Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
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CORRECTION: The CIA has assembled a not-so-secret task force to pressure Cuba into adopting the economic, political, and leadership changes Senile Satan couldn’t get through diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
This is what the most popular and longest serving President of the United States wanted us to fight for! 👇🏼 🇺🇸
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!🥳
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
The Detachment 201 is not new - it was created in 2025 - but the swearing in of tech bro executives has been accomplished. These are the same people that own just about all of your online data. Let that sink in. #detachment201 #techbro #meta #palantir #conspiracy
A civilian medical plane went down after an experimental US military GPS jamming test reportedly disrupted its radar. Every person aboard lost their life. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
I’m in a bookstore now. This shelf holds books from publishers affected by the russian attack on August 1, when eight million books were destroyed. The bookstore is asking people to buy their books. I wanted to remember this shelf.
🌊 Record heat has shallowed Europe’s rivers, exposing mammoth bones, sunken ships In Bulgaria, a mammoth jawbone and tusks have been found on the bare bottom of the Danube, in Croatia, the cargo ship Fulton, which sank in 1937, and in Serbia, a German warship from World War II.
They need to hammer down relentlessly on this. They can't become overconfident, like they did with Hillary in 2016.
I’m old enough to remember when lying about adultery was worthy of impeachment. Feels quaint at this point.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
👀 Nathan Robinson takes full advantage of a chance to explain to Katie Pavlich why Democratic Socialism is on the rise 🔥
🚨 NEW: $36 million payment from ICE to GEO Group, for-profit prison company, on July 24 for detention services at Mesa Verde and Golden State ICE detention facility in California. ICE is a for-profit scheme paid for by taxpayers, using immigrants as commodities. www.quiverquant.com/news/Governm...
Government Contract Update: $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC | GEO Stock News
We just received data on a $36M payment to THE GEO GROUP, INC. from the Department of Homeland Secur
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Can be turned on and off relatively easily depending on Bitcoin prices and electricity costs... and then charge our communities more for our electricity while ALSO remaining tax exempt for decades!??? Certainly not! That would be... illegal.
Reup: Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes emptywheel.net/2026/08/03/s...
Senate Republicans Rush to Immunize Money Launder-in-Chief's Tax Crimes - emptywheel
Just days after learning that Donald Trump, his companies, and his spawn have, as recently as 2021, been laundering money, the Senate GOP is rushing to sanction DOJ's illegal decision to pardon those ...
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I listened to a really good podcast on this. I will try to find a link. Basically, the ideas is to identify top five big issues, and build down from there to the connected weeds. Call reps / those. IE: Citizens United-overturn, making corruption illegal again, prosecute, and ongoing oversight
I'm proud to announce that Separation of Church and Hate is a recipient of the 2026 American Book Award. Oh and they gave one to Colbert, too- abcnews.com/US/wireStory...
🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
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We're using City-owned land to build the affordable homes New Yorkers need.
Whiskey Pete dropped a 2,000 pound bomb to kill someone that Iranian outlets ID as a taxi driver, per NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
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Russia killed nine people in Kyiv overnight, including four children. Out of 27 ballistic missiles launched by Russia, we intercepted only one due to a shortage of air defense missiles.
And yet they would STILL claim to represent the people. Every one of them must resign immediately!