it sounds to me like jd vance knew they'd blown up fishermen and not drug dealers when he made his joke about 'not wanting to be a fisherman in that part of the world'. any reason not to believe this?

This is absolutely heartbreaking. This man should not have been murdered. His children should still have a father. His wife should not have to tell people her trauma. This government is committing war crimes.

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

For the Indiana Fever to beat the Las Vegas Aces and force a Game 5, it took a group effort. @tonyreast.bsky.social on the teamwork that fuels the Fever: www.thenexthoops.com/features/eve...

Maybe it’s just me, but I find it *incredibly* disturbing that the president of the US is very clearly losing his goddamned mind, but most of the media steadfastly refuse to even mention it.

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

Elon Musk was scheduled to visit Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private island in 2014, according to files just released. Flight logs and daily schedules show that Epstein had vacation plans with Musk, plus meetings with Peter Thiel & Steve Bannon. trib.al/Dq7Un2P

By the way, assuming they can always convert it in either direction in under 24hrs, PHX Arena seems to be available for every scheduled WNBA Finals date - except for Game 7. Playboi Carti is booked there for October 17, so if Indiana win on Tuesday night and Finals goes 7, it's Jonas redux. #WNBA

Effect of tariffs I've seen — Higher clothing prices overall — Overseas sellers covering tariff costs, but passing cost to the consumer — US stores dropping brands. Example: No Man Walks Alone won't be carrying Norbit this fall bc tariff uncertainty — Fewer deals. Ebay shuts down overseas sellers

The Mercury are heading to the WNBA Finals 🔥 Phoenix is the fourth team in WNBA history to eliminate both Finals teams from the previous season in the playoffs (Lynx, Liberty). H/T @wnba.com

Phoenix took this series by the horns starting in the second half of game 2 but I gotta say, knowing everything is about to change next year I am sad that this Lynx team couldn’t walk away with anything after two really fabulous years of basketball

My first thought. They definitely weren't there to arrest him in particular. You can see the moment they realized he was even there

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Last three games combined, Phoenix won the 4th quarters by 38 points. 44 if you throw in OT from Game 2. Just finished games better by an overwhelming margin. #WNBA

I know Cheryl's not allowed in the building tonight, but still... 👇. Second-best third-quarter team in league history. #WNBA

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

NEW: One of the coolest moments of today's Fever-Aces game was Gainbridge Fieldhouse erupting into MVP chants with Kelsey Mitchell at the line. Mitchell, the WNBA's 2nd-leading scorer these playoffs, soaked it in. “She’s finally getting her flowers." www.sbnation.com/womens-sport...

Teams facing elimination vs teams who could end a series early are 4-1 so far this year. That extra little edge that comes from fighting to stay alive has been important. #WNBA

Hopefully this is the first crack in the dam that leads to tons of criminal charges against those psychos.

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

2/ More details from the Chicago reporter attacked by ICE: www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Federalism fuckin rules

The audio version of “Data Ghost” my short story from the recent Storyteller anthology is now online at Pseudopod!

Oh he's gone-gone.

“‘I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,’ Trump said. ‘But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different […] it looks like terrible.’” i’m sorry, what?

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.

An entire political press just pretending that the president didn’t post a deepfake of *himself* announcing a total overhaul of healthcare based on science fiction then delete it twelve hours later cause that would be… difficult? Weird? Confusing? Disruptive? They simply won’t report him as he is.

he’s just cooked. going to be interesting i guess to see who manages to consolidate power within the administration while Granpa periodically flings turds over the curtain

Dominion Voting Systems and Rudy Giuliani have just settled the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against Giuliani over spreading lies about the 2020 election, according to a court filing.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that benefits families. Just a couple of weeks ago Congressional Republicans voted to make ICE richer than most of world’s militaries.

Eric Adams now that the Cuomo wire transfer hit: @ditzkoff.bsky.social

My family bought tickets in February for this game thinking it would be the day to say goodbye to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Instead, we got to see a division title. Blind luck.

at some point democrats will have to accept that unions are not a monolith and many of them are quite conservative. we can’t let them hold the MTA hostage on efficiency issues like OPTO and then turn around and endorse republicans + Cuomo

Grok told users the lead singer of The Cure was the Mormon church shooter.

Even stuff like the Comey indictment. That's in the Eastern District of Virginia which handles a big share of the DOJ's terrorism and espionage case load. Now it's run by a blonde millennial with no trial experience and orders to run show trials of people who exposed Trump's own criminality.

The FBI, DHS, ATF and every other federal agency positioned to prevent assassinations and mass shootings has been put on full-time arrest-roofers-and-march-down-mainstreet duty and feels like we're seeing the results of that mismanagement.

Fever-Aces Game 5 at 9:30 pm ET on Tuesday. ESPN2.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Trump and his billionaire donors might be able to determine Adams and Cuomo’s actions. But they won't decide this election. In just over 5 weeks, we'll turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas — and deliver a government every New Yorker can be proud of.

Well this is weird

i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

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I remember when sports center didn't have wnba segments after the games. Maybe 30 seconds mentioning who won and that was it. Now we get to see post game interviews and discussions #wnba #espn

Give the Fever credit for just NOT GOING AWAY. Stamping them as this year’s most resilient team…and putting emphasis on Mitchell, Sims, Boston and Hull.

I’m obsessed with the stack screen action that Indiana just ran. It’s honestly so hard to guard because it happens SO fast.