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“A construction worker was sent to the hospital after being tased and kicked in the head by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who were detaining him Thursday morning, according to advocates with Danbury Unites for Immigrants (DUFI).” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-08...

Thought for the day: The Billionaire Oligarch class doesn't have to be right or tell the truth to win power & control of a country it just has to convince enough bigoted older folk to vote against their kids & grandkids futures. It's been a successful tactic for generations.

In a surprising move, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made a secret trip to Moscow at the personal direction of former President Donald Trump, bypassing senior White House officials who were left unaware of the mission....

Flock Cameras, a popular brand of license plate reader cameras, are having a bad week.

Today, more First Nations children are being taken from their families than at any time during the Stolen Generations; about 20,000 children live in out-of-home care across the country. www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1461/an...

From (speaker?) @rokhanna.bsky.social 👇🏽

Tax the rich.

I think it is long past time that we used technological advances under nationalization to develop a new way of "representative" government that reduces the role of the representative to an actual representative, whose decisions can be easily-challenged and must align with constituents.

Woke fertilizer virus

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants. Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

It appears the Stars and Stripes reporters faced with losing their jobs are targeted because they blew the whistle on Whiskey Pete and his denial of issues on the USS Lincoln. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

I'm for some reason always comforted by the start of the Heart Sutra. Never read the entire translation, and the chant is not in a language I understand, but it calms "Han-nya ha-ra-mi-ta shingyoooooo. . . "

We’re on Year 3 of Israel doing monstrous, inhuman things to women, children, and innocent civilians and Israel’s defenders have nothing left but “we get it, you hate Jews.” It’s a tired act and you get the impression they don’t even really believe it anymore.

Mike Johnson really has them working hard for you, America.

Remember that time South Koreans rose up and arrested their president because he tried to incite AN INSURRECTION? Be like the South Koreans! 🇰🇷

It's dreadful realization at 58 that, like Maximilian Kolbe, I am an unpleasant, misanthropic, difficult individual, whose only redemption and major contribution to humanity will come from . . . dying. Makes me wonder how many martyrs weren't thinking, "For Christ," but "Finally, an end to it."

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive Chicago apartment raid was prompted by intel on a Venezuelan gang takeover. Records reveal the real story behind the raid: targeting alleged squatters with the landlord’s blessing. 👂 Listen to the full episode:

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Imagine being an official in a climate in which movies and streaming services are both delivering lots of content about violent revolution and saying: "Hey! Voter losers! Fuck you! I'm uppin' the genocide, siding with the nations enemies, and what you gonna do 'bout it? Cut off my head?!"

Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...

I try to follow everybody back, but you may not hear much from me directly. I'm a white male and required by law to maintain a certain amount of self-obsession. Besides, my tiny child brain was molded irrevocably in the 70's, so I learned youtu.be/8OVratH2q1k?...

Feel free to post to Jeffries or comment on him and use the hashtag #STEPDOWNCLOWN

It really looks like Jeffries lied to us about his meeting with Kushner. Immediately after the meeting he appointed 3 pro-Netanyahu hawks to the foreign affairs committee. I guess there won't be much diversity of opinion on that committee.

BREAKING: We sued the Pentagon to STOP the firing of 3 Stars & Stripes journalists for defending their paper's independence The firings came a day after reporting on USS Abraham Lincoln @democracydefendersfund.org @lawyers4goodgov.bsky.social @govacctproj.bsky.social & MFIA clinic are on it👇 -TN

You know who else has an unfair advantage in sport? Naturally talented athletes. And people with high hemoglobin. And rich people with money for sports camps and coaches. Why should they be allowed to compete? “Fairness in sports” my ass. Never since NFTs have I heard such bullshit.

Asheville nurses join today's Palantir Out Day of Action to demand HCA Healthcare cut ties with the A.I. giant! Palantir's technology is used in our hospitals to short staff us AND used by ICE to terrorize us in the streets. We don't want either! #PurgePalantir

It’s Lake Ontario.

My suggestion is to cancel your subscription to any media company that refers to Lake Ontario as Lake America.

On a freezing 1983 night shoot, Dolly Parton laid her shawl over a homeless man. She says Sylvester Stallone yanked it off, calling the man "scum." Parton grabbed it back: "That could have been you, you ungrateful son of a b*tch." The next day, he'd bought the man a blanket.

Just a reminder this statement was said by a sitting Congressman to the public, Trump and his DOJ offered not one pushback, denial or lawsuit.. it’s still just sitting out there