At least 15 people were killed and about 50 injured after Russia launched a missile and drone attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight. Rescue workers are still searching through the rubble. meduza.io/en/news/2026...

Massive Russian attack on Kyiv and Kyiv region kills at least 15, injures about 50 — Meduza

Russian forces struck the Kyiv region with ballistic missiles and drones.

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One year $150M contract to a small Texas firm that lacks immigration law experience

Politico@politico.com · 22h ago

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Kyiv is once again under a horrific russian ballistic missile attack now.

Max Miller has a documented history of violence against women dating back to high school. Read this article from 2021. web.archive.org/web/20211105...

Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.

Apparently Jim Crow just keeps going: "The problem is especially acute for Black property owners. Since 1910, the Census Bureau estimates, 80 percent of Black-owned land has been lost to heirs’ property. The government has called it 'the leading cause of African American involuntary land loss.'"

Leaving Property to Your Heirs Can Lead to Headache, not Robust Wealth (Gift Article)

Real estate passed down without a clear title of ownership can prevent families from creating generational wealth.

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Officials deny plans for another mass mobilization, but HeadHunter currently lists 2,500+ vacancies for military-registration & mobilization specialists — nearly 1,300 in the past week alone, up from 145 postings in all of 2021, & about 500 after Putin's 2022 mobilization order. t.me/agentstvonew...

Агентство. Новости

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Let’s not forget that this illegal Reflecting Pool indictment was also overseen by Todd Blanche. He could have stopped this at any time, but he was a corrupt and willing accomplice to this fraud upon the court. How can any decent person possibly vote for this man as AG?

This is a tableware and porcelain shop’ in Kyiv, before and after Russia bombed the market here . People would come here to buy a little beautiful something, now it’s all burned down and ruins. Yet another store, yet another Ukrainian’s business . Yet another year of this cruel war .

While Western journalists invariably assumed that the Fedorov-Syrskyi departures combined with street protests put Ukraine in a political crisis and asked me about impeding military setbacks, it might turn out that the reshuffle-cum-renewal will make Ukraine stronger.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 6d ago

🇺🇦 “With Commander-in-Chief Drapaty, we have strong synergy and a common vision of war: technological advantage, asymmetric solutions, more opportunities to destroy the enemy,” said Yevhen Khmara.

Six congressmen bought between $83,000 to $245,000 in SpaceX stock just before its IPO: -Jared Moskowitz -Gil Cisneros -Dan Meuser -John McGuire -William Timmons -John James Five serve on committees whose work impacts SpaceX's business. We must ban members of Congress from trading stock.

🇷🇺 FT: Russia fully restored just 8 of 26 major refineries hit by drones by July 27. Eleven are running only partly, while seven remain offline. Key plants in Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Volgograd are at half capacity; Moscow’s refinery is near one-third.

🇺🇦❗️ Today, Lviv shuddered from a massive direct hit directly on high-rise buildings: the enemy directed 22 (!) missiles at the city and at 4:45 a massive strike was delivered – more than 21 residential buildings were damaged, Sadovyi noted.

31 people injured by a Russian attack on Lviv A Russian missile hit a residential building directly. The attack damaged over 20 residential buildings,a schooltwo kindergartens. The youngest injured is a 6-yr-old boy,the oldest is a 93-yr-old woman. The search&rescue operation in Lviv continues.

Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

NEW DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY POLL #WIGOV HONG: 44 CROWLEY: 15 BARNES: 14 ROYS: 4 BRENNAN: 4 RODRIGUEZ*: 4 HUGHES*: 1 Undecided: 13% From STATE NAVIGATE with UPNORTHNEWS / MAIN STREET ACTION

NEW PODCAST on the new poll from @statenavigate.org showing Francesca Hong with a huge lead. @chaznuttycombe.bsky.social: "I think the primary is over" Let's recombobulate: www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/i-think-th...

'I think the primary is over': Pollster Chaz Nuttycombe on Francesca Hong's huge lead in new State Navigate survey

The new poll shows Francesca Hong with 44%, David Crowley at 15%, Mandela Barnes at 4%. Plus: Data centers emerge as a major motivator for Hong supporters.

therecombobulationarea.com

NEW MARQUETTE POLL, DEM PRIMARY Hong: 38 Barnes: 16 Crowley: 7 Roys: 2 Brennan: 2 (Undecided: 34) With leaners (after asking undecideds to choose): Hong: 46 Barnes: 21 Crowley: 11 Roys: 4 Brennan: 4 (Undecided: 14)

“Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Moreno ... has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. ...

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Sen. Roger Marshall: "Who didn't have a friend who took this vaccine and had some time of complication? A stroke, a blood clot, a young man getting some type of heart inflammation. That's what destroyed the trust in the American people for our government."

Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.

Brian Lyman@brianlyman.bsky.social · last wk.

A lot of what-the-hell moments in this story, but building a data center in a floodplain in Louisiana is inviting the wrath of Poseidon.

Sinead O’Connor deserves credit for observing that there was a dark side to (and institutional rot behind) JPII’s charisma before most people did

Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · 2w ago

died too soon but glad she lived long enough to do a WaPo op ed that was like "hey remember how i protested the sexual abuse of children by tearing up a picture of the head of the catholic church on TV and everyone said i was CRAZY"

“Casualty accounting exists because commanders owe something to families, to the force, and to the nation.” Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social (Ret.) tells Ben Parker there’s no excuse for leaving four fallen soldiers off the Pentagon’s casualty list.

CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I was unaware of this plot.

They're reacting to the current brutal overreach. Beware misinterpreting that to mean any new immigration policy would fly. What should we work with? The brutal overreach. Good time to work on comprehensive immigration reform, now that the hot stove of mass expulsion has been touched.

Once againc all of this is wildly illegal under the WTO & multiple other signed, ratified preferential trade agreements. And once again, journalists have decided that including that information in their articles is not news. It’s maddening. Perhaps even more so than the actual authoritarianism now.

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 2w ago

President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court. https://to.pbs.org/4wZrclo

I guess it settles the question if Ukrainians can protest as well even during the war : the answer is yes

The defense budget was $841 billion in 2024.

Dying at @theguardian.com caption