Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi
@sharonhelsel.bsky.social
Historian, amateur musician, reader, writer. Autistic. If you are not specific, I will not understand.
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time. From @premthakker.bsky.social Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks: zeteo.com/p/israel-has...
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
zeteo.com
Trump’s FCC is developing a measure to bar US imports of new models of Chinese datacenter devices, sources say
Trump administration reportedly drafting ban on Chinese datacenter components
theguardian.com
This was the scene earlier at the Tarrant County Commissioners Court before O’Hare kicked out all attendees and threatened mass arrests:
Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterdayIn TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:
MacFarlane: We are near the new gold-plated statues the Trump administration unveiled near Memorial Circle, Memorial Bridge, and the Lincoln Memorial. It’s really, really gold.…
I was talking to an American colleague last week about holidays and vacations. Like many Americans I have spoken with on this topic over the years, he talked about how he had weeks vacation but he never used it all. And I don't know about Germans, but brother, I use every day due to me. :)
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday"Germany is not poorer than the US. It has just chosen to cash out more of its productivity in the form of free time than the US has. The other Western European countries have made similar decisions." peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w...
The U.S. Constitution begs to differ.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
What the Iranian attack confirms is that Trump is no longer capable of operating in the real world when it dissents from the Trump as God Emperor narrative. He can't process information that dissents from the narrative. Thus he cannot lead or protect us; and we are in danger bsky.app/profile/did:...
Simon Rosenberg@simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d agoWhere is our government? Trump? DHS Secretary Mullin? Is the American homeland under attack? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim
Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show
medpagetoday.com
"What distinguished West Point is not that it claimed a monopoly on character development, but that it recognized that technical competence without moral development can become dangerous." ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social on the importance of character:
Character Is Countercultural
On virtue, politics, and public service.
lnk.thebulwark.com
I’m realizing that Miller’s video is the crisis comms equivalent of the wise guy in the horror movie who says he’s going to leave the locked room and negotiate with the velociraptor. In this case not only pretty obviously guilty but also dumb and arrogant as fuck.
1. Last week, we revealed that the New York Post published a fake cover story claiming "thousands" of 9/11 families were trying to ban Mamdani from the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero. Instead of admitting its error, the Post quietly edited the article, adding even less credible info.
American Bitcoin, the Trump family-backed miner launched last year just before the cryptocurrency tumbled from record highs, posted a third consecutive quarterly loss after a decline in the value of its holdings.
Trump Family-Linked Bitcoin Miner Posts Second-Quarter Loss
American Bitcoin Corp., the Trump family-backed miner launched last year just before the cryptocurrency tumbled from record highs, posted a third consecutive quarterly loss after a decline in the value of its holdings.
bloom.bg
How Netanyahu’s MAGA Evangelical Backers Are Grappling With Backlash Against Him talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/how-net...
How Netanyahu’s MAGA Evangelical Backers Are Grappling With Backlash Against Him
In Church, Merch, and State, Sarah Posner writes about the intersection of religion and...
talkingpointsmemo.com
“Time is not Paramount’s ally. Beginning Sept 30, the company owes Warner shareholders a $650 million ticking fee every quarter .. out of a firm with .. free cash flow of $96 million last quarter and $123 million the quarter before ..” @jeffsonnenfeld.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/08/03/p...
i follow the pattern in which his demands become more total/imperial ("don't ever talk again") as his actual power fades, walls close in
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
I've been wondering abt this for a while. Originally a court ratified this deal. That's fairly binding as a settlement. But I think that court pulled the plug on that (perhaps I misunderstood that contingent ruling). So I don't know why this would be binding on a future admin at all.
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d agoTrump’s justice department can grant him immunity from audits but I see no reasons why a subsequent administration can’t say: that was patently illegal, toss it out, and crawl all the way up his ass.
Judge Williams SPECIFICALLY said it was illegal under 26 USC 7217 for Blanche to immunize Trump on tax crimes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A lot of pretty young people seem to die in ICE custody www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/n...
Immigrant Held at Delaney Detention Center Has Died, Officials Say
The mayor of Newark identified the dead man as Edwin Jovanny Lopez Cornejo. The New Jersey center has been the focus of intense scrutiny for its treatment of detainees.
nytimes.com
good piece about how Jeff Stein of SpyTalk got a frivolous defamation suit tossed with the help of Substacks legal defense program www.spytalk.co/p/how-i-beat...
How I Beat a Trump Official's Nasty Lawsuit
Keith Bass, former head of the CIA’s Medical Office, sued me for a million bucks. Substack's Defender program came to my aid.
spytalk.co
What's revealing here is that Iran and Oman are negotiating what is essentially a shared hormuz toll ("service fee") agreement. So the US is moving pretty rapidly to treat a post-war toll system as a given. 'Come up with an agreement on tolls or we'll attack!!' In other words, a massive defeat.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · yesterdayUS President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country.
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
REVEALED: The Scope of ICE’s Surveillance of Its Online Critics
ICE’s Round-the-Clock Digital Dragnet About a month ago, it emerged from upstate...
talkingpointsmemo.com
This is what happens when voters choose Republicans whose only move is "break whatever I can't steal."
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”
The craziest fallout of the Cyclospora situation for me personally is I used to work in a microbiology lab as the one (1) parasitologist. That lab didn't even have the right gear for many of the tests they wanted me to do. Couldn't train me to run the tests right, bc nobody in the lab knew how!
Trick question. Anyone who writes is, by definition, a bad person.
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
BREAKING: Maryland Democrats voted 96-38 to pass a bill that would change the rules for lawmakers to draw the state's congressional map. If the measure is approved by the Senate and then voters, it could clear a path to dismantle the state's lone red district in time for the 2028 election.
Maryland Democrats clear first hurdle on path to redistricting
If the bill passes the Senate — and is then approved by voters in November — it would allow lawmakers to draw a new map to dismantle Maryland’s lone GOP-majority district ahead of the 2028 presidentia...
democracydocket.com
After failing to derail Mamdani and El-Sayed, the Establishment's entire focus will be to derail Francesca Hong. I hope she stays on message & doesn't let them distract her. People don't care about old tweets, they care about whether you're fighting for them & against the oligarchy & corruption.
and here I've always thought of it as the sitting of standing
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉@scumbelievable.bsky.social · last yr.crouching is the standing of sitting
Country convenes emergency meeting of ministers from Arab and Islamic world, fearing such a move could ‘trigger a religious conflict’
Jerusalem’s most important Muslim religious site facing ‘imminent’ threat of Israeli takeover, says Jordan
theguardian.com
