"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away." — Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

Grim Reaper: Death's Solitude

ALT: Grim Reaper: Death's Solitude

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 2h ago

Far-right pastor Dale Partridge says that Germany was "attacked from within by grossly immoral Jewish forces during the Weimar Republic," which naturally made Nazism "extremely appealing": "This Nazi movement terrified the Jews because it represented a powerful form of Christian nationalism."

'The crew of the Lincoln has had only two days off the aircraft carrier since [November]. The ship had a short port call in [December] and then did not have another stop until July 7, when it briefly pulled into Oman after 208 continuous days at sea—a modern-day record for a Navy aircraft carrier.'

Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h ago

Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

I testified in Judge Mehta's courtroom. I told the truth. A jury convicted. The system worked. Then the people running the executive branch decided the outcome was inconvenient and started tearing it down from the inside. That's not the courts failing.…

an astonishing, egregious dropped ball, and one that will not matter in the slightest because it happened seven years ago and is too complicated to coherently explain without sounding like this web.archive.org/web/20181218...

here is something I wrote in 2020. now we know the answer: they didn't! they didn't do anything! Mueller left it to the FBI, the FBI thought Mueller was handling it, and once Mueller wrapped things up, the Bureau closed the counterintelligence portion www.lawfaremedia.org/article/did-...

17+ people were killed and over 40 injured in deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv. Zelenskyy has pleaded for more air defence weapons, saying ballistic missile interceptors “could have saved the lives of those killed today.” Trump backtracked on his promise to let Ukraine manufacture missiles locally.

Russia exploits Ukraine’s air defence shortage in deadly attack on Kyiv - The Latest

At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured in another round of deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for more air defence weapons, saying ...

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As I was saying... bsky.app/profile/over...

Oversight Dems@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 1h ago

The Trump administration’s oil operation in Venezuela is valued at $13 billion, yet Marco Rubio has refused to say where the money is.

Trump has never served in the U.S. Army, never been officially and lawfully presented with any military awards or decorations, and has definitely never put himself in harm's way on behalf of his country or its people. If you are interested in reality....

I kind of love the idea of defanging Citizens United by making campaign spending a sign of weakness rather than a sign of power.

Peggy Stuart@peggystuart.bsky.social · 2h ago

I'm starting to see a trend. Money gets counted against the candidate, as long as voters know about it. We can be outspent by a lot and still win! #BlueWaveIn90Days

Notably that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly apologized to the government of India over CSAM ads running in that country. The ads @wired.com covered ran below in the US, UK, and several EU countries: www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Zuckerberg apologises to India over child sexual abuse content on Meta platforms

The Meta Platforms ⁠CEO also apologised for deepfake content and operational ‌lapses on the company’s platforms, according to a report.

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Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 4h ago

NEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

i quit facebook a decade ago and urge you to do the same.

WIRED@wired.com · 4h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

It's funny that Jeanine Pirro brought a box of evidence to WH to persuade Trump. He wants her to consciously *throw out* exculpatory facts and *knowingly* prosecute innocent people. So facts can't persuade him by definition. Me and @barbmcquade.bsky.social on this: newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Since Trump came back into office I've been waiting to see on WHICH case, which instance of abusive prosecution, DOJ first invoked the language in Trump v. US that lets POTUS prosecute whoever he wants. It appears to be @katmabu.bsky.social's case, Broadview 6. emptywheel.net/2026/08/05/d...

DOJ Invokes Trump v. US to Protect Todd Blanche's Fixer, Aakash Singh - emptywheel

In the 18 months that Trump's former defense attorney Todd Blanche has run DOJ, he has yet to rely on Trump v. US, the SCOTUS precedent giving the President unbridled authority to dictate individual p...

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... “Premodern fanatics used to hallucinate flying devils. But few modern civilians have been chased by mechanized flying objects. Unless they live in or around Kherson.“

Putin’s Human Safari Is the Dystopian Future of War

A grim new normal dawns in Ukraine.

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To say “yes” to Christian Nationalism in any form or to culture war ... is to say “yes” to the offer Satan made to Jesus at the Mount of Temptation.

This is an astounding loss for the US if it comes to fruition. One of the biggest strategic losses the US has ever endured—perhaps biggest?—and all from a war the US chose to start for no reason, illegally.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h ago

Iran and Oman have reportedly agreed that all ships transiting Hormuz have to go through an Iran-controlled corridor, and are finalizing tolls of 3, 5, or 7%. This would close off the path outside Iranian waters the US encouraged ships to use during the MOU, then started bombing again to keep open.

WSJ: “.. One problem Republicans face in this year’s midterm elections is that the socialist label has lost its sting. .. On Monday, Mr. Trump told reporters that U.S. oil companies are ‘making too much money.’ He took the words right out of Bernie’s mouth.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/soci...

That Musk has not been prosecuted for his decade-long campaign of stock fraud has been one of the great failings of US society.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

The experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Dystopian Future Dawns in Kherson

Putin’s human safari in Ukraine is the beginning of a grim new normal.

theatlantic.com

I rarely say this, but good for the FBI nypost.com/2026/08/05/u...

FBI opened probe into whether Trump was Russian agent after he fired James Comey, newly revealed memos show

WASHINGTON — The FBI opened an investigation into whether President Trump was “wittingly or unwittingly” acting as a Russian agent when he fired then-Director James Comey in 2017,…

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Oleksii Yukov, the head of the Platsdarm search and recovery team, has been killed.

Stolen valor. The American Legion, VFW, DAV, IAVA, etc., shouldn't tolerate it and they should demand its removal.

Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21h ago

This is a man who has a hard time looking in the mirror

Russian troops are barbarians. Coincidentally, the Trump administration will turn our professional military into this if given enough time.

CNN@cnn.com · 18h ago

A video circulating online shows a Russian drone hunting a Ukrainian vegetable vendor in Kherson. It is one of many incidents of Ukrainian civilians being attacked by Russian drones. CNN's Clare Sebastian reports.

Orgasmic, self-cleaning poop is very Pynchonesque at his most lurid.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 23h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Judge Mehta's J6 Requiem "That book is now closed. Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and ... officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy ... to buckle."

Never mind that niggling little matter of lack of authority under the statute…

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

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."