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Here’s the CBS News report about ICE making bogus 911 calls and filing false police reports in Chicago.

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Electric bicycles, and shared electric bicycles in particular, are a revolutionary transportation technology. Forward-looking cities should be building out the infrastructure necessary to make cycling safe and convenient for everyone who wants to do it.

a slab of bright orange cheese from a plastic wrapper is the absolute optimal cheese for a smashburger

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

But don't accuse them of racial profiling.

Among the 22 states that drew higher-than-average shares of their power from wind and solar, 17 had below-average electricity prices in June, according to EIA data.

The government’s own data rebuts Trump Admin claims that wind and solar are driving up electricity prices, Politico reports share.google/RTIXPPQMXrTH...
“[T]he data say pretty much the opposite” of Trump & Secretary Wright’s claims.

The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.

I've written my analysis of today's grim Supreme Court oral argument in the conversion therapy case:

As far as the Court's concerned, imaginary medical uncertainty gives states the authority to hurt queer kids, and takes away states' authority to protect them

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...

I just watched a video of an ICE agent trying to find a costumed frog's rear air hole to stick pepper spray in it, and, like, why are we paying people to do this

To be fair, Trump has a long history of not paying people for work done.

White House floats no back pay for some furloughed federal workers despite 2019 law A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.

"I want to make sure we leave a lot of time for questions" — someone who is about to leave exactly 10 minutes for questions

Attacks on migrants will not return Tories to power, Lord Heseltine warns Badenoch Lord Heseltine warning comes as Robert Jenrick is caught up in a racism row

The tide is turning. Just 13 per cent of young people think Brexit was right - and fewer than one in five under 50 agree. A clear majority of Britons now believe leaving the EU was a mistake.

About 1 in 3 US Nobel prize winners are immigrants.
About 1 in 4 were government employees at some point.
About 44% of all Nobel prize winners were educated in US higher education.
As Trump demands a Nobel prize, he is destroying the means by which America came to dominate the prizes.

Sources below

It's amazing how everyone supporting her seems to forget she wasn't cancelled at all. She quit. And almost immediately was able to launch this new publication. How the hell was she cancelled?

Some people criticized shitty takes. That's not being cancelled.

WELCH: There's a tape, right, with Mr Homan. Is there a tape with audio and video of the transfer of $50k?

BONDI: You would have to talk to Director Patel about that

WELCH: I'm talking to you

BONDI: I don't know the answer

WELCH: You do know

BONDI: Don't call me a liar!

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

Something to celebrate...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'They Need to Suffer': Inside Trump's War on Dissent Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the rest of the administration are waging a furious crackdown on dissent following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

"the rosters that emerged...were little more than a laundry list of nonprofits, liberal institutions, donors, and nonviolent groups that Trump apparatchiks like Miller had wanted to obliterate for years"

One should assume, if one had not already, that every single thing the GOP has to say about pretty much anything is a lie or fabrication.

“Violence is not the cause of Trump and Miller’s desire to use state power to crush their opposition. It is the pretext for which they transparently long.”

The Zionist consensus among US Jews has collapsed. Something new is emerging | Shaul Magid Two years after the 7 October massacre and the onset of Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, American Jewry has been profoundly transformed

"How does one mourn and commemorate an atrocity against your people in the midst of an atrocity done to another people in your name?" www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

It can be both. I think we're looking a a hockey stick shaped graph of fascism.

And by "news" I am guessing she means "right-wing click bait"

Sooooo much efficiency

ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...

What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math*

"The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year."

Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit

“.. has confided to co-workers that she sees no probable cause to believe James engaged in mortgage fraud, the two sources told MSNBC.”

@msnbc.com
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Bondi to face Capitol Hill grilling on Epstein, cases against Trump foes The attorney general will have her first Senate hearing since her confirmation. She’ll likely be grilled on Jeffrey Epstein and prosecutions of Trump foes.

In her first congressional oversight hearing, Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to field tough questions on the DOJ’s investigations of President Trump’s rivals and her decision to hold back the release of more information on Jeffrey Epstein.

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

There is also a massive, decades long, right-wing campaign against them that's pushed by the President at every opportunity.

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.