JFC. Try to listen & not feel rage. (No paywall.) “The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.” Who the f**k keeps voting for these ppl—for hungry children & MFers playing w rockets? AZ’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/p...

Arizona’s Food Stamp Crisis Is Coming for the Rest of the U.S. (Gift Article)

The number of people who receive nutrition assistance in Arizona has dropped significantly in a matter of months.

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And so it begins: the white-knuckle ride waiting for results from two of the most important primaries in Dem Party history, contests for party’s soul.

Your NYC moment of evening zen, Broadway & 96th…

Excellent all around—great piece on under-radar problem, marvelous lawyering & leveraging of tech, another disturbing window on dearth of legal resources where they’re needed.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

Tens of millions of Americans have criminal records that can be barriers to employment. An AI-powered app is helping those eligible to expunge their records at a pace not seen before. n.pr/4w8asHM

Every Yankee fan right now.

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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 4d ago

By adding the two-time reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, the Dodgers are poised to enter October in pursuit of a three-peat with one of the best pitching rotations in MLB history. on.wsj.com/3TpdeLh

Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

Fetterman cld run for Braddock, PA dog-catcher, against a dog, & the dog wld win.

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · 6d ago

[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody

Just listing those ppl & companies paying tens of millions—much of it tax deductible—to buy WH influence is TLDR. We are an utterly corrupt banana republic that ironically struts around the world lecturing on governance. Have a read, you’ll need an airsick bag.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 6d ago

“the boss wants this money" from @wsj.com, a deep dive into the extortion operation run out of the White House gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

1) El-Sayed shld campaign like he's down 20. 2) It's morally obscene that org that openly & actively supports genocide & killing 20K children is not treated as total pariah & instead gives $30M to candidate otherwise unelectable. 3) We need to overhaul entire corrupt Dem leadership, b******s.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 6d ago

With five days left and two polls showing him up by 10+ points, Abdul El Sayed has a new ad with AOC being pushed today

"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.

Absolutely hilarious clown show. Cast of Animal House is now running DOJ.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · last wk.

The DOJ spoke to former mafia boss Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano in an attempt to prove that the “86” in Comey’s post was an allusion to murder. But Gravano’s interview didn’t help their case. trib.al/jJIwx2Y

If this doesn’t choke you up… (No paywall.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...

The Story Behind the New York Police Academy’s New Name (Gift Article)

The officer honored on the facade of the training center in Queens moved New York City in the 1980s with his message of forgiveness.

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1/2 Because it’s getting lost in the noise, reminder that even longstanding Israeli apologist Theodor Meron supported ICC issuing arrest warrant for Netanyahu. Meron is venerated in Israeli legal circles, publicly defended occupation (while privately advising it was illegal),

The Charles Ponzi era of US government, where every grifter is trying to get a piece of the action, none more so than the president himself. Our rule-of-law institutions have utterly failed.

Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last wk.

I stand by everything I said previously. At least with a major bank I know there is oversight, deposit insurance, and regulation for things like anti-money laundering.

Lindsey Graham finally getting his Iran war and then immediately dying really helps sell the case that this is the make a wish administration for the hell bound.

If Stevens wins, AIPAC will not “drop her like a hot potato” so much as spike the hapless spud onto the linoleum floor and then hop-skip off to GOP Rogers

Ric Fouad@ricfouad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Two numbers that shock the conscience, speak volumes abt us: •AIPAC has given *$30M* to Haley Stevens—yet Dem Establishment rallies behind her. •Iran war monumental idiocy is costing *$110B*—imagine how much daycare, elderly care, school lunches, etc this cld have bought? Sometimes I can’t even…

Two numbers that shock the conscience, speak volumes abt us: •AIPAC has given *$30M* to Haley Stevens—yet Dem Establishment rallies behind her. •Iran war monumental idiocy is costing *$110B*—imagine how much daycare, elderly care, school lunches, etc this cld have bought? Sometimes I can’t even…

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Laugh or cry? Our bought-&-paid-for pols utterly failed to regulate any tech sector or social media quasi-utility, deforming our society & putting our wellbeing in hands of EQ-stunted greedy freaks. Now they’re going to regulate AI? Pls. The next round of craven pol acts may doom us.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

Pressure is building in Washington to rein in AI, while the industry fights over who should hold the leash. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/a-ro...

