This cruelty has no need but cruelty. Haiti remains deeply dangerous; a country in the throes of anarchy. Hundreds of thousands of people are SAFE. They are safe. They are safe here and the nation has decided to make them unsafe. We are embarking on a tragedy and we cannot look away. We cannot.

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social · yesterday

So many immigrants I've interviewed break down about this. "Monsanto Maler was one of several Haitian immigrants who traveled from Springfield for a check in...after an ankle monitor was attached to him, Maler was seen collapsing to the ground and crying." www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

muellershewrote.com

More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Most X accounts posting about Belfast and Southampton unrest were based outside UK

Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US

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Western Europe recorded its hottest June-July on record, enduring the fourth heatwave since May with severe drought conditions that contributed to exceptional wildfire activity. Climate signals are becoming increasingly interconnected and increasingly difficult to ignore.

Der @tagesspiegel.de hat heute in der Printausgabe eine 3-Seiten-Strecke über queeres Leben in Berlin und wie es vor und durch den Anschlag auf den CSD bedroht ist. Danke, endlich findet die Perspektive queerer Menschen zu der Bedrohungslage Raum! 🫶🏼

Many Trump things are explicable by hatred, by love of power, by vanity, by greed. Those all make a *kind* of sense. Spending billions of dollars to *not* get wind power the US would otherwise get doesn't seem to make any of those kinds of sense. It' just nuts. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/c...

Trump Administration to Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion to Cancel Wind Leases

It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.

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God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

Happy #MosaicMonday! Here's Andy and Dave clearing a small part of the late 4th century AD corridor mosaic of Frampton Roman villa #Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 📷 August 2019 Drone photo taken during the excavation by @buarchanth.bsky.social

In case you missed it, Emily Lawford, New Statesman revealed on Friday that Arron Banks had paid for private intelligence agents to spy on a ST journalist who’s been investigating Farage’s finances. Banks was the funder of Farage’s Brexit campaign. Lots of Qs about them ignored by r/wing media & BBC

ProPublica ran the math a second way. From 2006 to 2018, for every $100 their wealth grew, typical Americans paid $160 in taxes. Jeff Bezos paid $1.09.

Tax lawyers call it buy, borrow, die. Buy assets, borrow against them instead of selling, die still holding them. Loans are not income, so no tax. At death, stepped-up basis erases the gain entirely.

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk reut.rs/4fO6aR6

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

Taylor Farms on Sunday said it was recalling more than ​a dozen prepared food items containing jalapeños, including ‌salsas and guacamole, from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella contamination.

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The Meta CEO was not onboard his superyacht when a nearby boat put out an assistance call.

Zuckerberg Representative Denies Yacht Ignored Assistance Call From Stranded Boat In Alaska

The Meta CEO was not onboard his superyacht when a nearby boat put out an assistance call.

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Jennifer Welch: “The real boogeyman is not the brown-skinned Abdul or Zohran. The real boogeymen are white crusty pink arm Republicans like Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk. These are the people that don’t give a fuck about you. The whole Communist scare is total bullshit”

Many of you are asking how you can help me. My only ask is this: Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld

Bill Nye breaks down the Science of Skin Color and shows why Racism is Ridiculous.

When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.” When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.” When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.” When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.”

Very good column by my colleague @jameswsthomson.com. If we aren't willing to call out the obvious, what chance do we have of actually addressing it?#cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/07/o...

The smoke that came from nowhere for no reason

The Globe and Mail published a jarring editorial that lamented our smoky summers without once pointing toward their cause. For Canada's paper of record, it's a serious omission of a reality the govern...

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Het VN rapport waar dit in staat is naar Europese Commissie gestuurd met aanbevelingen, bv. herverdeling van subsidies om gezonder eten te bevorderen. Reactie van EC: we zijn niet van plan om voor burgers te bepalen wat ze eten. Huh??! dat doen ze juist de hele tijd, zelfs met campagnes voor vlees!

De prijzen van voeding zijn nergens zo hard gestegen als in Europa. Vooral groente is duur. Volgens onderzoekers komt dat door enorme Europese subsidies voor veeteelt. Die zorgen ervoor dat boeren makkelijker en goedkoper veevoer kunnen produceren dan voedsel voor menselijke consumptie. Gehoord bij⤵️

Journaal #91: Goed nieuws voor iedereen met acht tentakels - Studio Plantaardig

Wat hebben bosbranden met de veeteelt temaken, melkoverschot ondanks krimpende veestapel, 1 op de 3 mensen kan zich geen gezond dieet veroorloven.

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Nancy Rosenstock is a veteran of the abortion rights battles in the 1970's in the U.S., and looks back at some of the strategies thay may still work today to help regain abortion rights.

The Fight for Abortion Rights Was Won in the Streets

Half a century ago, feminists won Roe v. Wade with mass demonstrations and a sweeping national vision. A veteran of that movement argues that today’s fight requires the same strategy.

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Mike Davidson, a tour guide in Big Bend, told Newsweek; "They might as well send a bulldozer through the graveyard where my parents are buried or something like that. It hits me very strongly." Soulless, wretched people are responsible for this. They have to go. www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-p...

Bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, sparking fury in Texas

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

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10/ Then there is Tom Suozzi, who signed a "we are capitalists, not socialists" pledge right after the New York primaries shifted left. He lives at C Street, a GOP linked townhouse in DC, for eight hundred dollars a month. Ethics watchdogs call that rent a possible illegal gift. Must be nice.

9/ This is not new territory for Third Way. Years back, Koch Industries needed Democrats to back off free trade opposition because it threatened their tar sands profits. Their fixer was Third Way, branded as the "independent" centrist think tank the whole time. Funny how that keeps happening.

8/ It gets bigger. Third Way's president Jonathan Cowan told the New York Times, on the record, they are launching a fifteen million dollar campaign through 2028 to "discredit" democratic socialism, calling a recent progressive win in Michigan "deeply troubling." The quiet part, said out loud.

7/ Carville's firm is paid by American Bridge, the super PAC funding attacks on progressives. He also advised a firm paid $554,000 by the crypto industry, while American Bridge donors Stephen Mandel and Reid Hoffman bankroll super PACs built to knock out the left in primaries.

6/ So with all of that happening to real families, what are these so called centrist Democrats doing? James Carville is out there calling progressive nominees "so f-ing stupid" and openly floating a party "schism" to purge the left wing entirely from the coalition.

5/ And the Iran war Republicans started hasn't just cost lives overseas. It is rerouting global oil shipments and rattling entire supply chains right now, exactly the kind of disruption that shows up as higher prices at the gas pump and in your grocery cart every week.

4/ Same playbook in California, where Trump officials withheld $1.3 billion in Medicaid funding. Two states, over $1.5 billion pulled from health care that people already qualified for and were counting on. Multiply that pattern across all fifty states and you see the scale.