If your Senator confirms Blanche: HCR points out in tonight’s Letter that if the judge reviewing Katie Phang’s case finds those documents did not comply with the ETA, anyone who votes for Blanche as AG could be “complicit in the Epstein files cover-up.” Point that out to them, loud & clear.

The abuser recorded himself lying about recording conversations with his ex without consent. Yeah, he’s a scumbag abuser. He’s also a sociopathic liar. Both should be reasons to recalled/ force resignation.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 3d ago

Max Miller released audio recordings of conversations he has with his ex wife. In one of them, she accuses him of clandestinely recording their conversations. “I have never recorded our conversations” he says, while recording their conversation. This is domestic violence. Ask me how I know.

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Trump is refusing 220 million dollars in disaster relief to Democrat led states. That alone should be a bipartisan impeachable offense. It should also be something that incites open revolt.

Re earlier repost, here’s what happened on the other side of the Pacific Ocean from Chile.

Alexandra Phelan@alexandraphelan.bsky.social · 3w ago

pretty incredible, and telling, that these studies are yet to be covered in several leading Australian news outlets. www.science.org/content/arti...

This is what everyone should say in response to Blanche’s 11th-&-a-half-hour attempt to salvage his appointment to the U.S. top cop job: “Yeah right. Kavanaugh swore that Roe v. Wade was settled law, too. We know they lie at nomination.”

Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling@rubenbolling.bsky.social · 2d ago

And Kavanaugh swore that Roe v Wade is settled law. They say what they need to say to get confirmed.

This is one of those insanely encouraging things that most people just refuse to believe. It's either open green space untouched by man for eternity or solar/data center/tar pit (all the same)

Suw@suw.bsky.social · 3d ago

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

Re the Veterans’ Association ‘s suggestion to ‘put them to work’ as truckers, as that industry gets enshittified further:

THAT Amber@buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 2d ago

There is no shortage of CDLs. There is a shortage of people willing to drive trucks for the hours required, regardless of pay. Also: the 2017 tax bill eliminated employee deductions. Unless you own your truck, on the road expenses are no longer deductible.

The NYPost lies, of course, & always has. This smear campaign is a particularly egregious example - & has been picked up, seemingly without examination, by legacy media. Simply because it slanders Mamdani. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

UPDATE: After the Mamdani 9/11 smear, a cover-up

Media outlets pushed a false narrative about the number of family members of 9/11 victims who signed a petition targeting Mamdani — and then covered their tracks.

open.substack.com

"There were at least 288 ICE flights and 38 removals between Sunday, July 26, Wednesday, July 29" "At least two prolonged removal trips kept migrants onboard shackled for more than 24 hours, a painful and dangerous practice experts say amounts to torture"

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d ago

NEW FROM ME: A frenzy of cruel and unusual ICE flights over the last few days suggests the Trump admin is ratcheting up its ethnic cleansing campaign. And it may be increasingly desperate to find willing collaborators. My breakdown: gillianbrockell.com/frenzy-of-cr...

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Scientists believe the body’s inflammatory responses to wildfire smoke can be harmful to the placenta, which is central to fetal survival, and some of the pollutants could cross the placental barrier and affect fetal growth and development. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows

A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found that while general pollution levels from sources such as cars and industry have significantly declined, recent increases in wildfire ...

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In going part-way down a rabbit hole on the Pentagon Paper, found this quote in Wikipedia from Leslie Gelb: “You know, we get involved in these wars and we don't know a damn thing about those countries, the culture, the history, the politics, people on top and even down below. (con’t. 🧵)

He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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This country has arrived at the point where a prominent bank can file court documents attesting to the fact that they stopped providing services to the current President of the United States because there was evidence he was involved in money laundering and it barely breaks into the news cycle.

Dr.Fauci would be the loathe to take credit for ending the AIDS crisis (& absolutely should be). But his taking seriously the voices of the queer community (once he actually did), & his leadership at that crucial time, made a huge difference to survival.

Anna Stesia@onlychyld.blacksky.app · 4d ago

The NYC Gay Men's Chorus in 1993. The men in white were the only original chorus members to make it out of the AIDS crisis. We lost SO many young people.

34 seconds of Whale Sharks feeding in a Bait Ball #wildlife

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

this guy gets it

The magical #book trolley #Baltimore 📚💙 ✏️🖤

jacobin.com/2026/07/zohr... Don’t know that this model would work in other major U.S. cities — but definitely worth a try. Modeled largely on the U.S. military commissary system (which the author points out is much more “communist”than this.)

Zohran Mamdani’s Public Grocery Plan Is a Serious One

A grocery industry expert argues that as our food supply becomes increasingly consolidated, expensive, and even dangerous, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s publicly subsidized grocery plan takes bold ...

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I picked up almost as much from the library as I did from school—real history, not that polished nonsense we were fed!

Glad this finally got ratified.

Heather Cherone@heathercherone.bsky.social · 5d ago

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A possible explanation for why some folks with Long Covid struggle with motivation, short-term memory, &/or physical energy / movement. tech-paper.com/scientists-f...

Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...

Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...

tech-paper.com

Bagpipe … caterwauling?

Tuatha@tuatha.ie · 5d ago

This carved stone plaque was found in St Francis' Row in Cashel, and it is believed to be the sign for a tavern that was known as The Cat & Bagpipes, that once stood on the main street. It may date to as early as the 16-17th century, and offers a glimpse of Cashel's social life from centuries ago

lol “new information” … as in our case falling apart and us commiting prolly grand jury misconduct www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-dis...

Hallelujah.

Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · 5d ago

ICYMI: ICE has paused construction of its Gilroy, CA immigration camp. This comes after AG Bonta filed for a preliminary injunction in federal court, citing a FOIA’d record provided by PSB that shows ICE granted itself a set of categorical exceptions allowing work to proceed without NEPA reviews.

Detainees at Adelanto ICE Processing Center claim that staff have provided them with water from an unknown source that is routinely contaminated. A video L.A. TACO received backs this up. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social · 5d ago

Doctors are losing trust in CDC's information because Kennedy does not allow CDC to follow the science and post accurate information. www.npr.org/2026/07/30/n...