Being normal

There will be a lot of well meaning people who will tell you to temper your hate in the coming years

CNN@cnn.com · 7h ago

A five-year-old boy and his father were arrested by ICE while they were on their way to a soccer match. Video shows the arrest stemming from a vehicle stop in Austin, Texas.

Not to be That Person, but Gary, Indiana is all of our futures if we don't take action to deal with these data centers - be they new or old. And if y'all worried about not having a community to rely on now, just you wait. I urge everyone to get involved with their local government and fight this

The US and SpaceX are going to destroy Earth orbit, the atmosphere, and the night sky for every living thing on Earth. 🔭🧪

Space.com@space.com · 11h ago

Trump signs new national space policy to enable 1,000 US rocket launches per year www.space.com/space-explor...

Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University. Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.

ICE: "We're going to start using torture gloves against the public." Public: "What the fuck, you should not have those." Omaha PD: "What's the big deal, we have them." Public: "what" Omaha PD: "We use them on school children."

The electric shock gloves ICE is spending up to $20 million on are already being given to police officers in Omaha public schools | Fortune

The Omaha Police Department was awarded more than $65,000 for 40 pairs of the gloves in May 2025.

fortune.com

You can spin the light to gold

End of the Summer

YouTube video by Dar Williams - Topic

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Mark Yarm@markyarm.bsky.social · 9h ago

Sorry for the prompt, but: What's the best "summer's over" song?

This is really bad

Dr. Katharine Dickson@metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 8h ago

This is fantastically bad for California, particularly the Imperial Valley, and we potentially have a major interstate water law, agricultural economics, and infrastructure crisis if hydrology doesn’t improve. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

This is fantastically bad for California, particularly the Imperial Valley, and we potentially have a major interstate water law, agricultural economics, and infrastructure crisis if hydrology doesn’t improve. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US imposes deep Colorado River water cuts to California, Nevada and Arizona

The U.S. government on Friday finalized a two-year plan to slash water supplies to California, Nevada and Arizona to manage ‌the drought-stricken Colorado River, while leaving open the possibility of ...

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Reminding myself that I made some pretty good music over the years. This one came from a low point in 2013, and I can really see my journey since then starting here, even if I had (and still have) a long way to go.

The Signs [Demo], by Josh Caress

from the album Awake [Demos 2013]

joshcaress.bandcamp.com

Yesterday, Aug. 20, was one of the worst days of ICE flights I've seen. -At least 82 ICE flights -At least 15 were removal flights, including Haiti -At least 5 removals were third-country removals (Cameroon, Costa Rica, Liberia, Paraguay, Rwanda) -Plus 1 emergency return for reasons unknown

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In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

Please help Elias, this sweet little boy's need is so urgent, he not only has a bad eye condition that threatens the loss of his vision, but he's had a bad injury falling from rubble. He needs bad help. This is a child in a terrible situation. Boost & give for them.

Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 2d ago

The debris of Gaza crushed our lives, and today it tore into my son's body. Elias fell from the rubble—10 painful stitches in his fragile hand. No safety, no medicine, just a father begging to heal his child. Please help us save little Elias. Verified by : molly shah✅ chuffed.org/project/1624...

In 2024 before the election I was working on a story about project 2025s chapter on the Interior and the hook of that story was going to be around the fact that the paper calls for the slaughter of wild horses which is against federal law.

Anna Pivovarchuk@annapivovarchuk.bsky.social · 2d ago

“The U.S. government’s sales of wild horses were once rare, but started to rise after President Trump took office. In 2025, they more than doubled to 3,700 horses, according to bureau records.” Not even the horses are safe.

Framing autism (and ADHD) in terms of "severity" scales rather than (contextual) support needs is exactly the kind of medicalised, for-us-not-by-us garbage we're trying to get away from It helps nobody. But it forces a lot of people to mask and eventually break down. See: autism and gender

The fact that they’re starving 5 million people and calling it success tells you everything you need to know about “the goal”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Brooke Rollins: "We've now moved more than 5m off of the SNAP fraud rolls ... you've got a lot of people moving off the program, which is the goal, at least for conservatives. We don't want to measure the program by how many are on it. We want to measure by how many we are moving to real work."

