Reminder that AIPAC is a right wing organization akin to a Koch Bros group. Any Democrat that takes its money is not liberal or centrist, they are right wing.

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 8h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

News corp is very calm about AI.

I feel like it might have been a bad idea to hand the world over to sociopaths

Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 3h ago

Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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Someone took out a flock camera in Norfolk.

Bazooka Sharks!

Q: Are you going to keep Jeanine Pirro? Trump: I haven’t made a decision.

Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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Bad flooding in some neighborhoods of Norfolk, VA today after flash floods and torrential rains.

The GOP county exec in Tarrant Co (Fort Worth) often kicks people out for speaking up to protest county govt actions at public meetings. Today he shut it down amid outrage over the plan to cut nearly half of election day polling places this year (as he himself faces a heated race for county exec)

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

Keep 'em coming

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · yesterday

BREAKING: Maryland Democrats voted 96-38 to pass a bill that would change the rules for lawmakers to draw the state's congressional map. If the measure is approved by the Senate and then voters, it could clear a path to dismantle the state's lone red district in time for the 2028 election.

With J6ers getting jobs in the justice department, and presidential memorandum NSPM-7 targeting the “left-wing” and “anti-fascists” as terrorists, it's never been more important to support those tracking the far right.

Does this Albanian have to register as a foreign lobbyist now? hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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Norfolk is currently ripping down multiple schools and building a sports complex in its place. But ok. The cities government is a joke. open.substack.com/pub/jimmor12...

Norfolk City Council to Vote on Tax Referendum

New law allows city to propose adding 1% to the retail tax to fund school construction

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Guy who has lost every election he's consulted on since a 3-way presidential race 34 years ago: Why is the party moving away from me???

Fucking ads that use actual scenes from movie you’re about to watch suck, especially when the starting time for the movie was 20mins ago.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Vincent Pastore, actor most known for his role as Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died at 80

Vincent Pastore Dies: 'The Sopranos' Star Was 80

Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80.

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Great!

Democracy Docket@democracydocket.com · 4d ago

NEW: Virginia Gov. Spanberger has restored the voting rights of more than 66,000 people who were formerly convicted of felonies. It's a stunning reversal of the felony disenfranchisement under prior Gov. Youngkin, who restored less than 10,000 people's voting rights across his entire 4-year term.

Well, it’s invoicing day, and since they’re really apparently not going to pay me for something I wrote for them two months ago, I guess today is the day to post about how @vulture.com fucks over its film freelancers. Long (sorry) thread, with receipts:

Vulture@vulture.com · 2mo ago

There are 118 feature films, plus galas, talks, podcast recordings, and more at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. Our guide to the movies and events worth lining up for.

Honestly, I agree with Maggie on this. Democrats in Congress says shown absolutely no willingness to to even try enforce a single thing they’ve ever done. And the Trump administration has shown its willingness to ignore laws, and subpoenas.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Three takeaways: 1) Maggie thinks congressional subpoena power in 2027 will mean nothing because it will be unenforceable; 2) She says 70% of his attention is on his construction projects; 3) She confirms he has zero policy ambitions, just personal ones. 2/2

As someone old enough to remember the 90s Fauci can get fucked, he deserves the worst… just not from these fucking losers.

This is a completely insane interview in that the things they are discussing are so alarming that their heads should be exploding and yet they are calm. History will be unkind to those, like the NYT, who underreacted to Trump’s violation of the country. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie Haberman

The New York Times correspondent says 70 percent of the president’s mind is dedicated to White House renovations.

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Updated with comment from LinkedIn executive. The button will help train LinkedIn's models for identifying AI slop www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

Looks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...

Exclusive | Inside Gavin Newsom’s desperate bid to save billionaire pals’ dream city

Newsom has been quietly whipping support for California’s billionaire-backed megacity as it faces the loss of a key tenant.

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Why is everything with this admin have to be Ai weird shit. freedomhaulers.dot.gov

My friend and colleague Ford Fischer is premiering episode one of his incredible mini-series on the Boogaloo Wednesday July 29th at Busboys and Poets in Washington DC. I worked on this, filming one of the key interviews and am very proud of the project. visunews.substack.com/p/watch-fall...

Watch Fall of the Boogaloo in DC

Ford Fischer's new series on the Boogaloo mini-series premieres Wednesday in Washington DC.

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⚠️ The CIA may have created a document to bolster Trump’s false claims of Chinese interference in the 2020 election, according to a nonprofit. The document included assertions that China sought to influence the outcome — and specifically wanted Trump to lose. https://demdock.com/4fC6BMW

Bigot Jake Lang crashes Abdul El-Sayed event and watches his stunt backfire

Bigot Jake Lang crashes Abdul El-Sayed event and watches his stunt backfire - Detroit Metro Times

Jake Lang, a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter and avowed bigot, has gained notoriety for crashing events and meetings with racist and anti-Muslim rants. In Detroit, Lang picked the wrong event to disrupt.

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