Keeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...

Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln

The aircraft carrier's long deployment in the Iran war is raising concerns that the sailors and Marines on board are facing poor conditions, low supplies and fatigue.

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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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@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

Gonna be blunt, the reason I complain about AI so much is because it's made so much extra work for me, as I'm inundated with AI slopware games that I have to sort through and filter out, if this garbage tech ceased to exist tomorrow, it would be an immediate ease of that workload.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 23h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

Fun fact that in the 60s and 70s hippie communes were founded and a big deal were made about their failure but in fact around 170 exist today including the East Wind community in Missouri which the largest it’s ever been, with 73 members sharing more than 1,000 acres. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ka...

Dark rituals? Orgies? See the reality of a hippie commune deep in Missouri’s Bible Belt

Nestled amid several dozen hilly acres in Ozark County, in what would later become Trump’s America, 16 people once banded together to help spread socialism.

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The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:

I’m old enough to remember when mask mandates were an intolerable intrusion on our freedoms.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Please stop flying your personal drones over wildfires. They can ground or collide with our firefighting aircraft, disrupting time critical firefighting and threatening people’s homes. Your photos are not worth someone’s home. If you fly, we can’t.

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK

The DOJ is increasingly charging ICE protesters with criminal conspiracy

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda.

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Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.

“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes

U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...

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As federal teen pregnancy prevention grants get cut, efforts in Ohio try to keep helping ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/28/a...

As federal teen pregnancy prevention grants get cut, efforts in Ohio try to keep helping • Ohio Capital Journal

The federal government is taking swipes at funding for teen pregnancy prevention, causing concerns in Ohio and elsewhere, but also bringing about discussion when it comes to teens who are already…

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I wholeheartedly second this!

Catherine P@cath97.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you are more worried about the "wellbeing" of a fucking data center than an actual living human being, you should be launched from a trebuchet into an active volcano.

May this find those who need it. Stay safe out there y'all.

Dani Vaughn Bea@danivaughnbea.bsky.social · 3d ago

CdA Tribe has offered space to those displaced by the fires

An autistic man aboard a flight has admitted that the squalling infant a few rows behind him is having a totally valid menty b, according to reports.

Screaming baby on plane has a point

An autistic man aboard a flight has admitted that the squalling infant a few rows behind him is having a totally valid menty b, according to reports. Onye Egbuchunam, 50, was trying to sleep on the…

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I checked the replies to the quoted post, not one gender critical terf pushed back on the homophobia. Probably because gender critical terfs are largely homophobes with a small group of gay quislings supporting them.

The TOS being so strict that they control you offsite is the problem; sites like Patreon and Kofi have offsite clauses too. The social criminalization of the suggestion that somewhere you might be doing nsfw is a problem. It's branding a person as obscene and we need consumers to stand up for us

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

Here is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.

The Continent magazine has published an investigation I carried out alongside Kenyan journo James Okong'o exposing how Rwanda's government manipulates social media - secretly paying influencers - in support of the M23 occupation of DRC. Thank you @pulitzercenter.org for your support.

"The Democratic Party brand is in the shitter because nobody actually believes that we’re gonna show up and fight for the things that we say we wanna fight for." Ahead of Tuesday's primary, we spoke to Abdul El-Sayed about AIPAC, electability, and what his race means for the party's future.

“If I prove that you can win statewide, taking on AIPAC, that is catastrophic”

Abdul El-Sayed says Tuesday’s Senate primary in Michigan is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party.

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