a visa overstayer from Chad who wants to be an American is more American than anyone who puts on the ICE mask

Semafor@semafor.com · 4h ago

“Based on its extraordinary success in slashing overstays from bonded countries to near zero, the State Department has made the Visa Bond Program permanent,” a State Department spokesperson told Semafor.

[whispering] land value tax would fix this

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7h ago

I fundamentally do not know how to square the politics whereby Democrats will essentially have to tell the American people that because they (the voters) made an extremely stupid decision, they need to lower their expectations substantially for the foreseeable future, but here we are.

Trump is trying to pull off a US-style version of the Tiananmen Square Massacre coverup where everyone in China who remembered what happened on June 4, 1989 knows *exactly* what they must not admit and is utterly terrified to speak the truth. I never imagined seeing such abject cowardice in the US.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

Dying at the right-wing activists that (1) held a call with Todd Blanche in which Blanche made a lot of anti-abortion promises, (2) said "uh this is off the record" like doing so would magically ward off journalists, and then (3) UPLOADED IT TO THEIR YOUTUBE CHANNEL www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

An investor bought a Denver woman's home for $23,000 after she failed to pay HOA fines. Judge ruled it never should have been sold and ordered the investor to sell. He still had her evicted — and is now asking the Colorado Supreme Court to intervene, @thenoellephillips.bsky.social reports

Denver family’s home lost to foreclosure sits empty in legal limbo: ‘The system feels like gangsters’

Welcome to Realty LLC, who bought the house, now wants the Colorado Supreme Court to intervene.

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when I called Greg Mortenson's obvious bullshit about how the primitive people of the mountains simply didn't understand time - *after* he had been exposed as a bullshit artist - he tried to smear me to my boss on social media, entirely unsuccessfully. Real piece of shit.

If Books Could Kill@ifbookspod.bsky.social · 9h ago

Episode 54: Three Cups of Tea One man's mission to build schools, fight terrorism and promote peace, one private jet reimbursement at a time.

A Durham teenager has been charged with a litany of crimes, including ASSAULT WITH A DEADLY WEAPON WITH INTENT TO KILL, for allegedly self-managing an abortion with medication abortion. It's unconscionable that she's been charged, let alone. facing prison time. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/c...

Young NC couple arrested after teen allegedly took abortion pills in 3rd trimester

The teen is accused of taking mifepristone and misoprostol while 31 weeks pregnant. She allegedly ordered the medication online.

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An immigration judge fired under the Trump administration in Colorado tells @sethklamann.bsky.social the immigration courts focus on rapid deportations, not due process www.denverpost.com/2026/08/04/c... via @denverpost.com

Fired judge says Colorado’s immigration courts focus on rapid deportations, not due process

In mid-December, a federal court in California ruled that the Trump administration had to provide bail hearings for a broad swath of immigrants arrested in the United States.

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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h 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.

amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 22h ago

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

At the risk of ruining my mentions, I want to remind my centrist friends that “vote blue no matter who” also applies when Dems nominate a leftist. We need to be single focused on winning back the Senate. We cannot do that without Michigan.

people love to post about how "you're not gonna like it when there's millions of unmarried aimless young men" and like Japan and Korea have been running this field experiment for years and they're mostly just playing video games and jerking off

what did you think vote blue no matter who meant? essays? papers? vibes?

a perennial obsession of anti-semites is the attempt to find 'real Jews' who can be used to attack other Jews. It's the role that Neturei Karta plays for a chunk of the British left too. But picking Mizrahim given actually existing Israeli politics is a real know-nothing sign.

Alex Mann@alex-mann.bsky.social · 23h ago

This is always a pretty easy tell for "does not actually understand Israel/Palestine outside of memes." I don't think anyone could look at the political currents of Israel and argue that the Mizrahi are somehow the people who will find common cause with the Arabs...

a lot of people are charging up their ‘Islamaphobia meter’ like Goku right now

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 23h ago

everybody ready for the Night of the Crashouts because Michigan's about to start dropping

would you be shocked to learn that this describes the murder-rape spree at a music festival as the concertgoers being 'caught in the crossfire'

I’ve noticed that people who got the Covid vaccine look like they’ve aged at least five years.

I worked to expose the DOI’s no-bid contract on the Reflecting Pool earlier this year. And according to court filings, the Justice Department is now blaming the same contractor for construction flaws!

Zero rich Republicans — literally zero — send their kids to trade school. But they push trade school relentlessly on the middle class. It's interesting!

ICE must be dIsmantled and its leadership prosecuted. Jonathan Ross, who previously lived in Florida or Texas, should be tried and imprisoned for life for the murder of Renee Good. Oh also every ICE Internet monitor is a traitor to the Constitution. Pass it on.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

The new official history of slavery per the Trump administration

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Trump wants Americans to unlearn what they have come to know about the history and legacy of enslavement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a sense of comfort contained in the most reductive and sanitized stories about the United States — the bliss of ignorance." --M. Gessen.

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An 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

Republicans are very interested in what going on in our children's underpants. Full stop

Is this what Sophie Cunningham and Riley Gaines mean when they say they want to protect girls in sports or nah? Somebody please PLEASE ask Sophie about this next time she triples down.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An 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

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...

Todd Blanche dropping any “assurances” about Trump’s criminal slush fund shortly after he’s confirmed is a very easy prediction. Incredibly obvious stuff, based on repeated patterns. The only question is if Senators Cornyn and Tillis choose to fall for it. Entirely a choice.

Every single Republican is this man. Moreno so terrified of being called out on whatever weird shit he was up to that be couldn't even bring himself to comment on what this bastard did to his own daughter until it was clear the cat was out of the bag. This is who they are. Abuse and silence. Filth.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Miller and his attorneys released a big Dropbox cache of transcripts, recordings, etc (link below). If they think this is going to help him, they are likely wrong. Even Miller's father-in-law, US Sen. Bernie Moreno, has come out against him www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/982qz...

This New York Times article, which ran a week before Christmas last year, didn’t get the attention it deserved. It detailed Trump and Epstein's predatory behavior toward women – “a game of ego and dominance” in which “female bodies were currency.” Here’s a gift link and a thread. 1/6🧵

‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of Women (Gift Article)

The president has tried to minimize their friendship, but documents and interviews reveal an intense and complicated relationship. Chasing women was a game of ego and dominance. Female bodies were cur...

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