@tonyjoyce.bsky.social
Just a blue dot in a purple state. Finally retired. Tax the rich and help the poor.
Federal officials recently started threatening to seek criminal charges against two elected county sheriffs who have declined to give immigration agents broad access to inmates subject to deportation. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
ICE Threatens Sheriffs In Chicago and Minneapolis With Prosecution Over Access to Inmates
In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.
nytimes.com
This is truly an excellent piece from @thebulletin.org on the incredibly troubling rise of Silicon Valley thought in Pentagon procurement, it highlights a lot of major ongoing issues: thebulletin.org/2026/07/the-...
The rise of the military-technology complex
How Silicon Valley tech firms remade US defense contracting. And then opened the Pentagon’s checkbook—wide.
thebulletin.org
When you can't remember your child's name, reach for the AI. It is good for what ails you. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Now, Thanks to Sam Altman, You Never Have to Speak With Your Kids Again
AI can handle these kinds of pointless interactions.
theatlantic.com
As opposition to data centers grows across the United States, the tech industry is "pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks" to bypass it, write Dean Jackson and Samantha Totoni—from nonprofit front groups to super PACs to tightly managed public forums.
Big Tech’s PR Playbook for Overcoming Data Center Opponents
The tech industry is pulling from tried-and-tested playbooks to bypass and securitize public opposition, write Dean Jackson and Sam Totoni.
techpolicy.press
1/ 🧵 It costs 8 cents to make you skip an election. Not a typo. A peer reviewed PNAS study found the right ad, aimed at the right voter, erased 1 in 6 votes of color in swing counties. The billionaires who lost Michigan can buy a lot of 8 cent nudges. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
They said they want immigrants to do it "the right way." There is no right way if they're snatching military spouses.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 14h agoPresident Donald Trump’s administration has detained more than 50 spouses and parents of U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families, an AP investigation has found.
Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
Congrats to Virginia's 2026 Democratic team - @ltgovhashmi.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/08/live...
"Until Friday, ORR had a contract with the Acacia Center for Justice, but the federal govt. allowed that contract to expire after months of withholding funds to Acacia, and by extension, many of the nonprofits that served as 'subcontractors' and represented the majority of the children in ORR care."
Politico@politico.com · yesterday26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
“Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up.” newrepublic.com/post/213959/...
Epstein Survivors Say Republicans Ghosted Them Before Blanche Vote
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
newrepublic.com
Be aware of this new order, it could be dangerous for those who are part of a non-profit, community organizers, those working on the upcoming election, pretty much anyone. If you don't support this regime you are a target. Share everywhere so the public understands fascism is here. #CommunityIsPower
The Chilling Trump Order Threatening All Americans
Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.
thenation.com
Why do we bother obeying the law and paying our taxes when the President does neither? He is playing us all for fools!
I wrote about this guy, who also has kindly offered to help with a new project that aims to connect “talented young Christians” to “the institutions that shape public thought and national leadership.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Oh look, another far-right extremist at the Pentagon
He oversees defense intelligence and security agencies and helps shape military operations.
motherjones.com
Wouldn't an armband with a star or some other symbol on it have been cheaper? Or maybe that's being saved for the next group to be singled out. What do you think your group will be assigned?
From @moreperfectunion.bsky.social : Trump is buying stock in obscure companies that build the wildly unpopular data centers while easing regulations and pushing them into 🇺🇸 communities that don’t want them
Everyone's asking the same question: What do we do now? In a time of political uncertainty, Steven Cash, Executive Director of The Steady State, joined the Protecting Democracy class to share advice on what each of us can do - starting right now. #holdfast #steadystate #democracy #action #vote
A top supervision examiner at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned staff they would face "most unpleasant" consequences if they were too aggressive in their oversight of financial firms, according to an internal email reviewed by Reuters. www.reuters.com/world/us-con...
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
The bodies are piling up In a Guatemalan sugar cane field. A Pittsburgh bus shelter. A residential street in Iran. A street in Maine, and inside the ICE gulag The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...
The smell of death surrounds Donald Trump’s regime from Guatemala to Pittsburgh | Will Bunch
In just a year and a half, Donald Trump’s warped agenda is killing innocent people at home and around the world.
inquirer.com
"Senator @kaine.senate.gov is right. Also the Administration's boat strike campaign has utterly failed at preventing drug trafficking...They're just killing people for sport, it's illegal and immoral." - Rep. @beyer.house.gov (D-VA08) bluevirginia.us/2026/08/sen-...
🎥NEW: a federal court just blocked a USCIS policy that banned nonprofit organizations from registering new citizens to vote at naturalization ceremonies. Marc Elias breaks down the ruling, and what this win means for new Americans and the fight to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms.
BREAKING: Federal Court Blocks Trump's Voter Registration Ban
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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CNN’s Elie Honig Says Blanche Promise On Trump Fund ‘Accomplishes Essentially Nothing’ www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...
CNN’s Elie Honig Says Blanche Promise On Trump Fund ‘Accomplishes Essentially Nothing’
"For all the drama around this written document from Todd Blanche, it really accomplishes essentially nothing as a legal matter, and here's why"
mediaite.com
I urge you to pay attention to Kansas's election on Tuesday, when voters will decide whether to abolish the state's nonpartisan nominating commission for Kansas Supreme Court justices, and allow lawmakers to institute partisan supreme court elections instead. This proposal is...not what it seems.
The Push to Elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices Is a Cynical Anti-Abortion Power Grab
In 2022, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected the GOP’s anti-abortion agenda. Four years later, state lawmakers are trying “another path.”
ballsandstrikes.org
Serious questions: 1) What’s the legal weight of this “written order?” Could it be superseded by another “written order” once Blanche is confirmed? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
The most corrupt, unethical AG in the US history will now take office after a sham deal with retiring Republican senators. Now this lawless DOJ will run amok with Trump’s criminal defense attorney carrying out his retribution tour against the innocent while the guilty go free.
