BREAKING: In Chicago, Illinois—U.S. citizens protesting ICE were dragged into vans by masked federal agents with no badges and no warrants. People screamed: “Who are you? Where are you taking them?” This is authoritarian control in real time.

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them. Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

Here are some #Bluesky poets whose work I have/will explore with my students this year. Important to support living poets 🤩 🤩 🤩 @helenlaycock.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @johnadlam.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social #poetrysky ##poetrycommunity #poetry

Attack on site sacred to Aboriginal community followed an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne city.

“This is the first time I see a threat actor use training AI models as part of their extortion tactic" https://www.404media.co/hackers-threaten-to-submit-artists-data-to-ai-models-if-art-site-doesnt-pay-up/

Jacinta Parsons on the fall of another literary institution- Meanjin.

Caribbean Parrots Are Remnants Of A Millennial Scale Extinction #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #parrots🦜 #ornithology🪶 #birds🦉 #extinction #caribbean grrlscientist.substack.com/p/caribbean-...

Tree cluster in morning light #photography #NaturePhotography #landscape #stumpylake

Australian film fans, music fans, and film music fans, Rage will be repeating their At the Movies special with Margaret & David this Friday night at 11:40pm on ABC TV.

you rarely encounter a perfect intro..........but when you do

🚨Journalism job alert🚨 We're hiring an investigative reporter to join my team at @wired.com. We're looking for someone who has both traditional and non-traditional reporting skills (coding/data work/OSINT, etc). Fit the bill? Come work with me! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CondeCareers...

BREAKING: Texas House votes 88-52 to pass new gerrymandered map.

Everything web 2.0 and social media aren’t actually tech products. They are forms of political and social engineering carried out on top of digital signal processing platforms.

After seeing public officials nationwide quiet as church mice after those two lawmakers in MN were politically assassinated, shrugged shoulders at congresspeople held hostage by their colleagues & strongly worded letters in response actual Hitlerian rule I can’t help but wonder if help ain’t coming

Harlem — Ernest Cole, 1968

Thank you to the two protesters standing in front of the National Guard with signs that say, “Shame” and “Fascism Is Not Welcome Here.”

Vladeck: There’s one video showing a DEA officer telling a D.C. resident he couldn’t drink alcohol on his porch—D.C. law says exactly the opposite. It also highlights how these officers aren’t even trained in the laws they’re purportedly enforcing.

A very moving passionate plea from @withmeaa.bsky.social youtu.be/qMq8OUw95-U?...

The president the United States using armed, masked paramilitaries to intimidate a political rival.

BREAKING WSJ: The Trump White House plans to conduct a far-reaching review of Smithsonian museum exhibitions, materials and operations ahead of America's 250th anniversary to ensure the museums align with "Trump's interpretation of American history." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Apparently, when history is told, the toppling of American democracy will have centrally featured the teenage angst of a young man with the self-applied moniker “Big Balls.”.

Slightly diminish a band: Eight-and-a-half Inch Nails

“This is liberation day in D.C.,” Trump said. Nothing says liberation like deploying hundreds of uniformed soldiers against the wishes of the local elected government. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I remember when the intentional murder of journalists made international front-page news and it was just ten years ago.

end of an era. AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet next month

🗓️ Today in one sentence for Thursday, August 7, 2025. Trump, Day 1661: "I regret nothing." whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2025/08/07/d...

Perplexity AI, whose tagline is "Where knowledge begins," is partnering with Trump's Truth Social, where Fascism begins. I'll be cancelling my paid subscription to Perplexity. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

me, crawling into the ER, bleeding profusely and gasping for air: help ER nurse, not looking up, tapping the QR code on the side of a gurney: have you downloaded the app

Every night before bed I say a little tiny prayer that Google neither loses interest and turns off google scholar nor takes too much interest and tries to make it shitty and new and horrible. One of the very few websites on the internet where you can find stuff that still works for the most part.

"The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody, physical and sexual abuse of detainees, mistreatment of pregnant women and children, inadequate medical care, overcrowding, inadequate food and water, exposure to extreme temperatures, denial of access to attorneys, and child separation."

Perhaps I will go see it

This site by @avibagla.com is keeping track of every English word written on Bluesky—and every English word that has yet to appear. Like, until now, hovercrafts.

"Today, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. He is accused of war crimes in the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine." open.substack.com/pub/chills/p...

At this point 50% of my FB feed is comprised of entirely made up shit like this. I'm a historian who studies politics and media, so it's easy for me to be a critical consumer of this schlock. But for the average consumer, this sort of social media is like putting a stick blender in one's brain.

The current right-wing government of New Zealand is doing so much ideologically-driven damage, from stoking culture wars to re-starting fossil fuel exploration. Next general election is around a year away.

I went through their team page to see if I recognised any talking heads and their images change as you scroll like it's some kind of sitcom intro. cmaxadvisory.com.au/our-team/

Auroral substorm above the Arctic Circle in Alaska

This is what journalists from the big corpo media institutions in the US should be doing every single day

Looks like FEMA will now be enforcing the new "political correctness"... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Superman has always been my favorite, and this explains why so well.

A bit perplexed at the headlines about today’s #marchforhumanity saying “perilous” and “police feared the worst”. Surely the story is that, in spite of police fears, the march was peaceful, demonstrators full of goodwill and happily cooperated with police instructions to manage the huge turnout.

I saw a blind woman, with her friend telling her about the crowd. People in walking frames, children with parents. People of all colours and cultures, people from all over NSW (some came from great distances). This truly was representative of Australia – calling on our government to act #Gaza

There were babies in prams, elderly people in wheelchairs, families, friends, organisations, unions, and a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs. It was the largest and most moving protest I have ever seen. #MarchForHumanity

This site helps people find radio stations hit by the public media funding cuts--in addition to your home outlets, people might consider donating to rural stations as they will be hit much harder than urban public radio adoptastation.org

One of my neighbors has parrots and one of the best parts of my daily evening walk is when I pass by and I whistle at them and they whistle at me thru the open window and we go back n forth for a bit. A little enrichment for us both 😂

One of my favourite little pieces of writing is hidden on the back of the lottery ticket in the boxed edition of Ephemeral City: “It is a condition of entry that, once you have entered, you do not make a fool of yourself.”

The smallest acts may have oversized effects on someone's life. Over time, everyone will accumulate countless harsh words, hurtful experiences... but also small kindnesses, moments of support and inspiration. Live honorably, and fill the lives of those around you with the latter.