Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.

Fucking hell, this is horrifying www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“At no moment were the agents in front of the vehicle." “Cornered." “Lorenzo stopped the van, the officer shot him anyway.” Court filings detail accounts of deadly Houston ICE shooting contradicting officials w/ @alexnguyen.bsky.social @ujohnnyg.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/07/21/t...

More about sharing thst upskirting photo, from Gina Martin.

"[S]ignature matching [reportedly] leads to disproportionately high levels of rejected ballots for voters of color, as well as those who are new, young, old, politically unaffiliated or disabled ... Signature-matching efforts sometimes disqualify more legitimate than illegitimate ballots."

“The Venezuelan government set up a website to track the revenue from US-run oil sales, but it has only one entry — a transfer of $300mn in March…” www.ft.com/content/0e56...

Interesting. The Senate must adopt a resolution to actually make this happen. Has the Senate done that? 🤔 If not, then this is an announcement of a decision _by the Repub Conference_. Normally the rest is simple, but since Repubs blocked a res to fill a Feinstein cmte seat, who knows? #SRules 1/

I am in no position to weigh in on this matter, but Zelenskyy’s decision does underline the fact that Ukraine is a democracy, where public opinion matters even if the country is at war. Does anyone think that Putin would listen to protesters…?

"ICE agents [have already] shot and killed [at least] two people during traffic stops in July ... On the same day that it was reported that ICE would suspend traffic stops, an ICE vehicle pursuit in Florida resulted in yet another death[.]"

I'll believe it when you see it.

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Wow -- Ken Paxton and his team abruptly shut down a news conference and bail after journalists try to ask him about his various scandals

Ancient asteroid impacts may not only have reshaped Earth — they may also have helped spark life itself, new models suggest. Image credit: Southwest Research Institute www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... #fossils #paleontology

Column: #Florida manatees are really sorry for getting in everyone's way & being such an inconvenience for boaters and developers of waterfront habitat. They understand they must die out now so that corporations can make $$$. www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

WTF? Give nuclear capability to Prince Bonesaw? www.wsj.com/world/middle...

I once went to Vancouver, and asked a pharmacist how much a vial of insulin costs, they said $35. Then I called my pharmacy in the states, and they said $360. Insulin companies extort their customers and people are dying because of it. Prices are getting better, but not by much. Keeping an 👁️ on this

Dreamers made no bad choices. They were brought here as children. They grew up in America & followed the law. They are upstanding members of our communities, making many economic and social contributions. But POTUS can hurt them so he chooses to hurt them. Even though it hurts us too.

Specifically, and I think this is important, she was his stuntwoman for forced perspective in the Laestrygonians scenes. She’s under five feet tall and the guys playing the Laestrygonians were all seven feet or taller. Amazing

🌊 A report led by Scripps scientists warns that oxygen loss in aquatic ecosystems could trigger changes lasting centuries. Aquatic deoxygenation is emerging as a major threat to marine life, fisheries & the natural systems regulating Earth's climate. ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4yxcvaL

"[T]he family policing system is a core plank of the U.S. carceral state. ... Public dollars are always available to investigate and monitor marginalized folks—particularly Black mothers—while pennies are made available for direct support for families in need."

"Any San Francisco driver who routinely drives through school zones should brace for 15 mph maximum speeds on roads with two lanes, or 20 miles per hour on wider, multilane arteries."

She fueled lies about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack, advocated removing GOP senators who voted to convict Trump + smeared several GOP senators, including Lindsey Graham, who just died last week. Senate Republicans voted to confirm her anyway. Including Graham's sister. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

5. The advisory also rejected the framing that treating transgender youth is a risky intervention while not treating them is a neutral default. Delaying care, the review found, carries its own harms. "Non-treatment is therefore not a neutral option"

1. In an incredible new landmark review, the Health Council of the Netherlands has declared that gender-affirming care for trans youth works, reducing wait times is "morally urgent," and regret is rare. It is the latest of many Euro countries to advance care. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Taylor Farms, the lettuce supplier at the center of our explosive diarrhea outbreak, has spent millions to oppose food regulation and elect Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans:

“Garber found that “mass voter challenges have become a key element in the campaign to use election integrity as a pretext for voter suppression.”

A car alarm device, KARR, inside millions of cars has a security flaw that lets hackers unlock, track, even paralyze vehicles. There's a patch. The problem? Half of car owners who have the device installed didn't ask for it, and may not even know it's there. Thread👇 www.wired.com/story/a-devi...

This is fucking terrifying

Pitfalls of a state legislature that only meets every 2 years. Of course, there's always the possibility of a special session, and if this doesn't call for one, I'm not sure what does: www.eenews.net/articles/pus...

This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms.

Al Jazeera: Iran’s Fars news agency, citing a military source, reports that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as aggressive US actions continue.

"Freedom Fuel" ➡️ Fourteen stations in the 25-location network are controlled by companies linked to Shamikh and Syed Kazmi, two brothers who have been dogged by a string of civil misconduct accusations, including fraud, records show. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

“We can only infer that the parking behavior would be even more constrained in a dense city like Manhattan. We think that in a space-constrained place like New York City, the deadheading miles or the mileage traveled overall would increase.” www.amny.com/news/robotax...

few things radicalize me more than this we are the richest, most powerful, most abundant nation on earth failing to feed our own hungry people is an abomination it is immoral and ought to be punished by any cosmic principle of justice

ICE is quietly arresting more people than ever. After months of releasing no detention data at all, the new numbers show a record 1,474 arrests a day in early July, the highest daily pace of the entire Trump administration. 🧵 austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-quietl...

12/ Canada's response is already visible. Exports to non-US markets rose 17% year-over-year, even as exports to the US fell. Ottawa now targets doubling non-US exports by 2035. That's what the leverage is buying — a trading partner rebuilding its economy around not needing you.

11/ The cost of today's move isn't only the tariff revenue or the price increases on dairy and alcohol. It's the erosion of trust with an ally embedded in NORAD, NATO, and integrated North American supply chains, for leverage the data says isn't materializing.

9/ Manufacturers surveyed through 2025 cite trade policy uncertainty as their top concern, above cost or demand. Unpredictable terms discourage the long-cycle investment reshoring requires. The volatility built to generate leverage has instead discouraged it.

1/ Trump signed 50% tariffs on Canada today under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Worth walking through the legal mechanics, the USMCA leverage play behind it, and what it costs.

"[G]overnment officials should not be able to trade stock while they're in office."

Meta is pure evil, in case this somehow hasn’t occurred to you yet

"[Stephen] Miller went even further to say that not only left wing groups, but also anyone who supports left-wing causes, must be subject to persecution. ... Miller's speech echoes some of the worst far right rhetoric against the left from top officials in U.S. history."

ICYMI ‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source www.latimes.com/environment/...

“Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness, and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions.” Frantz Fanon

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

A few months ago I gave a public talk about satellites at a local brewery & afterwards one of the attendees asked me if I'd like to collaborate on an OpEd to spread the word about the growing problem of space junk. Long story short, today it's on the front page of the digital WaPo: wapo.st/4yqgbLn

Grateful that she correctly identifies this no as a problem with trans advocacy or soi-disant “AI” but brands lacking moral clarity

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Pool report from @svdate.bsky.social, who is at the World Cup ceremony: "The president walked onto the field at 1826 to a sustained chorus of boos. Ambient crowd noise was about 78 decibels. Booing brought it to 84."