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Critics Worry Kash Patel Will Purge the FBI. Would He Even Need To? Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, could do a lot of damage without overhauling the bureau much at all.

paraphrasing @radleybalko.bsky.social , the dirty little not so secret is that after all this time about whining about a supposedly liberal deep state, to turn the fbi into his own secret police, trump does not have to…. Change that much of it

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

AI driven mass surveillance is already a reality for many students across the country. In one instance, students typed up a threatening message on their school computer and quickly deleted it, within minutes school officials barged in and took them away.

apnews.com/article/ai-s...

PMC Dashboard, Aug 4, 2025 (U.S.)

COVlD transmission is higher today than during the majority of the ongoing pandemic.

The CDC warns transmission is high/very high in 10 states/territories.

PMC estimates 1 in 95 people are actively infectious.

7. It may be politically easier for state attorneys general to file lawsuits against the Trump administration. But the more critical task lies in enforcing state laws against institutions that cave to Trump’s threats despite no federal law requiring them to do so.

State AGs must step up.

Brown University’s ‘deal’ with the Trump administration betrays trans students for federal research funding - The Boston Globe While nearly 40 percent of Brown students do not identify as straight, and in an era when transgender people already face disproportionate discrimination, the university has chosen to prioritize money...

5. Another example of this capitulation comes from universities. In recent weeks, multiple institutions have quietly negotiated transgender people’s rights away in exchange for restored federal funding.

Brown, in a state with laws protecting trans people, banned trans people from bathrooms.

CMS demands data from hospitals providing pediatric transgender care The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sent letters Wednesday to hospitals that provide transgender care services to children, demanding data on their quality standards and finances. …

4. We’ve already seen over-compliance. One EO threatens to wield the federal female-genital-mutilation statute against gender-affirming health care—even though that law clearly does not apply to medical procedures. Another menace: yanking Medicaid dollars from hospitals that treat trans patients.

3. Faced with threats, a growing number of institutions—colleges, hospitals, and services—are choosing to comply rather than fight for their trans students, patients, and constituents. If this continues, compliance through cowardice will become the primary vehicle for rolling back rights nationwide.

Suing Trump Isn't Enough: Blue State AGs Must Enforce State Laws Protecting Trans People Private entities overcomplying with Trump executive orders and targeting transgender people must not be given free passes to do so by blue states.

1. State AGs have sued Trump for intimidating providers from providing trans care.

Meanwhile, institutions are dropping trans people left and right out of fear of Trump.

Suing Trump isn't enough. State AGs MUST enforce equality laws against cowardly orgs.

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"another horrifying, related phenomenon: police officers responding to domestic-violence emergency calls and raping the victim

evidence of domestic-abuse problem in police departments around the United States is overwhelming

75 percent of confirmed cases, the personnel file omitted or downplayed"

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

the USA built a system of higher education so good that smart/rich people from across the world came here, spending billions to learn here, subsidizing education for Americans while spending money to live in our cities and towns. our government arbitrarily decided we should stop doing that

Silver ENnie: Acquired. Damn, thank you so much to all who voted for Crown of Salt! It's crazy to think I've come this far with what it's only my 2nd creation on the TTRPG world.

Let me assimilate this.

More amazing stuff will come. I'm working on it real hard.

#ennies #morkborg #ttrpg

mockup of The Baron's Sport zine on green background, featuring front cover depicting a blue skull with a green shaded person trapped within its jaw accompanied by a DCC RPG logo

Dang it, the Baron has rounded up an array of prisoners to take part in a gauntlet inside his castle. He 𝘤𝘢𝘯'𝘵 keep getting away with this!

The Baron's Sport is a 0-level funnel for Dungeon Crawl Classics adapted from the #VALLEY100.

Available to download now: alfredvalley.itch.io/the-barons-s...

YouTube video by Shut Up & Sit Down You Discovered a Mighty Tome...

This is me, I made this.

Dungeon Crawl Classics in 1 rule on @shutupshow.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDnL...

Go leave nice comments.

The "EXTREME HEAT" warning is just too perfect for this story

Zohran Mamdani being *more* popular among NYC Jews than among NYC voters as a whole is a wild fact, and completely belies much of the national narrative surrounding his candidacy.

The people in the national media who talk a lot about antisemitism are often not listening to actual Jews.

Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces? Digital distribution platforms Steam and itch.io have tightened their rules about adult content – under pressure from payment processors. Why has this happened and where will it lead?

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard.

These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

The line has never been clearer regarding JK Rowling imo. No more “I don’t agree with her views, but…”

She is explicitly wielding her cultural capital AND her actual capital to dehumanize and take rights away from trans people. Giving her IP any air means contributing to this goal.

More and more content creators, game designers, and game purchasers are making a pledge not to buy from, pitch, or promote CGE or their games for the foreseeable future.

Until they release a more meaningful statement where they pledge to make things right.

Join us however is applicable to you.

journalist fully takes at face value that every instance of the term AI refers to the same thing, combat programmers in video games heave a beleagured sigh

video games have come a long way since pac-man

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two spreads from Emergence. Left shows "Warden Advice" with a spot illustration of a dropship flying upwards with a large rocket plume. Right shows a character menacingly trapped within a pod/tube with an outstretched hand.

This week I shared some of the first spreads of Emergence, my funnel module for Mothership. It's been fun creating a risograph inspired design, and @chaoclypse.bsky.social's illustration work is incredible. Pre-orders are open until August 12! emergence-ssto.backerkit.com/preorders

Harvard is run by amoral cowards. They're going to capitulate and make a deal while paying the bribe to Trump.

Right-wing billionaires continue to funnel money into Substack.

The Chernin Group? Owned by Rupert Murdoch's former right-hand man.

If you're on Substack, you're on the platform equivalent of News Corp.

Substack's owners have been very direct about how users being exposed to Nazi content is important to them because they believe in a "diversity of ideas"

They're also adamant that not showing anyone erotica is important to them because that's icky and someone might get offended.

Push alert for a Nazi blog

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

There's some awesome, physical collage layout work going on throughout this #MothershipRPG module that I think you really should check out!

Get more from Tania Herrero on Patreon Fomoria TTRPG

To cover Fomoria's early dev expenses and be able to fully focus on it without juggling between other projects to stay afloat, I'm launching a Patreon.

I will be sharing weekly exclusive lore bits, art, characters, creatures, etc.

Greatly appreciate all support!

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