Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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Monsters

NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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RFK Jr. Cooking Show Features Easy Weeknight Meals Using Ingredients Already In Own Body https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-cooking-show-features-easy-weeknight-meals-using-ingredients-already-in-own-body/

This is why there are no good cops. If you’re a good cop, they’ll punish you for it.

People with high incomes are not often the best people. Even when they are not actively evil, the use of their high incomes shape the community around their wants and results in changes that are often against the wishes of those who have long lived there

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."

"If I slow down to think of the sheer magnitude of the evil ... I cower at home under the covers, exhausted and weepy and thoroughly overwhelmed."

The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org · 2w ago

America’s 3,000-plus county jails hold people awaiting their day in court or serving short sentences. They receive far less scrutiny than state and federal prisons. And sheriffs rule them with little accountability.

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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"[E]xacerbating the vicious cycle of sending people to jail who have no place to sleep but on our streets is nothing but an exercise in profound cruelty ... Under this regime the only outcomes are lives fraught with misery and the promise of an early grave."

Prism@prismreports.org · 7d ago

Mayor Eileen Higgins should veto change to Miami encampment ban that could worsen homelessness, advocates say. The mayor has until Aug. 3 to either sign or veto changes that would make it easier for police to arrest people for sleeping in public spaces, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.

ACAB describes a system in which anyone working as police or security will ultimately commit human rights violations by following orders. The only good cops are the ones who refuse these orders and thus are no longer cops

Forbes@forbes.com · last wk.

ICE arrests at airports are up in recent months as details emerge about an agreement with TSA to share travelers’ personal data.

Economists saw that study that babies learn more quickly when surprised by counterintuitive information and made so many counterintuitive findings that it broke society. All the baby brains out there constantly claiming that their bad policy is good actually get too much attention

If you appreciate journalism by humans who are willing to make phone calls I have one request: please sign up for my newsletter. There are no paywalls. popular.info

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

This is a great example of how over-policing creates petit tyrants. People who cannot abide by any challenge to their authority and must punish the most minor procedural rule-breaking

404 Media@404media.co · last wk.

Police arrested a teacher for clapping during a city council meeting last week. They went to the meeting of Emporia, Kansas City Commission to speak out against a proposed hyperscale data center that would sit on 1,000 acres of rural land. @mjgault.bsky.social reports www.404media.co/person-oppos...

1. American taxpayers are spending $2 BILLION every year providing Medicaid benefits to hundreds of thousands of employees of Amazon and Walmart, a new analysis by Popular Information reveals.

Gin Blossoms new hit: Hey Jimothy

Philanthropy is a racket for the capitalist class "Exploring the relationship between foundations’ CEO salaries (which count toward a foundation’s payout requirement) and their annual grantmaking can shed light on how resources are distributed within these organizations."

How does grantmaker CEO compensation compare with grantmaking?

Candid insights | Explore the relationship between foundations’ CEO compensation and their annual grantmaking by type, tenure, gender, and race to learn how resources are distributed within these orga...

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I'm sure everything being gambling will have no negative side effects.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2w ago

Man, don't partner with gambling sites. Come on.

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Pretty crazy my spouse has been working a new job for almost half a year and has 3 sick days to use

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Lina Khan documented this years ago (maybe in 2017?). Amazon causes prices to go up across the internet due to their monopoly power. Their prices are often the lowest because they force sellers to not discount products on other sites.

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 2w ago

An electric ice-cream maker was listed at just $17.99 at Amazon and Best Buy. Then it became unavailable at Best Buy, and more than tripled in price to $59.99 at Amazon. Here’s how it happened… 🧵

Reading Seeing Like a State and the intro and first chapter really nail the problem with so much of economics and policymaking in general. Narrow questions are the easiest to answer so tend to get the most attention and data. When people don't fit neatly into a box they are omitted.

A natural outcome when the only guaranteed mass public housing built in USA over the last 40 years have been prisons.

Join me in doing X vs You all need to do X.

U.S. Suffers Additional Casualties In War It Won Last Week

Harsh reality under neoliberalism.

Been seeing this book get a lot of attention recently and rightly so. Facebook (now Meta) is the perfect example of how power corrupts and how building a large business requires that corruption. I will also note that the author comes across terribly in it. She was complicit in so much harm...

James Barr@jamesbarr.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is extraordinary. You can see why they’ve tried to gag her and why, every single time the gag gets mentioned, she sells a few thousand more copies

Kudos to Adam Gabbatt. This article gets better every paragraph. What a joy to read. Happy Monday everyone "“The statue is not cursed. The statue is blessed,” he said, in spite of all available evidence"

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buy

Once again... bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Matthew Yglesias believes in nothing. He's a soulless husk of a human being who puts his finger in the air to determine what position he'll take on any given issue. It's precisely that kind of valueless political posturing that voters often reject.

Entering my economistbashingmaxxing era Working on the confidence, credentials, and time to bash them in peer-review too