Tohono O’odham Nation said No Thanks, Trump's lackey said too bad you have to accept the wall, because your reservation isn't sovereign anymore, this is now an empire of fractured fiefdoms

Judge refuses to block Trump administration from building border wall along tribe's reservation

A federal judge has refused to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent.

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If the person who stopped traffic to video me was hoping to capture something they could use for some online spectacle, they got their wish.

My friend’s child has started a petition to get her high school in TN to address the severe mold issue, which is affecting the health of the students. BlueSky: do your thing and help this kid get her school’s attention by flooding the petition with signatures: shorturl.at/zW0hq

How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

Genuinely shocking news. It's hard to see the closing of the oldest & most influential African Studies Center (at a historically white university) as anything other than an ominous sign of the times.

Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Northwestern plans to remove its flagship Program of African Studies’ status as a university research center, effectively closing the program at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”

"We just wanna protect women in women's spaces" Fucking start with prisons and detention centers then Oh wait. My bad. You didn't mean those women.

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2w ago

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

What are the odds that this man works for DHS now? Oct. 26, 2015 A cell phone video shot inside a South Carolina high school showed a police officer, Ben Fields, body slamming a female student. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... (But let's remove phones from classrooms, right?)

Officer on leave after video shows him drag a student

YouTube video by CNN

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Imagine if Kamala Harris became the first female president of the United States and then tore down the East wing, obsessed about a ballroom, started a losing war with Iran, took away health care and food from children, raked in billions, fired everyone to put her friends in their positions, (1/2) 👇

“A group of senators is saying that these changes are designed to disenfranchise America’s two million nursing home residents.”

Senators sound alarm on voter intimidation in nursing homes

"The changes to CMS’s guidance will result in the disenfranchisement of nursing home residents.”

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Doctors say that childhood vaccines save thousands of lives. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests say they cause autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

I'll go another step further: the research shows that BLM protests causally shifted Americans' racial attitudes leftward and helped Democrats in the 2020 election link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't understand why this keeps getting overlooked: Joe Biden won in 2020 in the middle of Peak Woke. I'd go one step further than @brianbeutler.bsky.social does here: Biden *defended the BLM protesters!* www.offmessage.net/p/woke-one-a...

REP. AUCHINCLOSS: “Trump watches Fox so I will say it to you here directly — Mr. Trump you are the first president in history to start and lose your own war by yourself.”

Federal agency blocks Medicaid coverage of kids’ gender-affirming care missouriindependent.com/2026/08/13/r...

Federal agency blocks Medicaid coverage of kids’ gender-affirming care • Missouri Independent

A new federal rule will end Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming hormone therapies and procedures for kids under age 18. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday a rule that pr...

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Trump vaccine order takes aim at states that limit exemptions missouriindependent.com/2026/08/13/r...

Trump vaccine order takes aim at states that limit exemptions • Missouri Independent

A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allo...

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“Andrew Racine from the American Academy of Pediatrics said the current vaccine schedule is “based on decades of research.” He explained that pediatricians time a child’s shots to when a small immune system responds best, and when that child is most at risk.”

Scott Dworkin@dworkin.bsky.social · 2w ago

The head of American pediatricians was asked about Trump’s new vaccine order. His answer was a whole education. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/what-the-t...

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per SSA estimates. (Published April)

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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This is a solution in search of a problem that does not exist.

Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta

More like this coming. "An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge on Wednesday for throwing an activist to the ground near Chicago." This one brought by Cook County prosecutors. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...

ICE Agent Who Pushed Activist to the Ground Near Chicago Pleads Guilty

The agent, Adam Saracco, was charged with misdemeanor after the altercation at a gas station near Chicago last year during the Trump administration’s crackdown there.

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"The Letter" – The Box Tops "Ode to Billie Joe" – Bobbie Gentry "Respect" – Aretha Franklin "A Whiter Shade of Pale" – Procol Harum "Light My Fire" – The Doors "All You Need Is Love" – The Beatles are all to recent high school grads what the Charleston was for me when I graduated high school.

Dylan Harrington@kindofahugedyl.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just to further trip everyone out with the realities of time: “Another One Bites The Dust” is to recent high school grads what Bobby Darin’s “Mack the Knife” was for me when I graduated high school. Now ain’t that a kick in the head.

I'm so sick of this framing that gives Republicans and their donors this unreasonable benefit of the doubt. They're not hapless dopes, destroying the middle class was the point. It's like "The Road to Serfdom" wasn't published as a fucking road map in broad daylight!

They keep trying to make "correlation is cognition" happen. Through asserting: 1️⃣ models with only correlationist powers (data and correlations over that data) work well & 2️⃣ our own cognitive powers are no different to these machines, which can only rehash the past. @andreaeyleen.eurosky.social 1/

Mark Dingemanse@markdingemanse.net · 3w ago

(Guest & Martin, 2023:24) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back.

Well said. Medicare for All means an increase in taxes *in return for* elimination of employee contributions to health insurance *and* insurance that's free and the point of sale *and* not dependent on your employer. That's a good trade.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

This is a triggering image of a museum display in the natural history museum in DC about life before smartphones. Me and a fellow 40+ person were laughing at how we are now LITERAL MUSEUM PIECES. MY teen was like did you have a clear phone? An address book? A book of maps. Yes, yes I did. 🫠🫠🫠

It’s an important anniversary today! Exactly 10 years ago today: "Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference 'over the next couple of weeks' to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S." Still waiting for this presser!

Melania Trump will address immigration controversy, Donald Trump says | CNN Politics

Donald Trump announced Tuesday evening that his wife will hold a news conference “over the next couple of weeks” to address reports that she violated immigration laws when she first came to the U.S.

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