Before being arrested in Miami on new rape and sex trafficking charges, the Tate brothers were palling around with Rep Wesley Hunt (R-TX) in Washington. Photos are appearing now in English newspapers (not reported in Texas, of course). www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Watched the bonkers Demonwarp from @vinsyn.bsky.social. Chef’s kiss! #filmsky #Asdreth www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Yf...

Some news to lift the spirits a bit. apnews.com/article/tate...

Both of these teams accidentally tricked themselves into caring about this game. The wonder of sports.

This made me tune in to a third place game.

Naturalized citizen wants to end birthright citizenship¡ www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

As Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) campaigns for a third term, a trove of court and police records obtained by Mother Jones details allegations of physical abuse, drug use, and misogyny raised during a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio).

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

1/ @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social did a deep dive on Rep Max Miller and the paper trail of abuse of his ex—daughter of Ohio Sen Bernie Moreno—his little daughter, and others is profoundly disturbing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) long maintained he wasn't impaired during a 2011 crash. But newly obtained toxicology reports reveal he had MDMA and Klonopin in his system. It's part of a 2,000-page trove of records we obtained about Miller, who is currently running for a third term.

During a probe into possible child abuse, the ex-wife of Rep. Max Miller accused him of throwing hot water at her, shoving her, and holding a gun to her head. He denied the claims. But court records show Miller has faced allegations of getting physical with a woman before. ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

Just finished Annihilation by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and it was excellent! Wish I had the forethought to pick up the other two books. #annihilation #booksky

As Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) campaigns for a third term, a trove of court and police records obtained by Mother Jones details allegations of physical abuse, drug use, and misogyny raised during a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio). ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

GOP is more like a cult of ever-intoxicated predators and sociopaths than it is a party anymore. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mitch McConnell is dead. Beshear should appoint a replacement. www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconn...

The best way to get to the bottom of the McConnell question is for the governor to appoint a replacement. The GOP legislature passed a law stripping him of that power, but it goes against the state constitution. If they refuse to seat the replacement, take them to court. There’s zero downside.

JFC www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

I’ll put a finer point on it: The actual solution to our birth rate “problem” is substantially increasing immigration. Lyman Stone is a virulent racist and nativist bigot, so he rejects or ignores this solution in favor of pushing heterosexual Christian couples to reproduce more. That’s my response.

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

He wasn't the target of a DHS search or warrant. Instead, he was a devoted father and community member. So, ICE killed him, because that is what they do. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

Why does anyone support ICE? Abolish ICE is the only way to go. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

Fascism is harder to pull off when everyone is running around with little video cameras in their pockets, and can easily share the footage of bad deeds with the world. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term #TheGuardian

I am horrified by the brutal killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE earlier this week. Mr. Araujo had no convictions and had been living here for decades, working toward the American Dream. ICE has provided ZERO evidence and has lied to us again and again. We need answers.

Texas ICE Killing Darkens: Rep Says Witnesses Pressured to Self-Deport newrepublic.com/article/2129... via @newrepublic.com

NEWS --> Three men who were in the van with the victim of the ICE shooting in Texas are potential witnesses, but they're now under pressure to self-deport, a rep for the families tells me. They remain in detention even as ICE's story falters. Details in this piece: newrepublic.com/article/2129...

Wow. I just heard back from ICE on this. Here's their statement. No comment at all on the claim that the three witnesses in the van with the deceased man are being pressured to self-deport, and ICE refers further questions to the FBI:

On Tuesday morning, ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. Now, as hundreds march in Houston and Salgado’s family demands an impartial investigation, DHS is using a familiar playbook: They are blaming Salgado for his own death by asserting he “weaponized his vehicle."

ICE does not deny that it's pressuring key eyewitnesses to the shooting of Lorenzo Araujo to agree to deportation without a court hearing, and instead offers no responsive comment at all.

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There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

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Anyone else think Lightning Bolt sound like a- in the BEST possible way- spastokinetic Primus? #primussucks #musicsky

I sometimes think I am ill-equipped to be a human.

nobody in the press wants to address the fact that almost everybody at the upper echelons of tech is a full on eugenist nazi

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"