Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

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Reminds me of the time a Census person came to my door because I hadn't turned in my form yet, I was also working on the Census at the time. (I had gotten the long form and was still working my way through it.)

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h ago

A canvasser knocked on my door supporting right to repair legislation. As I was writing about data politics. And my husband was training 100 canvassers online. It was very adorable to listen to their spiel and then tell them ours 😂

#ResistanceRoots “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by human beings for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison people because they are different from others.” — President Lyndon B. Johnson

Tyrell's shirt reminds me of the old checkout cards used by libraries. #BeyondTheGates #BTG

Katie, do you think Will and Electra only broke up once? Dylan could have swooped in any number of times, but she didn't. Only when Electra said it was over for good and they were "NEVER" getting back together did something happen between them. #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

"Sweet and Sour Sexy Sauce" LOL Wyatt! #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests. www.wired.com/story/viral-...

Viral Mugshot Accounts Are Ruining Women’s Lives

Mugshawtys and similar pages often frame mugshots as thirst traps. The women featured are humiliated and are sometimes harassed for months and years after their arrests.

wired.com

What did you miss tonight? Bolts' elections guide has been updated with the final results of dozens of elections that took place on Tuesday — even as you wait for the final result in Michigan. Here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...

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New idea just dropped: a cat library. Like a cat cafe, but with books. Read your library book with a cat in your lap.

www.npr.org/2026/08/04/n...

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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Very plausible, but it would be just as illegal and appalling if they WERE involved in drug trafficking.

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

Whoever advised Max Miller to go on to Jake Tapper’s show secretly hates him. What a catastrophic interview

Historians, archivists and digital humanities peeps! Looking for your recommendations of scholarship/readings on public-facing and text searchable historical databases, particularly of digitised records. Even better if they discuss petitions, censuses and the like. #history #archives 🗃️

If you have any history of abuse, do not watch the video of that representative being interviewed. I shouldn’t have and I am still amped up hours later. Those of you lucky enough not to speak abuser should, though. The guy is textbook.

SpaceX rocket hours away from crashing into the moon in unintentional collision

SpaceX rocket hours away from crashing into the moon in unintentional collision

Piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket weighing four tonnes will hit the lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles per hour A four-tonne piece of a SpaceX rocket that has been floating in space since last year is set to unintentionally crash into the moon at high speed on Wednesday, a collision that poses no danger to Earth but will leave behind a new lunar crater and afford an opportunity for further scientific research. The ​school-bus-size object is the second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched a lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace toward the moon in January 2025. Continue reading...

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This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

motherjones.com

Y’all are racist as HELL. And you really think we can’t see you saying this mess in👏🏾broad👏🏾daylight👏🏾 Your coded “low information voters” rhetoric translates to indignation that we have the nerve to think for ourselves—you resent that you can’t get us to fall for the okie doke. Racist and dumb.

Dani called Hayley a gremlin! 💀💀💀 #BeyondTheGates #BTG

huh... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ@padresj.bsky.social · last yr.

As interesting it is to see Trump & MAGA reap the Epstein discord they have sowed for more than a decade, I don't think Trump committed sexual atrocities on the Island. ... However, human trafficking was NOT Epstein's source of income. It was money laundering. ... THAT... could touch Trump.

Have Carter and Daphne even seen a fertility specialist yet? #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Eric harping on about them all being Forresters to Electra and RJ, ick. #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Dylan, tell Daphne about the slap! #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS

Yep. Earlier this year I was interviewed by Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media is aiding the Trump administration’s Epstein cover up.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · yesterday

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS

That's 105.4° F

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · yesterday

#BREAKING Austria records all-time temperature high of 40.8C: national weather service

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

Tax the fucking rich properly assholes @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

public libraries ftw