No raccoon penis shavings for my salad. This bozo is a waste of carbon.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 15h ago

RFK Jr has a new cooking show. Are any Trump officials doing their actual jobs? | Arwa Mahdawi

Trump sued Capital One for “debanking” him over politics. Capital One’s response: our anti-money laundering team spent months reviewing your 300+ accounts and recommended closing them. Not vibes. Compliance. Great Substack here by Dean Blundell!⬇️⬇️ #USDemocracy open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

Trump Sued His Bank For Being “Woke.” The Bank Just Told The Court Its Money Laundering Team Closed His Accounts. Whoops.

Trump sad Capital One closed his bank accounts because they were woke "never Trumpers." New court documents say, "you were laundering money through 300 different accounts." WHOAH.

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The @dailymailus.bsky.social just published a picture of a syringe in embattled Congressman Max Miller's bedroom, "appearing to directly contradict his own recorded denial that he ever had needles by his bed." www.dailymail.com/news/article... Photo credit: The Daily Mail.

I wrote about this guy, who also has kindly offered to help with a new project that aims to connect “talented young Christians” to “the institutions that shape public thought and national leadership.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Oh look, another far-right extremist at the Pentagon

He oversees defense intelligence and security agencies and helps shape military operations.

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NEW: After losing 20 consecutive lawsuits seeking states’ voter rolls, DOJ conceded that its case against Washington is no different from the others — but still urged another court to embrace the sweeping legal theory rejected by every court to consider it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

After 20 straight losses, Trump DOJ struggles to defend demand for Washington state voter rolls

The concession left DOJ asking the Washington court to reject a judicial consensus that now includes 20 district court rulings and one federal appellate decision — without identifying any distinct fac...

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If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

Evergreen

NEW REPORT: Senator Wyden says @MarshaBlackburn “declined to support Wyden’s effort to subpoena Epstein bank records” + “refused to cooperate with his investigation into financing of Epstein’s sex trafficking”— as she claimed to care & blamed Dems🤔 www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

USA: Medicare is dropping two COVID-19 tracking rules for long-term care and 11 specialty cancer hospitals. The agency will stop collecting data on how many staff members are vaccinated, as well as tracking if patients and residents are up to date on their shots.

Cancer and Long-Term Care Hospitals Will Stop Reporting Staff COVID Vaccination Rates Under a Finalized Medicare Rule

CMS finalized removal of staff COVID vaccination reporting for 11 cancer hospitals and long-term care hospitals, beginning with the FY 2028 program year.

medicaldaily.com

Today we filed a brief on behalf of the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, Leader Schumer, and Leader Jeffries in the Supreme Court. We are supporting the stay entered by the lower court against Trump's second anti-voting Executive Order. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

Be informed. Be prepared. Be well. #Blues

Map shows where US COVID cases are rising

COVID case counts are rising nationwide. CDC data shows where infections are growing fastest.

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KINDERGARTNERS!!!! The GOP now wants to begin testing sex verification as young as this before being allowed to play any sports. This is a sickness! It's time to get rid of I.C.E. and the entire Trump regime now. IMPEACH CONVICT REMOVE #DOOR #ProudBlue #GTS www.rawstory.com/anti-trans-s...

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a ...

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This is outrageous. Unacceptable. And impeachable.

WASHINGTON (AP) - 25 states sue over Trump's latest tariffs, calling them pretext for replacing levies Supreme Court struck down.

I've been irate at how little national coverage the killings of four Black men in Memphis by federal agents have gotten -- and even how little in Tennessee. The root? State lawmakers who wholeheartedly approve of the occupation of Memphis.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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Almost two dozen Democratic-led states asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to uphold a block on President Donald Trump’s sweeping attack on mail voting, saying it poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Blue states urge Supreme Court to uphold block on Trump’s anti-mail voting order

The states and D.C. said Trump's order poses “extraordinary threats to our democracy.”

democracydocket.com

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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🧵Alert: The backstory on this story may interest you. Or it may bore you. Either way, here it goes. I first asked the FCC for Chairman Brendan Carr's 2025 financial report on June 24.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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Boston / Bay Staters, the LUCE Hotline is 617-370-5023. Call them, not your local police, as cops will probably help cover up whatever abuses ICE commits.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.

TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social The United States of America is NOT supposed to engage in this. A RECKONING WILL HAPPEN IN NOVEMBER.

THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

A few notes: - Meeting with CISA is not a high bar and doesn't indicate much. - Getting rid of BMDs is a good idea, but no equipment is going to change before the midterms. It's almost August. - Full hand counts is simply not practical in most US jurisdiction, but RLAs provide similar assurance.

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

Frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights shows Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign is escalating – again

Seven apparent ICE removal flights in the last few days – including third-country removals, prolonged shackling, and failed deportations – reveal an agency ratcheting up.

gillianbrockell.com

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

The Save Trump's Ass Act, aka the SAVE Act, isn't about stopping voter fraud. It's about protecting the fraud in the White House.

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.