Your NYC moment of zen, Friday night on UWS.

This was inevitable: ppl who care abt justice must move on. Right now, the most important tasks are: (1) assuring that the ICC stays laser-focused on pursuing justice for the Palestinian victims of Israel’s genocide; & (2) assuring that Trump’s war on the ICC does not succeed. The rest is noise.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

The International Criminal Court voted to remove the global tribunal's chief prosecutor on Friday, nearly two years after sexual misconduct allegations against him first emerged, the court's oversight body announced. n.pr/3Tj3bau

Have read millions of words on this, but TLDR bottom line—virtually ignored—is simple: Khan had intimate relations w employee, a termination offense. Most publicly traded companies wld show CEO the door: *this is ICC Chief Prosecutor,* for heaven's sake. It grieves me to say it, but he has to go.

Ryan Goodman@rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2w ago

The International Criminal Court has vital work to do. That is why the Assembly of State Parties should now remove the Prosecutor. If not, it will be further downhill for the Court, its staff morale, and global justice. This expert analysis properly frames the question before the vote.⤵️ 1/🧵

💯Magnificent. If you read nothing else today, read this @stevebloomfield.bsky.social piece on why the ICC must be preserved in the face of Trump’s appalling attacks on it.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Just as Putin and Netanyahu will live out the rest of their days knowing the threat of arrest could lie just around the corner, Trump fears this might be his fate. He cannot be allowed to escape it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hilarious: Europe *enforcing laws that protect consumers* will cause “trade tensions” with the US, where our politicians are owned by corporate predators who demand that these laws *not* be enforced & that they be allowed to openly rob consumers. This is how pathetic our circumstances have become.🤬

A marvelously crafted, very thoughtful essay on today’s sobering circumstances, with input from nearly every quarter, in their own words.

Alona Ferber@aloner.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The English government should know that this [Israeli] government is no different to Oswald Mosley. The opposition, the moderates, are like Enoch Powell” That's how Ofer Cassif, a far-left lawmaker, described Israel's governent to me /3 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

What next? Actual star chambers? The embarrassing antics of these utter buffoons are boundless…

Seamus Hughes@seamushughes.bsky.social · 3w ago

Broke some news tonight that the 30 year old federal court, the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, got its first case ever and created a hastily made website. www.courtwatch.news/p/alien-terr...

💯Remarkable piece. “This is ideological emigration. And you don't have to pity us; we're not refugees and we'll live well there [in Italy]. In Gaza and the West Bank there are refugees, and they're truly miserable."

Remarkable & provocative—I wish I had better grasp of history needed to understand context; e.g., Oppenheimer saying scientists shld stay out on letter two? Anyway, we ended war w Japan w our own horrific war crime, for which we were never judged, casting appalling die: Truman belonged at Nuremberg.

Andrew Tan@andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Leo Szilard was a Martian 👽 He and Einstein wrote a famous letter urging the United States to develop a nuclear bomb, as they thought Nazi Germany was going to do so also.

1/3 For 18 months, under Bondi & Blanche, DOJ has acted as President’s private law firm, led, in fact, by his private lawyers—ones literally *still representing him or owing him ongoing duties.* Judge Williams’ opinion dissected this unethical & unlawful arrangement in context of one particularly

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com The words of the Constitution “mean little if members of Congress do not stand up to dangerous presidential power grabs,” the editorial board writes about Todd Blanche’s impending confirmation hearing to lead the Justice Department.

The worst part? Knowing #Argentina  is deadly in scoring again now & getting the winner too with just minutes left. Mercy…

This is so rich, irony is slapping its thighs ROFL: “The Trump administration says ‘weaponizing state bar discipline’ against executive branch lawyers could chill candid legal advice.” This, from Admin that’s declared open season on lawyers who displease it.🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️