Our thoughts are with those in Madison who have been taking action in memory of Corey Ruiz, doing their best to ensure that police cannot murder people with impunity. Resistance to ICE and resistance to police must converge. It is the same struggle. crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 15h ago

Community members are re-liberating space tonight from killer cops in Madison, Wisconsin. Here’s a still image from a live feed filmed about an hour ago, community members can be heard chanting, “Say his name, Corey Ruiz.”

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

techcrunch.com

Mayor Bass requested that the board impose the maximum penalties on Lineage. CM Ysabel Jurado is also making comment, and is at the Diamond Bar meeting in person. She's demanding "meaningful accountability," and says the max financial penalty may not mean much to the company.

Mayor Karen Bass does remote comment at South Coast AQMD hearing on Lineage air quality violations... You can tune in here: www.youtube.com/live/hnnvxO6...

Elizabeth Chou@reporterliz.bsky.social · 35m ago

Lineage to present on post-fire clean-up at a South Coast AQMD hearing this morning, four council members vote against Traci Park's 41.18 zones, and big turnout for Scattergood power plant project. LA Squawk Box for Wednesday, August 5, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/lasquawk...

circling back to this: I am genuinely confused at what is considered disqualifying behavior for House Republicans. If Chuck Edwards needs to drop out (and he does) then so do Cory Mills and Max Miller

Jamie Dupree@jamiedupree.bsky.social · 8h ago

Under an ethical cloud over allegations of sexual harassment involving two of his female staffers, Rep. Chuck Edwards R-NC announced overnight that he will drop his bid for re-election. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/under-ethi...

The United States is the world’s leader in science and innovation, a role we’ve played for more than a century.  The Trump administration’s endless attacks on research funding put that position of preeminence at risk. 🧵

Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳

A very hot three-day stretch is anticipated in California’s Central Valley from Friday through Sunday. Most locations will be about 5 to 7 degrees shy of all-time record high temperatures, but a few cities may be within 2 to 4 degrees.

Dangerous heat will roast California’s Central Valley this weekend

The Sacramento Valley, Central Valley and San Joaquin Valley will be extraordinarily hot this weekend as a mammoth high-pressure system sits over the West.

sfchronicle.com

ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->

Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 16h ago

Fed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.

You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-...

A very difficult night and demoralising for air defenders in Kyiv. With no defensive missiles, the take down rate of Russia's missiles was 0% 24 ballistic (inc N Korean) and 4 Onyx missiles. All 28 hit the capital. Of 115 drones, 98 were stopped = 85.2% #SaveUkraine

Minneapolis just now

"Now that they’re in the park, all we can really do is document all of the damage." @bigbendsentinel.bsky.social bigbendsentinel.com/2026/08/04/m...

More questions than answers as contractors descend upon Big Bend National Park

Terlingua Tensions are high in South Brewster County as federal contractor Southwest Valley Construction, a subsidiary of Nebraska-based Kiewit, moved heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park on Tu...

bigbendsentinel.com

The White House is keeping its new AI review framework under wraps, fueling concerns across the industry. Companies say they don't know enough about the voluntary review process to decide whether to opt in. www.semafor.com/article/08/0...

White House’s AI framework close-hold fuels industry concerns

The Trump administration told a handful of tech firms that it will not publicly release its new framework for voluntary government reviews of advanced AI models.

semafor.com

The big change here that I think puts a stake in the heart of the Sentiment The AIDS Memorial Quilt was in 1985, with over 100k names on it. In 2026 we're moving towards a once weekly pill that is almost totally effective at suppressing the virus.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

My architecture column today. "Built in 1973, St. Mark AME Zion Church is one of the finest works of pioneering Black architect Wendell Campbell’s distinguished 50-year career."

National Trust grant provides preservation hope for modernist East Chicago church

The $150,000 award will help St. Mark A.M.E. Zion Church's congregation create a plan to preserve the unique 53-year-old structure designed by the late Black Chicago architect Wendell Campbell.

chicago.suntimes.com

Best way to use purpleair.com map: click on the gear icon at upper left and choose "US EPA" in the "Apply Conversion" setting, or else readings will be too high. Also uncheck the box "show inside" to avoid seeing monitors located indoors, which have a black circle around the colored dot on the map.

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

Newsom signed AB 179, calling California's old system "designed not to build." It consolidates financing and cuts impact fees, estimated to save $60,000–$70,000 per subsidized home. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/n...

Newsom signs affordable housing bill in Oakland

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a housing bill that will change how the state finances and delivers new affordable housing units.

nbcbayarea.com

Palestinian olive oil importers struggle with drought, tariffs, and settler violence to bring their product to Chicago. Purchasing West Bank oil enables Palestinian Americans to support friends and relatives, but also to maintain intangible connections to home. chicagoreader.com/food/food-dr...

Palestinian American olive oil importers in Chicago are struggling

Palestinian olive oil importers contend with drought, tariffs, and settler violence to bring their product to Chicago.

chicagoreader.com

I saw one of his pieces at the Palm Springs Art Museum and it was fabulous

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterday

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

people are answering this with a bunch of serious shit like "treatments for HIV" and "no indoor smoking" and "ozone layer" and while I respect all that, I would just like to contribute: makeup shades are much better than even 20 years ago.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 14h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

A tree sit is on to save an ancient cottonwood from border wall destruction My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

theguardian.com

L.A. County’s first elected CEO will have more constituents than the vast majority of US governors. 2028 is a long way off, but obsessive L.A. politicos are already following the sharp-elbowed shadow race for a seat that’s essentially the mayor of Southern California lamaterial.com/p/la-county-...

Who’s Running for L.A. County CEO in 2028?

The race for Los Angeles County’s first elected CEO is already stirring, with Lindsey Horvath, Eric Garcetti and others potentially in the mix.

lamaterial.com

ICYMI: “The devastation stretches for more than a kilometre along the northwest shore of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, house after house reduced to scorched and twisted metal and grey dust.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/bc... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire

‘Devastation’: Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire

The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.

ctvnews.ca

A dear friend recently described her sexuality as “unfortunately attracted to my apex predator” and that one’s gonna stick with me for a while.

How often are flights not shown on flight radar? Cuz definitely just had a loud low helicopter flyover that didn’t show up. I think this is the 2nd in the last 30 days Just curious

A reminder Trump beat his wife Marla Maples in the 1990s to the point ABC news correspondent Steve Fox had to publicly intervene.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

An oil spill from a sanctioned tanker off Oman is expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and spreading far out to sea.

Oil spill from grounded tanker off Oman expands sharply, satellite images show

An oil spill from a sanctioned tanker off Oman is expanding dramatically, reaching shorelines and spreading far out to sea.

bit.ly

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...