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senior organizer vs bigots @wstatescenter.bsky.social. lead author of https://www.westernstatescenter.org/protectingpride forever prematurely antifascist. spokane is good actually. dm for signal contact. posts reflect your employer’s opinions, not mine.
Checking in from Spokane with WCK's Angele. 📍 WCK is on the ground alongside local partners like Caruso's, where Chefs Brystol and Heidi are cooking hot meals and sandwiches to take directly to impacted families. Stay tuned for updates. #ChefsForWashington
Darryl Cooper, a Holocaust revisionist, appeared again on Tucker Carlson's show with a strange claim: that after the Revolution, Bolsheviks erected a statue of Judas Iscariot as part of their campaign of religious persecution. He claims they did so in Moscow. A thread.
Fourteen years ago today, the deadliest act of anti-Sikh hate in our nation’s history occurred in Oak Creek, WI. A white supremacist gunman with neo-Nazi ties attacked the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, ultimately leading to the deaths of seven sangat members and wounding others.
The High Court also heard RTC leader Ben Cullen had threatened physical violence to a resident removing flags, boasting that he was a “violent criminal” who had served 15 years in prison. Full report in today’s Clarion: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...
The Clarion, 4 August 2026
We're doing a rain dance. You? While we wait for some sorely needed water, here is some news, not all of it cheerful. Including less than savoury details about Raise the Colours; celebrating Oxford Ci...
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Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
The Senate Commerce Committee just passed KOSA out of committee with zero debate & failed to move the SCREEN Act. punchbowl.news/article/tech...
Tech: KOSA heads to Senate floor
The Senate Commerce Committee sent the Kids Online Safety Act to the floor on Wednesday, alongside three other bills designed to protect kids and teens using technology.
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Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.
Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterdayThis likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.
me: please don’t use a transcription bot for this conversation, ok? fae: a what me: one time i looked in my chart notes after a doctors visit and it said i had a condition i never even mentioned fae: … a demon scribe that falsified your Book of Life to curse you with illness from afar? WHAT.
Olivia Waite@oliviawaite.com · 2d agoFae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
1.5 million of those were children www.cbpp.org/blog/number-... There is no job data showing 5 million people, or anywhere close, found new jobs because work requirements don't work and many of these people were already working. www.cbpp.org/blog/work-re...
Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law
In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."
i feel like sandler would also have some kind of case against this man. like how dare you involve a random comedian’s face in your unhinged custom workplace-misconduct-themed arts and crafts project
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h agoThis just might be the most psychotic act of sexual harassment I’ve ever seen. Not the worst per se, or most menacing but in terms of sheer insanity it’s really up there.
Federal judge in Vasquez Perdomo v. Mullin just held US government in contempt for failure to provide immigration stop data. Only problem? The sanction is $500/day. Feds can pay that forever. It's meaningless to them. Their budget is $7 trillion/year, or about $222,000/second. 🫠
if people in spokane don’t take 30 seconds to think through whether it makes sense that the city would get burned down to clear the way for a data center or whatever i am going to have to metaphorically fistfight some folks in the proverbial parking lot of ideas
Under Ohio law, August 10 is the deadline for Rep. Max Miller to withdraw if Republicans want to replace him on the ballot. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Rep. Max Miller’s withdrawal window closes in six days
Under Ohio law, August 10 is the deadline for the embattled congressman to withdraw if Republicans want to replace him on the ballot.
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Fun fact: I just published the full story on this topic mere minutes ago. By my count, at least 12 pastors, seminarians & former clergy have launched campaigns for federal office this year, and 5 are already nominees. In response, the GOP is attacking their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
'They're not real pastors': As clergy run as Democrats, Republicans question their faith
(RNS) — 'It's a sign that they are really scared they're gonna lose this seat,' the Rev. Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran pastor running for Congress in Iowa, said. She is part of a wave of religious ...
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Teddy Wilson@reportbywilson.bsky.social · yesterdayHighly recommend listening to @jackjenkins.me in conversation with Dr. Amanda Henderson:
hey so our community is completely overwhelmed right now in eastern WA. please keep eyes on this emergency declaration and how it does or doesn’t progress, if you don’t live here.
Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 2d agoAlongside our entire Congressional delegation—Democrats & Republicans—I'm calling on the President to approve our state's request for an expedited emergency declaration. We need every bit of support we can get to fight the devastating fires we're seeing in Eastern & Central WA.
WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
I haven’t felt like posting on this site since my mother died in October, but I feel compelled to raise my periscope given the horrifying crisis at the Morocco/Spain border in Ceuta and the disturbing amount of misinformation that’s circulating around it.
The EU response to the Ceuta incident has further demonstrated the moral and strategic bankruptcy of its members, who on matters migration have only one idea - raise the drawbridge, bribe problematic neighbours to be border guards then feign surprise when it backfires.
the united states when i repatriated
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · yesterdayThe takeaway chart for me.
Something I missed in this reporting... Brandon Herrera said in 2023: “Just because you let somebody creampie you doesn’t mean I have to give a shit about your political opinions. The fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn’t make you any less wrong about the dumb shit they say.” His response...
steven monacelli@stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2mo agoFor @texasobserver.org, I did a deep dive into Brandon Herrera, a gunfluencer and now Republican congressional nominee who has spread memes associated the extremist Boogaloo movement and rationalized lethal violence against people with certain political beliefs. www.texasobserver.org/brandon-herr...
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"
The past few years have been an explicit test of two theories of how to win back AfD voters: first, the CDU just needed to pivot to the hard right under Merz and second that the Linke as a party was too woke and needed to turn to workerist anti-migrant nationalism via BSW. Both failed.
Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · 2d agoThe latest poll for Saxony-Anhalt has the far-right at 41%. If some of the smaller parties (SPD, Greens, BSW) don't clear the threshold to enter parliament, the far-right may gain an absolute majority in September.
I've been asking reporters in Spokane how we can help and everyone says subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. The Spokesman-Review has been doing unreal coverage of the fires: www.spokesman.com
The Spokesman-Review | Local News, Business, Entertainment, Sports & Weather for Eastern Washington
Serving the Inland Northwest since 1883. Spokesman.com provides breaking and in-depth coverage of Spokane area news, sports and community.
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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d agoThe front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.
i have a LOT of follow up questions here.
Spokane Rising@spokanerising.com · 2d agoBREAKING: This is gobsmacking. An arrest––for arson––has been made in the Old Trails Fire, which destroyed more than 700 homes in the Spokane area. A DNR fire investigator was able to locate the origin to w/in a 10 sq m area. The fire was started with nothing more than a butane lighter or match.
