Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

Tillis and Cornyn’s acceptance of a loophole-filled deal with Trump and Blanche reminds us that every prominent Republican politician who has stuck with Trump over the last decade is a traitor.

Republicans Let Trump Keep Unparalleled Benefit: I.R.S. Immunity (Gift Article)

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

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COMMENTARY: Crickets: Four fatal shootings by the Memphis Safe Task Force and almost no national news coverage. At the root lie Tennessee politicians who approve of the task force, writes Editor @jhollymc.bsky.social.

Crickets: Four fatal shootings by Memphis Task Force and little coverage from national news • Tennessee Lookout

Four men have been shot and killed in Memphis by agents with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Does anyone outside the city care?

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Trumps - Don, Don Jr, & Eric - don't have to pay their taxes Blanche gets AG Only their Jan 6 foot soldiers are left empty handed

Amanda Carpenter@amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 2d ago

The slush fund was always a decoy of sorts. They tossed their henchmen under the bus (who could see that coming) to lock down the tax immunity. The entire deal was corrupt. Both ends. Start to finish. This is how Blanche does the job. Not reason to confirm him; it's proof he should be rejected.

In the past two years, the number of traffic stops by Chicago police each month has dropped significantly. But CPD has continued to conduct hundreds of thousands of off-the-books traffic stops, in violation of Illinois law.

Chicago Police Promised to 'Fix' Secret Traffic Stops. A Year Later, the Problem Has Only Gotten Worse. - Bolts

As Chicago’s top cop steps down, police are making fewer traffic stops. But our new investigation finds half of stops are still not being reported to oversight agencies, despite a state law mandating disclosure.

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Reproductive freedom means every person gets to decide what’s right for their own body. No exceptions.

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

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FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

Comey reveals details on Trump DOJ's seashells probe: Feds got warrants by misleading a judge about interviews with "Person 1," an "estranged" Comey associate with an axe to grind, per the filing. This person "only" understood "86" to be restaurant slang—until listening to Giuliani's podcast.

This can’t be reformed. It’s not a training issue. The agents who murdered Pretti and Good, and who shot Sosa-Celis have been agents for more than 8 years. I’ll be voting for candidates who support dismantling DHS and abolishing ICE.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.

We received a firsthand report of ICE taking someone from downtown Chicago this morning during a routine immigration check-in at 101 W. Ida B Wells. In addition to street and court arrests, ICE has been taking people from immigration check-in appointments since before Operation Midway Blitz.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · last yr.

It was a frantic day for Chicagoans yesterday as ICE operations in the city escalated. Agents abducted a longtime organizer at an ICE check-in site, and separated families inside immigration court. City council members and activists tried to halt the vans. CPD was there:

‘The media can cover Trump without sane-washing, without “both-sidesing,” and without normalizing him’ @sulliview.bsky.social on the shameful WHCD margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-predic...

The predictable disgrace of the White House Correspondents Dinner

And why I reject every specious argument that encourages the media to keep normalizing Trump

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GRAHAM: “We’ve done it — I almost cried. We’ve been pushing this for years… Trump loves blowing stuff up.” WSJ releases a new doc showing dead Republican Senator Lindsey Graham laughing that he helped Bibi convince Trump to attack Iran and get us into another deadly costly war

forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablaze

Officials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.

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What is everyone listening to? I’ll start. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Wx...

Anti-Flag - The Press Corpse (Official Video)

YouTube video by AntiFlagVEVO

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It’s Saturday night so who is up for some bourbon and editing the archives? We currently have 138 anti-democratic issues that we are researching and thousands we haven’t gotten to yet. If you know of anything that belongs in our archives reply or see standingrecord.com/submit/

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Six assault‑on‑officer cases tied to HSI Special Agent Richard Berger have been dismissed, with judges saying some affidavits don't match the evidence.

6 assault-on-officer cases, all tied to the same HSI agent's claims, have been dismissed

Six assault‑on‑officer cases tied to HSI Special Agent Richard Berger have been dismissed, with judges saying some affidavits don't match the evidence.

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Dude had Gatorade powder in his van because he takes care of his people and these ghouls tried to frame him up. Just disgusting.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w ago

Big news here. After Salgado Araujo was killed by an ICE agent, *someone* leaked that a search warrant for the van showed FBI thought they might have seen drug baggies in it. The family said it was drink powder. Apparently the substance was tested and the family was correct.

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the fuck is wrong with this guy

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

“.. the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list .. because their deaths occurred after President Trump declared a cease-fire ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/u...

News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trump’s top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government: WSJ NYT AP Reuters CNN NBC ABC CBS The Guardian Semafor Washington Post Fox News New York Post BBC Newsweek MS NOW

A nuclear deal for the Saudis. A media blackout for Kushner’s corruption.

On Wednesday, the Trump administration signed a 30-year nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia that paves the way for the kingdom to enrich its own uranium.

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Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

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It's the 50th day of Trump's illegal defiance of a Congressional concurrent resolution to end military hostilities in Iran and withdraw U.S. forces. The United States is in a constitutional crisis and our legacy media is complicit. Support independent media.

Interesting reporting from @brianbeutler.bsky.social. They'll stop at nothing to make voting harder. www.offmessage.net/p/donald-tru...

Donald Trump Doesn't Want Nursing Home Residents To Vote

He's trying to intimidate election officials, and people who run and oversee long-term care facilities, out of helping infirm voters cast their ballots. And that's only the beginning.

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