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COMMUNITY RALLY & VIGIL FOR THE RELEASE OF Y EONSOO THURSDAY AUG. 7TH, 5PM CHASE PARK, SCARSDALE, NY Yeonsoo Go, a 2024 Scarsdale High School graduate & Purdue rising sophmore, has been detained by ICE since July 31%. Join state and local officials and the interfaith community on August 7th, as we rally and join in prayer to demand the release of 20-year-old Yeonsoo. For more information: paulina@nyassembly.gov ALL ARE WELCOME PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

There is a vigil next Thursday for Yeonsoo Go in her home town of Scarsdale.

I went to the Dead & Co. show with Trey Anastasio tonight after an approximate 20-year hiatus from seeing jam bands. I'm sorry to report that some of the white hippies are still wearing dreadlocks.

US immigration authorities detain daughter of Korean Episcopal priest - The Korea Times The daughter of a Korean Episcopal priest has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities in New York, despite holding what legal advocates say is valid immigration status — drawing strong condemnat...

"She accompanied her mother, Rev. Kim, who is widely recognized as the first woman to be ordained as an Anglican priest in the Seoul Diocese of the Anglican Church of Korea..."

www.koreatimes.co.kr/foreignaffai...

"Fuck you Fascists" to the tune of "Nomar's Better" just made my day

JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having “forfeited” their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...

Slave-catcher energy here

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and then saying the wrongest, most illogical mathematical nonsense possible

Moodys Chief Economist Mark Zandi: “The (US) economy is on the precipice of recession…Consumer spending has flatlined, construction and manufacturing are contracting, and employment is set to fall. And with inflation on the rise, it is tough for the Fed to come to the rescue.”

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

"France prepares law to fast-track return of art looted during imperial conquests"

The husband and I have a tradition of naming our MVP kitchen gadget of the year and our mini spatula was a winner a few years ago.

Gaza’s cash crisis is a painful reminder of powerlessness Israel decimated the banking system, leading so-called cash brokers to charge exorbitant fees to access banknotes

The inability to access cash is the reality facing everyone in Gaza, despite cash being the only way to pay for food & medicine, reports Mariam Mushtaha. Israel decimated the banking system, making it harder for Gazans to stay alive during the famine.
prismreports.org/2025/07/30/g...

Just my opinion but I think we should make these bigots ashamed of their bigotry again.

Utility wildfire risk now includes fish falling from the sky.

Interior Order Chokes Off Permits for Solar and Wind on Federal Lands The department creates a seemingly impossible new permitting criteria for renewable energy.

HUGE: The Trump administration will no longer permit any solar or wind projects on federal lands unless they produce more energy-per-acre than coal, gas or nuclear power plants.

Solar and wind literally produce less energy per acre, so simply this may just kill off any project on federal lands.

Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:

The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.

Lemme just say if President Bernie Sanders had unilaterally imposed, by executive fiat, hundreds of billions of new taxes, personally browbeat executives about job cuts and investments and then fired the head of BLS, the Chamber of Commerce and the business orgs would not be sitting idly by.

I'm repeating myself, but public broadcasting is a critical resource for immigrant and refugee communities. I learned English from Sesame Street, like many other immigrants and children of immigrants.

Do they still do Daily Oral Language in elementary school? Or is it completely irrelevant now in the age of "TRUMP"?

Scoop — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will be sending out a press release shortly announcing the creation of an AI task force and the appointment of Chief AI officer. Unclear how and why exactly the agency regulating the US economy is going to use it.

Draft text shared with me:

The business community happily funding the destruction of everything that created its prosperity will be studied by historians of stupidity.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-busine...

Timely:

Holy shit

Climate Denialism Dressed Up as Law | The Regulatory Review EPA’s attempts to reinterpret the Clean Air Act are detrimental to fighting climate change.

Over at @theregreview.bsky.social, the great Lisa Heinzerling analyzes the EPA’s attempts to reinterpret the Clean Air Act.

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

My husband and my friend went to a tuba museum in Durham, North Carolina while I was at a conference for work and I deeply regret that I missed it.

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

He is definitely Vance-adjacent in that category.

Seems like a violation of the gender essentialism EO! Is there a snitch line we can report this to?