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This is an example of why we need to spend a lot more time combating the ideologies driving the New Right. Pete Hegseth is an acolyte of Doug Wilson, a Christian nationalist who doesn’t believe in women’s rights. Is it any wonder why Hegseth is blocking women nominees? Christian nationalism.
Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Falls as Hegseth Blocks Nominees
The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades.
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A friend of mine in Austria keeps sending me news articles about Austrians hiring US academics in a bid to get me to move there.
In this case, NYT Opinion also has published things saying the destruction of science might be good, actually. One was by the editor of New Atlantis, a project of the rightwing thinktank EPPC. EPPC has an anti-abortion agenda leading it to attack science generally, and was a key P2025 org.
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Judge J. Michael Luttig dressing down senate Republicans. "They will bear this badge of shame the rest of their lives," Luttig snapped. "Never before in American history has an attorney general been confirmed who was as corrupt as Todd Blanche." www.rawstory.com/michael-lutt...
Conservative ex-judge slaps 'badge of shame' on GOP Senate amidst looming 'corrupt' plot
A conservative former judge warned Senate Republicans they will regret what they did this Saturday morning for the rest of their lives. Retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig condemned his fellow con...
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Trump admin admits to torturing immigrants in ICE detention ⚠️ In addition inedible food & water with worms, deprivation of medicine & insufficient medical attention for detainees, #ICE is now 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 hunger striking immigrants. Markwayne Mullin: "This isn't Holiday Inn." #ICELawlessness 🧵
As an Ohioan, I don't need max miller to step down. The average voter has to see, accept, & internalize that miller is the republican party. Republicans were fine with trump. They were fine with clarence & kavenaugh on the court, hastert & jordan in the locker room, and so on. Make them own it.
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects 5 basic freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, & the right to petition the government. We cry 🐂 💩 on this facist action. This was a peaceful assembly. #AbolishICE Remember their names.
The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note. The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Iran conflict benefits Moscow and Beijing, some analysts say. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...
The U.S. Is Burning Through Weapons in Iran. Russia and China Are Taking Note. (Gift Article)
The Iran war has depleted U.S. weapons stockpiles, resulting in a significant erosion of firepower. A more drawn-out Iran conflict benefits Moscow and Beijing, some analysts say.
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The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
These are some of the last pristine ocean ecosystems. Now, they're losing protections
The largest conservation areas in the U.S. are in the Pacific Ocean, where tiny islands are epicenters of biodiversity. The Trump administration is now opening their waters to commercial fishing, sparking a battle over some of the country’s most pristine ecosystems.
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Gutwrenching, and yet again underscores the carelessness and selfishness of those who started a war with no thought of global impact, no achievable goals, no way to win, and now, no way to exit. Damage, already done. Thanks @msnowreports.bsky.social for telling this story about military families.
MS NOW@ms.now · 2d agoMS NOW EXCLUSIVE: In fiery meeting, military families confront acting Navy secretary over conditions on the USS Lincoln www.ms.now/news/navy-me...
We can't normalize military occupation in our cities or stay passive as state violence kills our neighbors. Migrants aren't animals—they need care, compassion, & investment, not cages. This #CupOfJoe is a call for action & justice. 📽: Khurram_Jay
The Trump Admin is harassing Fauci to scare scientists from speaking up against the administration's war on science, sowing public distrust in scientists and public health experts. We are standing up for Fauci. JOIN US by signing our petition at the link: zurl.co/RCYN8
NIH is planning on revoking eligibility for international students on visas for the K99/R00 pathway, a key program that supports postdocs in establishing their own labs www.statnews.com/2026/08/07/n...
NIH plans to block international researchers on visas from accessing key funding avenue
The NIH plans to close the door on one of the few pathways available to international students on visas to forge a career in biomedical research in the U.S.
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Meta is unsatisfied with this metaphor and is actually working to shift its data centre infrastructure to being actual air pollution, too fortune.com/2026/03/27/m...
Meta orders 10 gas-fired power plants for its Hyperion AI campus in rural Louisiana—more than triple the initial plans | Fortune
The Meta AI complex represents an over 30% increase to Louisiana’s total power grid capacity.
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Joe Noonan@joenoonan.bsky.social · 2d agoJudge: Meta is a harmdul public nuisance, akin to air pollution.
"The sun was a blood-red orb on the horizon and dark clouds of smoke filled the air. Yet, despite the obvious danger, no action was taken on Sunday to protect the health of the incarcerated population"
What It’s Like In Prison Just Miles Away From Washington State’s Destructive Fires
So far, a prison miles away from Spokane is operating as normal. Emergency response plans are in place if needed.
