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Crews bolted a US anti-tank missile to an Israeli radar and a Dutch truck—none of it built for this—into a launcher that hunts Russia's cheap drones. And it does the job without burning a Patriot worth more than the drone it stops. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/08/05/a...

The prospect of "taking the oil" may ultimately be what convinced Trump to launch the Maduro raid. Of course, pillage is a war crime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

Trump: "We're taking a lot of oil from Venezuela -- billions and billions of barrels of oil. To the victor belong the spoils."

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. This is what they wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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NEW: @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social obtained body cam footage from the investigation into Rep. Max Miller's alleged abuse. In it, Emily Moreno alleges Miller held her at gunpoint while she changed their daughter's diaper. It also reveals him downplaying their daughter's broken collarbone to detectives.

Hey, look over here, troglodytes! Remember the MASKS OF TYRANNY! The ones you’re perfectly happy with now, so long as they’re covering the mug of a failed mall-cop goon who shoots a mom in the face. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Remember When These Fuckers Died Denying Science To “Own The Libs”?

Now They Want You to Blame the Doctor. Because Of Course They Do.

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Corruption doesn’t lower your rent. It doesn’t lower your grocery bill. It doesn’t make healthcare cheaper. A Blue Wave can #BlueWaveIn90Days

I only now realized that when I searched for the cover image of White Flight earlier, it pulled up this image drawn from one of the blurbs for the book. The words are from the amazing southern historian Dan Carter. But the image is of the amazing New Zealand rugby star Dan Carter.

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know

The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Give Them an Inch...

And they'll take away women's sports...

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i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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HUGE NEWS: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed WINS the Michigan primary!! It's time to fight like hell to crush MAGA Mike Rogers in November.

❗️🇩🇪🇺🇦 Update: Footage of drone carrying an improvised explosive device found on the tarmac at Leipzig/Halle Airport, only meters from a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo plane. Authorities safely neutralized it after discovering the detonator was defective, preventing an explosion.

Listen, it’s a tiny price to pay for giving one of the worst regimes on earth control of one of the most important waterways.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · yesterday

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

Summary of 10th Mountain Division, Narrated by @crow.house.gov , part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social youtu.be/E34wT70IV4Q?... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbqAObgllL... #WeAreAmerica250 #heathercoxrichardson

This is a very important read and should not be buried by election news.

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)@hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h ago

August 4, 2026

Run that on a loop in the TikTok feeds.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Trump: "I think we should be given an A+ on the economy"

Want to know more about Ukraine's deep-strike campaign? Check out my conversation with the Catarina Buchatskiy director of analytics at one of Ukraine's leading defense and security think tanks. michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/the-drone-...

The Drone Revolution: How Ukraine Is Changing Modern Warfare (video)

A conversation with Caterina Buchatskiy, Director of Analytics at the Snake Island Institute, one of Ukraine's leading defense and security think tanks.

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I was at a city government function a few years ago and some lady said, "The government thinks we're all stupid!" Another guy stood right up, looked around and said, "That's only because most of you are." I was dying.

Peace@dogsmile.bsky.social · 24h ago

Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Will Lawrence is showing what we’ve always known to be true: our platform of jobs, affordability, cheap energy, and billionaires out of government isn’t just the right thing to do – it’s the POPULAR thing to do.

If you're a young person who believes our generation deserves affordable housing, good jobs, and a livable future, don't wait for someone else to fix it. Join the Sunrise Movement.

I don’t call myself a blue dog Dem, a yellow dog Dem, a DSA Dem, a centrist Dem, or a progressive Dem: I call myself a Big Dawg Dem, where our only platform is kicking MAGA’s ass in elections. Anyone else?

Lost in the chatter about Todd Blanche and Trump's slush fund is the fact that anti-abortion Senators have demanded Blanche do a whole mess of things for them. The judiciary committee votes Tuesday morning. We're in the danger zone

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · last wk.

In the past month, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee have asked Todd Blanche to: *review DOJ's stance on the Comstock Act, a law antis claim bans all abortions *force FDA to end abortion pills via telehealth to settle a lawsuit *fan flames about abortions later in pregnancy this is all Bad News

Critics lit into Hegseth after he demanded that Congress pass Trump’s plan for a $1.5 trillion military budget.⁠ Read more here: https://bit.ly/4yUSD1A #ResistTrump

“This is not oversight, it is not principled, and our legal system will be worse off if Blanche is confirmed.”

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Todd Blanche doesn't believe in the rule of law, and John Cornyn and Thom Tillis don't care. Blanche's Sunday night moves should not save his nomination. The reaction from the pair of soon-departing Republican senators is not oversight and not principled. Tonight, at Law Dork:

This is where we're at: Secret rallies to push a complete perversion of everything that this nation was founded on.

Happy Market Manipulation Monday - brought to you by the most corrupt family in American history. www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Why Wall Street Firms Are Paying $100,000 a Month for a Fast Track to Trump Posts

Traders who already monitor the president’s pronouncements with automated systems can pay for an ultrafast feed. At least five firms have signed up.

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