This is craaaazy. And they all just stand there.
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"
Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago“If we reduce the complaints, we reduce the discrimination”
Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · 23h agoArmy ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2
ok how many GOP members of congress are secretly dying/dead? this is getting out of hand
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago😳 Rep. Pete Stauber indicates there's something gravely wrong with Tom Emmer's health: "You have no idea what Congressman Emmer is dealing with right now. If you did, you would've never made that comment. He's fighting for his damn life today!"
More than 70 years after the kidnapping, torture and lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi, a major new photography exhibit asks how the world would be different “If Emmett Till Lived.” If Till had lived, he would be just over 85 years old today.
New Exhibit Imagines Emmett Till’s Life If He Had Come Home Alive
The exhibit comes as the Trump administration escalates attacks on DEI and censors how history is publicly presented.
truthout.org
Probably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
@GottaLaff@gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d agoABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...
Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November
County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.
fortworthreport.org
Max Miller has a documented history of violence against women dating back to high school. Read this article from 2021. web.archive.org/web/20211105...
And this came after the groom had allegedly abused one of the president's aides, Stephanie Grisham?
Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 3d agoTo the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.
The US government granted a permit to build a 211-mile road through Alaskan wilderness. In exchange, it gets a stake in a mining company. This is how the Trump administration is re-writing the rules of business. Read more: bloom.bg/3RBNlHv 📷: Emily Sullivan for Bloomberg Businessweek
If the $1.776b slush fund and Trump tax immunity deal are really dead, then why bother to appeal, the judges decision in Trump v IRS that ruled they were dead?
Two of the images I’ll never be able to get out of my mind follow. There is one person who should be hauled in front of a committee, and it’s not Dr. Fauci www.newyorker.com/news/our-loc...
The Transformation of Hart Island
The coronavirus is permanently changing the role of New York City’s public burial ground.
newyorker.com
The Fauci hearing was a disgrace. Here are some reminders of how it really went down in 2020. Never forget.
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
ICE literally went into a national forest and arrested people who were swimming, etc. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/n...
ICE agents target NC’s Pisgah National Forest and make multiple arrests, feds say
Immigration and Customs Enforcement extends its reach to western North Carolina’s wilderness areas and makes 13 arrests in Pisgah National Forest, feds say.
charlotteobserver.com
This is unreal.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.From @theathleticfc.bsky.social: FIFA has announced plans to sell a large minority stake in the World Cup. Under the plan, FIFA’s total development funding would top $10 billion over the next four years. Unsurprisingly, the idea is the brainchild of FIFA president Gianni Infantino.
Are we comfortably numb with police violence? The brutal cop killing of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisc. sparked local protest but only muted outrage on the national level. Despite falling crime, cops gun down more Americans than ever Where's the outrage? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/core...
Corey Ruiz police killing reveals an America numb to violence | Will Bunch
Police killings like the death of Madison’s Corey Ruiz, caught on gruesome video, are rising, but public outrage is not.
inquirer.com
The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: You're talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? TRUMP: I won't respond to that question. Who are you with? Q: The New York Times TRUMP: I figured. The failing New York Times.
Is there a org doing a deep dive on AI data center “cost-saving” claims? Cause we need to be able to respond with solid, factual information to communities facing these Centers. Perhaps @americanprogress.bsky.social?
Craig R. Brittain@craigbrittain.com · 2w agoThis is Chris Womack (net worth $58 million, annual salary $9 million) - CEO of Southern Company which owns Georgia Power and Alabama Power, which are currently seizing people's homes and offices using Eminent Domain to build AI data centers on their land. And look, he's MAGA.
I’m betting Trump can’t spell communism. But this guy gets detained in the crackdown on “the worst of the worst” the “killers and rapists,” the “communist terrorists.” There’s no integrity in this Administration. It’s not just that their principles are odious. They really have no principles.
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2w agoHuman rights lawyer Wu Shaoping barely escaped arrest in his native China in 2019. The anti-communist Christian convert applied for asylum, made it to Pa. - doing it all the right way But in Trump's wretched America, the gulag is one traffic stop away My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/wu-s...
“The new party line is to associate Communists with every crime, every offense. Create a sense of Communist threat to justify a right-wing crackdown. Old playbook used with coups and Fascist takeovers." www.huffpost.com/entry/ruth-b...
Authoritarianism Expert Lays Bare Trump’s New Propaganda Trick
It’s “not subtle,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat.
huffpost.com
Bluesky knew the strait of Hormuz, Graham Platner, and AIPAC democrats were all cooked months before the experts did. Meanwhile Twitter was convinced Spencer Pratt would win and the Odyssey would bomb. Which site is the not-real-life echo chamber again?
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w agoextremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus
So the U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where the State Department is now warning Americans about traveling...anywhere. "The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution." travel.state.gov/en/internati...
travel.state.gov
