i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The 30 July 2026 Astronomy Picture of the Day featured a remarkable shot of the Sun photographed through a wildfire smoke-filled sky that turned the star a deep red. So I tweaked it to look like we're orbiting an M-class red dwarf star with a close-in system of rocky planets, like TRAPPIST-1.

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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The greatest birds to watch in history. 30 million years strong. 🪶

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...

A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.

News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.

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The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

My paper is out today in PNAS documenting how ICE activity in Trump 2.0 compares to the last 10 years and the mismatch between the action and the rhetoric. Joint with the fabulous @caitlinpatler.bsky.social and @elizabethacox.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool new behavior caught on video! This is a special type of octopus known as a #papernautilus (aka #argonaut) and her shell is a little less than 5cm. Watch as she extends and retracts her fleshy mantle - at the end, she rapidly retracts it all! #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

OPINION: "[A]nytime I read a story involving a young Black man, a child or a family facing an unimaginable loss, my mind immediately goes to my sons. I think about their faces. I think about the parents receiving the phone call that changes everything," Erica Powe writes.

Editor’s Note | A Mother’s Plea for Careful Journalism

Erica Powe reflects on motherhood and the importance of careful reporting while reflecting on the deaths of Trey Reed, Kohen Wiley and Nolan Wells.

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Two days before Bably Kohen Wiley was killed in a Walmart parking lot during Senatobia PD’s response to an alleged shoplifting call, Senatobia officer Dexter Smith reported that Sgt. Hunter Foster had called him a "Black motherf—er.” | Grace Jidoun atlantablackstar.com/2026/07/23/w... #BlackskyNews

I’m at the Wisconsin State Capitol, where Rep Sheila Stubbs is holding a press conference with the family of Corey Ruiz and their attorney, Ben Crump.

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the man who murdered former MN House Speaker, Melissa Hortman, & her husband, Mark Hortman, & attempted to murder MN Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, & his daughter, Hope, was sentenced to two Life sentences plus 40 years with no parole. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Vance Boelter gets 2 life terms, no parole for Minnesota lawmaker shootings

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Vance Boelter two life sentences plus 40 years in the killings of Melissa and Mark Hortman and the attacks on John Hoffman, his wife Yvette and their daughter Hop...

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Anyway, here's something cute I just edited. 🪶 🐣

As a teen I worked at a gas station selling people scratch tickets. I would not have thought that people could destroy their lives over 1$ scratch-offs, but I watched it happen. I think about how much worse off my customers would've been if they could have gambled on their phones.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Gambling is a petty vice, everyone enjoys a little fantasy football, what’s the harm in letting people have some fun” *gambling instantly consumes every corner of society*

Valerie has just dropped her peach in the Seine.

This speech is quite literally an impeachable offense. The President is trying to undermine faith in US elections and to delegitimize the elections of public officials.

Two days before a Colombian immigrant was killed during a vehicle stop by ICE officers in her district, Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree joined @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social to discuss ICE's tactics in the state, saying "their policies are getting worse" every day under DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.

Disapproves like Jagger.

stuff like this is why one important avenue for court reform is just nixing the shadow docket altogether and forcing these people to explain themselves to the public when they issue orders. also, making their records property of the united states and subject to publication when they leave the bench.

Alex Aronson@alexaronson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amy Coney Barrett just told Congress that it would be inappropriate to explain the reasoning behind the Court’s unreasoned shadow docket orders. As if unreasoned judicial orders are a thing. They are not. The reasoning is the whole point.

Joan Sebastian Guerrero. Say his name.

Neighbor IDs man shot by an immigration agent in Biddeford

An immigrant advocacy group also confirms Joan Sebastian Guerrero is the 26 year-old man from Colombia killed by law enforcement. Officials haven't verified the name after repeated requests. <br>

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Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3w ago

The person ICE shot and killed in Biddeford, Maine has been ID'd as a 26-year-old Colombian man.

It really is that simple: there's no reason for an agency tasked with "Immigration and Customs Enforcement" to function as a gestapo that invades neighborhoods and shoots people. Why do they have military weapons and use military tactics? They're supposed to be paperwork clerks.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree@pingree.house.gov · 3w ago

On the scene here in Biddeford where ICE shot and killed someone this morning. Still so many unknowns. Let me be clear: Federal immigration enforcement should NOT be using deadly force against anyone in our communities. Period. We need a full, independent investigation, and we need answers.

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 3w ago

A person was killed in a shooting involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Maine on Monday morning, the speaker of the state’s House of Representatives said

I'm definitely going to the library!

All 3 men inside of the van with Lorenzo Salgado Araujo “‘reiterated that there were never any ICE agents in front of the van…They came in and started shooting from the sides.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Migrants who saw man killed by ICE in Houston say he did not ram officers

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

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ICE agents must be tried for the murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 4w ago

Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

Wow: DHS says ICE officers were NOT wearing body cameras when an agent shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado in Houston, "due to back-to-back Democrat shutdowns." www.chron.com/news/houston...

ICE confirms agents had no body cams during fatal Houston shooting

A DHS spokesperson blamed the lack of cameras on "back-to-back Democrat shutdowns."

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Juan Proano of LULAC just confirmed our story on a call with reporters, saying the three men in the van are facing pressure to self deport. "We have great concern that DHS is trying to move these witnesses out of the country. They may be the only eyewitnesses as to what happened."

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 4w ago

An "unspeakable tragedy" in Texas. National reporters need to focus and work on getting "the full, horrifying story."

Those robes are really something