🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
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Formerly citizen at large in the wild spaces of the U.S.A. and now a full-time Mainer. Author. www.russlinton.com
As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you: Please help us stop this. Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses. We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems. People are dying.
I think the problem here is the orange dude finally got to the very top, no guardrails, and all he knows to do is play the victim because he's really just a weak, loathsome creature. And its finally showing cause he has zero real excuses. apnews.com/article/trum...
No evidence? No problem. Trump pushes ahead on false claims that Reflecting Pool was vandalized
Jeanine Pirro this week found out there’s a trade-off between loyalty to President Donald Trump and being loyal to reality.
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Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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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Measles, screw worm, butthole covid and now ... black lung. We made it, didn't we? The Gilded Age. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...
Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick
Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.
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Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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The only way to use the toilet safely and without fear is to bring one with you wherever you go. Buy a portable AMERICAN bathroom now.
Sounds bad, might be worse - Iran could be acting as a proxy for China, building a map of vulnerabilities and exploits. We should waste more defensive missiles over a patch of sand thousands of miles away, yeah? www.axios.com/2026/08/04/w...
The number of states targeted in cyberattacks on water systems has jumped to 12
This appears to be the broadest known coordinated cyber campaigns against U.S. municipal water systems.
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"For the past 18 months, we the people have allowed the highest levels of the executive branch of the federal government to violate our constitution and their oath to it with impunity" — Major Jason Watson, USAF
El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
We're putting an electronic leash on a black migrant workforce and giving a wink and a nod to employers that the administration does not view them as people with constitutional rights. What could possibly go wrong? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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NOTE: The lawyer/law firm that represented Trump in his Capital One money laundering lawsuit is the same lawyer Judge Williams referred to the bar for disciplinary action in the bogus Trump IRS lawsuit that resulted in the slush fund and tax immunity.
*Yeah, it's, uh, mighty toasty *Are trans people responsible? Maybe it was vaccinations
Suresh describes this as a literal religious mania. In the 500+ employee businesses Suresh studied, the only people who were promoted - or even spared from being fired - were people who professed "religious declarations of faith" about "the transformative power of AI." 23/
South Portland man sues U.S. government, claiming violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights
South Portland man sues U.S. government, claiming violations of his First and Fourth Amendment rights
Robert Peck claims 2 federal immigration agents threatened him when he tried to follow them on Jan. 22. He has added the federal government to the suit.
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Don't make empty threats. Stop participating in the occupation. www.npr.org/2026/06/29/n...
Michigan governor threatens to pull troops from D.C. if used for Trump task force
Michigan Gov. Whitmer is one of four Democrats who sent their states' National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. ahead of America 250 celebrations in recent weeks, amid President Trump's ongoing — and ...
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He has the government -using our tax dollars- buy stakes in 30 companies. The beginnings of collective ownership. Now he's demanding price controls for his command economy. The right's nascent Red Scare is aleeady in the White House... www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Trump accuses oil companies of ‘making too much money’ from his war on Iran
US president hits out at ExxonMobil and Chevron, saying they should ‘give some of that back to the public’
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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
"One is accused of telling people to get guns in January." That's a crime now? Really want to see a lawyer take them to task about how this doesn't square with the right's 2A fetishizing... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Hardly anything new. Back when he was such an amazing businessman, most banks wouldnt work with him because a slew of bankruptcies and defaults. www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Capital One says it closed Trump Organization accounts over money-laundering concerns
The bank is asking a judge to permanently dismiss a lawsuit from Trump-affiliated businesses, arguing a monthslong internal review — not the Jan. 6 riot — explains why hundreds of accounts were shut d...
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We're watching, real time, an 80 year old be treated like a spoiled brat. His whole damn miserable life, a silver spoon. A mediocre manchild convinced by others of his greatness facing mortality like a desperate pharoah. Unbelieveable how many fall for this bullshit.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump allegedly just won his 43rd Club Championship today at one of his courses.
