I write and self-publish optimistic hard science fiction, usually about utopias. I like imagining what a good society could be like. http://amazon.com/author/marcsobel
Corrected Headline: Hackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States That Didn't Vote for Trump. Cui bono
SlashdotHackers Targeted Municipal Water Systems In 7 States This Week, FBI Says https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/07/31/209200/hackers-targeted-municipal-water-systems-in-7-states-this-week-fbi-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Corrected Headline: Elon Musk planning to buy Maine for Susan Collins. "It's a cheap state, I can buy it for about 5% of my daily income." (According to What Many Manly Men with Tears in Their Eyes Have Said, Sir)
emptywheelRemember that Musk's support backfired in WI in 2025. Since then we've seen the OUTCOMES of DOGE, and it'll be fairly easy to show specific outcomes.
HIs daily income estimates range from about $818 million to $1.36 billion per day. So this is his morning coffee.
Senator Sheldon WhitehouseJust what America needs: more billionaires spending more money on more political influence. Are we not sick of this yet? My DISCLOSE Act will help cure the billionaire-fueled rot. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Corrected Headlines: Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters and kids who dress inappropriately. wapo.st/4yP5K4f
Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shootersThe plastic, nonlethal aircraft, which can smash windows and ram attackers, will be at the ready in a handful of schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado.wapo.stI was uncomfortable with airport security lines before this. I don't think snatching random passengers is going to encourage air travel. (In the US) Besides, I was born in Puerto Rico of parents who were born in Detroit, so I worry these masked incompetent thugs might think I'm not a citizen.
Aaron Reichlin-MelnickWow! ICE’s airport arrests of people seemingly waiting in government immigration backlogs caught up a Fulbright scholar and public health researcher working at Johns Hopkins in their public health department. Not exactly the “worst of the worst”! Yet they threw her in detention anyway.
We should award the Medal of Freedom to these brave Republicans supporting the US by not voting for filthy GOP bills.
SoulebreakerBeen almost two months now newrepublic.com/post/212682/...
Shorter: Trump bails out White South African Illegal Immigrant under short-selling pressure,
Mad_as_hell (Maddie)Musk's $288 million donation to the Trump 2024 campaign continues to pay off bigly. 🙄 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks www.reuters.com/business/med...
Not even as tasteful as Kehlsteinhaus, commonly known in English as the Eagle's Nest.
Lindsay BeyersteinIn a first-rate bordello the fake gold tones would match.
"I think the only fair reading of this is that Trump is not willing to let Blanche back down on the audit immunity." Shorter: When you've got Trump by the wallet, his heart and mind will follow.
Josh MarshallI hate to tell him. But I think we can be pretty sure the 2027 senate will be less friendly than this one, even if Dems don't control the chamber.
Raising the age old question about despots, incompetence or malevolence? I assume that the Septic Six will overrule this silly law.
Brian Tyler CohenDemocrats have officially flipped a Florida House district blue after the Republican candidate failed to submit her required paperwork. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/07/23/c...
"Owner of rival bridge, who donated $1 million to Trump PAC in March, earned an estimated $6.9 million in tolls" Shorter: Investing $1M in Trump returns 590%
Barb McQuadeGordie Howe Bridge opened yesterday, 46 days after Trump blocked it. Owner of rival bridge, who donated $1 million to Trump PAC in March, earned an estimated $6.9 million in tolls during that time as travelers and businesses endured costs of slow border crossing. www.freep.com/story/news/l...