“Michele Johnson, a DNC member from Louisiana who proposed the measure to abolish ICE, said it’s time for Democrats to take a stand and pointed to the dissolution of ICE’s predecessor agency, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, as a precedent.” apnews.com/article/demo...

Democrats disagree over abolishing or reforming ICE at DNC meeting

Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed.

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"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."

Transgender athletes are a red herring

It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.

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Remember when the New York Times made Claudine Gay resign over a plagarism smear campaign by Chris Rufo that found no real examples of plagarism? I do.

It’s illegal to as a Attorney General he is not supposed to engage in political activity. It’s a violation of the Hatch Act.

Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here

First, this whole story is completely crazy. Trump wants to redesign already in production new class of aircraft carriers so they look more like the ones from WW2. Let's put a pin that absolute insanity. But there's an aspect of this that if anything this .. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

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The number of veterans contacting the Veterans Crisis Line increased in fiscal 2025, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. The VA fielded 1.3 million calls and texts, a 39% increase over the prior year, the VA said. Read more: www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 9h ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Ret. Maj. Gen. Lepper says he worries that Americans are banking on the idea that members of the military will reject illegal orders if told to interfere with the midterm elections, but he says that's not something soldiers are trained to do.

NPR@npr.org · 8h ago

The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.

Social Security just turned 91. Here is a thread about its use of artwork.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Social Security Administration used to have an incredible communications arm, including even a film unit. This was crucial in helping people understand the program, and how it would work. From 1936, 1939. www.ssa.gov/history/puba...

this isn't the worst possible story on the topic, but there is literally zero mention of the more than 60 documented US deaths using these systems, or really anything about their safety at all beyond the usual assurances from users that it "does 95% of driving" and is "safer than they are"

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 5h ago

I'm more bullish on autonomous vehicle technology than some people on this site, but if I were in a Tesla and someone put it in "self-driving" mode, I would immediately demand to be let out at the next corner. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

”Navy is evaluating the feasibility of moving the multistory tower that acts as the carrier’s command center farther forward … [because] Trump wants the new ships to look more like those from WW II. The change could cost billions.” Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

Navy weighs major warship redesign to match Trump’s preferences

The president wants the new fleet of aircraft carriers to more resemble those from World War II. Such a change could cost billions.

washingtonpost.com

During Trump’s second term, the courts, election officials, and members of the public have shown the strength to stand up to a president who wishes to trample the election system and cement his power. bit.ly/3SaBeBt

The Trump Administration Is Losing Its Fight to Take Over Elections

The president’s strategy has faced defeat at every turn so far.

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A certain AAA studio told employees that their internal gen AI was trained only on local data, but whenever said employees tried to generate an image of a woman holding a gun, it generated Lara Croft. The studio was not Crystal Dynamics, and had never worked on the Tomb Raider IP in any capacity.

jess m. 🌤️@jametc.bsky.social · 22h ago

I just want to mention: Even if your AI somehow runs locally and you think it's okay, it's still using trained data from a pre-existing dataset which is still full of stolen work. The sheer amount of data gen AI needs is in the hundreds of thousands, you can only get that by scraping

I’m starting to think that this Donald Trump fella is not the economic genius he claims to be.

Marketplace@marketplace.org · yesterday

For the first time since World War II, the country’s debt is actually larger than the economy itself. Driven by surging federal spending, the government has already borrowed almost $2 trillion in fiscal year 2026 and is on track to borrow even more before the year is over.

Btw, as we reported last year, foreign food inspections have plummeted under Trump. The office that handles travel shrunk by 65% “There are going to be things that fall through the cracks,” an FDA inspections told @anniewaldman.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/fore...

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · yesterday

Breaking news: FDA investigators traveled to Taylor Farms’ operation in Mexico for the first time this week to start inspecting the facilities linked to the largest cyclospora outbreak in the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Exclusive: World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s flagship crypto venture, says its trust company has received preliminary approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a bank. on.wsj.com/4wyvwat

Exclusive | Trump Family’s World Liberty Financial Gets Preliminary Approval to Launch a Bank

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gives the flagship crypto venture a conditional approval to be a trust bank.

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I slept in my car for a while when I first moved to LA. I had no money and no job. I stayed on side streets and didn't bother anyone. If a cop had found me back then I would have gotten off with a lecture and a ticket. Just a quick reminder that we weren't always this cruel and stupid.

Landon🌹@iamlandon.bsky.social · 20h ago

Cities are making it illegal to sleep in your car

Rep. Levin has to be circumspect in public statements and implies that the administration reduced prosecution of sex trafficking because they focused on immigration instead. I'm just some guy so I can draw the pretty obvious connection that they did this because the President is a sex trafficker

Teen models, powerful men and private dinners: when Trump hosted Look of the Year

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

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Mike Levin@mikelevin.org · yesterday

Why did this happen? Agents were pulled into immigration enforcement, experienced trafficking prosecutors left in unusual numbers, and grants that help keep victims safe and stable enough to testify were delayed or frozen.

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies

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Gifting this article Iran literally blew up the supply base in Bahrain that was meant to supply the aircraft carrier group Lincoln. Everything about this war has been a lie since day one. Was this made clear earlier? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...

Navy and USS Lincoln’s Problems Are Tied to Attacks on U.S. Base Early in War (Gift Article)

Diego Garcia, a tiny island 2,200 miles from the Gulf of Oman, took over as the Navy’s logistics hub after Iran damaged a base in Bahrain.

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Trump posts a bizarre image of himself and George Washington walking through the supposed White House ballroom that he wants.

We are now in the 90-day period before an election where states may not do mass removals of names from their voter files. The DOJ doesn’t seem to care. Help us protect free and fair elections: https://newsletters.democracydocket.com/anchor-bluesky

I’m not a military guy. And this isn’t really my area. But I just don’t know how to describe how insane this all is. It’s about as crazy as wanting to invade Greenland. It’s completely and utterly batshit.

@tedleew.bsky.social · 20h ago

‘Very outdated’: Trump’s directive to revert to steam catapults on new aircraft carrier baffles naval experts www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

we're at the "they're arming unaccountable masked men with electric torture gloves" stage of fascism

It’s an ethnic cleansing campaign aided by modern surveillance technology, with a private army of insanely well-funded violent thugs to carry it out.

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 21h ago

Legal filings revealed the Trump administration launched a sprawling surveillance campaign against Minnesotans as it sought to crack down on last winter’s anti-ICE protests. The effort, which raises significant civil rights concerns, also continued months after DHS' immigration surge in the area.

ICE has started its crackdown in Springfield, Ohio -- the town where JD Vance accused Haitians of eating dogs and cats. Residents reported "a caravan of vehicles" conducting raids. One unnamed neighbor "praised all the Haitians who live around him." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/spring...

Springfield Haitians in ICE custody following immigration enforcement

Several Haitians from Springfield are in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in the Butler County Jail following an apparent increase in enforcement after the official end of Temporary Protect...

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A good article explaining how Biden’s administration was the one that did the work. Trump is taking a machete to Biden’s overdose reduction programs as well as to institutions that support them. thehill.com/opinion/heal...

America is finally turning the corner on overdose deaths. Washington is about to squander it.

Advocate Ryan Hampton argues that while overdose deaths fell significantly through existing federal programs, upcoming budget cuts and political inaction threaten to dismantle the progress made in …

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