Maggie Black
@witchofscots.eurosky.social
Artist A Green Menace https://www.redbubble.com/people/ArtWitchOfScots/shop?asc=u https://witchofscots.com/
Wow! What a turn out in Johnson County. Thank you to everyone who joined us. 50 days until Election Day!
After talking with his buddy (boss) Putin, Trump has declared that Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil infrastructure are responsible for the increase in diesel prices. TOTAL BS. Trump's Iran war is the cause. Russian diesel exports are so heavily sanctioned that few nations buy them.
Get ready for a 30% jump in heating oil costs this winter as Iran war drives up prices | CNN Business
The cost of electric heat is projected to increase 9%, while heating with natural gas is expected to rise by 5.8% in price.
cnn.com
Is the Queensland premier copying Trump's playbook by replacing independent officials with political appointees in key state roles? A string of appointments in recent months has drawn concerns the LNP is quietly eroding the independence of state boards. www.deepcutnews.com/p/queensland...
Queensland LNP copies Trump’s playbook with conservative appointees
A string of appointments in recent months has drawn concerns the LNP is quietly eroding the independence of state boards
deepcutnews.com
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
“It’s one of five $10,000 grants that Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, is funding to help people buy their first homes. It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations”
A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
inquirer.com
‘i dont take sides’ – the man on the side of the oppressor
“Two U.S. citizen teenagers who were on their way to file enlistment papers to join the Marines were violently attacked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, who reportedly detained them for nearly eight hours before letting them go.” newrepublic.com/post/215393/...
ICE Attacks Two U.S. Citizen Minors on Their Way to Enlist in Marines
The ICE agents reportedly said they didn’t care after being told the two teenagers were citizens.
newrepublic.com
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
techcrunch.com
It gives me no pleasure to report this but Mitch McConnell has been abducted and replaced with a frankly terrible clone
Remember when a guy had a lucrative & low effort Forever Job on Bob’s Burgers & then he was still so dissatisfied with how poorly he felt America was working for him that he attended the insurrection?
Former 'Bob's Burgers' actor sentenced to 1 year in prison for role in Capitol riot
Jay Johnston expressed regret that he “made it more difficult for the police to do their job" on Jan. 6.
npr.org
I was today's years old when I learned that Gavin Newsom's first wife was Kimberly Guilfoyle!
We cannot trust AI companies to self-regulate. They’ve already proven incapable and unwilling to do it on their own. Congress needs to intervene.
Tech companies must be primarily responsible for AI safety, Mike Johnson says
The future of AI drew a range of strong comments on the Sunday morning TV shows.
politico.com
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 15h agoGenuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Finally making my way through the UNEP report and surprise! It pisses me off. I'm so fucking sick of people telling us all these ideas that are terrible for humanity are "inevitable." Overshoot, AI, CCS/CDR...we could just as easily decide that energy transition and socialism are "inevitable"
Just a reminder that Anthropic's head of "Faith and Philosophy" asked a room full of transatlantic far-right politicians for ethics feedback this summer: www.desmog.com/2026/06/25/a... @desmog.com
Anthropic Crowdsourced Ethics Feedback at a Far-Right London Confab
Company’s “faith and philosophy partnerships” lead sought “moral voices” for future AI models at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference.
desmog.com
Last year, I filed a FOIA request with the EPA for documents about the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. What I got back led me down a rabbit hole of industry influence on our government’s emissions reporting. My latest for @nsarchive.bsky.social and @desmog.com: nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Inside the Struggle to Dismantle America’s Greenhouse Gas Data
Washington, D.C., August 18, 2026 – The fossil fuel industry is trying to weaken methane reporting requirements while simultaneously fighting to preserve the related federal emissions database it reli...
nsarchive.gwu.edu
The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
jessica.substack.com
In the next 50 days I would really like for you to reexamine your views about trans people, especially trans kids. Don’t throw them under the bus because you think it will gain you anything. I say this as a straight cis ally. Please don’t disappoint us.
Important: the USPS rule that SCOTUS blocked tonight was Trump’s big plan to control and restrict mail voting. But a separate policy remains in place: USPS is no longer postmarking mail as soon it gets it, which is hugely important for deadlines. So people must mail back with plenty of time.
In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts
A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.
boltsmag.org
Finland became the 10th country to announce it will join a French-led effort to strengthen Europe's nuclear deterrent, adding another NATO member to a group looking to Paris as a potential backstop to the U.S. nuclear umbrella. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:
Russia neighbor Finland to join French-led nuclear deterrent initiative for Europe
Finland will join a French-led effort to strengthen Europe’s nuclear deterrent.
stripes.com
The Trump Admin tried to secretly rush construction of an ICE facility near Gilroy—ignoring environmental safeguards. Last Friday, we secured a critical early win blocking its development. CA will hold the federal govt accountable and protect our communities, our environment, and the rule of law.
Read the California DOJ Weekly Newsletter
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Smart collected her fifth Emmy win for her brilliantly funny turn in the hit HBO Max comedy.
Jean Smart Has Never Lost A Comedy Emmy — And Her 'Hacks' Farewell Kept It That Way
Jean Smart Has Never Lost A Comedy Emmy — And Her 'Hacks' Farewell Kept It That Way
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ICYMI: A coalition of New Jersey community organizations and politicians may have uncovered ICE using a warehouse under temporary injunction to temporarily hold people in the wake of ramped up raids. The warehouse story is not over, folks.
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterdayNEW: A coalition of community groups has asked New Jersey's attorney general to seek contempt against ICE, alleging agents held people arrested in a Sept. 4 Dover raid at a contested Roxbury warehouse, where a court order limits ICE's activities to maintenance and security work.
One of the rarest things in the profession - an intellectual history job at a US university that is not attached to a right wing civic center!
Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 19h ago🚨 Tenure-track search at UC Berkeley in Modern European Intellectual History (assistant professor). Please circulate in your networks!
btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterdayRapper Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour after he made a “Free Palestine” speech on stage earlier this month
Today's News Brief: Texas' report on women who die in pregnancy and childbirth was due 9/1. It's now due 12/1 — a month after the election. This is the first report to examine deaths under the abortion ban. But it reviews 2024 cases only, and skips 2022 and 2023, the first two years of the ban.