Gary, Indiana is 76% Black.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 2d ago

Gary Indiana hasn't had power for almost two weeks

They’ve finally fired the eugenics guy who set the dogs on Jason Arday. Meanwhile it turns out that he didn’t plagiarise anything and a lot of his supposed “fantasies” were, in fact, true - as ten minutes of Googling would have shown.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jason-ardays-marathon-challenge-and-football-claims-found-be-true-after-his-death

This is all because JK Rowling is using her vast wealth and influence to engage in lawfare and censor anything that criticizes her. I won't stand for it. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2d ago

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

Lumen confirms that it was Amnesty International that sent the DMCA strike. I will be contesting it as this document is a matter of public debate and abusing copyright in this manner to censor it is absolutely disgusting. What complete cowards.

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Folks, we still need $1780 just to cover bills and necessities before the next $8000 urgently needed for life saving dental/medical care. Please help us. We've been stalled for a while and we're way behind needed pace! ko-fi.com/farronox/goa... farronox.carrd.co #MutualAid #Helpsky 💸💕 #KoFi

While Trump treats the war as a joke, Tahereh Sarbaz is living with the terrible consequences of his war of choice. She lost 8 members of her family -- 5 of her grandchildren, including a 20-day old infant grandson. theintercept.com/2026/08/18/i...

The Short Life of a Newborn During the Iran War

“What crime had my 20-day-old grandchild committed?”

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Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 4d ago

Meanwhile on Truth Social... More ridiculousness from the president of the United States.

They have argued that COVID's not so bad since it mostly kills old and disabled people, that Gaza isnt a genocide, that the far right are brave truth-tellers, that trans people are a threat to children but MeToo and epstein files anger went too far: why act shocked when the MSM does nazi shit?

Shimaa is injured, starving, and homeless with her baby amid rubble, under bombardment and killer IDF drones. She's terrified for her baby daughter Sila, who's very sick & in hospital. They have no one else, please share & give to help them:

Help Shymaa and Sila

Hello friends, I am Shaima Al-Masry. Throughout my life, I have never asked for help from anyone, but the war on Gaza and on my city changed all of our lives. I used to work as an Arabic language teac...

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Micheeel@micheeel.bsky.social · 5d ago

To all kind hearts: you are my only hope. My child and I are homeless and exposed to bombardment; our tent and everything we owned have burned down. I am injured and at risk of losing my child, who is suffering from severe malnutrition. I beg you—please help me😭🙏 chuffed.org/project/1730...

New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

This is the kind of BS we have to all call out hard. We are being played by the oligarchs and this is how they do it. Disinformation and fake grassroots movements.

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here's a fun little dive into corporate astroturfing in the USA: There's an "organization" called Neighbors for Strong Communities that lists no board members, staff or funders. The address on their website is a nondescript black door in Washington, DC next to an Italian restaurant. Seems legit!

No one should be homeless. No one should have to live in their car, be rationing rescue inhalers & disabled. No one should be all alone w/o support. Please share this info for my friend Désirée ! If you can give to her, it would mean the world! ❤️‍🩹🫂🍀 V SNDesiree C $SNDesiree gofund. me/ f6b181f3d

SN Désirée Cha@sndesireecha.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The thing about living in your car is that it does not protect you from the elements like cold and heat. You still need shelter. Indoors. Another space. The thing about living in your car is that a car is not a home. Cars are not meant for living in.

Five thousand people shipped out of MSP

madi mcvan@madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Caught up with Minnesota’s foremost ICE Air tracker @ottergoose.net yesterday as the 5000th detainee was flown out of MSP by ICE contractors. We talked about post-Metro Surge flight patterns, his appearance in undercover agents’ surveillance reports and more.

The Israeli military acknowledged firing on a car carrying 5-year-old Hind Rajab in Gaza after earlier denials as it opens a criminal probe into the January 2024 killing. https://cnn.it/3U6I6jU