Yet one more example of an industry impacted by climate change:

England's hottest summer on record produced unusually sweet apples, which bumped up the alcohol content of scrumpy (hard cider). Now, it's classified as “wine”...taxed at a higher rate...and too expensive for producers to sell to pubs.

This is a real thing that a judge had to say to the Chief of US Customs and Border Protection.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

My friend told me that her 14 year old son started doing laundry on Sundays for some of his elderly neighbors. He doesn't charge for the labor. And now he is the most popular person in the building and has non stop pies, cookies, and cake. The 14 year old should be our model of modern masculinity.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

primary anybody who doesn't talk like this

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

Pete Hegseth’s new grooming policy practically guarantees an unfathomable wave of terminations, with Black service members likely to face the brunt. Does the secretary know who mainly benefits from the waivers?

There’s almost no way he doesn’t.

Yes, books have been challenged and banned in Massachusetts! Here is a list: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Exactly.

Plus, if Dem leaders are serious about “expanding the tent,” there shouldn’t be any hesitation about endorsing Mamdani. None.

For some strange reason, the urging to expand the tent always seems to be to do so in a rightward direction.

“The FBI recorded Tom Homan, White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help agents posing as business executives win government contracts in a 2nd Trump administration… Trump’s DOJ shut down the investigation…” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin?

TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

The thing to emphasize here is that this treatment is *utterly normal.* It's part of the system of detention which has existed for decades. Folkston has been like this for many, many years,

The IMLS's Freedom Trucks Project Is Propaganda in Support of Historical Erasure: Book Censorship News, September 12, 2025 This week, the IMLS announced their Freedom Trucks initiative. It is blatant propaganda.

In a *second* update to today's story about the IMLS funneling money into a "Freedom Trucks" project–& how it, as well as the announcement for it–are tremendous regime propaganda, it was unearthed that the $14 million came from robbing IMLS's National Leadership Grants.

bookriot.com/imls-freedom...

Massachusetts grandfather denied COVID vaccine coverage despite Gov. Healey's order A 70-year-old grandfather said he was denied coverage for a COVID shot by his insurance company.

Availability of vaccines is one thing, getting them covered by insurance is another. Frustratingly, people are being denied coverage even in states like MA which now requires insurers to cover COVID vaccines.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history

BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

Judge Blocks Pillar of Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

In response to a suit by @maketheroadny.bsky.social a federal judge has blocked Trump’s expanded use of “expedited removal.”

The courthouse abductions w/o due process that we’ve been protesting are illegal—and must stop.

We’ll be back next week to make sure they do.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

In break with current CDC recommendations, leading pediatrics group recommends Covid-19 shots for young children | CNN The American Academy of Pediatrics released its updated recommendations for vaccines on Tuesday, including Covid-19 shots for infants and young children – a break from the current US for Centers for D...

American Academy of Pediatrics not holding back: “It differs from recent recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC, which was overhauled this year & replaced with individuals who have a history of spreading vaccine misinformation.”
www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/h...

U.S. Air Force to deny early retirement benefits to some transgender service members The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement ben...

This is so breathtakingly cruel that my soul glitched. I’m never surprised by the depths of depravity, per se, but having to process it still exacts an emotional cost.

www.npr.org/2025/08/08/n...

Mamdani’s Campaign ‘Taking Steps’ in Case He Gets Hassled Reentering U.S. The mayoral candidate will be arriving at JFK airport after a trip to Uganda.

Let's be clear about what's happening here: "Gets hassled" is a euphemism "gets detained under threat of armed force by secret police"

Holy shit. Check this out:

Lander finished the ranked-choice process with 151,463 votes, and he ranked second on 308,683 Mamdani ballots.

That adds up to a minimum of 460,146 votes cast for Lander in the primary.

Andrew Cuomo's final round tally was 443,229, nearly seventeen thousand less.

Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.

At a comedy show, Mahmoud Khalil told Zohran Mamdani, “I am excited about the possibility of raising my son in a city where you are mayor.” It was a stunning moment, Hanif Abdurraqib writes.

A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.

Attacks on Muslims flood mainstream after Mamdani win Openly racist rhetoric has become normalized at the highest levels of American politics.

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.

Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander at a bagel-themed demonstration in the streets of New York City, with Zohran in a suit and tie holding a sign that says “NYers DESERVE THE WORKS” and Brad Lander holding a sign in the shape of a jar of capers with a label that includes Andrew Cuomo’s face and says “DONE WITH CUOMO’S CAPERS.” Seems like there’s a schmear sign that says “spread the wealth” and a red onions sign that says “REAL PUBLIC SAFETY + FREEDOM OF SPEECH”

I’m not ready for this content to turn sad.