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"On Wednesday morning, Tom Smith, a small-business owner from Flint, was surprised to learn he had soundly defeated Amir Hassan, a Navy veteran whom Mr. Trump endorsed."
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 4h agoThis article is a horrifying and hilarious look into a Republican electorate full of bigots and idiots. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
One officer was arrested on Wednesday on charges of looking up the license plate movement of her partner’s ex-wife.
At least 10 Mooresville cops under investigation over Flock violations, chief says
One officer was arrested on Wednesday on charges of looking up the license plate movement of her partner’s ex-wife.
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If an android running an emulation of Picard's personality after he dies is legitimately John Luc Picard, why isn't an android running an emulation of Korby's personality after he dies legitimately Roger Korby?
There is no capitulation to bigotry whatsoever that will prevent Republican attack ads, no matter who Democrats run or what Democrats do. Republicans will call Democrats communists who want to replace white Christians no matter what. Stand for decency and human rights. There's no real downside.
Jay D Johnson@refusenik.bsky.social · 9h agoHere's a question for @robertdownen.bsky.social I wonder how Islamophobic Texas Republicans will attempt to use Abdul El-Sayed in their attack ads against Talarico and the Democratic Party in general? The same really applies nationwide. It's why establishment Dems solidly backed Stevens.
Police in Wisconsin used Flock to track a man who traveled to Michigan, where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisc., where it is illegal They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed and he eventually was arrested
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
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NEW: DHS wants to pay private contractors bounties to hunt down people who already left the country, photograph their homes, and demand money. It told them leaving the US would wipe out fines. It was the pitch for self-deporting. Experts tell WIRED this is a pointless escalation of tactics.
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
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think a lot about how even in '12 after going "nah i don't think i will" about a bunch of things people wanted from him, obama still had enough sense to go "fucking private equity, am i right? these rich motherfuckers, am i right? and romney's one of them" instead of "you owe me your vote, peasants"
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · 18h agoif establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
Senator is actually one of the jobs where your views on foreign policy matter most and it's a genuinely incredible thing that the Democratic candidate for Michigan is someone who wants to end aid to Israel, Egypt and the UAE and not a mindless drone who wanted to give Netanyahu another $20B.
The thing about proposing guardrails for U.S. police agencies is that — as body cameras, civilian oversight boards, efforts to ban lethal holds, and more have shown — police don't really _do_ guardrails.
evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 12h agoYou cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
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The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 10h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
IMO, Thomas is the "real" Riker, but the implications of that are so horrible that everyone backs away from it and never thinks about it again.
Avery Edison@averyedison.com · 11h agoirrationally angry at how stupid everyone is in a clip from the episode with the two rikers. “their dna is the same, how can this be???” I don’t know, they just described the same teleporter incident? have you thought *at all* about the evil tech you use every day???
she's deployed this strategy again and again, only deviating where her vote was a deciding one, a la Kavanaugh
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · yesterdaySusan Collins announcing she'll vote against a controversial nominee is basically the moment it becomes clear that nominee will be confirmed. It means Thune has enough votes to confirm, and thus, Collins gets a pass to look independent.
Amen. Look askance at anyone who uses the word as a title or self-applied label.
Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · yesterdayalso, I would never call myself an ally sincerely like that. being a human who cares about all other humans is enough. let other people call you positive things, if you earn it.
Has North Korea raised any public complaint about the Seal Team 6 murders?
A gentle observation: Some of the same older Black voters in Detroit who are being shaded for not supporting Abdul El-Sayed in the primary sent Rashida Tlaib to the House. And keep sending her there. 🤯 Yes, her district encompasses all of Dearborn *now,* but not in 2018. All politics is local.
It’s funny because we do this thing where Black voters are pathologized, literally, every election cycle.
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · yesterdaySo El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
“Fund the police” was very cute, very clever, until your popularity with Black male voters dropped and the police unions endorsed the guy who launched January 6 anyway
IMO this is a quintessential Stancilism: a genuine fact that evades casual or narrow observation (upfront cost does not reliably correlate positively with durability or negatively with cost of ownership), exaggerated and oversimplified to an absolute (disproportionate upfront cost of goods...
katie@supermathskid.bsky.social · 2d agookay now he's gone too far
For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.
If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
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...
Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · 2d ago
"The right of powerful people to do as they please is only useful if it’s free of consequences, and the only way to assure that is if no one knows what they’re doing."
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · yesterdaytapping the sign
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
Really? Nobody has any idea what the money was really for? Nobody contemplated the incredibly obvious possibility that corporations lobbying the government might be very eager to give millions of dollars to a Cabinet Secretary using a fig leaf of plausible deniability to pretend it wasn’t a bribe?
Forbes@forbes.com · 2d agoSummer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.
