NEW: The Union Station Redevelopment Corp. just announced five new businesses they say will open at the historic train station in the coming months: •Andy’s Pizza  •Housebar •Capo Deli •Joe & The Juice  •Springbone Kitchen

Sometimes hacking the system means creating tools and resources to protect your rights today. That includes EFF's Privacy Badger, Certbot, and Surveillance Self-Defense guide—all thanks to EFF member support. You can join this community today! eff.org/vv

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Texas A&M professors sue, alleging 'censorship' in race, gender ideology ban

Professors alleged that the policy led to the removal of materials, including Kevin Kruse's "White Flight" and the Oscar-winning film "Moonlight."

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“America’s Voice analyzed 12 months of federal price data ending in June and found costs are rising fastest for foods whose production relies heavily on immigrant labor.” www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/t...

Trump's deportation agenda raised prices, contracted local economies, immigration group says

A report released Wednesday by the immigration advocacy group America's Voice argues President Trump's immigration policy is hurting the economy.

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Missouri voters defeated the bid by Republicans to kill direct democracy in a blowout — 80% rejected the measure, with huge turnout for a primary boltsmag.org/missouri-rej...

Missourians Reject Measure That Threatened to Kill Citizen-Led Ballot Initiatives - Bolts

Missourians on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted against a measure to restrict direct democracy, while state officials are trying to block even more citizen-led reforms from the November ballot.

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About 350,000 Haitians in the US have lost their legal status in light of a US Supreme Court decision that allows the Trump administration to gut the Temporary Protected Status program. No other state will feel the repercussions of the loss of Haitian TPS recipients more than Florida.

Florida’s nursing homes are bracing for life without Haitian TPS workers

The Supreme Court ended their legal status. Patients will pay the price.

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Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

wired.com

Evidently this is STILL the hot new Dem talking point from the Appeasement Class. Giving violent racist murderers more training and minor "reform" to make them more effective violent racist murderers doesn't track at all for me. Burn ICE & Homeland down, dance on the ashes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

Klobuchar responds: "None of my opponents on this stage condemned what ICE did. Not a word. Two innocent people were killed, shot in the back. We had many people arrested when they weren't supposed to be arrested, and we need reform to ICE."

A few of the ways the Trump administration’s actions are hurting people in Appalachia: ➡️ Propping up coal-fired power plants ➡️ Weakening environmental regulations for fossil fuel power plants ➡️ Stopping new renewable energy from coming online ➡️ Making energy more expensive

The Trump-Vance administration is pressing the gas pedal on fossil fuels and throwing up roadblocks for renewables. Congress should not enable it.

Given the Trump-Vance administration’s focus on fossil fuels, it’s clear that the projects expedited by changing the permitting process are virtually guaranteed to be for dirty energy.

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1/ “I’m glad I had that training. It is incredibly valuable. I hope other students can learn news literary from a young age." - Mirudulaa Yamini, who won NLP's Gwen Ifill Student of the Year award at age 13 🧪 Now a sophomore in college, she uses news literacy in research for her engineering major 👇🏾

News literacy skills help college student excel

College student Mirudulaa Suginathan Yamini uses the news literacy skills she acquired in middle school to navigate her coursework and biomedical engineering research as well as her personal life.

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"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

404media.co

Unfortunately there is this wave of malaise and alienation washing over people when it comes to the most basic freedoms. All the while, authoritarians exploit our distraction & apathy with power grabs that further weaken freedom. A brutal period right now which we must resist with solidarity.

John Sands@iohn.bsky.social · 6h ago

A new survey from @knightfoundation.org and @ssrsresearch.bsky.social reveals a disquieting decline in how free Americans feel to use the freedoms protected by the #FirstAmendment without government interference or punishment. 🧵

Many pediatricians no longer trust the CDC on vaccines since the Trump administration replaced the agency’s vaccine advisory board. So they’re sending patients to alternative sources. @nepublicmedia.bsky.social

Pediatricians and Health Departments Sidestep Trump's CDC on Vaccine Guidance - KFF Health News

When the Trump administration upended years of vaccine advice, it left pediatricians in a quandary. Many say they can no longer direct families to the CDC as a trusted source of information. So some are creating their own.

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Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead. Read more: interc.pt/4fCNeoh

Power is only power if you use it.

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 2w ago

Congress has far more power over the Supreme Court than most people realize — and that includes the ability to set term limits for the justices. bit.ly/4wkTlDK

NEW: A series of issues in Apple’s web browser engine — the tech underlying all browsers on iOS — means that Apple’s iCloud Private Relay tool, which is supposed to hide a user’s IP address, in many cases doesn’t actually work. In fact, its exposing users' real IP addresses.

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon

War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon

Mission accomplished

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The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games. www.wired.com/story/no-one...

No One Can Afford to Make ‘Myst’ Games Anymore

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest sequel couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games.

wired.com

Power is only power if you use it.

Brennan Center@brennancenter.org · 2w ago

Congress has far more power over the Supreme Court than most people realize — and that includes the ability to set term limits for the justices. bit.ly/4wkTlDK

The lawsuit says King George County officials allowed students to skin squirrels in another group and told LGBTQ+ students to disguise their gay-straight alliance as a “Kindness Club,” before blocking it altogether.

Love this middle finger to the Missouri GOP 🖕🖕🖕

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 18h ago

🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...

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Well, I mean, it was nonsense

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16h ago

I spoke with 10 CNNers about David Ellison's essay in The NYT, in which he tried to convince the public he'll be a good steward of CNN. Suffice to say, no one at the network is buying what he's selling. “We all have eyes and ears and see what’s happening at CBS." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Fueled by local organizing and anger over ICE activity, voters flipped this California city to a liberal majority this spring. An immigrant rights advocate says ICE raids escalated voters' frustrations. "That is fueling people to the polls."

How Immigrant Organizing Flipped Nixon’s Hometown - Bolts

The California city of Whittier swung to Democrats this spring, spurred by ICE raids and by anger toward election rules that long dampened turnout among Latinos and kept them out of city government.

boltsmag.org

Top athletes have loud voices that would be unable to be ignored if — huge "if" — they choose to use them to protect others.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w ago

The Women's Tennis Association is introducing one-off mandatory gene-testing for all players effective from Tuesday – a requirement to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

There is no facet of reality that these sociopaths aren't fully delusional about. Just...none.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Canada brought back the House Hippo PSAs to fight AI slop. Almost 30 years ago, the House Hippo was used to fight misinformation.

House hippo in the age of AI

YouTube video by MediaSmarts | HabiloMédias

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I love this town. Coming home is always a delight.

This law firm was just awarded a $150 million/year contract to lead representation of unaccompanied minors through immigration proceedings. Seems really bad!

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 20h ago

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/