This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 15h ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Big update: The Trump admin just issued its final rule banning CHIP and Medicaid from paying for gender-affirming care for minors. The rule will take effect in 6 months, and from then allows a 6-month tapering period for patients already on hormone therapy. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

Public Inspection: Medicaid Program: Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children

Medicaid Program: Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children

federalregister.gov

Madison Pauly@msjpauly.bsky.social · 4w ago

However, a second rule—targeting trans kids in low-income families—is still on track to be finalized. That one will ban CHIP and Medicaid from paying for puberty blockers and hormone therapy (as well as surgery) to treat gender dysphoria in minors.

if you are or know a pregnancy expert who could talk to me about Emily Oster's pregnancy work, hit me up here or by email (ifbookscouldkill on gmail). or ignore me, that's your prerogative also.

A Virginia lawsuit argued that Southern states’ felony disenfranchisement rules are violating the conditions of their readmission to Congress after the Civil War. “We should be seeing more lawsuits on this,” says a constitutional law scholar.

A Voting Rights Promise, Betrayed for 156 Years - Bolts

After the Civil War, Congress readmitted Southern states on the condition they not expand felony disenfranchisement—but they quickly ignored the restriction. It has finally caught up with one state, with a federal court ruling against Virginia and reviving the Reconstruction-era promise.

boltsmag.org

How one Maryland county defeated an Amazon data center

How one Maryland county defeated an Amazon data center

The company abandoned its data center plan last week after Calvert County voters ousted three members of their Republican commission.

buff.ly

SCOOP: Trump is ending federal support for NOAA's Arctic Report Card, a major annual update shedding light on the effect climate change has on the Arctic. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

POLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change report

The authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region.

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A frankly insane story about how a Trump-linked American drilling company is setting up equipment in Greenland to make exploratory boreholes, *despite* being denied permission by the Greenlandic government. So much for sovereignty, I guess. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill

Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling

theguardian.com

Haitians in Ohio are being told to show up at ICE offices with little notice, forced to choose to be detained or wear an ankle monitor for 24/7 surveillance. Yesterday in Blue Ash, Ohio Indivisibles and hundreds of local advocates gathered outside the DHS facility to support their neighbors.

ICYMI — last week a Rep from Wisconsin and a Senator from Montana introduced a bill to prohibit DC from requiring a person to wear a protective helmet to operate or ride on a motorcycle. Hard-hitting legislation that ppl are clamoring for coming out of Congress these days. 🙄

NEW: Internal National Park Service records obtained by MeidasTouch’s Scott MacFarlane reveal more than $400 MILLION has been steered toward Trump’s White House and D.C. projects, while funding for major national parks is being slashed.

Trump Turns National Parks into Piggybank

Cutbacks and Setbacks Hammer America's National Parks in the Shadow of Trump's Vanity Projects

meidasnews.com

At the turn of this century, most prisoners in Maine didn’t know they still had the right to vote, many formerly incarcerated organizers say. It wasn’t until 2004 that many discovered their rights, through their own research into the state constitution.

Maine Prisoners Organize to Protect Their Rare Right to Vote - Bolts

Maine is one of the only places in the country where prisoners keep their right to vote. But logistical barriers to voting still contribute to their larger exclusion from the political process.

boltsmag.org

Eight months ago, This American Life sent reporters from Chicago to cover the protests and counter-protests outside the ICE facility in Portland. They chose Karlyn Borsynko to be their local guide to the world of Antifa. What they failed to mention is that KB self-identifies as a fascist.

Even before Haitian immigrants in Ohio officially lost their Temporary Protected Status, Homeland Security required dozens of them to report to immigration appointments and accept ankle monitors, according to their attorneys and local advocates ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/08/10/r...

Some Haitians targeted for ankle monitors by ICE as they face threat of mass deportation • Ohio Capital Journal

Even before Haitian immigrants in Ohio officially lost their Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security required dozens of them to report to immigration appointments and accept…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

"Marco" is a pesticide sprayer. "I wear protective gear but I'm still concerned. I don’t know how much longer I can do this work. I worry about my health due to pesticide exposure. This year I lost my medical. I worry about becoming ill or needing medical attention." #WeFeedYou

You don’t have to like this guy‘s politics to recognize that everyone who has insisted for decades that The Issues are almost all too complicated and too nuanced to explain to voters let alone address was lying to you.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2d ago

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

just unspeakably bleak/dark www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/hundre...

Hundreds rally at site were Haitians required to check-in, get monitors after end of TPS

Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal immigration office Sunday morning, Aug. 9, to show support for Haitian immigrants from Springfield who were called to report for immigration check-ins.

springfieldnewssun.com

RECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.

Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

Taylor Farms on Sunday said it was recalling more than ​a dozen prepared food items containing jalapeños, including ‌salsas and guacamole, from retailers over concerns about potential salmonella conta...

reuters.com

There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday. n.pr/4hjizO1

Crews battle wildfires in western U.S. and Canada

There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday.

n.pr

Overuse of antibiotics in farm animals is an ongoing issue; this research could be really interesting, especially if it can scale. (But...the US eats a LOT of chicken.)

Alternative Medicine for Chickens

As antimicrobial resistance rises in humans, researchers are looking for ways to fix the problem back where it starts: in the hen house.

ambrook.com

"For the last year and a half, DoorDash has been silent as their delivery drivers have been hunted and even killed in the streets by ICE and other federal police. Now, the company has come out in vocal support of H.R. 9720, a blatant attack on communities here in Washington DC." 🚫 DELETE DOORDASH

Delete DoorDash: our demands

Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.

deletedoordash.com

Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed a project in Cajun Country that promised millions in local tax revenue. The same methods are being employed nationwide (via @thelensnola.bsky.social) https://bit.ly/4ctLRWP

#OtD 9 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of civilians. General Dwight D. Eisenhower said it "was completely unnecessary… as a measure to save American lives." More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

AOC on freezing her eggs: "In this political environment where this administration is denying reproductive care to women across the country, from abortion rights to the ability to carry out a healthy pregnancy, I think it's important for us as leaders to have these conversations and normalize them"

In case you don't follow basketball, Royce White was only rostered on an NBA team for a single season. He was used as a substitute in just three games, scoring a total of zero points. He made the stat lines by fouling twice. This is an NBA washout trying desperately to cash in and find some fame.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Royce White on Fox News: "I'm just having a blast in my feminine area. I never thought I was a woman. I've always trusted science and thought I was a man, but after further review, a strong look at my personal preferences, it would appear I am indeed sometimes identifying as a transgender woman"

the Instagram FYP is a remarkable piece of design in how it takes a wide variety of art, landscapes, people, animals, and so much more and puts them all together in a way that makes entire realms of human experience feel like a bunch of crap on a shelf at Marshalls

Everyone is forgetting the cardinal conservative principle of “it’s illegal not to like me” bsky.app/profile/gale...

Gale Sinatra@galesinatra.bsky.social · 4d ago

“I lived through the years of peak woke, and it was a McCarthyite experience. I lived with the blue-state governance that doctrinaire progressivism encouraged, and it yielded civic and educational collapse” That’s what’s happening now. I’m so confused. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

NEW: Iran Names Its Price for Reopening Hormuz — And It Goes Far Beyond the Strait www.onestnetwork.com/iran-names-i...

Iran Names Its Price for Reopening Hormuz — And It Goes Far Beyond the Strait

Tehran is demanding sanctions relief, frozen assets, war compensation and changes to U.S. regional policy. The fight over Hormuz is becoming a negotiation over the postwar balance of power in the Midd...

onestnetwork.com