Pamela Marrache 🦋 🦋 🦋
@pamelamarrache.bsky.social
Democracy dies in silence. Resist loudly! Avid reader, poet. Humanist, nature lover, animal lover, voter & resister. Chronic pain warrior. Identifies as She/Her & Try Me
Breaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
Trump describes the Washington Post's reporting about the US's depleted missile stockpile as "treasonous"
Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
Nato to ‘urgently’ get air defences for Ukraine, as Zelenskyy warns of surge in Russian missile production
After Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic missile fired by Russia on Wednesday, the president urged allies to increase supplies of Patriot interceptors Nato is working to get Ukraine the air defences it “urgently needs”, its secretary general has said, after Kyiv failed to shoot down a single Russian missile in an attack on Wednesday, and as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was seeking to significantly boost missile production ahead of winter. Speaking at a National Security and Defense Council meeting on winter resilience, the Ukrainian president did not rule out the idea that stalling missile supplies from western allies were “aimed at making Ukraine, so to speak, more willing to compromise” in peace talks with Russia. Continue reading...
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The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson sits down with Ben Wikler, author of the national bestseller THIS IS THE PLAN, to skip the hand-wringing and get straight to the blueprint. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmCV...
There's Actually a Plan to Save Democracy — Here's How
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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On current performance, it seems doubtful that this administration has the necessary expertise to negotiate a New START follow-on, even if it wanted to.
atomicbell@atomicbell.bsky.social · 5d agoNew START, the last US-Russia nuclear reduction treaty, expired 6 months ago today. It appears that absolutely nothing has been done to put guardrails back around the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world. Washington and Moscow's dereliction of duty threatens the entire planet.
The fact Ukraine is almost out of Patriot missiles is tragedy. The fact AMERICA is almost out of Patriot missiles is farce.
Olga Lautman 🇺🇦@olgalautman.bsky.social · 5d agoToday is one of those days that I feel helpless and so angry at the West. Russia is escalating its deadly missile attacks while Ukraine has barely any Patriot interceptors. Meanwhile it was just reported that NK is preparing to send a missile unit to Russia. WTF
THIS should convince you that Trump and his Lackeys have subverted the law of the land. Here’s a man that used all of his experience to save his fellow Americans and these arseholes want to crucify him. Where’s Gym Jordan? Still hasn’t fronted. Trump Pleaded 400+ Fifth’s! They BOTH must be charged!
It certainly looks like Trump’s lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Trump’s Epstein birthday card is headed for the trash bin again. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...
Florida's anti-speech domestic "terror" laws are the latest example of the state's alarming backslide on free speech and transparency, writes Bobby Block of Florida's First Amendment Foundation.
The ‘Free State of Florida’ is watching — and withholding
Domestic ‘terror’ legislation compounds Florida’s free speech backslide
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Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Cost of Trump’s Namesake Warships Likely to Rise by 50 Percent or More
President Trump’s goal of building a “golden fleet” of 15 battleships could cost $275 billion, according to a government estimate.
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The call is coming from inside the White House, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social. Trump is awarding contracts to family-connected companies, charging Secret Service agents to stay overnight at his properties, and making billions off his office. The Trump Administration's corruption is off the charts.
The White House Reflecting Pool may sound like one of the least important stories of the Trump era. But the Justice Department's failed prosecution of supposed "vandals" reveals something far more troubling: how political narratives pushed by Trump and his allies can become criminal cases.
The Small Cases Tell a Bigger Story
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🚨BREAKING: Voting advocates filed a lawsuit Tuesday, asking a state court to quickly put a redistricting referendum on the November ballot as Missouri Republicans inch closer to thwarting voters’ efforts to block gerrymandered new voting maps. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voting advocates sue after redistricting referendum rejected
Missouri voters have fought for nearly a year to put the gerrymander to a statewide referendum vote in November.
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"If Vought is supplying the ideological vision, Mark Paoletta is supplying the legal architecture to carry it out." Terrifying. slate.com/news-and-pol...
How the Legal Mastermind of Trump’s Most Damaging Policies Stays Anonymous
Mark Paoletta is not a household name.
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That time a stray cat snuck into the Leningrad Zoo in St. Petersburg and became best friends with a lynx. Original post
El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
www.samsung-news.com/articles/32K... Everyone and their brothers and sisters know it to be true. And this is another reason we cannot trust our own government to follow thru with anything. Just like investigating Epstien.
All Right, Mississippi Free Press. Good for you and good for these college students and this nonprofit.
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 4d agoDays after Nick Judin reported that Mississippi had suddenly denied scholarships to 170 Mississippi foster students, a nonprofit has pledged $800k and colleges are working to ensure their education isn't disrupted. Lawmakers are also vowing to fix it. This is what impactful journalism looks like.
Winning by a landslide Dr. Abdul El-Sayed: “I look in front of me and I see all kinds of colors, all kinds of stories, coming together around the idea that we can have nice things, we just can’t do it alone, that to have them, we’re going to need to reach across… www.democracynow.org/2026/8/5/hea...
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan’s Democratic Senate Primary
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed has wonMichigan’s closely watched Democratic Senate race over Congresswoman Haley Stevens. NBC first called the race, followed by the Associated Press and CNN. Mike Rogers ran unopp...
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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!🥳
Major Epstein Update: CBS Tried to Kill Epstein Interview—I Share the Truth, New Mexico Takes Trump to Court, Truth Commission Issues Report aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-epst...
Major Epstein Update: CBS Tried to Kill Epstein Interview—I Share the Truth, New Mexico Takes Trump to Court, Truth Commission Issues Report
Good evening everyone.
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CORRECTION: The CIA has assembled a not-so-secret task force to pressure Cuba into adopting the economic, political, and leadership changes Senile Satan couldn’t get through diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Prepare for an insane explosion of Islamophobia between now and November, from the same people on the right (and center!) who pretend to be exercised by the rise in anti-Jewish bigotry. The hate will be off the charts and make the anti-Zohran campaign look tame. Mark my words.
He'll be all right. I think centrists need to realize that constantly sucking up to the status quo only bolsters fascists. You want change? You vote for those who WILL fight for change, not the middlers.
