New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Crony Capitalists Bemoan Lack of Cronyism

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 18h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

These tolls are *dramatically* higher than Iran was asking for a couple of months ago.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4h ago

Reuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be ​unlikely to risk transit without paying."

Artists of Bluesky, please try out the Repost Queue and let me know how you are using it and what could be improved! #art

deck.blue@deck.blue · 16h ago

The main usage for this was thought of with a few artist friends of mine which basically boils down to this: - As an artist, you're now able to keep a sequence of reposts (say, every 2 hours) for your latest publications or even some old ones in-between; you can set it to "loop" until you change it

The "Actually guys, I don't want to do this anymore" to "Too bad, we're nominating you anyway!" pipeline. Brought to you by: racism. They're calling it an Inverted Crowley.

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 16h ago

Seems like an upset might be brewing in the GOP primary in #MI08 to take on Dem Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet. Trump endorsed Amir Hassan, but he currently trails an absolute nobody who suspended his campaign a month ago by a wide margin.

Goddamn. I interviewed at 88nine maybe 10 or 12 years ago. Jordan and I really hit it off (the person they hired instead is still there, absolutely no hard feelings about that). You absolutely just don't know about anybody.

Longtime Radio Milwaukee figure Jordan Lee charged with assault

Former Radio Milwaukee Executive Director Jordan Lee faces a first-degree child sexual assault charge involving a child under 12.

jsonline.com

Beaver Dam's was only notable because, in hindsight, it was fucking humongous for a city of 15,000 people.

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 16h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

Clap for Christian Yelich

Curt Hogg@cyrthogg.bsky.social · 17h ago

Pat Murphy on Christian Yelich: "He doesn’t need my protection. He doesn’t need me to speak up for him. He needs encouragement. So I’m asking the fans to understand this guy, remember who this guy was."

Logan Henderson said he thanked Brewers GM Matt Arnold for not dealing him when he saw him earlier today. “I’m a Brewer,” he said.

I was never much into horror as a kid. Army of Darkness got me to go back to Evil Dead 1 & 2 (both funny enough to put some backbone to the horror elements), and that's probably why I still gravitate to the quirky shit, even if it's not blending in comedy on purpose.

Ken Lowery@kenlowery.bsky.social · 17h ago

ARMY OF DARKNESS is 81 minutes long. It retells EVIL DEAD II in about 3 minutes. Still has time for a whole slapstick Gulliver's Travels thing. Baby, this is efficiency

Mitchell!

puts on her little porkpie hat, says DAAWWWW PICKLES, kicks a can, goes back to the Newsie life

VoteHub@votehub.com · 19h ago

Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Washtenaw County, multiple vote types: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 13,843 (69.6%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 5,674 (28.5%)

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Bako-Bewele got 4 with $30M guaranteed a year ago. Inflation's crazy everywhere.

Ian Rapoport@rapsheet.bsky.social · 23h ago

The Bears and All-Pro OT Darnell Wright have agreed to terms on a fat new deal to make him one of the NFL’s highest paid, per me and Jeremy Fowler He gets a 4-year, $116M deal with $93M guaranteed done by his agents at Octagon. The former first rounder cashes in.

He had a couple nice starts that made me think maybe I was being hasty with him, but still feeling pretty vindicated about saying whatever he needs to get fixed, it needs to happen at Nashville.

Steve Drumwright@drummerwrites.bsky.social · 24h ago

#Brewers have optioned RHP Brandon Sproat to Triple-A. @brewerfanatic.com

Sadly, it's hard to be shocked at this. But it's another grotesquery of that era of reality TV that got laundered as "entertainment" to millions of people.

Lisa Guerrero@lisaguerrero.bsky.social · yesterday

Was there sex trafficking at the Playboy Mansion? Several women have now claimed there was. The parallels to Epstein are extraordinary, but in this case, the crimes were glamorized on tv’s The Girls Next Door. Watch this clip of Karissa Shannon from Lisa Guerrero Unleashed youtu.be/rbCW4poBhXM?...

Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

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Why Madison Suburb of DeForest Shot Down $12 Billion Data Center Project

Why Madison Suburb of DeForest Shot Down $12 Billion Data Center Project

No developer had offered such wide-ranging community investments and protections. Yet it was rejected.

urbanmilwaukee.com

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data centers in Calvert County’s June primary election. marylandmatters.org/2026/08/04/a...

Amazon abandons plans for a data center at Calvert Cliffs - Maryland Matters

Amazon Web Services is abandoning its plans to develop data centers on the campus of the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, a move that comes after fierce voter pushback against hyperscale data cente...

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whew I was worried there wouldn't be fresh food poisoning this week

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

I want a copy of this. Look at that art.

"Today is August 4, 2026." Can't find my copy of The Martian Chronicles to take a photo of the actual published story, but it remains a collection well worth reading 76 years later: bookshop.org/a/862/9781668094853 #books #writing

Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · yesterday

happy there will come soft rains day to all those who partake

It briefly crossed my mind and then I immediately threw out the thought, because what does it matter to the story being told? Make up your own reason, it's fine!

Super Nintendo Chalmers@snchalmers.bsky.social · yesterday

I don’t fucking care how Peter Parker makes money in the new Spider-Man movie. If you care you should stop watching cinema sins bullshit

If you think the Brewers should have offered more when they obviously put the best deal on the table, then you have an agenda other than thinking what's in the best interests of the team. No wonder Arnold sounded so pissed during the game yesterday.

Sam Dykstra@samdykstramilb.bsky.social · yesterday

Lots of great notes in this @adammccalvy.bsky.social newsletter on the Brewers' potential prospect offer for Tarik Skubal: www.mlb.com/brewers/news...

This is accurate. It's especially wonderful on a snowy and not-too-cold night.

Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bryant's in Milwaukee might be the best cocktail bar in the world.

Puppy keeps finding bones of something that must have been killed in the yard and bringing them inside. 🙃

make the whole Brandon Sproat out of Garrett Stallings