NAACP statement on US Navy considering renaming carrier after Trump, instead of after Black war hero "Doris Miller earned his place in American history through courage, sacrifice, and service. Donald Trump only wants to serve himself."

Omaha cops said ok we'll stop using the shock gloves on children at school "However, the suburban Bellevue police department that patrols two Omaha schools and the large Bellevue district said its officers will continue carrying the gloves."

Nebraska’s largest school district asks police to stop using electric shock gloves on students

Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource officers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed.

nbcnews.com

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 3d ago

Wait, this can’t be right. They’re using the shock gloves in Nebraska schools… on children? Child abuse!

I don't subscribe to any Substacks because that company has platformed and promoted Nazis. I switched away from Shopify because they platform horrible people. I deleted X because that fucker is one of the worst people on the planet. Why the hell would I ever use an OpenAI product?

someone call the magnus institute, they're selling corruption burritos now

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social · 16h ago

We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car

Are you telling me that an administration filled with antisemites wasn’t sincere about its antisemitism investigations? Who could’ve known? www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Politics drove antisemitism probes against Ivy League schools, DOJ whistleblower says

A Trump administration task force on antisemitism pressured universities into punitive settlements despite turning up little to no evidence of systemic abuses, according to a former Justice Department...

washingtonpost.com

This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state

Catholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state

“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops.

miamiherald.com

The conditions at Dilley are so bad that a federal judge just appointed an independent monitor to provide routine reports about whether the medical care is adequate. Here is her order. There is no legitimate reason to imprison these kids. They must be released and the camp must be closed forever.

Congressman Greg Casar@repcasar.bsky.social · 19h ago

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

"Someone walked up to a roadside camera in Irmo, South Carolina with a can of expanding foam sealant and coated the lens. No hoodie, no laptop — just a hardware store solution to a Flock problem." tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurit...

There’s A New Technique For Disabling Flock Cameras – and It’s Spreading Fast

Irmo, South Carolina's $403K Flock Safety camera vote sparked public backlash and foam-sealant vandalism as privacy concerns over ALPR data retention grow.

tech.yahoo.com

Flock Says It's "Taking a Break" From Responding to Media Requests futurism.com/artificial-i...

Flock Says It's "Taking a Break" From Responding to Media Requests

Flock's communication team was telling reporters that it was "taking a break" amid the explosion of public backlash.

futurism.com

all the butch and masc lesbian fitness influencers who are like "build that muscle so you can pick up your girl" and me who is like "but i am a bottom"

He may well have 1000 Einsteins and Mozarts working in his warehouses right now, but they can't do anything with their abilities what with having to work 18 hours a day under constant threat of being fired for taking a piss

The Trump administration is reportedly selling off thousands of wild horses, including to buyers suspected of sending them to slaughter

Wild Horses Are The Next Victims Of Trump's Wildlife Protection Rollbacks: NYT

huffpost.com

A question for cis readers: What books by trans authors have you read? If you’re not sure or if you haven’t read one or if you want to read more, tell us what you like & we’ll find you a rec! Trans folks—be ready to step in with recs as requests come in! We’re here to help, not shame 😊

We paid these inflated prices but, sure, somehow the company deserves extra money on top of that. JFC. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Target receives $1bn boost from Trump tariff refunds

The US chain said it received a $994 million pre-tax reimbursement, which resulted in its second quarter operating income rising to $2.6bn.

bbc.com

laughed so hard at this one there are genuine tears in my eyes

Tessa Duvall@tessaduvall.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨 Kentucky has announced the finalists in its "I Voted" sticker contest. 🚨 Per the Secretary of State: Kentuckians can vote for their favorite sticker at the SOS's booth at the State Fair from August 20-30.

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

The IDF does this all the time. They lie until they can't, then they say they'll do an investigation, then the investigation leads nowhere. It took 2.5 years for them to even admit they opened fire on the car, something we all knew happened hours after they did.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

Loomer points the finger at jealous White House staff.

This is the nut graf here to me. The MLB needs to be fierce and put on a full-court press here, and they almost certainly won't, which means it will be open season on a sports league which relies on Latin American players to make billions.

Screamer Jim@screamerjim.bsky.social · 2d ago

Abolish ICE and salt the earth where it was allowed to grow

this is a really underrated factor in the Natalie Harp media explosion yes, Ossoff hit exactly the right target, but a big reason she was the right target is that everyone else around Trump finds her incredibly weird and offputting and is very excited to talk shit behind her back

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 3d ago

Anyway it seems she has coworkers who are eager to anonymously share their stories with the press! So I imagine we'll be learning a lot more in the coming days

Guide to happy

NEW: Body camera footage obtained by 404 Media shows a police officer explaining why he used police databases and license plate reader cameras to research, stalk, and pull over a woman he met on the set of a TV show. "I mean, I saw a shiny thing," he said in the footage. Watch and read more here:

'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman

Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"

404media.co

Not sure what else anybody might need. Even if you don't care about the environment. Even if you don't care about IP theft. Even if you don't care about a world full of incompetence. "It literally makes you dumber."

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2d ago

Woah.

wow WHO could have POSSIBLY seen this coming?

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Rethinking this

horror Ewacui@ewacat.bsky.social · last yr.

just to remind you there's an Incan goddess of potatoes and she's called Axomamma, daughter of the fertility goddess

the longer this goes on, the angrier it makes me... pretty obvious that my friend and I were kicked out of the Moda Center for exercising free speech rights guess nobody cares when your message is "let trans people live their lives, you sick freaks" bsky.app/profile/nied...

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2w ago

Thanks to @portlandmercury.com and @stephaniekaloi.bsky.social for telling the story of me and my friends' wild first Portland Fire game www.portlandmercury.com/sports/portl...

as an aside i actually do like that the golem has entered mainstream to the point that it's in minecraft, d&d, comics, etc what upsets me is that it's a really interesting part of jewish history/mythology/mysticism that most non-jews and even many jews don't realize *is* jewish in origin

civ-il disorder 🇵🇸 🕎 ☮️@uncivil.work · 2d ago

if it's important for me to know about jesus in the desert to understand a book about an old man trying to catch a fish why isn't it important for you to know about the long, cruel history of antisemitism that led to the creation of the golem when you play minecraft?

i am not sorry that i don't know jesus lore because most of y'all are completely ignorant about jewish culture and plenty of americans and other people still believe antisemitic conspiracies without even knowing they're antisemitic in origin

hi, jewish person who got a 5 on the ap lit exam (can't believe i am saying that 15 years after taking the exam) yes, pretty much all american lit can be analyzed as falling into the categories of life/death, love/sex, or god/religion but you don't need to have read the bible to understand it

Jonathan Ladd@jonathanmladd.com · 3d ago

This is correct. You can't understand American literature and history without some understanding of the Bible and of American religious history. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

i had a public school education with teachers who pushed kids bible books or did bible as literature shit and it was not done to get an understanding of American literature and history. please use your brain to have thoughts