In a normal world, this would be a huge story.
legal cat 🐾@legalcat.bsky.social · yesterdaycc: the hague
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legal cat 🐾@legalcat.bsky.social · yesterday
They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
The U.S. Attorney believes that a "public rebuke" and an internal review are sufficient for egregious prosecutorial misconduct that put my family through hell. My seven-year-old is still having nightmares and panic attacks related to this case. Justice requires transparency and accountability.
Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 15h agoChicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed. From @schuba.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
Leading Minnesota Republicans want to help the feds terrorize the residents of their state.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h agoEvery single Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota (including Mike Lindell!) makes clear that if Trump tried another Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities, they would support his efforts to brutalize residents
Marshall, a Chicago-based ASL interpreter who has worked in Wisconsin, shares why it’s key to have more than one interpreter at a theater performance.
How interpreter Caden Zane Marshall translates a show in real time
Marshall, a Chicago-based ASL interpreter who has worked in Wisconsin, shares why it’s key to have more than one interpreter at a theater performance.
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Was trying to do an annual update, but it has come to my realization that Trump wiped everything between FY2024 and FY2026 from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. @thexylom.com now has one of the last independent copies of data re: H-1B skilled workers in America's top higher education institutions.
The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions
A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...
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The Xylom@thexylom.com · 10mo agoEXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump. austinkocher.substack.com/p/edwin-lope...
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Is the 23rd Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died at Delaney Hall in Newark, six weeks into ICE custody. He is the 23rd person to die in ICE detention this year and the second at Delaney Hall since it reopened under Trump.
austinkocher.substack.com
Pirro is dropping charges against three more defendants accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Investigators concluded that botched work by a contractor, not vandalism, had been the primary cause of damage to the pool’s blue lining. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
Prosecutor in D.C. Moves to Dismiss More Reflecting Pool Cases (Gift Article)
After revelations that a botched renovation, not vandalism, had caused the pool’s recent problems, the U.S. attorney’s office has dropped several prosecutions.
nytimes.com
Cuba’s electricity grid collapses, the state-owned grid operator says, plunging the island of about 10 million people into darkness as blackouts become more frequent.
Cuba plunges into darkness as electric grid collapses
The power crisis is driven by fuel shortages and severe U.S. sanctions.
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I think “just stay home and don’t vote” is a terrible mindset but the biggest problem with the democrats over the last 25 years isn’t progressives. It’s the establishment and particularly the cadre of Clinton and Obama consultants who run the party
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3d agoThe rewriting of every Democratic Party failure to win an election as the fault of progressives is really something.
A study in human depravity of the kind Trump's secret police carry out every day. bsky.app/profile/minn...
Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 3d agoOn Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
The law firm Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. A New York Times investigation details the inside story of its transformation. trib.al/YQawT9z
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
everyone forgot this! doctors and nurses got sick and died because of this theft! bsky.app/profile/cras...
@crashcityrocker.bsky.social · 3d agoKushner literally stole PPE that my hospital system had bought and sent it to Florida. This is big reason why why Charlie Baker is no longer (directly) in politics. abcnews.com/amp/Health/e...
if you ever wonder how open secrets about terrible behavior fester in Hollywood and nothing is done, there’s likely no one more qualified than the great @moryan.bsky.social to break it down. Here she is on Jared Leto and Hollywood’s post #MeToo playbook [gift link]:
Opinion | Jared Leto and Hollywood’s Open Secrets (Gift Article)
Whispers can fester for years before anyone faces consequences. And the tactics celebrities use to escape scandal have completely changed.
nytimes.com
“Bowe suffered injuries to her face, head, right knee, right arm and right hand. An MRI identified a kneecap fracture and torn meniscus…” www.newsweek.com/nurse-allege...
US nurse alleges ICE agents broke her kneecap in $500,000 legal claim
Norma Bowe, a nurse and professor, has filed a $500,000 claim against the government, saying ICE agents threw her to the ground.
newsweek.com
Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3d agoI first got 1000+ pages of court documents from Miller & Moreno's custody case. Anybody can request these from Cuyahoga County. I reviewed those by myself, one by one—no AI involved!—and the filings pointed to police reports. I then sought those out separately and spent days combing through them.
Solidarity with PNW because these new fire seasons are brutal and shocking and watching this from afar brings up a lot of stuff. Nothing is normal anymore.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 4d agoHoly crap. Level 3 (GO NOW!) zone now includes urban Spokane, south of Francis to Wellesley. Level 2 (GET SET!) zone now extends east of Division. Not to be alarmist, but at this rate, it’s not inconceivable that the Old Trails Fire merges with the Fairview Fire.
I'm a 1/4 through this book "Sick Work" by @elimrogers.bsky.social, and it's such a good capture of life with chronic illness, specifically ME/CFS, that I need to take emotional support breaks to think about how historic neglect of this illness leads to my life now. www.dukeupress.edu/sick-work
Sick Work: Exhaustion, Labor, and Invisible Illness
dukeupress.edu
Libraries are the real data centres. Your local library is the real data centre you should be protecting. It's not harmful to the environment, it has books and educational media in it, and it's a place for the community to gather, socialise, and gain knowledge.
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for some immigrants in ICE custody in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana to seek bond hearings. The case concerned Jaciel Cirrus Rojas, who was apprehended in Racine during a search for someone else. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/07/wisc...
Imperative for Dems in Maine and nationally writ large to be aggressive and define Susan Collins for giving the blank check funding to Trump's ICE. They simply cannot let her get away with taking credit for securing cosmetic reforms like bodycams while ICE continue to terrify communities in Maine.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d agoSusan Collins, who voted for $70 billion in no-strings-attached ICE funding, is now taking credit for securing new bodycams to distance herself from Trump and ICE. This is how Collins wins in Maine. Dems must go on offense on ICE to thwart this scam. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
2028 tier list, vibes only - Viable AOC Pritzker Ossoff - Boring Beshear Shapiro Buttigieg - GTFO Newsom Emanuel
Read the investigation that sparked the formal probe from @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
motherjones.com
A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee vote. From States Newsroom buff.ly/T2QYJu1
US Senate panel advances bill to reject Education Department transfers • Nebraska Examiner
A bipartisan effort to rein in President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education has cleared its first major legislative hurdle in a bipartisan U.S. Senate committee vote.
nebraskaexaminer.com
IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...
Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage
Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."
404media.co
California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
New batteries to store solar electricity and low demand in May both contributed to high percentage of electricity that came from solar.
latimes.com
Thursday, July 30. Just a horrible day in ICE flights. At least 79 flights on 29 planes. At least 21 removal flights, of which at least 4 were likely third-country removals. ICE flights hit every continent except Australia and Antarctica in one day.
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