That moment of staring at your home screen and automatically going into a habitual app because you forgot you were about to look something up. Exact energy as Why am I in the kitchen? <opens fridge door...>
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The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.
any story on anything this administration does should dedicate the third paragraph to reminding readers the President of the United States genuinely has no idea how anything works
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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...
how many real people have experienced actual, documented harm at the hands of Trans people playing sports? ok, how many children will be victimized by mandatory genital inspections, because you know the number isn't zero? tell me again, who are you trying to protect here??
On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.
Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer
The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...
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The party of "protect girls sports" strikes again. Why won't they let girls play?
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn 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
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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"Many are receiving the letters not long before the scheduled appointment — in some cases, the same day...If they cannot make it, they are told to write a reason on the form, then scan and send it to a provided email within 24 hours of receiving the letter."
Some Springfield Haitians summoned to ICE office, outfitted with ankle monitors
Several Haitians in Springfield have received letters from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security telling them to go to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cincinnati field office for an
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Still running a sale for 15% off annual subscriptions! Please help me return to Springfield, Ohio, where the Trump administration is once again targeting Haitians. Haitian immigrants are receiving notice to report to the Cleveland ICE office, with as little as 24 hours notice, for ankle monitors.
Falling for Propaganda from Springfield
Springfield, Ohio is a right-wing propagandist’s dream come true.
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I enjoy spellbeeswax.com but the pronunciations sometimes, omg. Strange things happening there.
"He felt sick, was coughing up blood, was in pain and had a bruise that would not heal." Just 29, and dead after having his sudden sickness neglected in an ICE concentration camp. One of 50 deaths in the camps this year. In addition to the shootings in the streets.
INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 6d agoPrisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.
"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 agoNEW 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...
"This is how Trump uses federal agencies. He pushes them away from the jobs Congress assigned them and toward the policy results he wants."
Adam Kinzinger@adamkinzinger.substack.com · last wk.A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
But note the crime number. Trump-Miller have set everyone to persecuting immigrants and the president's enemies. He pardoned thousands of allies and donors. What capacity do they have left for crime that affects the rest of America?
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.the corruption number here makes me want to turn into the joker and then, as the joker, turn into a significantly more unhinged joker
One of the words in today's beeswax is bait and I am one who took the bait.
God, this is awful. This couple. Their little girl.
Adam Sawyer@adamjst.bsky.social · last wk.“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Korbessa is rarely seen without her mini-me, Wangalla. She has well and truly adopted her as a little sister – but the love only goes so far! One area where Korbessa refuses to budge is hose possession. She covets her personal water fountain even more. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/orphans/wang...
not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Most likely McConnell is just a very sick old man and they're not releasing news bc it's bad but not ...final. But trolling is my second guess. All this drama would probably tickle him mightily. Would also help explain the bizarre newspaper photo.
I am lead counsel for the Haitian TPS holders (I argued the case in SCOTUS). A nursing home filed an amicus brief in SCOTUS on this exact topic. Indeed, here is a cartoon from the New York Daily News, published the day after the SCOTUS ruling.
Trump Insists Frequent Naps Necessary To Protect U.S. Interests In Dreamland https://theonion.com/trump-insists-frequent-naps-necessary-to-protect-u-s-interests-in-dreamland/
Man you like one pizza pic on this thing and they take over your feed. Bluesky, I was already hungry!
A thing about cluesbysam — I'm often not getting to the logic bc it's hard finding people & places on the grid. The worst is hunting for professions, but I also make row number mistakes, and spend a lot of time double checking my left, right, or edge/inside and just miss things. Is it just me?
Absolutely brazen. The president is making markets go up and down, trading in related stocks himself, and now he's selling a tier of faster access to his pronouncements. None of this should be legal. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/t...
Trump Media launches paid data service to help Wall Street track Trump’s posts
Trump Media launched an API to give paying customers real-time access to market-moving Truth Social posts.
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I just want to once again note that congressional leaders don't do anything except lead their caucuses. They are not leaders of "the party." Parties have leaders when there is an incumbent president and in opposition are wildly decentralized things that barely exist.
i do not blame anyone for feeling this way, this isn’t a dunk, but *you* are in charge of the party. every local democratic party is three little old ladies who have been keeping the flame for 200 years waiting for someone to spell them, and all you need to do is put up chairs and bring coffee.
Jeremy Pober@jpober.bsky.social · 3w agorelatedly, I can accept that Jeffries and to an extent Schumer are good at a bunch of the procedural aspects of congressional leadership without wanting them to be the people in charge of the party.
Going through the cluesbysam community archive there are whole schools of puzzles that I just cannot penetrate. All these things that I think depend on chains of how many neighbors people have in different scenarios. If I had that kind of mind I'd be playing chess?