So that’ll be nearly $1 billion between sale and operations for 1600 beds.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 14h ago

Breaking: CoreCivic has announced they've sold the 1,600 bed Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., to the U.S. through the Department of Homeland Security for $495.6 million. CoreCivic will still manage the facility, which is expected to start receiving ICE detainees this fall.

Jon Husted looked this mother in the eye, and promised he wouldn't vote to cut her daughter's health care. One week later, that's exactly what he did.

Politicians are starting to realize that it’s not enough to merely complain about corruption — the public wants them to actually do something about it. A new ethics agency proposed in a Senate bill responds to that call. bit.ly/45JqoFy

Confronting Corruption

Across the political spectrum, the public wants action from politicians to rein in rampant self-dealing.

brennancenter.org

Big tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.

Wow. Shri Thanedar money and AIPAC money don’t count in Mi.

Working Families Party 🐺@workingfamilies.org · 17h ago

This is a win for @wewill2026.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @donavanmckinney.bsky.social. This is a win for Michigan. This is a win for regular people everywhere who are tired of being taken advantage of.

Very proud to be a Michigander today.

Sanders-backed Socialists sweep Michigan! El-Sayed, Lawrence, and McKinney won their races. Huge night for the left. Monumental shift happening in American politics. Looks like “The Revolution” is happening.

Every elected Republican is now a Max Miller Republican. Hang that around their necks every damn day.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

Three lions held at the Tokyo Zoo have died from heat stroke. Four lions remain so ill that they're unable to stand. The average heat index in Tokyo in July was 110°. And we are in just 1.4C of global heating. We are on track for 3C in my kid's lifetime. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...

This, please.

Mike Nellis@mikenellis.bsky.social · 17h ago

Haley Stevens conceded. That was the right call. Now it’s time for everybody to LOCK THE FUCK IN and get to work to beat Mike Rogers.

Congratulations to ECU-endorsed Rep. and #UnrigWashington member Pramila Jayapal on officially securing the Democratic nomination for #WA07. In Congress, Rep. Jayapal has been an outspoken advocate for anti-corruption reform. We look forward to helping reelect her this November.

Abdul El-Sayed has won and Haley Stevens called him to concede. El-Sayed's speech last night focused on unity. Stevens has released a congratulatory statement saying she's proud to offer her support to him. Their ability to unite the coalition will be the key to a general win.

But we still need to talk about dinner. Or more specifically, we need to talk about the things survivors need to do to keep the peace, get through the day, survive. And that includes getting dinner on the table. As always, this is for survivors. 3/3 dot-connecting.ghost.io/on/

On Max Miller’s dinner

Believing survivors means understanding that survivors do many things to keep themselves safe — including cook dinner for their abusers.

dot-connecting.ghost.io

Pay attention Maine/Troy Jackson - when reporters make it known, in every story published, that Leonard Leo is involved, his side loses. “Republicans, heavily funded by outside groups — including those tied to the Federalist Society’s Leonard Leo” www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

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Mallory McMorrow endorses Abdul El Sayed minutes after NBC call

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

Goodnight

So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterday

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

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

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

there are no coincidences... www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/u...

Russian Disinformation Targets Vaccines and the Biden Administration (Published 2021)

A new campaign appears to be spreading falsehoods about the potential for forced inoculations against Covid-19.

nytimes.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Ron Johnson: "Aaron Rodgers was smart enough to take ivermectin when he got covid ... unfortunately, more people didn't follow him. We wouldn't have had as many of athletes falling unconscious, sometimes dead on the field of play. You've seen the video reels of this happening in 2021."

We just contributed and if you have the inclination and the cabbage please consider donating ✌🏼

Brian Poindexter For Congress@poindexterforcongress.com · yesterday

Northeast Ohio deserves a representative who will always fight for working families. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/poindexter_web?refcode=beatmaxmiller84

BREAKING: Sen. Dick Durbin accuses Todd Blanche of lying under oath. He says Blanche told him in his office — with witnesses — that the slush fund was a mistake. In his confirmation hearing, Blanche denied that remark.

UN Human Rights Commission: "So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity."

Flawed ‘Epstein Files’ disclosures undermine accountability for grave crimes against women and girls: UN experts

GENEVA – The so-called ‘Epstein Files’ contain disturbing and credible evidence of systematic and large-scale sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of women and girls, UN experts* said today.Acco...

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Lisa Guerrero@lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 2d ago

Several women have now come forward saying that there was SEX TRAFFICKING & TEEN RAPE at the Playboy Mansion. Many similarities to the Epstein crimes and they were happening here in LA and glamorized on television. Watch Karissa Shannon’s heartbreaking but important story. youtu.be/DQLe35lkj2c?...

Note: They stole the money.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

A great choice who will be a great governor.

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸@rweingarten.bsky.social · yesterday

Congrats @JocelynBenson.bsky.social! Let’s make this AFT member the next Governor of Michigan!

RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline

Republicans wrote the Big Ugly Bill to funnel cash to billionaires — and they used your grandmother's Medicare as the piggy bank. Half a trillion in cuts start January 1. Vote them all out. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

JUST IN: Jocelyn Benson has clinched the Democratic nomination for governor of Michigan. Congratulations, Jocelyn!

Nationalize oil firms, then run them into oblivion as we transfer to 100% renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

theguardian.com