Via Ariana Figueroa: A small Texas firm with no specialty in immigration law and run by a former Trump official is slated to receive a $150 million contract for legal services to tens of thousands of immigrant children, according to a Wednesday pre-published notice in the Federal Register.

Small Texas law firm run by Trump ally wins contract for legal aid to immigrant kids | Alabama Reflector

Of the nearly 30 lawyers on the law firm’s website, only two list experience in immigration and asylum law.

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Creating, possessing and distributing child sex abuse materials are all crimes. Prosecute Zuck and his collaborators. Dissolve Meta. Salt the earth where it all once stood.

WIRED@wired.com · 9h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

If the moon isn't feminine, why are Republicans so keen on insisting it isn't a big deal when Elon Musk hits it with something?

open all borders. stop having them be closed 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿@dov.bsky.social · 7h ago

Anyway as a Balt the idea that the moon is feminine in any way is some nonsense, let me tell you that.

For years, when I was drawing comics, readers just whined ENDLESSLY about "oh you drew the nose slightly bigger in this panel, i hope someone got fired for that blunder" but now a robot can't even form words and people are all "yeah, that's fine. in fact, it's good!"

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

My office secured over 280,000 eggs for families across Rochester after major egg producers ran an illegal scheme to raise the price of eggs to line their own pockets. The law is clear: price fixing of any kind will not be tolerated in New York.

holy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!

live nation is actively killing publications that cover new artists while also promoting festivals that almost exclusively cater to nostalgia and legacy acts. these problems are not unrelated.

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 11h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

“There are lineages in the deep sea that have survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions, except potentially what we’re about to do,” deepwater ecology scientist Cherisse Du Preez said. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

Deep-Sea Mining Would Devastate Ocean Life, DFO Scientist Warns | The Tyee

Some creatures that ‘survived all of Earth’s mass extinctions’ might not make it if we go ahead.

thetyee.ca

Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:

Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 9h ago

we should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something

Texas isn't a red state. It's a state held hostage by gerrymandering and voter suppression. Hell, earlier this week they announced they're shutting down half the voting centers in Tarrant County (that's Fort Worth, 2.2 million people) and kicked everyone out of the hearing who wanted to comment.

John DeVore@johndevore.bsky.social · 11h ago

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

A contrasting take to the “moral imperative” argument is @doctorow.pluralistic.net's. Really interesting read.

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h ago

You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.

Since people seem interested, I've coded a version of this that yields better results, is more optimized, and allows you to customize the texture of the noise. It's free, and forever will be free. Enjoy! chaoclypse.itch.io/xerox-hell

Chaoclypse (Brandon Yu)@chaoclypse.bsky.social · 2d ago

I coded a web app that xerox's your images for fun! Just drag an image in and play with the dials. If nothing shows up (or it's all black) you may want to play with the threshold (first slider). Press "S" to save the image! editor.p5js.org/Chaoclypse/f...

Enjoying Riki's regular posts of trans news stories as they break? Then consider following her at @rikiwilchins.bsky.social or checking out her book: "When Texas Came for Our Kids: How evangelical extremists launched a war on transgender teens." www.amazon.com/dp/1626016712

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

apnews.com

Recently read a skeet on here that was like "It's theorized men are more vulnerable to LLMs/chatbots because women are more thoroughly socially conditioned to be instantly suspicious of fawning, complimentary, compliant attention," and. Thinkin' about that, tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvI...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

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An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.

Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners

A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…

truthout.org

It says a LOT that the anti-Democrat left is more focused on unseating "establishment" Democrat electeds than they are on getting Republicans out of power. This is like high-school kids getting mad about who gets to be prom queen while there's a fucking war going on. FOCUS, folks.

Gotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.

Not making this conditional on likes, because I'm doing this strictly out of boredom and not need for approval, although let's be clear, I do very badly need approval. 1. Not a big re-reader, probably Hitchhiker's Guide, which I went back to often as a kid.

The Mississippi Sound along the Gulf Coast "will be a dead sea within a generation" without corrective action, Mississippi Sound Coalition Manager Gerald Blessey warned a group of U.S. congressmen and officials on July 28.

Mississippi Sound ‘Will Be a Dead Sea’ Soon Due to Spillway Openings, Coalition Warns

Advocates warn that the Mississippi Sound  will be “a dead sea within a generation” without corrective action.

buff.ly

Today at @thereveal.bsky.social: My '80s in 40 column reaches the first months of 1985 with a look at Rob Reiner's layered, of-the-moment teen comedy THE SURE THING:

The ‘80s in 40: The Sure Thing (March 1, 1985)

Rob Reiner's second film sends a pair of college kids across the '80s America they were soon to inherit.

thereveal.film

I’ve been notified of another death in ICE custody. This is the 55th death under Trump’s second term and the second reported death at Delaney Hall in less than 8 months. We must end the use of these deadly private prisons and reform our country’s cruel detention policies.

Where I live in Iowa, cancer rates have skyrocketed because of deregulation of Big Ag and pesticide runoff in the water supply, and letting the people whose lives are being severely impacted by that just drift over to RFK Jr. Land is an unforced error

Capital One has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Org. over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts in 2021, arguing that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Capitol riot, as the Trump businesses have claimed.

While it lacks any narration, the footage is unmistakably John Wilson. www.avclub.com/history-of-c...

Cement takes many forms in first teaser for John Wilson's The History Of Concrete

Cement takes many forms in first teaser for John Wilson's The History Of Concrete

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on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...