Ignacio Gallup-Diaz
@igallupd.bsky.social
College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado he/him/his
Former neo-Nazi withdraws name as council candidate for the Conservative party - but will be an adviser to the party instead www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ex neo-Nazi activist withdraws as Tory election candidate
Kemi Badenoch says Joshua Bonehill-Paine will now advise the Conservatives on tackling extremism.
bbc.co.uk
El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
Whenever you read a hot take from Politico that casts Dems in an unflattering light, remind yourself that the owner asked the executives to pray for Donald Trump’s reelection. It’s propaganda.
I found reel to reel tapes in my parent's things. I'd like to have them digitalized so I can hear them and share with family. However I don't want the data stolen/used for AI/used in unauthorized research. Can anyone recommend someone who can do that?
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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The govt has fired *all* the immigration attorneys representing detained children and given a $150 million contract to a 26-employee law firm in Texas with ONE immigration attorney. @theyoungcenter.bsky.social's Child Advocates are now the last line of defense for kids in deportation hearings.
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 4h agoWanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
Indeed. I left a university where it seemed that most of the institutional architecture and many curricular decisions were driven by donor interest or donor pursuit!
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
wired.com
Wednesday reminder! 👇👇👇
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 2d agoHeads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...
The Morning Monty is comfy, and he doesn’t care if you think it’s weird.
If you were wondering "how can a journalist talk about this issue in a way that isn't credulously fascist"? Here's an example from @thefrankiedlc.news www.thefrankiedlc.news/p/the-answer...
the answer is always to disavow it
Would you let the Proud Boys march in and sit courtside?
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The Athletic@theathletic.com · 7h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
El-Sayed attacked Rogers as a Trump stooge and accused Republicans of trying to use his faith and full name - Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed - to scare voters. "My name is not the reason you can't afford your groceries," he said. "You know what is? Their BS policies." www.reuters.com/world/us/pro...
Progressive El-Sayed wins Michigan primary in jolt to Democrats
The race served as a battleground between progressives and moderates over support for Israel, an issue that has played out in primaries nationwide this year.
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El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
In Tucker’s recent interview with his favorite Holocaust-denying “historian,” TC is shocked to learn that the Bolsheviks erected a statue to Judas in Moscow. The only problem is, there is no evidence that this ever happened. But who cares about evidence when you have a fascist narrative to push?
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
As part of the OMG it's August, a reminder (for all you who like me put these things off during the academic year) to get caught up on all your checkups, screenings, mammograms, etc.⚕️✅
I pitched both of my usual outlets about the Cunningham stuff, one said yes, one said not right now. In 2019 I would have had a dozen editors competing for my words on this.
Frankie de la Cretaz@thefrankiedlc.news · 4h agoIt’s true, in the past I would have had multiple editors in my inbox asking me to write about the Cunningham stuff. I haven’t gotten a single assignment request. Trans writers used to be tokenized to write about these things but now that the topic is “mainstream,” those bylines go elsewhere.
NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
NEW: U.S. attorney's office offers mea culpa in 'Broadview Six' case, says no further inquiry warranted “This case involved irregularities during a time of immense pressure, upheaval, and emotion in the district because of Operation Midway Blitz” Story here: www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/u...
US attorney’s office offers mea culpa in ‘Broadview Six’ case, says no further inquiry warranted
Prosecutors for embattled Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said in a court filing late Tuesday that while mistakes were made in the now-defunct “Broadview Six” case against immigration protesters,...
chicagotribune.com
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.
erininthemorning.com
The older I get the more I understand why cats just walk away mid conversation.
A nurse from Maine Medical Center has been kidnapped by ICE!! Please help spread the word! wgme.com/news/local/n...
Nurses at Maine Medical Center organize protest after ICE detained colleague
ICE agents took Debora Kapisha into custody at Boston Logan International Airport on July 30.
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WIN: A Wisconsin court blocked state laws that discriminated against absentee voters with disabilities in violation of the ADA. Pro-voters argued that the state's current system, which requires absentee voters to fill out and return paper ballots, limits disabled and elderly voters' choices.
