Stolen valor from Mr. Bone Spurs. An insult to every man and woman who has worn the uniform.
Sense & Synthesis
@sensynthesis.bsky.social
Liberal Texan. Appalled American. Pro-democracy mom, strategist, nerd, advocate, writer, accidental science communicator. No Kings. Good must prevail. Public health is a group project. We’re all vulnerable to disability. Ish shouldn’t be this hard.
Shades of John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness: I think @brennancenter.org found the deep state: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res... The error rates/dangerous false positives on these technologies must be through the roof).
DHS’s Domestic Surveillance, Data Collection, and Analytics Tools
Fueled by a budget boom, the Department of Homeland Security is expanding its technological arsenal, with little oversight or transparency around how these tools are used.
brennancenter.org
So the federal government is going to pay goons to go probably assault people who have *already been deported* and shake them down for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in economies where a thousand dollars is a small fortune?
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayNEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.
There’s no way this doesn’t turn into an extensive extortion and murder racket. The people these stateside contractors will pay to track down targets are the same ones refugees were fleeing in the first place.
Deported Guatemalan couple found dead with 1-year-old daughter alive beside them
Nixon Giovanni Perez and Glendy Marisol Gonzalez were discovered with their hands tied behind their backs in a sugarcane field
independent.co.uk
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayNEW: CBP is shopping for a contractor to track down people the US has deported to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala and collect unpaid immigration fines — debts that can top $1.8 million a person.
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...
The Ellison Credibility Crisis
The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...
status.news
America’s concentration camps must be shut down now They are sites of horror: torture, rampant spread of infectious diseases, inadequate sanitation, hygiene, & medical care, & a mounting death toll Just as “better training of guards” wasn’t the answer to Auschwitz, you can’t “reform” these camps
Shawn Connery @shawnconnery.bsky.social · 2d agoImmigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Lopez-Cornejo. The federal New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
One graph to shut RFK Jr. up. The best argument against his nonsense is data. Here it is... insidemedicine.substack.com/p/one-graph-...
One graph to shut RFK Jr. up.
The best argument against his nonsense is data. Here it is...
insidemedicine.substack.com
the next president has a duty to the country to prove that “tax immunity” is a completely made up thing that doesnt exist. they need to do this through intense prosecution to signal to future leaders what will happen if they try this
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
A Palestinian doctor held in an Israeli prison describes neglect and humiliation | Amira Hass www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A Palestinian doctor held in an Israeli prison describes neglect and humiliation
Dr. Mazen Rantisi, 71, who is held in an incarceration facility for security detainees, described violence by guards, severe overcrowding, squalid hygiene conditions and food unfit to eat. The Prison ...
haaretz.com
Modern warfare doesn't always begin with explosions. Sometimes it begins with someone quietly proving they can reach the controls. That's exactly why I wrote today's piece. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.
The Tate Brothers' Should Be The Trumps' Second Epstein Scandal
The truth is much worse than most people realize, and they knew a lot of it.
offmessage.net
It’s a strategic truism in politics that if you can’t seize the political “center,” where a lot of unaffiliated voters live, you try to push the opposition out of the center by labeling them as extremist. (cont.) 🧵 nymag.com/intelligence...
“.. President Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton could not have imagined the economy that we would have created. It is the envy of the world." - Bessent, 7/31/26
Microwaved Mel Gibson: “…But Dana, you probably don’t understand this because you’re not a scientist.” Bash: “Well you’re not, either.” The arrogance of this condescending, utterly unqualified buffoon is astounding. Good for Dana Bash for pushing back. 👍
A month after Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps calling for Trump and Vance’s impeachment, D.C. prosecutors have declined to pursue the criminal charge against him. He still faces action from the Air Force. Stay critical. Stay informed.
Stop calling the $1.8 billion an “anti-weaponization fund.” Call it what it is: A bribe to proven domestic terrorists to strike again if needed.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d agoPresident Trump said on Saturday that he would revive a proposal for a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund that would compensate his supporters if the Senate fails to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general, reigniting a dispute over the settlement.
Politicians have no business dabbling in healthcare. This death was avoidable. Official report: this otherwise healthy 28-year-old should not have died. She needed of a routine procedure called a dilation & curettage, or D&C. But GA had made the procedure a felony. www.propublica.org/article/geor...
Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
propublica.org
Important read!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d agoSacramento is for sale, and that includes Newsom, who is hungry for billionaire donors to fund his presidential campaign. My very 1st story about the Network State positioned California Forever as a contest between billionaire power and people power. Truth time. newrepublic.com/article/1777...
BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit
Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...
bloomberg.com
“The war, which Mr. Trump has been trying to bring to a diplomatic conclusion since April, is now threatening to grow bigger at the very moment the United States wants to move past it.” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
U.S. Strikes Iran Again, as Trump Encounters a More Determined Adversary in Widened War (Gift Article)
The United States is again exchanging strikes with Iran, just days after the president appeared to reject plans to escalate.
nytimes.com
@govandybeshear.bsky.social: "Right now we have one less vote for the Save Act, one less vote for a replacement of a conservative Justice, one less vote for the war in Iran... the concern in a special election is most likely someone who is more loyal to Trump than McConnell would fill that seat."
Blanche as AG nominee is all about Trump putting his own interests first (as always), but still good on Bloomberg for this headline.
Steven T. Dennis@steventdennis.bsky.social · 6d agoWhy Trump’s AG pick is in trouble: Trump is prioritizing immunity for him and his family from prosecution over getting his AG confirmed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Texas and Florida, deep seats of Christofascism
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 5d agoCAIR, a Muslim nonprofit, gets a terrorism label in Florida and Texas
My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.
Senate Finance Committee R’s including Texas’ lame duck Senator Cornyn. He’s not cool with slush fund, but apparently doesn’t mind corrupt Trump family cheating taxpayers
TomB.@tbern.bsky.social · 5d ago“Tax evasion for them, taxes and tariffs for you…” would seem to be a useful campaign theme…
😳 “A law to sell [parts of] Argentina to the ultra-rich of the world *** On Aug 6, the Senate plans to vote on Milei's new bill, the Private Property Inviolability Law. If approved, tech tycoons like Peter Thiel will be able to keep the water, energy & climate of Patagonia” By F. Gomez, 7/31/26… 1/
Gov. Abbott and his allies have long touted cheap electricity, no corporate income taxes, low state regulation, and weak local governments to attract businesses to TX. The governor’s 6-month ban on new data centers conveniently ends after the election but before the Legislature can pass new laws.
A hatred of data centers is uniting Texans against corporate tax breaks
Texans unite like never before against data centers and their tax exemptions, writes columnist Chris Tomlinson.
houstonchronicle.com