Jerry Newmark
@jerryn13.bsky.social
Old nerd, one time sailboat racer, recovering audiophile. If things get desperate here, also @jerryn13@mastodon.coffee
The purest expression of corporate capture in Congress: With an explosive diarrhea outbreak sweeping the country, Republicans are simultaneously trying to ram through a provision that would repeal hundreds of food safety/animal welfare provisions. Incredible. 📹: @calltoactivism.bsky.social
“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 6h ago“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
This warrants reposting now that Quay is RFK Jr's pick to head the NIAID. "It should be obvious that Quay has no relevant expertise and is not reliable."
Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · last mo.In a new blog post, I review the first chapter of a new book on #covidorigin, Steven Quay's "The Code as Witness". The book opens with an impossible anecdote, and I also show that its claim of an early cluster at an Army hospital in Wuhan is unsupported.
This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.
Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 4h agoThe couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...
As @kevinmkruse.bsky.social noted, this was the cover of the pro-free-market, not-progressive Economist one month before the election that brought Trump back to power. The economy had problems, hence the result, but a “total catastrophe” it was not.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoTrump: "When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe"
Imagine a fellow draft dodger like Bill Clinton, posting an image of him in uniform, wearing more medals than Patton or MacArthur. Fox News would’ve spontaneously combusted
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4h agoThis guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
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 April, Mr. Trump fired his Navy secretary for not moving quickly enough on building the battleship of his dreams.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
This is incredible content, it's the same "it's cheaper if you cook / I'm too tired from work to cook" discourse from BlueSky except literally no one posting actually cooks or has a real job, so nobody has any standing to argue either side and yet they're far nastier about it.
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
New: Democrats are asking Interior Department’s inspector general to investigate if department concealed relevant info about Reflecting Pool damage. “Numerous questions remain: How was the vandalism lie cooked up?” @whitehouse.senate.gov and @heinrich.senate.gov write.
Democrats ask Interior watchdog to investigate response to Reflecting Pool damage
Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich say the inspector general must probe the agency’s internal documents after Justice Department officials said Interior concealed information about damage to the pool’s ren...
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Exclusive: Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is at the center of a new investigation launched by Sen. Ron Wyden. www.statnews.com/2026/08/05/s...
Senate inquiry suggests Trump administration softened kratom and tobacco policies in quid pro quo
The Senate investigation includes RFK Jr. as well as the heads of Reynolds American and kratom company Botanic Tonics, asking for written responses and documentation by Aug. 31.
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Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
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 Beeb's response is funny enough on its own. But bc I have not ingested enough cat videos today, I read it to myself in a proper British accent and it's even funnier that way. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![I. THE TRUMP TRUST’S REQUEST FOR A STAY IS NOT AN EMERGENCY.
As a threshold matter, the Trump Trust’s motion for a stay is hardly an emergency. As
the Trump Trust frames the issue, its motion is an emergency because “[o]nce the Trust were to
begin handing those records over to the BBC, that disclosure could not be undone, and the
Trust’s pending objections could not restore what the BBC will have already seen.” Mot. at 2.
But “bona fide emergencies involve the health and safety of individuals, the impending departure
of a witness with no plans to return to the jurisdiction, the imminent destruction of a building or other property, the imminent deportation of an individual to another country, the need to give
critical medical treatment to a patient in a hospital, the threatened loss of civil rights, the
immediate, threatened loss of an entire business, or when someone is at risk of being denied an
essential service.” Companhia Energetica Potiguar v. Caterpillar Inc., 2016 WL 7469993, at *3
(S.D. Fla. Apr. 13, 2016) (Goodman, M.J.) (denying emergency motion to stay enforcement of
Magistrate Judge’s discovery order). By contrast, a deadline arriving after two weeks’ notice to
produce non-privileged documents—which may be designated “Confidential” or “Attorneys’
Eyes Only” under the Court’s Protective Order—does not justify the rare invocation of the
Court’s emergency procedures.
