Remember, it's virtually impossible to sue federal agents, so it will be basically impossible to hold ICE officers who shock people without justification accountable. We should not be giving new weapons like this to a law enforcement agency that enjoys near-total impunity.
CJ Ciaramella@cjciaramella.bsky.social · 22h agoI triple-checked to make sure this was a legit NBC News account, and unfortunately it is! x.com/JuliaEAinsle...
The only two positions are Abolish Police or Point Guns At Moms Any rational reform position went out the window when kidnappings started. By terrorists whose uniforms say police The police that don’t kidnap don’t arrest them. They aid them How is a mom to know which police to run to or run from?
Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 2d agoVideo of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
Why are the American people being forced to fund Israel’s destruction of Lebanese homes when millions can’t afford housing here?
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 24h agoIsrael’s campaign to make southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’ ft.trib.al/O7a4C0Q
Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
So the emerging tech policy of the united states is you should have a data center in your backyard polluting every aspect of your life, at your cost, whether you want it or not, and you will have to biometrically register/age verify to be online, but having a roomba is a bridge too far
Robot vacuums are getting banned in the United States — here’s what you need to know
Plus, how you’re affected if you already own a robot vacuum.
nbcnews.com
Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.
Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned
Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.
aiddata.org
Iran's greatest ally in their war against the United States remains the United States
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 17h agoThere have reportedly been multiple attempts by sailors to jump overboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as poor conditions and mental stress reach a breaking point. The crew is in its ninth month at sea, and has spent 250 days consecutively without making land, a record
Russell Westbrook explains the Russell Westbrook experience PERFECTLY and it's why I will always watch him
If you were King Solomon And I was a lady Would you marry me anyway Would you halve my baby
🌹 We're bringing the DSA DIFFERENCE to this City Council race. Differentiate with us this Saturday at Oertli Neighborhood Park in District 1 as we knock doors for Austin DSA-endorsed candidate Misael Ramos! Bring a fully charged phone, comfortable shoes, a hat, and water. RSVP: buff.ly/JCHClcV
Imagine a country where the ruling regime is putting babies in concentration camps and people openly advertise the fight for higher wages and universal healthcare as their greatest foe.
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 16h agoThe "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
“It was just a bunch of guys taking turns going at the machine with a sledgehammer every night.” Turns out the artillery shell factory that doesn't work doesn't work even worse than I reported last week
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterday".. The robot arms would swing out of control, smashing into carefully calibrated equipment, and sometimes they would unexpectedly drop hunks of steel 5 feet down to the floor." @propublica.org $GD www.propublica.org/article/gene...
There's nothing funnier than MLS talking about rocket fuel when their salary cap is less than $7M https://www.spotrac.com/mls/cba
Sounder at Heart@sounderatheart.com · 22h agoIf you miss Allocation Disorder as much as us you’ll probably dig this nerdy interview with @paultenorio.bsky.social in which we delve into some real sicko stuff about the changes we should expect under the new MLS commissioner. www.sounderatheart.com/2026/08/how-...
Nurse Soad appealed to you a few days ago to help her child Omar Omar's condition is critical; he suffers from severe malnutrition and has lost a significant amount of weight Suad urgently needs $250 to buy her medication and vitamins The child Omar is collapsing, 🙏🏻save him👇 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
Mark Walter selling RAPIDLY to a Kushner a week after the SEC probe into him was announced? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Sources: Josh Kushner, Bob Iger to buy Lakers for $12B
The Lakers are being sold to American businessman Josh Kushner and Bob Iger for over $12 billion, a record-breaking price, multiple sources told ESPN.
espn.com
it is so remarkably simple. this is still a democracy. in theory and in practice you can (a) simply not spend your tax dollars on electric chair gloves for these guys to murder you with; (b) disband their entire militia with a stroke of a pen; and (c) prosecute and jail as many of them as you like
Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday"The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states. The manual says no more than 2 gloves should be applied to a subject at one time & they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances." Oh Jesus. Oh fuck.
Two possibilities: —Threads is becoming the dominant text-based social media app even though nobody you’ve ever met has ever used Threads —Meta is doing some funky math and just counting people who use their Instagram accounts as active Threads users
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 23h agoSo I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?
Tremendous insight into the inner workings of the Trump administration that the NSA/SecState was allowed to go down in a fireball but the person who posts AI slop for the President qualified as needing to survive at all costs.
Dan Lamothe@danlamothe.bsky.social · yesterdaySCOOP: People on the airport catering truck used to secretly move President Trump off an Air Force One 747 in Turkey included: - Dan Scavino - Walt Nauta - Natalie Harp No Cabinet-level officials were on that truck. wapo.st/3S47ztG
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
ultimately i think the wisconsin race came down to evers going around the media saying “if hong wins we are doomed, its over” and any in or out-of-state left leaning politician refusing to endorse or rally with hong. it’s very annoying how perception of “electability” matters
Can someone do a wellness check on @whysophiewhy.bsky.social
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 22h agoMark Walter is selling the Los Angeles Lakers to former Disney CEO Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner at a valuation of more than $12 billion, only 14 months after purchasing the team, according to a source with knowledge of the deal. nyti.ms/3UcRF0B
people are calling this guy unlucky. folks, this was pretty much the best case scenario for dying in 1304 CE.
Andrew Curry@andrewcurry.com · 2d agoThe man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
I cannot stress this enough - the side claiming to “protect children” are now posting the names of children they claim to be trans, photos of those children to help people identify them, and the name of the school they attend. It is impossible to overstate the level of danger for these children.
This post just popped up on my Facebook from a page with tens of thousands of followers. Behind the black box are the names of 10 children the OP is alleging to be trans. The post also include photos of all 10 children, and the name of the schools they attend. They’re now doxxing minors.
![Beth Young Bourne on Facebook:
The emperor has no clothes.
Here are some of the recent trans-identified BOYS competing in GIRLS' high school sports in California.
@CIFState doesn't keep any records on the number of boys who are competing on girls' teams. I only became aware of the 3 boys at [CENSORED] High School after I asked parent friends if their daughters were being impacted by this insane transgender ideology.
IN CALIFORNIA
[Censored list of 10 children playing sports in California, naming both the child and the school they attend]
@CIFState doesn't keep any records or track the number of boys who are competing on girls' teams. I only became aware of the 3 boys at [CENSORED] High School after I asked parent friends if their daughters were being impacted by this insane transgender ideology.
Below this post, not included in the screenshot, were photos of all 10 children.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vgwuxqtzo22my67nenerfw5i/bafkreibjorammqyqqw54l5rymzpthmsm575xhlh4vpzqmvanlkurkafil4)
the crypto industry descended on Minnesota and set a truly astonishing pile of money on fire
Mia's brain, 2am: oh the destruction of a shared collective reality is a war against the formation of the class in and for itself because it's almost impossible to create the kind of collective identify and mutuality necessary for class formation and struggle with Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
