1. Now-deleted audio shows that Acting AG Todd Blanche privately told faith leaders the DOJ is working to make the 2022 Dobbs decision, which revoked federal abortion protections, “permanent in every single state.” Blanche also suggested a crackdown on the mailing of abortion pills.🧵
Very heartening news out of Missouri and Kansas. I know all of us here are by definition Terminally Online, but it gives me a lot of hope for the future of our country that folks are rejecting blatant authoritarianism and crony corporatism more and more.
Here is the now-deleted(!) audio of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche pledging that the Trump administration will end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide 
An Israeli court has temporarily blocked a plan, cooked up by far right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, to construct a moat full of crocodiles around a notoriously abusive prison that holds Palestinians, over concerns that the crocodiles would be harmed or mistreated.
Only Animal Welfare Raised in Israeli Debate on Crocodile Moat for Palestinian Prisoners
A judge temporarily blocked the plan over concerns about “the expected harm to the crocodiles.”…
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After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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Here's some of what I said to @espn.com at the transphobia rally outside the Fire-Fever game on Friday espn.com/wnba/story/_...
Hey everyone! @nflspy.com is actively stealing NFL writers work and posting it on their own site. They claim to "cite" the authors, but it's sparse and this is still blatant theft. Please unfollow these clowns if you're following them.
this is extremely good, not because I think Harris is likely to be the nominee again but because this is how expanding the Court becomes table stakes for everyone who wants to run for President
Taegan Goddard@politicalwire.com · 5d agoHarris Says Supreme Court Should Expand to 13 Justices https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/31/harris-says-supreme-court-should-expand-to-13-justices/
AI is constantly trying to auto-fill my email responses to be like, “Thank you for the response! Let’s schedule a meeting. I look forward to our discussion,” when I need the email to say, “Shit, I’m sorry I just saw this! I need to die! I get it if you want me dead. I hope there’s no funeral for me”
really good reporting by @marisakabas.bsky.social (feels worth noting story like this is fraught/challenging even at big, traditional paper/media institution w/ a lot of money/lawyers etc — very impressive/brave to tackle as a smaller independent site) www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...
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."
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www.youtube.com/shorts/QacMw... ... "this is a a taboo subject and and I would say that if any member of Congress did speak out as I've just described they would probably not not be back into Congress the next term" Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter on Israeli apartheid in Palestine (2007 interview)
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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I think it harms Journalism that the message that the media has sent to us over the last several years is that no matter what a person does it’s impossible to credibly be sure that they are a Nazi.
Many many people in this country cannot recognize Islamophobia because they are swimming so deeply in it on a daily basis and have so internalized it that it isn't actually legible to them as racism. It's why it's so casually deployed in a way that other forms of racism in the country are not.
Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w agoRemarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
yeah I don't think you get to "oops, my bad" the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people - and counting! - because you got "carried away"
Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 2w agolet he who hasn’t ever gotten so carried away illegally impounding federal funds that they killed hundreds of thousands of people cast the first stone
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024 with @capitolforum.bsky.social)
Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
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Two homeless folks in Tennessee were charged with felonies for sleeping outside. This is Joseph's story. After he was released from jail, Joe went back to the park because he still doesn't have a place to live. Powerful reporting from @marissajae.bsky.social
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoWhen Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness. n.pr/4wXErmI
while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo agoAcademics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
Across the country millions of kids are watching soccer for the first time and deciding they'd rather hoop instead
Hoping for a surprise halftime appearance by Jimothy, and not simply because I put my life savings on Kalshi that Jimothy would do a duet with Shakira, but because I really would like to see him
If we as Americans go halfway around the world to invade your country and kill you, and you kill one of us instead, you better believe we will be mad as hell about it. We think that is really messed up, for some reason
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
This is the point in Sim City where you’re like well I’m fucked
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 3w agoCool cool cool cool cool cool cool
You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒 💙💛❤️🩹@laprofmme.bsky.social · 3w agoYou've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?
You eat one amazing peach then spend the rest of your life buying lousy peaches trying to repeat the experience. Forever chasing that peach dragon; that’s how good it was.
NEVER FORGET the debt we all owe to the Miccosukee Tribe, without whom it would still be open. And never forget that Indigenous sovereignty and all our safety and flourishing are forever intertwined.
“Alligator Alcatraz” May Close After Months of Tribal Resistance in the Everglades
The controversial immigration detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” could soon shut down — a dramatic reversal following months of resistance led by the Miccosukee Tribe, Native advocates, and ...
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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 3w agoAfter a cost of more than $1 billion, the Everglades concentration camp has been removed from the airstrip where it once stood.
