How many fucking "deals" with Iran is this festering dipshit gonna announce? What are we at now? 10?

Fast-moving wildfires in Spokane County, Wash., have triggered ‘Go Now’ orders for suburban and urban neighborhoods in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday afternoon.

Fast-moving wildfires threaten city of Spokane, WA; National Guard activated

kptv.com

Read "The Water Knife"

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 5d ago

The U.S. government proposes deep cuts to water supply for Arizona, California and Nevada during dry years in a new plan to operate the drought-stricken Colorado River.

if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Iran War Enters 6th Justification

The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement, according to documents obtained by a government watchdog group ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/30/r...

TSA shares passengers’ personal information with immigration enforcement, documents show • Ohio Capital Journal

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has for more than a year used personal information airline passengers provide to the Transportation Security Administration for immigration enforcement,…

ohiocapitaljournal.com

This is called a protection racket.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d ago

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. no sitting American president has ever raised these amounts for his pet projects. .. Trump has been demanding large checks .. telling executives and lobbyists that their companies should give $25 million or $50 million.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault

A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."

thehandbasket.co

“The President who was buddies with a notorious pedophile and sex trafficker has a son who is buddies with sex traffickers” seems like a big story to me idk

Salon.com@salon.com · 2w ago

The manosphere influencer has lost the president's support — but he could pose a threat to Barron.

Might have to zoom in quite a bit as I have lifted/stolen this; but I think this is potentially the best summation of all the weird strategic and hypotheticals that price signals are factoring in across crude oil. C/O @roryjohnston.bsky.social

The Trump admin has signed a landmark 30-year "123 agreement" with Saudi Arabia, granting US nuclear firms like Westinghouse exclusive access to the kingdom's energy program. But nonproliferation experts warn it opens a dangerous door. My take for @thebulletin.org. 👇🧵1/4

I made this one in 2014 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...

Weapons systems should be mandatorily named after public works projects: “After the use of 12 AGM-114 Public Library missiles, we hit the target” “Air stikes were provided through the use of the new Boston Public Transit System fighter jets.” Just so people understand what the cost is.

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

I made this one in 2014 www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...

This is a jarring visual every American should see. Trump has made $2.24 BILLION as President. Trump gets richer while you pay more for everything. Corruption like we've never seen.

How Much Money Has Trump Made as President?

See how President Trump and his family’s business empire has transformed from his first term.

nytimes.com

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...

Goldman Sachs, Citi, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan all predicted—and held to through June!—economic pressure would reopen the Strait of Hormuz by July. While Bluesky's longstanding consensus of "they have screwed up and will keep making it worse, the Strait is closed indefinitely" reigns supreme.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w ago

extremely funny to me that analysts whose entire job is to think about these possibilities are only now catching up to Bluesky Consensus

Life under a two-tier justice system. There is a real process for people to seek pardons. But its been set aside for cronies, crooks and donors

Ken Vogel@kenvogel.bsky.social · 2w ago

SCOOP: After pardoning hundreds of allies over the course of his 1st 18 months back in the White House, Trump this month quietly rejected clemency applications from nearly 6,000 people who mostly lacked connections & had been waiting in a queue at the Justice Department.

ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

ICE Quietly Arresting More People Than Ever According to Latest Data

NEW DATA ALERT 🚨 After months of data silence, ICE's new numbers show 65,765 people in immigration detention, deportations near 1,250 a day, and arrests now at 1,473 a day.

austinkocher.substack.com

my view is that we have reached the historical moment in our relationship with technology where this maxim ceases to be inspirational and increasingly reads as a dire warning

@clayrobinson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

So, just to be crystal clear, the Secretary of Defense is planning to dope the soldiers up on steroids. That's literally what he's saying.

Really loving the growing list of things that really should be reliable for health and safety and are instead being destabilized by AI

The risk of weather data sabotage is rising

Prediction markets and a move toward AI forecasting are starting to put the accuracy of weather predictions at risk. Here’s what we can do to safeguard them.

technologyreview.com

“We understand that our safety cannot be guaranteed, but we are in a uniquely vulnerable position and have the right to carry out our duties without worrying that we’ll turn a corner one day and find Brett Kavanaugh standing there in the hallway,” said Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Female Supreme Court Justices Formally Request Protection From Brett Kavanaugh

WASHINGTON—Acknowledging that the danger would be difficult to manage and impossible to eliminate altogether, the Supreme Court’s female justices nevertheless appeared before Congress this week to ask...

theonion.com

People should be prepared for this to be technically true. States audit their own “voter rolls” (registrant database) and find a few hundred ineligible registrants The sleight of hand is that when they check how many ineligible voters cast ballots that were accepted, it’s single digit numbers

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

DHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states

A statement from WIRED leadership.

The longstanding norm of treating the remedies produced by the Civil War as mere fig leaves is a big part of how we got here.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 3w ago

When Congress readmitted the South after the Civil War, it imposed conditions on how they'd treat felony disenfranchisement. States immediately disregarded this: boltsmag.org/readmission-... only once did a lawsuit directly sue over this. here's how the Arkansas supreme court handled it:

In light of the recent data breach of Ksenia Sobchak’s media empire, Ostorozhno Media, exposing her as working directly with Russian authorities, I want to remind everyone that this ✨️article ✨️ exists. ​The Kremlin keeps sending stool pigeons to the West, and Western media publishes every piece of

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

How Marco Rubio is Running Venezuela From Afar

The secretary of state effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government. His grip on the country is a vivid manifestation of American power in th...

nytimes.com

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4w ago

The White House launched 25 Freedom Fuel gas stations, all selling fuel at $3.47 a gallon.

i will not forget the men who downplayed the earlier allegations of abuse against platner and said accepting them was just the price we had to pay to gain control of the senate. i hope they feel like fucking assholes.