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Oh, I see. The Louisianna AG sees this gentlemans skin colour + therefore hes guilty + undeserving. Let me guess, hes a republican pos. #Blues
ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d agoNEW: Elvis Brooks was exonerated after 42 years in prison. Civil rights attorneys called his case an egregious example of a wrongful conviction. But the Louisiana Attorney General maintains he is guilty — and thus doesn’t qualify for any compensation from the state. with @veritenews.org
Another opportunity to note that Donald Trump is personal business partners with the leaders of a country he is giving otherwise utterly inexplicable special dispensation to, a situation which in any other era of American history would be deemed a federal felony and impeachable but is for now a yawn
Just Security@justsecurity.org · 2d agoThe Trump administration's recent decision to relax export controls on the UAE occurred with little public notice but could have significant implications for US AI policy, write Andrew Leber, Alasdair Phillips-Robins, and @samwl.bsky.social (Sam Winter-Levy).
For years, top Wall Street banks ignored Epstein's suspicious multi-million dollar cash transfers. Sen. Ron Wyden's investigation reveals how these banks enabled his crimes, laying the ground to prosecute everyone who looked away. This is a #CupOfJoe w/a latte facts.
New: Flock planned to use cameras in hundreds of thousands of Uber, Lyft, and delivery driver vehicles as a way to collect more license plate data. Pitched the idea to an Attorney General. Would basically turn Uber/Lyft into roaming surveillance vehicles www.404media.co/flock-pitche...
Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn Uber and Lyft Drivers Into Roaming Surveillance Vehicles
A Flock presentation shows the company planned to use around 350,000 Uber, Lyft, and delivery drivers to collect license plate data for its surveillance system.
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The VRA is one of the greatest civil rights achievements in our history. Republicans on SCOTUS, in Congress & your state legislature are set on destroying it. Aug. 28, we return to the National Mall to defend voting rights & justice for ALL! #DefendTheVote social.demcast.com/s/z6gdB8e3
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The perception of corruption surrounding everything this administration does is staggering. A 26-person law firm with no immigration experience just got a $150 million no-bid contract from HHS to represent migrant kids facing deportation — and surprise surprise, the firm is close to Trump.
A $150M contract for migrant kids’ lawyers goes to a Trump-linked Texas firm, raising concerns
Legal aid groups are raising concerns after the Trump administration awarded a $150 million contract to a small Texas law firm with limited experience in immigration law.
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From a long but indispensable 🧵:
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3d agoIf Zuck thought other people are as real as he is, he wouldn't spy on them in ways he himself could never tolerate. He certainly wouldn't pay fancy white-shoe lawyers to steal their land out from under them. 13/
For Zuck, people aren't co-equals with needs that are as real and important as his own. For Zuck, people are problems to be solved. He embodies Terry Pratchett's maxim (voiced by Granny Weatherwax) that "sin is when you treat people like things." 20/
His lawyers say that Wynn-Williams violates the non-disclosure and non-disparagement "agreement" of her old Facebook employment contract *merely by standing motionless and silent* for an hour on-stage: pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/z... 16/
Pluralistic: Zuckerberg’s increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers (27 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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When Zuck is forcibly reminded that other people do indeed exist, he takes it very badly. He's insisted that Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former FB exec turned whistleblower, must pay him *$111,000,000* as punishment for her excellent tell-all memoir *Careless People*. 15/
54 people have died in ICE custody under the current Trump admin. The alarming death toll underscores that ICE’s mass detention & deportation system is plagued by poor conditions, a lack of accountability & a culture of violence and secrecy that results in system-wide abuses, including death.
BrownIsBeautiful@tbuck501.bsky.social · last wk.What’s going on with “detention” lately? How many deaths have there been this year and last? #ICEKills #AmericanConcentrationCamps #ImmigrantRights @detentionwatchnetwork.org www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/issues/deten...
This is a 5-alarm fire move by Trump's FCC. If this isn't stopped, Nexstar and Sinclair -two right wing pro-Trump/MAGA companies- will own almost every single local TV news outlet in the country. That's terrible news for local communities and for our democracy.
Free Press@freepress.bsky.social · 3d agoFCC Chairman Carr just removed a significant legal hurdle to further broadcast consolidation — specifically involving media conglomerates that are friendly to Trump and his far-right agenda. Learn more:
