The Tabby Report 🩼🦽🪬

Just a heads up! I’m starting school on 06/15/2026. I will, obviously, be posting the news significantly less frequently when that happens.

a million pieces/segments sneering at hasan piker and the co-chair of the DSA, meanwhile a republican congressional candidate in upstate new york named peter oberacker is the grandson of an actual nazi germany soldier and his former staffer was part of the 'i love hitler' young GOP group chat

Disabled people are forced to live in legislated poverty. Qualifying for benefits is a dehumanizing and lengthy process designed to make you quit. You can’t have assets. You can’t marry without losing benefits. Next they plan to cut SSI payments to disabled adults whose families receive SNAP

Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

President Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching jet fighters from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults. 🔗: on.wsj.com/4i2qDD6

Trump Admin Lets Loose the Cyber Pirates

"The vote to add “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J. Trump” is an aggressive test of a judge’s order to remove his name." Oh my god www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/a...

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

Nothing screams “we’re on the good team” like pain compliance gloves!

Trump denies orchestrating plane switch: ‘It’s only up to Secret Service’

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the agency's policy gives it broad control over what footage will be made public by specifying any releases must be in its “best interests.”

jfc, I hadn't read the article yet when I posted this, and I thought (I hoped) I was exaggerating, but NYT:

President Donald Trump has developed a horrifying "little tic" as his poll numbers continue to sink, according to two analysts.

In 2020, Los Alamos scientists reassessed TRINITY’s yield using high-precision mass spectrometry. They discovered it was 24.8 ± 2 kilotons, significantly larger than the longtime accepted value of 21 kilotons. This has implications for how far the fallout spread. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Six years ago, scientists revised the yield of the “Gadget”—a non-weaponized version of Fat Man detonated in the TRINITY test on July 16, 1945—to 24.8 ± 2 kilotons. This new information strongly suggests the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was much more powerful than previously understood.

A few months ago, 4chan took down “Adult Requests” — a NSFW board that was producing huge volumes of AI deepfake porn. The site gave no warning and no explanation. So where’d all those people go? My latest: blog.openmeasures.io/p/4chan-mode...

Texans gave up a Tuesday and saved 140 polling places. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republican...

ICE arrested more than 43,000 people in July, a rate that didn’t slow even as the federal agency came under scrutiny for killing two people in the span of six days. July’s figure is the highest monthly total under the second Trump administration.

Disability advocates around the country are fighting a surge of federal and state actions that have eroded protections meant to keep people with disabilities living and working in their communities, rather than in institutions. From @acvollers.bsky.social via @stateline.org

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Ah the kid must not be an athlete then

Far out in the Pacific Ocean, there are tiny islands that few have seen. The oceans around them are full of marine life, from thriving coral reefs to sharks and tuna. The Trump administration is rolling back protections for these places. NPR got a rare visit to a remote area to see what’s at stake.

More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire. @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ncpol

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021 after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend. https://to.pbs.org/3TAajiN

The US Treasury was sued by a nonprofit group claiming the government is improperly withholding legal settlements that the Trump administration could use to cover payouts to pardoned Jan. 6 defendants and supporters of the president

States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. From States Newsroom buff.ly/pU94UFr

This is pretty amazing -- Trump has apparently learned that umbrellas are supposed to fold up?

Hello, my name is [...] I am 9 years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals. We are 3 siblings, my mom and my dad. Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us. We have been here for 47 days [...] Leave us in your country, don’t deport us. ⛓️👧👦👧👩👨⛓️ FREEDOM

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Brown University's president, who clashed with Trump over funding, steps down reut.rs/3TrtStJ

President Donald Trump has spent months purging GOP lawmakers he deemed insufficiently loyal — and that campaign of revenge may have finally caught up to him, journalist Prem Thakker argued in a Zeteo analysis Friday.

Weekly Briefing: New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella announced the settlement of a civil rights lawsuit with the National Socialist Club, the neo-Nazi group, which includes fines and community service.

Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Having failed to choke off the supply of abortion pills in America, parts of the anti-abortion movement are turning to more radical ideas. Register for free to read about them

‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers #Climate

Musk gets phony constitutional cover to do this from the 2010 Citizens United SCOTUS decision that claimed the 1886 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company SCOTUS decision granted citizenship to corporations. That lie was engineered in 1886 by a corrupt SCOTUS judge & his clerk...

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

Illinois residents who lost food assistance benefits following federal rule changes will receive $400 under a new program announced by Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday. https://to.wttw.com/3TKguAP

Two judges have rejected ICE’s mandatory detention policy, marking Donald Trump’s fifth and sixth consecutive losses on the case. trib.al/aQjsORG