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Buttondown@buttondown.com · 4d ago

We've enhanced Bluesky link cards! Now when you share your newsletter's archive links on Bluesky they appear as rich, branded cards.💙 🦋 buttondown.com/blog/bluesky...

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

Bluesky@bsky.app · 2mo ago

What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

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...

Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’

The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.

politico.com

UPDATE: The group that posted the audio of the religious activists' call with Blanche online, @IFAPray, has taken it down following POLITICO's story last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSgP...

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...

So you make a claim. It turns out to have side effects you don't like. So you just get to redraw your suite? Throw it out or let it ride.

JUST IN: Trump signals plan to reframe his suit against BBC. Likely to narrow Trump's claim to take out ref to damage to his businesses/brand. Needs judge's OK, but may limit BBC access to his financial data Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Motion to Seal (Public) – #106 in Trump v. British Broadcasting Corporation (S.D. Fla., 1:25-cv-25894) – CourtListener.com

Motion to Seal (Public)

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🪟 The #OvertonWindow is the range of subjects and arguments #politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. 🗳️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton...

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

Jeg tror litt av forklaringen er at kristne raringer oppfattes som "bare" transfobiske, og transfobi er relativt stuerent. Motstand mot LGB-delen av LGBT møter mer motbør.

rett til å holde meninger de fleste av oss er negative til. Det hadde vært gøy om de så dette med flis/bjelke :-)

Det er Kirken. Dvs strengt tatt fortsatt statskirken og så er det kirker. Mange av de svært populære blant folk som representerer KRF og slikt. Men gøyere enn å «konfrontere» dem med at de er både homofobe og alt annet galt ville det vært om man spurte dem om å støtte muslimske menigheter i sin…

Jeg syns det er bra at man setter søkelys på religiøs intoleranse, men jeg syns det er litt påfallende at når muslimske trossamfunn er mot homofile får de masse kritiske spørsmål, men når kristne trossamfunn er det får de noen hundre tusen på Spleis og en invitasjon til #Dax18.

Dette meiner muslimske organisasjonar om homofili

NRK har spurt sju store muslimske organisasjonar i Noreg kva dei meiner om homofili. Berre to svarte.

nrk.no

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Most Black Texas voters back James Talarico over Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate race, a poll finds, despite primary tensions. Fewer than one in 10 Black voters in Texas say they are less likely to vote in November due to U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s defeat in the Democratic primary. bit.ly/3TWvw6F

Senate poll: Black Texas voters stick with Talarico over Paxton

In the survey released Tuesday, just 7% of Black Texans who voted in recent elections said they are less likely to vote in November due to Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s Democratic primary loss.

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Lon Burnam, a former Texas House Democrat, was carried out of a chaotic Tarrant County commissioners court meeting by deputies. The meeting centered around a proposed reduction in voting site locations for the November elections. bit.ly/4c01rcy

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.

bit.ly

HABEAS UPDATE: The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has now resulted in more than 67,000 challenges in federal court from immigrants claiming their detention is illegal. There’s been a recent uptick in cases with 8,478 reported in July. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who had been withholding support for Blanche, voted with other members of the committee along party lines, 12-10, to send Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate. ncnewsline.com/2026/08/04/r... @statesnewsroom.com #ncpol

Blanche nomination for attorney general advanced by US Senate panel on party-line vote • NC Newsline

Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who had been withholding support for Blanche, voted with other members of the committee along party lines, 12-10, to send Blanc...

ncnewsline.com

Cookeville U.S. Rep. John Rose loaned his gubernatorial campaign an additional $4 million in the final days of the Republican primary, bringing his total in self-funding to $13 million. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn has a raised $12 million for her campaign, reports @friedmanadam5.bsky.social.

Rose up to $13M in self-funding, Blackburn PAC gets $250k from Anthropic in TN gov primary last days • Tennessee Lookout

U.S. Rep. John Rose loaned his governor's campaign $5 million in the last days of the GOP primary for a total in self-funding to $13 million.

tennesseelookout.com

U.S. acting Attorney General Todd Blanche came closer to permanently leading the Justice Department, after two skeptical Senate Republicans voted to advance his nomination given Blanche’s signed promise that President Donald Trump’s nearly $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is dead.

Blanche nomination for attorney general advanced by US Senate panel on party-line vote • Tennessee Lookout

U.S. acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was one step closer to permanently leading the Justice Department Tuesday.

tennesseelookout.com

ARE WE BEING SHUT OUT?

> Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often Shoutout the Original Risk Takers™️

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...

🇺🇸 Satirical gold trophy mocking Trump appears in New York Laughing and taking pictures, New Yorkers stop by a mysterious 10-foot-tall golden trophy awarded to Donald Trump for his "enthusiastic involvement in the Iran war", designed by the anonymous art collective Secret Handshake.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino's ability to brush aside criticism and push through enlarged versions of the Club World Cup and World Cup lent him an air of omnipotence, but a failed private investor plan has left his position under threat for the first time. u.afp.com/SHUU

Twenty-five US states, nearly all led by Democrats, sued Donald Trump's administration on over wide-ranging tariffs, arguing that the president had exceeded his authority in imposing the new levies on dozens of countries. u.afp.com/SHUh

Roughly 2,000 file for exemptions to NYC pied-à-terre tax amid controversial rollout

Roughly 2,000 file for exemptions to NYC pied-à-terre tax amid controversial rollout

nydailynews.com

ICYMI - a few weeks ago @chloeneast.bsky.social + Minnesota's own @aaronsojourner.org joined @ericawilli.bsky.social for a deep dive into the economic cost of DHS attacks on immigrants in our communities. Get caught up here 👇

The Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants

The Trump administration's deployment of DHS agencies—such as ICE—has caused irreparable harm to our communities, neighbors, and families across the country. The economic costs are also substantial—an...

epi.org

Minnesota! 📣 Ever think about what the $4.4 billion of federal taxpayer dollars spent on mass deportations could buy instead? We did. Wednesday, we're launching a tool that shows the economic tradeoffs of Trump's immigration + deportation assault on our communities. Get a peek here 👇

The cost of mass deportations in states like Minnesota—and what federal tax dollars could be funding instead

This week, EPI will release a new tool showing the cost of mass deportations to taxpayers in every U.S. city, county, and state. For the first time, the actual economic tradeoffs imposed on all taxpay...

epi.org

Anthropic: Claude Attacks Result of Security Gaps, Not Model Issues: https://bit.ly/3TTXXlD by Jai Vijayan

Anthropic: AI Attacks Result of Security Gaps, Not Model Issues

Last month's incidents in which Claude breached real-world systems derived from over-permissioning, especially with Internet access.

bit.ly

Mette Frederiksen taler om Europæisk sammenhold. Men når krisen rammer, svigter hun

Mette Frederiksen taler om Europæisk sammenhold. Men når krisen rammer, svigter hun

politiken.dk

Mette Frederiksen vælger at støtte en mere eller mindre fascistisk italiensk politiker (Meloni) fremfor en spansk partikammerat (Sánchez). SF's Pia Olsen Dyhr følger trop, mens De Radikale og Moderaterne siger fra. Hvilket forfald i dansk politik - aktiv støtte til en fascistisk orienteret regering!

Politiken@politiken.dk · 2d ago

Mette Frederiksen taler om Europæisk sammenhold. Men når krisen rammer, svigter hun

I truly don't know if Mamdani's grocery stores will "work," but here's the thing: at least he's trying something. I wish more politicians would try things, even if they didn't work, when people were in need.