🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
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UPDATE: Today 35 former federal judges filed a comprehensive opposition to Donald Trump’s expedited motion to stay in the case of Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service. Simply put, members of the legal system are trying to put a stop to Trump's ongoing corruption.
Republicans giving Trump IRS immunity after Capital One closed his bank accounts for money laundering should be a bigger story.
Jocelyn Benson is the projected winner of the Michigan Democratic gubernatorial primary. https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/08/04/jocelyn-benson-john-james-set-to-face-each-other-for-michigan-governor/
GIFT ARTICLE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
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We have to be careful saying that now. Any news source owned by Postmedia ( a Canadian media company that is majority-owned by the American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management is heavily right-wing slanted with ties to the US Republican party. Most newspapers in 🇨🇦 are owned by them. Thanks, Harper.
Exactly 3 months from today is the most important midterm election in our lifetime. Our opportunity to hold him accountable. Register to vote here: Iwillvote.com The stakes have never been higher. Show the world the majority of Americans are good, decent, honest people. #VoteBlue🗳️ #RejectMAGA 👎
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
As well as my pollinator garden, I'm planting a strip of my front yard in milkweed. The city dug it up anyway!
Critical Thinker@beacriticalthinker.bsky.social · 4d agoJuly 2026 Monarchs could use a little help in: Canada USA & Mexico www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...
The pink pigeon from Mauritius bounced back from near extinction through careful conservation. Original post
www.espn.com/soccer/story... Infantino retirement fund goes bust #EverythingTrumpTouchesDies #ETTD
Infantino scraps FIFA World Cup sell-off plan after backlash
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has scrapped his proposal to sell stakes in the World Cup after widespread backlash, including from within global soccer's governing body, and a threatened boycott by European Nations.
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Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.
Right up there with: theonion.com/bush-regales...
Bush Regales Dinner Guests With Impromptu Oratory On Virgil's Minor Works
WASHINGTON, DC—President Bush delighted an intimate gathering of White House dinner guests Monday, regaling the coterie of dignitaries, artists, and friends with a spirited, off-the-cuff discussion of...
theonion.com
Anthropic’s Claude models also escaped containment and hacked into real-world systems. I’m going to talk really quickly about my favorite (???) incident they detailed. (story from @lmatsakis.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social
Anthropic Says Claude Hacked Real Systems During Cybersecurity Tests
In a review triggered by OpenAI's Hugging Face incident, Anthropic discovered three of its AI models had breached real organizations during third-party evaluations.
wired.com
Just to let people find it more easily, the coop news site is pittsburghprogress.com
The Pittsburgh Progress
Journalism built by workers, with our community, for Pittsburgh.
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Yeah, I agree that this country is a toxic environment for that kind of worker and community driven approach. But there are successes stories out there. Maybe not in this country. Mondragon Coop for example in Spain. Been around since maybe 1956 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to thei...
theguardian.com
The former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers who went on strike for 3+ years, only to have the owners sell the paper and fire most of them, have started their own cooperative news org. Important reporting by @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social
Corporate profiteers destroyed journalism. Worker-owned media can save it.
Former Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers went on strike for over three years and won. Then, the owners sold the paper and most strikers lost their jobs. Now, they’ve launched “a cooperative news organiz...
therealnews.com
You guys go on ahead, I’m going to hang out here for awhile ☺️ Armchair Books, Edinburgh's Old Town
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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www.africanews.com/2026/07/30/a...
AI-generated Africa map blunder overshadows U.S. presentation at global AIDS conference | Africanews
A U.S. State Department presentation at a major global health conference has sparked criticism after an AI-generated map of Africa wrongly labelled every country on the continent.
africanews.com
Some really encouraging Senate polls… 📍Georgia 🔵 Jon Ossoff: 56% 🔴 Mike Collins: 43% 📍North Carolina 🔵 Roy Cooper: 53% 🔴 Michael Whatley: 44% 📍Ohio 🔵 Sherrod Brown: 53% 🔴 Jon Husted: 45% 📍Iowa 🔵 Josh Turek: 50% 🔴 Ashley Hinson: 46% Keep organizing. Keep fighting.
Maine Just Told ICE to Get Out Hundreds of the state’s police departments, school districts, and libraries are now required to refuse cooperation with the agency. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Maine just told ICE to get out
Hundreds of the state's police departments, school districts, and libraries are now required to refuse cooperation with the agency.
motherjones.com
www.espn.com/soccer/story... Trump family grift continues. #In-laws
UEFA to boycott all FIFA competitions to protest World Cup private equity plan
UEFA on Thursday voted to boycott all FIFA competitions in protest against FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan for selling a stake in World Cup revenue to private investors.
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