These are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.

Ohio Capital Journal@ohiocapitaljournal.com · 22h ago

Haitians living in Springfield, Ohio are being required to wear ankle monitors and turn their passports over to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/14/h...

“Mirad sus brazos. Está buenísimo”: la presencia en redes del candidato a senador estadounidense Abdul El-Sayed desata un debate más amplio sobre la relación entre fotogenia masculina y éxito político

“Mirad sus brazos. Está buenísimo”: el auge de los políticos guapos se hace viral

La presencia en redes del candidato a senador estadounidense Abdul El-Sayed desata un debate más amplio sobre la relación entre fotogenia y éxito político

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Puts some context onto Jared Polis's chicanery re releasing Tina Peters, but he's still an abject coward and Coloradans are PISSED. Please amplify this GIFTED article. I am but a tiny person on here. www.denverpost.com/2026/08/14/c...

‘Smoking gun’ email shows White House summoned agencies to Colorado-focused meeting amid Tina Peters furor

A Trump assistant asked officials from five agencies to join a call “prepared to discuss immediate actions that your department or agency can take with respect to Colorado.”

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"These are a bunch of Gen Z-ers in a warehouse in LA. That's MAGA right now." @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @samseder.bsky.social unpack their wild (and racist) experiences debating on Jubilee: Surrounded. Watch the new 'We're Not Kidding': zeteo.com/p/sam-seder-...

As a 62-year old woman who was AOC's age in the year 2000, I'm so impressed by her and @amandalitman.bsky.social 's take on her here. The young people will win.

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 21h ago

In my personal newsletter: There is no right way to be a woman seeking power — so I LOVE that @aoc.bsky.social is saying fuck it, she’s doing it her way. amandalitman.substack.com/p/aocs-eggs

Absolute rank thieves. People who actually work for a living should run meritless a$$holes like Ramaswamy out of any town they set foot in. Have some self respect.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

New reporting reveals Ohio Republican Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hired his mother to manipulate clinical trial data for an Alzheimer's drug he owned the rights to. This scheme boosted Ramaswamy's company stock price and generated a $1.4 B IPO, where he then cashed out before the stock tanked.

You’re absolutely right, the BS niceties are so difficult to sit through. They’re smart, they know what they’re do it and there’s no shame in it. Nothing like “have a nice weekend” after denying bond for detained clients.

Immigration judge to my client in court today: "Ma'am, the children will need to wait outside--but this shouldn't take long. I don't want you to be separated from your children." given what the order I knew she was about to issue, the cruelty of this phrasing stopped my breath

When I think about trans people in sports, I don’t think about lobbies or legislation. I think about my friends. Wrote about pick-up hoops, queer community and love:

Column: When I think about transgender people in sports, I think about my friends

Despite the rabid fixation upon the concept of trans women in sports, those who beat the drum the loudest for exclusive policies rarely seem to care about trans people themselves.

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Jim Crow 2.0, not Woke 2.0, is the real threat, but frauds like David Brooks, losers of their morality and aspiring slayers of yours, work lazily and insipidly to harden the opposite impression, as @jamellebouie.net perfectly explains.

The pundits have completely lost the plot

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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LunchCounterPunch@theultrasecret.bsky.social · 3d ago

The movement to honor the humanity of others and to pursue correctives for past sins is always winning, because it is always just. If you insist on its failure, and are trafficking in its trivialities, it is because you have lost the moral war, and want the rest of us to lose with you.

I hope this guy’s mother & ex-wife recognize him from his eyes and tats and shame him to the nth of his life

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d ago

Aside from the Good and Pretti killings this might be the fastest a viral video has gotten on the front (digital) page of the NYT.

Yep, mmhmm, that’s right

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 3d ago

Progressive wins by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes Progressive loses by small margins: this is proof that the left doesn't have what it takes

The moderates have lost several races in which they’ve outspent the left by 8-10x—and the NYT did not once frame it as “showing the limits of the establishment.”

Hong’s Defeat in Wisconsin Shows the Limits of the Progressive Movement

Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

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This is an excellent read! ✍️ Please take the time to give it your attention. The use of the term "Russian nesting doll" (i.e. The Matryoshka Principle), is an excellent analogy. When there is one obvious conspiracy, many more layers of it abound.

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

I hope it's becoming apparent that the same ghouls who are funding and powering and participating in the fascist takeover of the government are also using their plundered wealth to buy literally everything and create unassailable monopolies and that these things are inextricably intertwined.

Important to know these "pretermissions" -- to Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala, Ghana -- are ordered *in lieu* of receiving a hearing on your asylum case here. I've sat through multiple adjudications of motions to pretermit and they're ordered *unless* the asylum seeker can demonstrate

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3d ago

Extraordinary story from @josepagliery.bsky.social following Rogelio Bolufé, one of the Cuban hunger strikers in ICE camps as he becomes a third-country national expelled to Guayaquil, Ecuador, one of the most dangerous cities on earth. www.notus.org/national/dhs...

It used to be a bipartisan bill, right Marco and dottering-in-hell Lindsey?

Dara Lind@daralind.bsky.social · 5d ago

The original draft of this had a whole graf of me hemming and hawing over the term “delegalization” (which I resisted for about a year). These folks had legal STATUS but were not legal IMMIGRANTS — and had no way to become such. And that’s the whole problem. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Well, everyone…here’s your president. Aren't you proud? He has absolutely no empathy, and is mean spirited to the core. I hope when he dies, no former presidents and no representatives from foreign countries attend his funeral. He is vile.

People lacking empathy gloat. The rest of us fight.

American Immigration Council@immcouncil.org · 5d ago

What happens when people follow all the rules asked of them from an immigration system, and still have no way to make a permanent home in this country? @daralind.bsky.social new piece for @newyorker.com examines our ongoing “Great Delegalization”: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Check on your friends and neighbors with family in Colombia💔. Gifted updates here. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

Colombia Earthquake Live Updates: More Than 70 Reported Dead in 7.4 Magnitude Disaster (Gift Article)

The quake shook several major cities, including Bogotá, Cali and Medellín. More than 70 people have died, and the death toll appeared likely to rise as rescuers continued to search damaged buildings.

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This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · 5d ago

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

Get out

Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)@portlandken.bsky.social · last wk.

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

I have no sympathy for him. None. Zero. Zip.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk.

"John Gannon says he deeply regrets his decision to vote for President Trump after his fiancée, an immigrant from Venezuela, was arrested and detained by federal immigration agents last month."

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Such a good point for all of us over 40. Can’t wanna be sedated.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 2w ago

I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.

Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.

Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 2w ago

What's the difference between a landlord who sneaks into your apartment to rifle through your underwear drawer and an AG who sues for your abortion records? The state health director keeping a spreadsheet of women’s periods isn’t any less creepy than the abusive ex who still tracks your location.

F***g Jared Polis ...

Alex Kaplan@alkapdc.bsky.social · 2w ago

An additional scoop within this piece: Tina Peters on a podcast said that in her Oval Office meeting with Trump she urged him to fire members of the Election Assistance Commission, which he subsequently did.