BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit against ICE for denying people access to lawyers and subjecting them to inhumane conditions at 26 Federal Plaza in New York.

ICE is illegally holding people here for weeks, often without adequate access to medical care, food, or legal counsel.

A collage grid of six flower pictures; a pink and maroon dahlia, yellow hypericum, a light purple hosta flower, a yellowy green kniphofia flower bud, blue sea holly and a burnt orange helenium, all flowering in my garden in the North West of England today.

Happy #SixOnSaturday sky-folk! Six pics of whats flowering in my garden this weekend (see alt-text for details). It's been cloudy, cool and windy here for the last week and things have stalled a little, but we might just have a bit more hot and sunny on the way!

#Bloomscrolling #UKGardening 🌱📷

EPA plans to end a program that makes solar power available to low-income Americans The Trump administration plans to end a $7 billion Biden-era program that helps low-income households get solar power.

The Solar for All program is a multi-billion dollar federal investment to help lower electricity costs & cut US energy poverty. The Trump Administration ended it. @carleysanya.bsky.social & I talked with @juliaradio.bsky.social & @jeffbradynews.bsky.social about it: www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n... 🔌 💡

The cop's family should file a wrongful death suit against RFK (for stuff he said before Bill Cassidy confirmed him) and the NGO that has made RFK rich.

I can’t…leaving Cuomo’s silly tweet about stamina in shambles.

The SVR Fabrication Necessitates Reconceiving the 2016 Russian Influence Operation - emptywheel The answer is that the "Russia hoax" is a ploy Russian spies seeded all those years ago to leverage Trump's narcissism to polarize the US on competing sides of a grievance that would have the effect o...

"The 'Russia hoax' is a ploy Russian spies seeded all those years ago to leverage Trump’s narcissism to polarize the US on competing sides of a grievance that would have the effect of destroying the US Deep State." @emptywheel.bsky.social www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/08/t...

DOCTORS W/O BORDERS: “‘This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing’ draws on medical data, patient testimonies — what has been branded “aid distribution” (secured by 🇺🇸 armed contractors) is institutionalised starvation & dehumanisation.” www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

Mike Johnson hit with new accusation showing ‘clear-cut violation’ of federal law House Speaker Mike Johnson has been accused of using campaign money to pay his rent in what the government watchdog group Campaign Legal Center described as a “clear-cut violation of federal campaign ...

Seems Mike Johnson has been using campaign funds to pay his rent in DC, which is a major legal no no.

www.rawstory.com/mike-johnson...

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Letter from FBI Director Kash Patel firing veteran FBI agent Walter Giardina, whose wife died of cancer last month at age 49. Patel accuses this agent, a Marine combat veteran, of “weaponization.” Many of his FBI colleagues told me he did his job scrupulously and ethically.

I keep saying this (along with @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social), but it is corrosive to a society when people in positions of authority (governmental or not) lie and bear false witness without consequences.

Trump shows weakness, permitting Putin (who is under indictment) in the US and traveling to the meeting in Alaska. And what's being reported-giving Russia all of eastern Ukraine - is precisely what Russia was proposing in 2016 with Paul Manafort and others, and would reward its illegal war effort.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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Ukraine will not give up land, Zelenskyy warns ahead of Trump-Putin meeting Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses remarks by US president, who said end to war will involve ‘some swapping of territories’ before announcing meeting

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early on Saturday that “Ukrainians will not give their land to occupiers” after Donald Trump said he would meet Vladimir Putin next week and that an end to the war must involve “some swapping of territories." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling US Bureau of Land management is working to rapidly strip protections to largest tract of land in the US

‘Erasure of years of work’: outcry as White House moves to open Arctic reserve to oil and gas drilling

The Texas GOP’s Disturbing Request for the FBI If the agency helps Republicans enact a partisan redistricting plan, democracy will be under threat.

My latest: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Back in 2005, Howard Stern had a 59 year old felon on his show. And in typical male chauvinist fashion, they talked about sex, women, girls and beauty pageants.

You’ve seen the memes.

Now listen to the segment.

It’s so out in the open that nobody knows what to do about it.

What in fresh hell is this? ICE agents jump from the back of a Penske truck with a Fox News crew at a Home Depot near McArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA. All to arrest day workers who are just trying to provide for their families. Shameful!! Are they learning these tactics from Patriot Front?

🚨 BOMB THREAT 🚨
At Hotel where TX Dems are Staying c/o @thetnholler.bsky.social

What twisted priorities the US has when we can have a $45,000,000 birthday parade and a $200,000,000 golden ballroom without blinking but someone who represented the United States in the Olympics has to sell his singlet to help pay for medical bills that would be covered in other advanced nations.

Jasmine Crockett hits back at Republicans who are threatening Texas Democratic lawmakers!

Between Isaiah Martin and Jasmine Crockett, I am convinced they are the leaders we need!!

Jasmine Crockett is a national treasure!! Protect her at all costs!! 💗

This is an optimistic take, but I think the fact the fascists are explicitly pro-confederacy and also pro-pedophile will afford us more opportunities to discredit their ideology than it would be a world in which they’re more subtle.

America in 2025.

Texas Democrats don’t take orders from Donald Trump— we take them from the people of Texas.

I’m in route to Illinois to join our legislators, and I hope you’ll join me in supporting them in their effort to defend our democracy here: secure.actblue.com/donate/tdp_r...

So... Trump says he's cutting drug prices by 1500% while adding tariffs of 250% on them if made outside the country. Someone help me figure out the math here.

What’s really going on in Texas? I give you Rep. Jolanda Jones in two parts speaking from temporary exile while they deny a quorum to state Republicans. She lays out every bit of it out - chapter and verse. These Texas Dems are the real deal. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social
Here’s Part 1: