Happening tomorrow. Latin America is paying attention. The American corporate media? Not so much.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · yesterday

😳 On August 6, Argentina will vote on a proposed Land Reform Law aiming to facilitate the purchase of rural land in Argentina by private investors. It seems they are preparing to “celebrate” with Peter Thiel. The bill was written by Sturzenegger who will appear at this Sept event with Thiel. 1/

Nothing to worry about, just a US attorney investigating people for deportation when suggested by rando X accounts

Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/

Grokipedia just stopped updating after eight months ... and it took another four for anyone to notice www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grok...

Grokipedia Stopped Reviewing Edits in April. It Didn’t Tell Anyone.

A halt in Grokipedia’s edit pipeline offers a case study in how an AI-generated reference system governs its own content.

lawfaremedia.org

We wrote about this at the time. Including how Rogers appeared stunned by Steve's response that people who don't know their privacy had been violated... can still have their privacy violated. www.techdirt.com/2013/10/30/m...

Mike Rogers: You Can't Have Your Privacy Violated If You Don't Know About It

We already wrote a bit about yesterday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing concerning NSA surveillance. There were two sections to it: the first three hours were the top government spooks …

techdirt.com

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 8h ago

When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...

Keffiyehs as far as Olivia can hallucinate. But also... so what? Even if there were... so what?

Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 3h ago

In Bari Weiss' Free Press, Olivia Reingold reported from El-Sayed's watch party that "there were keffiyehs as far as the eye could see ... keffiyehs on heads, keffiyehs as belts, keffiyeh-printed phone cases." Not a single one made it into images from Reuters, a local ABC station, or Detroit News.

I'm just so pleased with all of this buzz around The Nerd Reich. First, the title fucking rocks. But deeper, the subject is so necessary. And I'm really thrilled for @gilduran.com!! LFG buy the book.

Caroline Eisenmann@carolineeisenmann.bsky.social · 4h ago

Thrilled that @theguardian.com has run this fantastic profile of @gilduran.com and his intrepid reporting on the hard right turn coming out of Silicon Valley-- his forthcoming THE NERD REICH is as gripping and urgent as they come, a staggering piece of writing that puts the bigger picture together

Update: “President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private [tech] investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down,” but did not eliminate, apparently Thiel-aligned “legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to fierce backlash.” 8/5/26… 1/

Milei Guts Bill to Ease Property Laws in Face of Public Uproar

President Javier Milei’s latest push to lure private investment to Argentina suffered a setback Wednesday as lawmakers watered down legislation to ease limits on foreign land ownership in response to ...

bloomberg.com

He’s talking about a private prison, btw. apnews.com/article/dorm...

This is the tactic going forward: buy these “turnkey” facilities from GEO Group, CoreCivic, LaSalle, etc., and then turn around and contract them out for operations. The prison contractors make a pretty penny off the sale and ops contracts. ICE gets to run supremacy laps around state laws.

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

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · 5h 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.

ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.

In 1996, Congress imposed fines on undocumented immigrants. For 30 years, the government did not enforce those laws, and they were basically irrelevant. Enter Trump, and the US government is now fining dishwashers and delivery drivers more than rich friends of the President who stole billions.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday

NEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.

There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.

AILA@aila.org · 9h ago

"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m

If investors believe this, they deserve to have their money taken. I will shed no tears for someone who loses everything when the grift is this obvious.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

“The proposed award comes after legal service providers across the country have said that the administration has withheld $65 million in overdue fees from the previous contract, alleging it is an attempt to force them to turn over confidential information about the migrant children they represent.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 9h ago

“The Trump administration is set to award a multimillion-dollar contract to a small Texas law firm without immigration expertise to provide legal representation for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children in government custody during immigration proceedings.” abcnews.com/US/small-tex...

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

How can I determine if former Santos campaign finance director Lianna Farnesi is still a State Dept employee & if not, when did she terminate? She was paid $38k by Stefanik's gubernatorial campaign between Dec 24 2025 & Feb 6 2026...

mrspanstreppon@jamiepeppard.bsky.social · yesterday

State Dept Senior Advisor Lianna Farnesi, 28, registered City & State Consulting LLC in FL on Dec 9 2025. Farnesi dissolved Colada Consulting LLC on Dec 31 2025.

Santos campaign finance director & now State Dept senior advisor Lianna Farnesi didn't let grass grow under her feet. NYT's Santos story broke on Dec 19 2022. Farnesi registered Colada Consulting on Dec 27 & went to work for Stefanik in January 2023 but wasn't paid until March 10 2023...

So many people extended their good wishes to Lianna Farnesi on landing the job at State! When you fill out the application, do you disclose you were George Santos' campaign finance director in 2022?

New pro-russian talking point, spearheaded by Mearsheimer, is that Ukraine is landlocked, russia is winning but it also means nuclear war. Looks extremely organic and based on reality. Spot the grifter!

This is already the 13th marketplace warehouse burned down. After Aleksin, the picture across 25 key facilities is as follows: burned—62.1% of total area, damaged—24.5%, still undamaged—only 13.4%. In less than three weeks, the logistics backbone of Wildberries has lost two-thirds of its capacity.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13h ago

The Wildberries logistics hub in Aleksin can now be considered completely destroyed.

#EU to transfer €1.4B in profits from frozen russian assets to Ukraine www.politico.eu/article/russ...

EU to transfer €1.4B in profits from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine

The latest transfer follows another deadly night of missile attacks on Kyiv.

politico.eu

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

Three years ago, the Biden White House attacked me for saying "Democrats should be fighting on every possible front — filing a flurry of lawsuits and exerting public pressure through the media." "The president's team wants to be more selective in picking legal fights." I feel sadly vindicated.

Universal Healthcare when???

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · yesterday

MacFarlane: We are near the new gold-plated statues the Trump administration unveiled near Memorial Circle, Memorial Bridge, and the Lincoln Memorial. It’s really, really gold.…

🟣 Surreal… What used to be Wildberries. Novosemeykino. Samara region

❗️Cluster munitions explode in Kyiv after strikes! The Russians are covering the capital with ballistics, which instantly break into small pieces after the explosion.

🟣 More spectacular footage from what used to be the Wildberries warehouse in Aleksin.