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He's right, and it's not just Brazil.

Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

Russian drone incursion into Poland will test Nato resolve Whether the drone incursion was deliberate or accidental, Moscow will be watching Nato's response to it closely.

After the drone attack, Poland has invoked Article 4 of NATO.
Note:
a) Article 4 calls for consultation, NOT mutual defense,
b) Not the first time Russia has "accidentally" bombed Poland, nor the 1st time Poland used Article 4
c) Yes, it's a Putin troll; no, it is not an inevitable escalation

The NYT is reporting Charlie Kirk has died from his wounds.
Political violence of any kind, whether against a conservative pundit or a progressive state legislator, is abhorrent and must be condemned by all sides whenever it occurs.

Kushner takes millions from Saudis, advises Trump on Middle East policy Jared Kushner, who is being paid tens of millions of dollars in annual fees by the Saudi government and other Middle Eastern nations, has taken a central role advising President Trump on Middle East…

1. Jared Kushner is taking TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS annually from Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern governments

Simultaneously, Kushner is playing a CENTRAL ROLE shaping Trump's Middle East policy

It's a massive conflict. And a scandal. That's getting scant attention

We're three lines into "First they came..."

Today's Supreme Court ruling profoundly impacts the foundation of American democracy. The implications are severe. Our constitutional safeguards are no longer guaranteed. The enjoyment of constitutional rights and protections are now contingent upon one's race and class.

1. Sabrina Carpenter 209 posts • Entertainment 2.49ers 188 posts • Sports 3.Brock Purdy 233 posts • Sports 4 US Open 4.8K posts • Politics 5. Jalen Ramsey 154 posts • Sports

For those keeping track of Bluesky’s algorithm …

Trump going to the US Open is “Politics”

Sabrina Carpenter being Pro-Trans is “Entertainment”

Underlying tweet from Jennifer Griffin at Fox News: "The Pentagon is deploying 10 F-35 stealth fighter jets to Puerto Rico for counter-narcotics tasking in the Caribbean, a source familiar confirms to Fox News per @LucasFoxNews." She then quote-tweets that and asks "Why would you need F35 stealth fighter jets for a counternarcotics mission? The F35s being sent to Puerto Rico are usually used for large bombing missions like the targeting of Iran’s nuclear facilities- a 5th generation supersonic fighter jet known for its lethality. It looks to me like the US military is going to war. 8 US Navy destroyers in the Caribbean near Venezuela is a first."

One of the few remaining serious journalists at Fox News asks a very good question about reports that Hegseth just had 10 *stealth fighters* deployed to Puerto Rico allegedly for "counter-narcotics."

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old:
copa.apps.uri.edu

I hope you are seeing the spread already
They will be coming for YOU soon
#nokings
#nopedophiles
#nonazis

Yes, it should. However, that would require an effective mainstream media in America — which we don’t currently have.

Do you know how you counter a powerful bully? You bring all your friends!

Scene is two people and four horsemen of the apocalypse in coloured robes instead of the dark ones. Instead of the normal "death, famine, pestilence" etc, they have banners saying "Hope", "Justice", "Empathy" and "Just basically not being a dick" Horseman 1 is saying to the two people "THe whole apocalypse thing got too depressing so we've reinvented ourselves as the Four Horsemen of Working Together to Get Us All Out of the Mess We're in"

ICYMI- Horses Changing Courses- yesterday's cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

It is insane to me that the government can find money to pay ICE agents increasingly larger sums of money, yet teachers have to buy their own pencils.

Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state

www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

Discovered in 2022, the massive blue arcs near the Andromeda Galaxy—SDSO 1 aren’t galactic neighbours, after all. They’re an entirely new class of faded planetary nebulae in our own Milky Way, dubbed Ghost Planetary Nebulae (GPN). A hauntingly beautiful find!

Credit: Ogle et al.

Keep the two distinct in your head.

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

“It’s definitely a complex journey because I am many different things all at once. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Ugandan. There’s no question in my mind that I’m Indian. And there’s no question in my mind that I’m a New Yorker. And I’m all of these things, yet in each of these places I’ve been made to feel that it’s not actually my home to call– in Uganda, I’m told this guy is actually Indian, in India, I’m told this guy is actually Muslim, and in New York I’m everything but a New Yorker. But I’m realizing that it’s not a determination I should be outsourcing to others. It’s something that if I know and feel, then I need to become comfortable in asserting. Others will take time in catching up to that.”

This answer that Mamdani provided in a 2020 interview shows that he has always been extremely open about the complexities of his diasporic identity and remains the perfect rebuttal to the attempted scandal the NYT is trying to create today.

africasacountry.com/2020/01/roti...

“America was founded on the radical idea that all men are created equal.”

—Letters from an American by @hcrichardson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

We need to throw the GOP out. They’ve just handed us the playbook.