Details on how to support the Young Center in the followup post in AJ's thread, because God knows they're gonna need it

Wanna do me a little birthday favour? It's a bit of an uphill struggle for me to get eyeballs on my videos, lots of people don't know I have a YouTube channel and I'm working on video essays these days, so if folks could help me out and spread the word? That'd be nice! youtube.com/@caseyexplos...

Casey Explosion

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donut is one of my best friends in the world!!!! help her get FFS!!!!

Donut@freshdonut.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey y'all! I am getting FFS at the end of August and made a GoFundMe to try and help cover part of the costs. If you could share this around or if you are able to donate, I'd greatly appreciate it. ❤️ gofund.me/63fe713c5

Welcome To The New Apocalypse

Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.

Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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"Under Dhillon’s leadership, the Civil Rights Division has shrunk by about 75% & now devotes most of its energy to harassing trans students & attempting to bully election officials into handing over state voter rolls." Important piece about online weaponization practiced by our current DOJ Read this

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

New in PN: Harmeet demonstrates danger of posting through it "The case highlights disintegration of DOJ under leadership of internet-poisoned ideologues who think Musk’s house of horrors is real life. And yet being terminally online is their Achilles heel, undermining their quest to weaponize govt"

Inside the Heritage Foundation, Christianist Kevin Roberts is hard at work installing people who believe that the United States was the bad guy in World War II. This is must-read reporting. Free link: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right (Gift Article)

The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

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I completely failed at being a Cowboy or a Dive Bar Hipster and those were the only two Types of Guy I had any investment in

hole friend@hole-friend.bsky.social · last wk.

why did you transition? wrong answers only. dick too small

This is why you can really just point at SCOTUS for most of the damage Trump has inflicted. Absolutely no one in these agencies (even the Trump friendly ones!) wants to do his bidding so he keeps firing them until someone will and STILL the SCOTUS treats these people as acting in good faith.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

MS NOW: Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week after refusing to participate in the Trump admin's investigation of Georgia's 2020 election. The analysts told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and DOJ policies.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

Today, in violations of the rule of law that would be sufficient for impeachment in any other American presidency but aren't in this one because pathological partisan loyalty has rotted the constitutional order:

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Happy 52nd day of Pride Month. To celebrate, I made a video essay about Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury in the hopes that I can get other people to share my hyperfixation. It'll be up on Youtube later this week but you can watch it on Nebula right now. nebula.tv/videos/ladye...

Lady Emily — The Yuri Anime That Got Me Into Mecha

In which we talk about Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury and why it gave me permanent brainrot that I now must inflict on others.

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You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...

🚨 ICE just published their recent numbers and it's worse than we thought. JUNE: ICE and CBP took 43,138 people. That works out to 1,474 of our neighbors every single day. JULY: 65,765 people are now inside US concentration camps.

ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data

NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.

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"Literature, in the Prairieland case, was turned into a vector of criminalization. In the hands of a prosecutor, the fact that a book or a zine can be passed from reader to reader became the accumulating elements of a criminal conspiracy." This should concern us all, deeply. Please read this.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 2w ago

I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

Daniel - Desert Apostate@hcexvangelical.bsky.social · 3w ago

The asshole administration is planning to remove the mining buffer around Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. This is being done without tribal or expert input and the public comment time is incredibly, and cowardly short. Please comment to help try and save Chaco. www.koat.com/article/chac...

appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.

if you don't want to write, you can eat crumbs and stare out the window

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Tom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."

cool we have masked feds ripping people out of their cars at traffic lights now in Seattle www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/co...

From the Seattle community on Reddit: Ice raid at stop light

Explore this post and more from the Seattle community

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I'm not a child development expert, but my understanding is that the effects of this kind of trauma are life-long. 118 days of torture and lifetime of trauma to satisfy the sadistic impulses of people who will likely never face any sort of consequences for their depravity.

Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: A 5-year-old girl spent months in federal immigration custody here in Connecticut while her family waited for her release. Her case isn’t unique, experts and court records show. My latest w/ @jrabethomas.bsky.social at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/news/article... #nutmegsky

My friend Mags has written a haunting and challenging essay about hatred and what it teaches us 💔

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w ago

Magdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

yeah if they build this it’s... it’s already a stretch to not call the domestic ICE prisons concentration camps, given the conditions, lack of trials or ability to contact family, and fatalities from lack of care, but this is just the admin asking “hey who can build us concentration camps”

Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · 3w ago

The documents were posted on the U.S. government's website for federal contracting opportunities. They indicate this is a plan under consideration — contractors who think they can do the work are to apply by July 22. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

Obsidian lost many excellent developers and wonderful people today. If you see them on your feed, please share their posts and celebrate their work.

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"