“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 15h ago

“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...

As an actual disabled critic, BEING HEUMANN is a landmark for disabled representation that abled audiences aren't going to immediately grasp its power. An essential piece of disability history in an era when our rights are being eroded. My review is live: thefilmmaven.com/being-heuman...

Being Heumann Review: The Disability Representation We've Been Waiting For

We finally broke the Tod Browning "Freaks" record for most disabled cast members!

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"In effect, the supply seems to be endless, with the creators of the material uploading it as fast as we could identify it."

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 6d ago

NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...

BREAKING: The Missouri Supreme Court has placed a referendum aimed at overturning the state's new congressional lines on the Nov. 3 ballot — and frozen the gerrymandered map passed last year. (@stlpublicradio.bsky.social)

Missouri Supreme Court puts referendum to overturn new congressional map on ballot

The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that the state's voters will decide the fate of a plan aimed at ousting Democratic Cong

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NEW: Over the “strongest possible” objections of a federal prosecutor handling the case, Trump DOJ officials quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an ICE agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.

Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections

A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that T...

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We’re witnessing the result of normalization in real time just like we have with the increasing escalations in authoritarianism & force since the start of the 21st century that today’s horrors are downstream from and as this becomes normal there will be increased space for new horrors born from this

@speedway22.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Guardian just reported that there were 50,000 ICE ‘arrests’ in July, this is escalating rapidly and DHS is trying to be quieter about it now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...

Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure

@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · last mo.

ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"

More than 65,000 people have been displaced by the Spokane Complex Fires — and hundreds have lost their homes. If you have even $5 to go towards short and long term assistance, here's a trusted community source: innovia.org

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Learn how you can bring your whole community together through the power of a shared meal. APPLY FOR A GRANT Find an event What is your America at 250? Join the mosaic, host a meal, share a story, and ...

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Twenty five states sue Trump administration over latest global tariffs www.cnbc.com/2026/08/03/t...

Twenty five states sue Trump administration over latest global tariffs

Twenty five states sued the Trump administration, arguing its latest global tariffs unlawfully replace duties already struck down by courts.

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Here’s an installment from August 2020 that’s ringing in my mind www.kcur.org/health/2020-...

If You’ve Grown Numb To Kansas City’s Coronavirus Numbers, Try Thinking Of Them This Way

With case numbers at tens of thousands and number fatigue setting in, one Kansas Citian shares a smaller number to consider: six. The number of people he personally has lost.

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The reason the gravity of these crimes aren’t more widely understood is that people we should expect to respond appropriately to them have largely abdicated their duty.

Secretary of Defense Rock@sodrock.bsky.social · last mo.

Still can’t over the fact that the president of the United States just told an entire state to pound sand after getting cyberattacked by a foreign adversary because they didn’t vote for him and it was treated like a Tuesday lol

I've loved Marina Carr's plays for nearly 30 years and have always wished more of them were produced in Chicago. Now Gift Theatre is presenting the local premiere of "Marble." Happy to talk to Carr and director Kay Martinovich for this @chicagoreader.com preview! chicagoreader.com/performing-a...

Irish playwright Marina Carr returns to Chicago with Marble - Chicago Reader

Kay Martinovich directs Carr's story of dreams, infidelity, and a woman's desire to have "more than good" in life at Gift Theatre.

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The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar just out there cutting everything down to their essence.

The U.S. has now reported the most measles cases in any year since 1991, with more than five months still remaining in 2026. The country reported 2,295 cases as of Tuesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

U.S. measles cases hit 35-year record with months left in 2026

Data from Johns Hopkins University’s U.S. measles tracker shows that the nation reported 2,295 cases as of Tuesday. That count surpasses last year’s total of 2,289 cases.

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The world may have moved on from Minneapolis but its immigrant community continues to struggle. We spoke to single mothers who hid from ICE for months, ran through their savings, and now can’t pay to renew their DACA applications. At least dozens are in this situation. 19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-...

Single mothers lost months of income hiding from ICE — and now can’t afford to renew immigration papers

They survived ICE's takeover in Minneapolis. But now their DACA protections are set to expire, leaving dozens scrambling to afford hundreds of dollars in fees to maintain their legal status.

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Breaking News: Federal agents are said to have been told that the FBI will no longer investigate confrontations with immigration agents. If enacted, such a change would sharply limit law enforcement scrutiny of immigration agents.

Federal Agents Were Told FBI Will No Longer Investigate ICE Confrontations

Senior officials deny such a change is in the works, despite guidance shared with agents around the country in recent days.

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The fact that VP JD Vance and Richard Grenell went to Romania—on behalf of the Trump Administration— to advocate for Andrew and Tristan Tate, who by all accounts, were rapists running a coercive sex ring, then permitted them to come to Florida, should be a crazy, crazy scandal.

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Remarks at the Opening of the Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism - United States Department of State

DEPUTY SECRETARY LANDAU:  Thank you.  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the State Department.  It’s an honor and a privilege to have you here.  For those of us who grew up in the 1970s, the topic that ...

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ICE continues making arrests at NYC immigration court despite a May ruling from a federal judge that broadly blocked such detentions www.courthousenews.com/ice-makes-ar...

ICE makes arrests at NYC immigration court despite court ban

The agency has made at least six arrests in Manhattan immigration courts since a federal judge restricted the practice in May.

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If I’m understanding correctly at least part of the shell game here is that firing the people who certify election equipment will allow him to then protest any unfavorable (to the GOP) results because the equipment wasn’t properly certified.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.

Exclusive: Three men who were alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was killed in an immigration operation, said a federal officer fired at them almost immediately after exiting his vehicle and that at no point did the driver veer in his direction.

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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“His most recent piece for the student paper, which was published last month, criticized what he described as discriminatory hiring practices in academia biased against white men” well knock me over with a feather

Molly Crane-Newman@mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Yale student is accused of sexually assaulting a young mom on an uptown R train on June 28. Prosecutors say the woman couldn’t move on the crowded subway car and that her four kids saw the whole thing. He was arraigned yesterday and released without bail. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/09/t...

In anything close to a normal society with basic morality, Trump would have been driven from office long before the courts had to repeatedly ordered him to pay his rape victim $5 million. We are an obscene, failed society.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JUST IN: A 2nd Circuit judge has denied President Trump's effort to immediately block the $5 million disbursement to E. Jean Carroll.

This alone should be a decade-defining political scandal resulting in prison sentences.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2mo ago

Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

President Trump reaped at least $2.2 billion from his family’s holdings last year, a new filing shows.

Trump Had a Billion-Dollar Windfall After Returning to the White House

The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly the president’s crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.

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Pretty powerful account from Scott Pelley, who canceled his vacation over the weekend so he could be in the office on Monday day to defend 60 Minutes, his colleagues and journalism in America. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...