.-CBS News
=============== WED AUG 5 10:30AM MAINE MED CENTER =============== Western Prom near 22 Bramhall St, Portland, Maine MAINE MED NURSES DEMAND IMMEDIATE RELEASE of COLLEAGUE FROM ICE DETENTION. Details below. #AbolishICE #ICEoutOfMaine
Maine Medical Center nurses demand immediate release of their colleague from ICE detention
Nurses at Maine Medical Center in Portland, Maine are staging an emergency protest Wednesday, Aug. 5 to demand the immediate release of an RN colleague who is being detained by ICE despite the fact th...
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Workers at TSA are facing a big privatization push by the Trump administration that would force thousands of federal workers to work for private contractors for lower pay, fewer benefits, and no union contract www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push
Union exploring options to oppose program that would put US airport screening into hands of private contractors
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Rape is the central pillar of the right-wing agenda, the right to terrorize other people in the most intimate way possible.
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterdayArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
KOSA. The SCREEN Act. The CHATBOT Act. The Youth AI Privacy Act. Four different bills, with the same flawed approach: more surveillance, more data collection, and less privacy online. Tell the Senate to reject all four. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...
Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint
Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Mike Johnson is the most powerful person in the U.S. House, and he has made it abundantly clear that domestic violence isn’t disqualifying. Which makes it very clear that he doesn’t care about domestic violence. And while none of this is surprising, we should not stop being horrified by it.
Karly Kingsley@karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6h agoMike Johnson told Politico that he's standing behind Max Miller despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him. Pro tip: if Mike Johnson is for it, do the opposite.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds.
The prolonged period of extreme heat in #NorthMacedonia, combined with dry vegetation and a lack of significant rainfall, has created ideal conditions for wildfires to spread. www.intellinews.com/north-macedo...
North Macedonia battles wildfires and water contamination as Europe’s drought intensifies
Europe’s worst drought in decades is disrupting transport, energy and agriculture, with the Balkans increasingly feeling the impact of extreme heat ...
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In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
We are not having an appropriate response to repeated recent lynchings AT ALL.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 17h agoJackson police are investigating the death of an unidentified Black woman who was found hanging in a tree behind a vacant home in Mississippi’s capital city on Monday night. www.mississippifreepress.org/black-woman-...
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada.
Wildfire destroys about 230 homes in western Canadian Indigenous community, officials say
A fast-moving wildfire has destroyed about 230 homes in an Indigenous community in western Canada. The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says the Bradley Creek wildfire devastated much of the reserve near Vernon, about 440 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
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77.2 % votes have been counted in Michigan. El-Sayed leads Stevens now by 31 648 votes.
"Asian immigrants in New York have faced a sevenfold increase in arrests by Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Donald Trump took office last January." "Chinese nationals accounted for the largest share." #NewYork #USA #China #India #Deportation #Asylum #EthnicCleansing #Incarceration
ICE Arrests of New York's Asian Immigrants Increases 600% Under Trump
Advocates say the spike is driven by the Trump administration's targeting of immigrants of color, as well as rhetoric that dehumanizes Asian immigrants.
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safe and beautiful task force seems to be doing mass arrests outside Union station tonight
I've not seen this mentioned elsewhere and wanted to surface it — Cornyn and Tillis both signed off on a letter dated July 15 that urged Blanche to use the DOJ’s might to “stop the abortion industry’s unlawful and unsafe mail-order abortion drug practice.” talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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chat, it is bad when your last campaign event is disavowed by the host because they didn't realize it was your campaign event and fundamentally oppose what you're all about
One of the professors in this lawsuit, Leonard Bright, had a class cancelled three days after the semester began because he couldn't give Texas A&M a clear answer about how much gender and sexuality would come up in class discussions. It was a graduate seminar in ethics.
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · yesterdayNew: Four Texas A&M professors are suing in Houston federal court over its policy prohibiting discussions of race, sexuality and gender in the classroom ~ www.chron.com/texas/articl...
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Two years ago, California hit a milestone decades in the making: Nearly every person in the state qualified for health insurance, regardless of immigration status and income, pushing the state’s insured rate to a record 95%. Now that progress is unravelling. cal.news/3RJgiBp 📸 Jules Hotz
Processing DNA for nearly a million people in a year? No problem, ICE says. Attaching a $300 camera to an agent’s vest? Logistical nightmare. That's one of the most remarkable ironies of this great story (based on FOIA requests by @georgetownlaw.bsky.social's Center on Privacy and Technology).
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions — including one in Japan — in a rare downsizing of America's global diplomatic footprint.
U.S. to close consulates in Canada, Japan and Indonesia, sources say
The State Department has notified Congress of its plans to also close its foreign missions in Grenada and Cameroon.
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ICE detains University of Maryland "teacher of the year" at Dallas airport www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
ICE detains University of Maryland "teacher of the year" at Dallas airport
An instructor for the University of Maryland's School of Pharmacy was detained by ICE last month at Dallas Fort Worth airport.
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