It is not even clear from the Trump Trust’s briefing what the purported emergency is
here. See id. (“But the mere fact that [the movant] did not obtain all the relief it wanted hardly
means that this situation is an emergency.”) (emphasis in original). Simply because the Trump
Trust faces an obligation it does not agree with, and is confronted with an imminent deadline of
its own making by waiting to file its stay motion until the day before its first Court-ordered
disclosure day, does not make its request an emergency](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreihfw75bjjm6e3um2e76g2xx4trhl3sfnsh2arkqo4o7j7ngnhpygy)
It’s a Klan Rally. These people only have to hear a name that their lizard brains process as sounding Arabic and hate immediately pours out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoLOMBARDO: So I know the pastor spoke about Officer Abdelnabi-- TRUMP RALLY CROWD: *Boooooo* LOMBARDO: No. We're not booing him. He's the officer that passed away here recently
NEW in TX: Galveston County is quietly planning to change its district maps between the primary & November election. It's a dangerous test that, if not stopped, could be repeated elsewhere in TX to undermine the will of voters, a new legal filing warns. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
A Texas county is quietly planning to swap voting maps between its primary and November election
If allowed to proceed, it would likely be the first time Texas voting maps are changed between the primary and general elections.
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Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · 22h agoDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
Goodnight from the Brackley Crafting Circle and largely unsuspected coven, meeting in the snug of The Old King pub to make a list of local perverts in need of a cursing. Goodnight from Matthew Wrench, his mermaid tattoo singing him salt-kissed lullabies. Goodnight from Hookland.
This was one of the Trump/MAGA movement, GOO, & fellow travelers m objectives. Break everything so it is impossible for the Democrats to ever govern should they come back into power.
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h agoIt seems really clear that by 2028, we're going to have an empty SPR, substantial munitions shortages, greater strategic challenges, a larger national debt and substantially higher bond rates which will massively constrain future administrations.
Gonna hear a lot from six-figure-paid lateral-thought-averse "news" dipshits in the next few months about how socialism, as they badly understand it, is scary so definitely time to remind everyone that capitalists work hard to materially and relentlessly fuck up everything good they possibly can.
We Went Bowling. What Bowlero Did to Every Lane in America Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Kevin is not exaggerating, VDARE was not white nationalist in the sense of "well if you get right down to it the modern GOP has always been white nationalist" VDARE was white nationalist in the sense of "yeah those Nazis sure are white nationalist"
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h agoGonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Defamation suits during political campaigns should be rare: candidates are public figures, and judges shouldn't regularly be in the position to policy campaign discourse. But what a GOP SuperPAC has been saying about Bob Harvie (PA-1) is thoroughly outrageous, and I'm glad he's suing. (Gift link.)
Bob Harvie files defamation suit against GOP super PAC over ‘beyond the bounds’ claims of FBI investigation, inappropriate relationship
The lawsuit argues the pro-Fitzpatrick PAC falsely claimed Harvie was under an FBI investigation and had an inappropriate relationship with a county employee. Fitzpatrick is not named in the suit.
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genuinely confused whose side JD is purporting to be on here, which I suppose tracks
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
This guy never served. He faked an injury to avoid the draft. None of his children have served. He called those who did serve their country "suckers and losers." He skipped the centenary memorial for servicemen who died in WWI because it was drizzling. This is more than usually repellent.
I mean, Patton crushed peaceful veterans protests at the Bonus Army and MacArthur was a psycho who wanted to nuke the world soooo
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · yesterdayStolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
This was an important one, folks! Courts are not the places for partisan politics.
Purple Teacher@peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 11h agoAfter the Kansas Supreme Court ruled abortion is legal in the state constitution, the GOP has tried to change the makeup of the court. A measure to directly elect justices, thereby making it about money & partisanship failed yesterday. #ProudBlue#Voices4Victory #OneV1 www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
MAKING LIGHT IS KINDA BACK UP!! Poetry (of course): www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/... And a request: www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/...
Fiat lux – Making Light
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Strongly encourage the GOP to run with "just cook at home you stupid poors" as their general election message
huck mason@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 9h agofor reasons that only make sense if you're insane, a TPUSA kid complaining about burrito costs on xitter has the GOP's biggest divas going for each other's throats.
The destruction of the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park has begun. #bigbend #nationalparks #publiclands #protectpubliclands #bigbendnationalpark
The Bulldozers Have Arrived in Big Bend National Park
Contractors are grading roads and surveying the Rio Grande corridor even as lawmakers, outfitters, and residents plead for basic answers about a $1.7 billion border barrier project
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