Highlighting @atlpresscollective.com again: for Atlanta to be a major US city, we need this kind of reporting. Next post: their fundraiser. Tagging Atliens to sprd wd.! 1/2 @neonflag.bsky.social @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social @austinlouisray.bsky.social atlpresscollective.com/2026/07/28/f...

28,000 cameras and counting, but Atlanta's clearance rates aren't rising

Despite the eight-fold growth of surveillance cameras directly accessible by Atlanta PD officers, crime clearance rates haven't increased.

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After more than 1,000 days beneath the rubble, the remains of over 100 victims have finally been recovered and laid to rest.

More sad news from Ukraine today. Oleksiy Yukov, the leader of the Black Tulips group that bravely retrieved the bodies of soldiers - Ukrainians and Russians alike - so that their families could give them a proper burial, has died. Spending a day with Yukov was both inspiring and terrifying. RIP.

Ukrainian volunteer unit braves minefields to bring back remains of the dead

The Black Tulips take pride in helping repatriate those who gave their lives fighting for Ukraine: ‘We’re helping bring our guys – who defended their country – home to their families, to their mothers...

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For the record, AIPAC is NOT going to stop spending money in Michigan. It’s going to support Mike Rogers with as much, or more money. AIPAC is politically agnostic. It only cares about Israel,and who it can manipulate into giving our money to Israel. NO OTHER ISSUE Matters to them. NONE!

A revolution I can get behind:

smallteam@smallteam.bsky.social · 9h ago

From the AP: Brazilian capybaras enter chambers of local legislature

📷: Madrid, June 2018

THIS:

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · yesterday

Imagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"

[reposted to add alt text] An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America. By Keri Leigh Merritt Forthcoming 29 Sept 2026. @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social Preorder now: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Keri Leigh Merritt@kerileighmerritt.bsky.social · 2d ago

So grateful for this fantastic Booklist review for An Inconvenient Woman! “Historian Merritt’s insightful, engaging narrative effortlessly folds in family anecdotes and excerpts…This well-documented and perceptive tribute aptly humanizes a visionary and fearless woman.”😍😍😍

i think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

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Over the weekend, a premature fetus was recovered from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike killed its pregnant mother. In another strike, 4 people were killed in their car.

Domingo Geronimo Mattle / @realurbanartistry paints subjects as if they’re turned around in famous paintings: #AGoodPlace

I dare anyone to come up with a worse album cover than this.

Kibble avalanche caught on camera. Victim refuses to be rescued. #Cat #Cats #Catsofbluesky #Caturday #LifuX

Possibly the greatest single male athletic performance of all time Original post

Featured story: Thousands of children ages 10 to 12 whose lives were upended by around 8,000 arrests or criminal citations made in 168 Texas public school districts from the 2021-22 through 2024-25 school years, an investigation by the Observer has found.

In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10

A groundbreaking data analysis shows how districts across the state are arresting and citing children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age…

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I'll always stand up and fight for workers and hold employers accountable when they cheat New Yorkers out of their pay.

Denny's franchise owners to pay workers $440,000 in back wages under settlement

An investigation by the Attorney General's Office found that more than 1,900 Denny's workers did not receive the extra pay they were owed for long shifts, known as "spread of hours" pay, as required b...

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don’t read the story below, which is bad. instead read my story about the prairieland defendants—three of whom have been my friends for years: hotel-florida.ghost.io/the-seeds-of...

The Seeds of Prairieland: Sentencing in the Prairieland Case

The first time I met Savanna, Liz, and Ines, they gave me seeds for my garden. On the day Liz and Savanna were each sentenced to 50 years in prison, I held those makeshift seed packets in my hand and ...

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Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."

Judge to feds: what did u do w/reporter's phones after Iran? DOJ att.: “You explain how this is done, and the individuals who we are trying to get information from are able to ‘beat it.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @aclu.org @rcfp.org @pressfreedom.bsky.social @europeanjournalists.org

US reporter fighting back after border patrol seized his cellphones

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts

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People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

Judge orders Feds to sa what they did w. reporter’s phones after seizing them on his return fm Iran: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @fbajak.bsky.social @eff.org @thegrayzonenews.bsky.social

US reporter fighting back after border patrol seized his cell phones

Max Blumenthal says he was singled out at airport after Trump ally Laura Loomer targeted him in online posts

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Even before USAID was dissolved, US pharmaceutical companies like Gilead had left much of Latin America out of generic agreements that make long-acting PReP affordable. They justify this by claiming that countries like Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are “high middle income.”

Johanna Fernandez, RIP! 😭💔

Just a reminder that we have never—not once, zero times—seen any data to support an “8,000%” increase assaults and threats to ICE officers. We have more evidence of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster than we do this claim.

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d ago

The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

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4/ Sit with that for a second. NLRB case files hold union strategy notes, witness statements, and internal company data from employers fighting their own workers. DOGE, run by a man whose companies were named in those files, had broad access to that exact system.