A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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If you’re in Minnesota, check out our GOTV tool that is the most effective form of voter motivation available to you this election cycle. It’s as easy as chatting with neighbors who already agree with you, but may need a little nudge to actually follow through and vote.

Leah Greenberg ❌👑@leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 6h ago

Michigan just proved something the political establishment doesn’t want to admit: When we organize, we WIN! Now, let’s make it happen again on Tuesday, August 11. Join @indivisible.org’s phonebank for @peggyflanagan.bsky.social on Monday and help us keep up the momentum.

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Judge holds Homeland Security in contempt in case over LA immigration sweeps

A federal judge held the Department of Homeland Security in contempt for not disclosing records related to the cellphone communications of immigration agents.

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‼️ACTION ALERT: The Senate Commerce Committee is holding “kids safety” circus again, this time considering both KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act) & SCREEN Act, two of the most dangerous censorship & age verification bills on the table! CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS & TELL THEM TO OPPOSE 📲 248-331-8665

That was quick. Speak up, people! Bullies are cowards; the would-be vote suppressors backed down. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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Gee, looks like when you panic about political trends and try to keep people from voting, they get mad. www.texastribune.org/2026/08/04/t...

Arrests made during Tarrant County meeting on voting site cuts

Lon Burnam, a former Texas House Democrat, was carried out of the meeting by deputies who told him he was under arrest.

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You are welcome! I dream beautiful dreams of pitting talented bureaucrats against one another. Like a drunk Roman emperor watching the gladiators, but with loopholes in vernacular.

Mortal: "They'll enslave you!" Me: "So they'll have to fix my body, and maybe make me young again." Fae: "A broken vessel cannot serve." Me: "Good food, good company, a century away from the world, and all I have to do is haul less stuff than when I worked at a garden store. Can I bring a friend?"

Fae: Behold, mor— Me, suspiciously: Are you AI? Fae: What? Me: Because you’ve got some weird looking feet Fae: What are you talking about Me: I don’t use AI, thanks. ::walks away:: Fae: What just happened

I'm dimly remembering a tumblr post theoretically from somebody entering faerie and a reply was like "if you eat any of that you'll be trapped forever" and OP said "that's the fae's problem." And just. Mood.

The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER

Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”

"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

For Rahaeli and @elsieyork.bsky.social, who both asked: My professor was working as an assistant county attorney very early in his career when he got assigned a nuisance abatement case. The owner of property in an unincorporated part of the county was keeping exotic animals without a permit.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 6d ago

I am asking you about evicting an emu farm as requested!

Can confirm that ostriches as well assume that we're also ostriches - when I worked in an ostrich farm we scared them away by putting a small bag on top of a pole and lifting it up. When the bag gets higher up than the ostrich's head they figure you for a bigger ostrich and run away.

Someday the old witch will return and lift the curse placed upon you. Your human shell will crack open and a sleepy bear will emerge, growl grumpily, then hibernate for the next 1,000 years.

WHAT THE HELL I JUST WOKE UP IN HERE

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This is like an alt-history leading to the Fugitive Slave Collections Agency

U.S. Border Patrol wants a contractor to track down deported people abroad and collect their immigration fines

The agency gave bidders three business days to compete for a first-of-its-kind contract to collect fines from people it has deported to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

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"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 most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Ma'am that's my clip board not a flower

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

I Remember, Hope you do….

ICE has killed another person.

El Salvadoran Man Held by ICE at Delaney Hall Dies, Family Says

The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.

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"ferocious", pencil crayon/graphite/ink on paper, 6x8", 2026-$200(Cdn) #art #opossums #sciart

COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG