Detainees held at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas report spoiled food, missed meals, denial of medical care, routine beatings, and near constant abuse. When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it.

NEW: Months after FCC Commissioner Olivia Trusty cast a decisive vote approving Paramount’s historic $8 billion merger with Skydance Media, she and a guest accepted Kennedy Center gala tickets from the company worth more than $12,000.

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A border wall through Big Bend would be a monument to corruption. Local law enforcement opposes it — because it won’t make anyone safe. It’ll only make out-of-state contractors rich. We don’t need a corrupt wall. We need common sense border security.

Japanese researchers linked Long COVID to a dormant herpes virus reactivated by SARS-CoV-2 infection. This process triggers production of the SITH-1 protein, which was identified in about 70% of patients. The SITH-1 protein may contribute directly to brain dysfunction, fatigue, and depression.

Data Centers are being built in secret. 🤐

We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

People talk a lot of crap about Texas, and I understand that many of our politicians are reprehensible. But nearly half the electorate is trying to change things. Please don’t vilify everyone who lives here.

Texas, I am really rooting for you. It feels like you’re on the verge of something different, and I’m genuinely pulling for you to finally turn that corner.

From @therickwilson.bsky.social. He’s urging all of us to stop trying to shame the GOP, because they will never feel it and will never change bc of it. Power and money is all they care about, but what they fear is losing both. We must then all vote in large numbers that the GOP can’t dispute it.

Trump approved disaster aid requests from six red states last week. Two days later, he rejected aid requests from four blue states. Not only is he punishing states who didn’t vote for him, he’s playing politics with people’s lives. Despicable.

Sweet baby bunny #bunnies

Got to hang out with a super sweet pittie this weekend. #pitties

Peaceful horsey time #horses

@jamestalarico.bsky.social packed the historic Plaza Theatre in downtown El Paso last night, taking questions directly from Texans.

Opposition can be communicated in different forms, sometimes it's a sweet melody, with a strong message. Please, listen... #ImpeachIndictRemove

I watched these male American goldfinches fighting in midair. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

Just returned home after a long day of travel across the state and back. Excellent event, however. Here is a photo of a cat annoyed I was away all day.

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

Pretty horse #horses

Cutie cows #cows

Saw a cute jumping spider today. #spiders

Ken Paxton just denied our public information request for the Hoffman Files. Adam Hoffman — an admitted child molester — should be in prison, but Ken Paxton let him off the hook. Texans deserve to know why. We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government.

Can someone with a spine tell Trump he doesn’t own the White House? 📌 These projects are buried inside larger “security” or “modernization” budgets, routed through no-bid contracts & classified Secret Service spending. So we don’t even know the true price tag. The custom-printed tarp though: $$$

Very cute youtu.be/ADWRrNzW8FQ?...

The Pap smear comment 🤣🤣💀 I’d be laughing too hard to sit still! #Pinks

The White House North Portico is now fully covered in tarp

This is Jet, Kiki, Ricky Bobby, Sushi, Whimsy, and Ducky. Their human left the back door open when she left. They assumed that was a pool party invitation. 13/10 thank you for hosting (TT: goldroxgoldens)

Sammy loaf #cats #catsky

Trans people are having to create a modern day green book just to be able to use the bathroom in Idaho. This is where we're at. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...

I can’t stop looking at these baby harp seal photos I stole from the internet. Let me know if you know who the photographer is. #harpseal #cute

Sammy is playing his leg like a guitar. #cats #catsky

Cartoon by @hickeycartoons.bsky.social.

Silly Sammy #cats #catsky

Uni, where did your ears go?

Same.

An upcoming bill would require companies seeking to operate fully autonomous vehicles in New Jersey to use cameras plus two other sensing technologies, most commonly lidar and radar. This would effectively ban Tesla’s camera-only Robotaxi system in NJ unless the company changed its hardware.

🚨BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) will introduce new legislation making ballot seizure before they are counted and certified by a state or county official a felony. In a July 4 recorded speech, Newsom was not shy about who the law targets. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I took a macro shot of a sea urchin on a night dive. My camera's strobe fired, illuminating its spines, which are made of crystalline calcite, causing them to glow. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration is threatening to hold back terrorism-prevention funding from states unless they comply with a sweeping set of election demands — escalating President Donald Trump’s ongoing attempt to seize power over elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Under Trump: -An ExxonMobil lawyer runs DOJ's Environment division -An Amazon executive runs OSHA -A crypto and prediction markets lawyer runs the CFTC -A private prison executive runs ICE The list goes on... The revolving door is spinning out of control.

I just want to thank all the men defending Platner for pointing out who we shouldn’t leave our drinks alone with. We see you. You’re not special. Every woman has encountered you. We appreciate the heads up.

an old watercolor that I made #art #watercolor

Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today

My friend‘s daughter got a new kitten. His name is Max.

US officials have been secretly meeting with Iranian Gov officials since March last year to deport Iranian asylum seekers, many who fled here after the 1979 revolution and who are loyal to the United States and supporters of democracy. Any forced to return were likely killed upon arrival.

Brownsville, TX (07/05/26): A U.S. citizen just turned the tables on an ICE intimidation attempt. After being surrounded, they stood their ground, documented the agents' plates, and sounded the alarm for the community.