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Incredible obituary www.tiktok.com/t/ZTAmsAsn1/
The tomato pincushion! Ginger had boundaries before boundaries were cool. She knew her limits, both in water and in life. She was the most feared softball scorekeeper around and could have won medals ...TikTok video by Tips From Dead Peoplewww.tiktok.com
White men own most of the country’s guns — and make up almost 80 percent of those who die by gun suicide, a pattern that gun-rights groups have spent decades obscuring. Mike Spies on the Maryland woman whose life has been turned upside down three times by her partners’ devotion to guns.
Parting ShotStormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her…www.thetrace.org
Among many other things this is a good illustration of the necessity of untethering ideology and "fight" in intra-Democratic battles. The party is very united on fight, very divided on ideology. You unite on fight, let different constituencies/states find their center of gravity on ideology.
Increasingly common to hear white Berkeley NIMBYs paint themselves as the victims of gentrification, or even redlining, without a hint of embarassment or self-awareness.
Theo GordonMove over zucchini lady, this guy calling 'bike lanes white lanes' and calling the Terner Center the 'Gentrification Center' is my new favorite Berkeley Council moment. #berkmtg
UPDATE: The dam is breaking. Six federal appeals courts in a row — including two *today* have now shot down ICE's mass detention policy, along with a 469-54 split against the administration among district judges. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...
5th federal appeals court rejects ICE mass detention policywww.politico.com
gosh I wonder what would happen to the price of liver if lots of people took his advice and started eating more of it?
FactPostRFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver"
If this policy went forward, it would also absolutely torpedo several art schools. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Exclusive | U.S. Weighs $100,000 Fee for Foreign Students Wanting to Work After GraduationThe proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.www.wsj.com
This stuff appeared over and over in the investigation and trial. The government seized publishing equipment, "Anti-Government Papers," a "Binder of Revolution based Literature," and even a "Proud Anti-Zionist” sticker.
Integral to this story is a subplot involving the government's obsession with the fact that the defendants read, published, and shared radical literature. Or, the the words of the indictment, Batten was "part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called 'zines.'”
The Trump DOJ claimed the protest was actually an "antifa" terrorist plot to ambush the cops. Everyone except the actual shooter was exonerated on the original attempted murder charges. But many of them will spend 50, or even 70, years behind bars, anyway.
We just published a deep dive from Andrew Fedorov into the federal terrorism and conspiracy trial of the "Prairieland Nine"—activists connected to a chaotic anti-ICE demonstration in Texas last year. One of them shot a cop. Now nearly everyone there is serving lengthy, often decades-long, sentences.
Savanna Batten went to an anti-ICE protest. Now she’s serving 50 years in federal prison.
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa“We are not terrorists.”www.motherjones.com
If we want to talk about undercovered stories, the fact that DOGE is responsible for the wildfire smoke that the Midwest and East Coast experienced last week is up there.
Heartland SignalDOGE grant freeze left Minnesota forest vulnerable to wildfires https://heartlandsignal.com/2026/07/30/doge-grant-freeze-left-minnesota-forest-vulnerable-to-wildfires/
BREAKING: Mandela Barnes drops out of Democratic primary for governor via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/07/30/b...
BREAKING: Mandela Barnes drops out of primary for Wisconsin governor • Wisconsin ExaminerFormer Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes suddenly dropped out of the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor Thursdaywisconsinexaminer.comGood www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Colin Gray, Father of Teenage Shooter in Georgia, Sentenced to 15 Years in PrisonProsecutors argued that Colin Gray bore responsibility for the 2024 shooting because he had given his son a gun and failed to act as the teen’s mental health deteriorated.www.nytimes.com
Another court has rejected Trump's policies that allow ICE to detain immigrants before any hearing with a judge. While this will likely be litigated further, today's decision reaffirms that immigrants who contribute to our communities and have lived here for years deserve dignity, not detention.
5th federal appeals court rejects ICE mass detention policywww.politico.com
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano came to the U.S. at 3yrs old. ICE took him this June. He was 29. He told his family he didn't feel right but ICE wouldn't give him medical attention. After a month, ICE finally moved him to a hospital Prisciliano died five days later enlacelatinonc.org/en/Young-Mex...
A young Mexican man living in Durham died in ICE custody.News in Spanish about politics, immigration and community issues for Latinos in North Carolina.enlacelatinonc.org
I'm sure another Fauci hearing from Republicans will solve this. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron RuparFox Business: "Second quarter GDP came in at 1.5%. The estimate was a gain of 2.1%, so we're coming in a little bit light."
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