Not the ChEmIcAlS!!!! 🙄 Idk if Diane studied the periodic table in school, but jfc if MAHA isn't dumb as shit. Table salt & Water are fucking chemicals, Diane.

Diane@dianesf.bsky.social · 5h ago

In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.

President Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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1000%

gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.

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Texas Prisoners Are Baking to Death. The State Keeps Saying No to AC.

A 90-year-old with hypertension could still fail to qualify for a bed with AC.

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+1000 and: the front-row seat to the utter uselessness of police that is trying to get a restraining order……

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

The reflecting pool saga is interesting because it crystallizes how capricious fascism is: Making stuff up (ie lying), criminalizing people, and acting with impunity.

So much gratitude to the organizers still pushing back on the concentration camp/warehouses.

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And to my cis followers, if you can afford to, please donate. Or just share! Esse House do some fantastic work!

game recognize game.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 15h ago

Q: Any comment on Rep. Max Miller? TRUMP: I hope he's able to work it out. I feel badly for him.

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

Hot take Police Chief should be an elected position

The $$$ this saves a family. It's life-changing

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 21h ago

Today, for the first time in New York City history, 2,000 two year-olds received offers for FREE 2-K. A big step for those who take baby steps. A big step towards a City every New Yorker can afford.

For my own sanity, I spent a week (maybe more) not consuming news as I usually do. Then I see this: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/c.... 🇺🇸 taking $$ away from 🚼, kids, 👵🧓🏻, pregnant ppl, low income ppl & on & on. All so that Trump can impulse buy $7B worth of shit we don't need. The fuck are we doing?

Trump’s Fixation on Arctic Ships Led to Billions in No-Bid Contracts

The president decided to buy 11 polar icebreakers after a game of golf with Finland’s president. Experts say it’s far from clear the United States needs so many.

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Jelani Cobb is the Dean... This is how you use power for good!

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2d ago

Columbia hires former 60 Minutes correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley, fired by CBS News after challenging Bari Weiss, to help train the next generation of journalists

As the U.S. war on Iran enters its sixth month with no tactical end in sight, U.S. Central Command is reportedly crowdsourcing unorthodox methods to end the war. “We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” CENTCOM wrote in a group email.

Report: Trump Admin Is “Crowdsourcing” Ideas for Ending War in Iran

“We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,” CENTCOM wrote in a group email.

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None of the other protesters should see ANY kind of jail time and most are going away for LIFE. Making it about the protesters is essentially victim blaming, this is about the government prosecutors because they are going to keep doing this over and over for less and less severe crimes.

The #Prairieland case near Dallas became DOJ's new war on #antifa. Prosecutors spun up an elaborate tale of an “Antifa Cell” with a campaign of terror—where fireworks became “conspiracy to use” explosives, and radical literature shows criminal intent.

How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa

“We are not terrorists.”

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It would probably help things a lot if people wrapped their heads around the fact that "moderate influencers" like Matty Yglesias make a living reassuring wealthy people they aren't becoming increasingly right wing while preparing moderate middle class voters to become increasingly right wing.

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Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 5d ago

"Their actions ensured that they struggled to achieve sympathetic media coverage outside of a few left-wing outlets, struggled to attract material or legal support (the ACLU, for instance, refused to touch the case), and failed to achieve positive virality in the larger culture."

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

NEW: California schools will soon be able to easily search the names of bus drivers, janitors and other school support staff to see if they have substantiated claims of misconduct. Why hasn’t a similar system for teachers succeeded? with @kqednews.kqed.org

For the Second Time, Lawmakers Failed to Fix California’s Warning System for Teacher Misconduct

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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

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We've gotta make the Monorail Simpsons episode required viewing for every city councilor in the country. Every single thing he says here is a lie. A Potemkin Village Imaginarium.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.

Bold choice to remind everyone what a nightmare Covid was as we struggle to find SAFE SALAD GREENS, two bags of groceries are over $100, and RFK Jr decides to meet this moment by launching a cooking show.

Weird way to say capitalism is imposed on us and we hate it

Stan Stewart (muz4now)@muz4now.com · last wk.

Modern Life May Be Overloading the Human Brain, New Research Suggests #MentalHealth

Approximately 1 out of 3 women will experience sexual and/or physical abuse in their lifetime and you still have men claiming that allegations must be false because there are too many of them. It’s actually the opposite. The vast majority allegations will never become public

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How Did This Video Fool 3 Million People?!

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