The same US attorneys have a pretty different tone when dealing with people they accuse of crimes. If a public rebuke is all it takes to deter future criminality, why do we even have prisons?

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h ago

Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed. From @schuba.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...

The Convention Against Torture is US law

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 10h ago

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Horns, plus cross as tbullet point besides “faith.” This straight-up fascist antisemitism. It’s been noted this won’t get 1/10 attention as non-antisemitic statements by Mamdani. That’s part Islamophobia, & part media market. Very few who aren’t from there or very online know what state this is.

Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · yesterday

Depicting Jewish people with horns is a centuries-old, dehumanizing, antisemitic trope. Democratic Gov nominee Phil Weiser is outspoken about his mother’s birth in a Nazi concentration camp, his family members killed in the Holocaust, and the threat posed by antisemitism today.

Boat Strikes: "A careful review of the available evidence suggests that the United States has killed individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” writes @kaine.senate.gov. “They are murder victims.”

Kaine Presses President on Military Strikes in Caribbean and Pacific, Calls for Accountability | U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), a member of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees, sent a letter to...

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Jfc

If all the people who dragged me for subscribing to the NYT would go subscribe to Assigned Media, Evan would be all set

Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · yesterday

I have to really hustle for memberships through the end of this year because I took a big risk in changing platforms away from Squarespace. The effort is chugging along so far, but we're not out of the woods. I made the change to assure Assigned's long term viability, but in the short term eeeeek!

Computer says "Don't have a job? Well, why would we give you one?"

Steven Bodzin, concerned living being@stevenbodzin.bsky.social · yesterday

The Fed doesn't investigate it but I suspect AI hiring assistants are responsible for this change.

The Fed doesn't investigate it but I suspect AI hiring assistants are responsible for this change.

Steven Bodzin, concerned living being@stevenbodzin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Check it out, Bloodless Quants find that this economy is indeed different for job-seekers. Numbers show people who are out of work -- or out of the workforce -- really aren't able to find a job. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

Jason kindly provides all the key findings of his Bloomberg article. He got Sen Ron Wyden's report on how major banks failed to file SARs on Epstein and Leon Black; Black denied wrongdoing. Read the thread please.

Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · yesterday

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: Deutsche Bank failed to promptly report to US authorities more than $250M in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein, including funds used to pay women in Russia & other Eastern European countries, according to a new report from @wyden.senate.gov 🎁 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of the bank’s SARs identified 1,140 wire transfers between 2013 and 2019 totaling $147 million. (Deutsche Bank became Epstein’s bank after he was dropped by JPMorgan in 2013 — roughly five years after his initial guilty plea to child-prostitution charges in Florida.)

Among things in this document, about Peru, that can end badly: "The Department of Commerce will convene U.S. industry partners in Lima in September to discuss opportunities for U.S. technology providers under President Fujimori’s plans to construct nine new prisons."

Opportunities for Growth in U.S.-Peru Relations - United States Department of State

The Presidential Delegation to the July 28 inauguration of President Fujimori, led by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, signals U.S. commitment to Peru and highlights the strength of our p...

state.gov

Check it out, Bloodless Quants find that this economy is indeed different for job-seekers. Numbers show people who are out of work -- or out of the workforce -- really aren't able to find a job. www.frbsf.org/research-and...

how many real people have experienced actual, documented harm at the hands of Trans people playing sports? ok, how many children will be victimized by mandatory genital inspections, because you know the number isn't zero? tell me again, who are you trying to protect here??

Some people spend way too much time thinking about teenage girls' "reproductive anatomy"

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Every flagpole in NYC is required to fly the POW MIA flag but after 47,000 deaths and basically everyone being traumatized, there isn't a major COVID monument anywhere in the city

Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3d ago

It continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.

No one outside the US really wants the dollar to remain the global reserve currency, but there’s no plausible replacement either.

You know what’s cool? Sharing links to the original story instead of just a fucking screencap.

What is this about? Did you guess “internment of political opponents in labor camps”? Good guess! But actually it’s about a couple hundred edge cases in administering a property tax increase impacting fewer than 0.5% of NYC households that was enacted by the NYS Legislature

Does anybody have any questions about my reporting on Congressman Max Miller and the allegations he faces?

It used to be that every supermarket has someone outside encouraging you not to buy grapes or Nestle. Now the Harry Potter flagship store in NYC never has anyone outside teaching people about where the proceeds from that store are going.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 6d ago

In my humble brown opinion, the trans rights movement urgently needs to draw from decolonial movements which have successfully toppled entire regimes by creating radical organizations that encourage and publicize targeted boycotts of specific companies that fund and enable genocide.

43% of women surveyed said they experienced unwelcome sexual advances or harassment from a colleague or editor (6% of men). I don’t think most of our industry understands how much impact this has on newsgathering. A predator makes editorial decisions like a predator. www.ire.org/2026/07/30/f...

Female investigative journalists still face sexual harassment and bias, new study finds

By Katrina Michalak, Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Arizona State University Erin Orr was at the inception of her journalism career in the 1990s, working the business and real estate beat...

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I think if actual conservatives (or even just reactionary centrists) were here in greater numbers there wouldn't be as much energy behind harassment campaigns against Will Stancil and folks like that.

From @kaine.senate.gov's remarks about the Trump administration's lethal, illegal boat strikes, delivered on the Senate floor yesterday. (In this part of the Congressional Record: www.congress.gov/congressiona...)

fyi, this account posts photos of the full earth several times a day. if you need some perspective on your life and your place in the universe, this is cheaper than psylocibin

DSCOVR:EPIC@dscovr-epic.bot.country · 6d ago

08:09 on Tuesday July 28th, over the Arabian Sea

They don’t have to post pro-Russia propaganda. All they have to do is get us all fighting each other. Also a lot of that Dem dumping, ratfucker stuff could be some of them. I usually attribute most of it to Murc’s Law, but it could be a foreign op too. They did it in 2016.

It is pretty shocking to see Republicans trying to bring COVID back into the conversation. Trump already lost one election over it. Why would they be bringing it back up?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

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J6ers, where are they now? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...