Heads up. Milei introduced his Thiel-aligned “Super RIGI bill” in an op-ed, “opening with “praise for the Dutch East India Company.” As noted by others, the Dutch East India Company was granted a “commercial monopoly, its own army, currency & legal system, & the power to declare war.” 7/31/26 … 1/

it would not help Trump for the media to call attention to this so they don't (because they like Trump and want to help him). It's not a big story to them like Biden saying "million" when he meant "billion" was

Micah@rincewind.run · 4d ago

the president of the united states regularly goes on incredibly embarrassing unhinged posting sprees full of AI slop and somehow the entire political system just reacts like the This Is Fine dog

ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight

Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody

A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...

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We are in a dark place.

John E. Sonntag@sonntag54.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Mr. Trump dismissed that assessment in a freewheeling cabinet meeting on Friday, saying: 'I don’t think so. I think Minnesota is behind it,' adding, 'I think the governor’s behind it. I don’t think there was an Iranian cyberattack.'" www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Independent car dealerships got special protections from competition in the early 20th century, when automobiles were a novelty.

There are some lessons Democrats can learn from Republicans. For instance: It's useful to help your friends and hurt your enemies. When there's a bad policy that hangs on forever from inertia, the political virtues of helping friends and hurting enemies makes change a high priority.

The President of the United States is selling six figure subscriptions to Truth Social that will give users advanced access to his posts so they can profit off insider knowledge. There are so many necessary reforms but aggressive anti-corruption is essential. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption

Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month

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I keep going back to that anonymous grand juror in the Chicago Six thing who asked the government prosecutor "do you have unlimited tries?" There has to be a cost—a real, tangible, personally-felt cost—to throwing horseshit cases on people to stroke Trump's ego, or they won't stop doing it.

Bradley P. Moss@bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4d ago

The judge should drag him into court to say this on the record. Pirro and her staff were subject to ethics rules and contempt restrictions. They couldn’t suborn perjury. Burgum and Trump are posting on social media. They can lie with impunity there.

We're currently passing time waiting for the tornado by discussing Kurt Vonnegut's GHQ boardgame, which was never published in his lifetime. The game was finally released in 2024 and we have a copy in the closet.

Had a giant Irish Brigade flag in my room in high school. Like someone very cool and interesting.

𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏈🍻💀@danmynrd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Yeah Adam, a bunch of Scots, Germans and Irishmen that had been in this country for 12 minutes dickstomped your lazy ass slavocracy. Get over it.

judge should make bugman turn over the video

Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d ago

Oh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)

Had to get down low and peer through the undergrowth for these! #photography #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Fungi #WoodlandPhotography

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Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 4d ago

I was today years old when I learned that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand attends a bible study group that teaches that Jewish people killed Jesus, which has been used to justify antisemitism and associated violence against us Jews.

À quoi sert la droite ? à lutter contre le bien commun pour le bénéfice de quelques uns. C'est vraiment la plus simple des règles politiques. Je ne sais pas s'il y a un domaine où ça n'est pas vrai.

Mediapart@mediapart.fr · 4d ago

Après 5 mois de travaux et d’auditions, la droite sénatoriale s’est mobilisée pour bloquer la publication d’un rapport sur la hausse de la souffrance psychique au travail. Oppositions et professionnels ne décolèrent pas face à cette décision. Par @anassiddou.bsky.social et @anttonrouget.bsky.social

This sounded like a bit of hyperbole, and then I saw the video… www.cnn.com/2026/08/01/p...

This is a beat for beat retread of when lawmakers got dogwalked by web devs and then again by app developers for doing things that would have otherwise been unlawful if not for being on the computer.

When an extremely wealthy individual backs anti rights that threaten to sue you, and you then write a grovelling apology to those groups (thereby legitimising their bad faith attack), is that freedom of speech?

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I don't actually think this is true at all?

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 5d ago

"social construct" = "thing I don't like" is a case where the vulgar usage of something isn't actually that different from its academic deployment

Yeah so NYT asked me ~2 yrs ago to write an op-ed about how the Colorado is running dry, & what we should do to keep this exact thing from happening. I said "There's only one real answer. Bill farmers by how much water they use. Duh." NYT editorial staff freaked tf out & cancelled the piece.

Elias Thorne@truebe.horse · 6d ago

saw an article today about an az politician saying how great it was that we're now in emergency drought conditions because the farmers get automatic bailouts and I feel like way more Professional Rural Understanders just breeze by sentences like that. www.paysonroundup.com/news/arizona...

the thing is that they like Trump and want to help him. Covering him like he's a lame duck at worst-ever levels of unpopularity who has no control over his own party in Congress — how they would cover every previous President in this situation — wouldn't help him so they don't do that.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d ago

What a horribly bad framing. The president can’t get his own party to vote for his own nominee that they confirmed for the next-rung-lower role just last year! That’s not a “threat,” you incompetent people.

are satanic mortgage rates good for the economy

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

*US MORTGAGE RATES RISE TO 6.66%, HIGHEST LEVEL IN A YEAR

I still don't understand the purpose of this conspiracy theory exactly. Why would everyone be trying to cover up that the virus (which was clearly not bioengineered) was loosed through a lab leak as opposed to spread in wet markets?

Ernie Piper@whoisernie.bsky.social · 7d ago

Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea"

FIFA selling the World Cup to private equity led by Jared Kushner turns out to be less popular than anticipated.

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

oh boy *UEFA MEMBERS AGREE TO BOYCOTT WORLD CUP

UEFA has just unanimously decided to boycott both men's and women's World Cups over FIFA's attempt to sell the global game to private equity. Damn.

La chute de l'article du Monde qui lui est dédié est grandiose.

Les trésors syntaxiques que déploie la presse pour laisser deviner les raisons réelles de la présence et de l'action de l'agente russe en France sans risquer un procès pour atteinte à la vie privée sont tout simplement héroïques.

Allez je partage, pour le plaisir de distiller un peu de Monsieur X sur la toile : www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Affaire Maurice Dejean : l'infiltration soviétique en France dans les années 60

Derrière cette affaire, une fantastique entreprise de pénétration du KGB, qui a redoublé lors de l'arrivée au pouvoir du général de Gaulle. Moscou voyait d'un bon œil l'homme du 18 juin prendre les rê...

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