What's a picture you've taken that shows a real testament to public policy? My fav is the Hollywood sign directly between the spans of the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, taken 2 miles off the coast. That's 27 miles away! 2 decades ago you wouldn't even been able to the mountains.

The latest El Niño forecast by the ECM is suggesting a record shattering +4°C event. Impacts; - Record breaking global warmth (1.7-1.8°C) - Catastrophic marine heatwaves Potential to be one of the most disruptive climate anomalies we’ve ever observed.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Blindingly obvious that this is targeted at “degrees we think women get.”

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President 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

4 AUGUST 2026 WRITE DOWN THIS DATE-EUROPE CLIMATIC HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ANEW Thousands and Thousands of records are being shattered in pieces in Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,Ukraine,Belarus,Romania,Serbia... Widespread 40Cs Tbc

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.

I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

This is the sort of hatred that nyt’s Sulzberger and his lieutenants Kahn, Ryan, Healy and Paul legitimised. They knew where their propaganda campaign would lead.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jul Advocate Michigan Civil Rights Comsn ruls Studio 8 Hair Lab owner Christine Geiger violated MI civil rights laws when she posted on social media that the salon would not serve trans people, who should instead "seek services at a local pet groomer."

The fiction of a “clever center right” was only ever real for the sort that thought, ‘In this diversity of ideologies, we must give equal weight to the people who think kids should starve and the people who don’t’? The NPR-style of platforming disdain for life in the name of telling “both sides.”

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2d ago

i can understand, to an extent, missing a "clever centre right", but that is gone they *chose* to throw their lot in with team fascist & bsky libs being a bit nicer won't suddenly change that www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d... bsky.app/profile/youn...

SHOCKING FACT: If you earned £18,000 a day from when Jesus was born to the present day, you STILL would not make as much as Shell did in profits last year

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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I read this a dozen times, and my brain still won't process it

worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2d ago

the onion ass headline

Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Michigan will provide another crucial test of whether progressives can not only keep up their winning streak in safe-blue seats but also break through in battlegrounds crucial for control of Congress. The stakes for the Democratic Party are huge.

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

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You're not going to believe this but Gavin Newsom is taking the side of capital over workers. In this case it's tricky because he's backing the very MAGA allies his cosplaying X account claims he's fighting. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount

The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.

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absolutely! the number of cis women who are transmisogynists and then are shocked--shocked!--to learn that their supposed allies are also cismisogynists continues to astonish me

It's rarely ever said so outright but basically the thesis of the Stevens surrogates as of today is that Arab Americans cannot possibly have any legitimate grievances about someone who is openly and proudly supportive of a country that kills their families lol

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

love to see doubly-racist folklore physiognomy on the timeline

Bad Medical Takes@badmedicaltakes.bsky.social · 3d ago

an immigration lawyer working on some of these Haitian cases today says an ICE officer told them, re: the ankle monitors: “We’re following our orders.” Direct quote Hm

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 3d ago

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. “They’re cutting off access to lawyers for these children, but they need lawyers now more than ever."

Inside the NYC Courtroom Where Detained Children Face Deportation Without Attorneys

Around 20,000 unaccompanied minors nationwide are set to lose legal services when the federal government ends a contract Friday. One NYC immigration court shows us what that will look like.

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Tony Greenstein outlines how anti-genocide activism has led to him being debanked several times since 2024, ahead of his trial on 18 August By @skwawkbox.org

Tony Greenstein: 'Political debanking has forced me into cash economy'

Tony Greenstein outlines how anti-genocide activism has led to him being debanked several times since 2024, ahead of his trial on 18 August

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#OtD 2 Aug 1939 Walter Altmann and Gunther Mann, two Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, were deported from the UK back to Belgium where they had crossed the Channel in a small dinghy which capsized. Both were likely sent to the concentration camps stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9167...

This is a story about the President and several of his hand-picked appointees all committing crimes and blatantly lying to the public while stealing public funds and abusing the criminal justice system, but the NYTimes describes the situation like they're recapping a soap opera.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...

Massachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.

Marianne Dhenin@mariannedhe.bsky.social · 5d ago

Massachusetts is unsealing records of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized. Advocates told me their stories should serve as warnings to us as demands to return to institutionalization are ramping up under Trump 2.0.