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Civil rights lawyer, shitposter, he/him

Houthi militia ladies with giant assault rifles
Unemployment Rate - Women (LNS14000002) Observations V Jul 2026: 3.9 | Percent, Seasonally Adjusted |
Big drop in LFPR for women over past year
Chart showing LFPR for men going from 87 in 1950 to 67 today
When approached for comment, Atena Sherry, Knight Foundation's director of communications, initially denied that Knight had provided funding to Honest Reporting: "Knight Foundation did not provide any grant to Honest Reporting, and the foundation has not directed any Knight funds to Honest Reporting" through any third party, Sherry told Drop Site. In a follow-up statement, Sherry said, "We reviewed all documentation. Knight Foundation has never provided any funding to Honest Reporting." According to Honest Reporting, however, "the grantor, Jewish Federations of North America and United Israel Appeal, notified Divuach Ne'eman R"A and HonestReporting.com, Inc. that a donation of $100,000 was made 'on the recommendation of the donor, The Knight Foundation. Honest Reporting added that "Staff for Divuach Ne'eman R"A and Honest Reportina.com. Inc.
Pet adoptions, fosters needed as Mobile County Animal Shelter over capacity by: Summer Poole Updated: Jul 30, 2026 / 10:07 AM CDI
The mad dash for tax exemptions has flipped the typical norms of real estate upside down. Hoping to fall below the $5 million tax threshold, owners are now asking appraisers to prove that their property values are lower than they seem. Rather than hide their property's flaws, they are spotlighting the wear-and-tear on their apartments, their lack of renovation or the fact that there is no doorman in the lobby.
Jennifer Landau-Carter, a retired diplomat who now lives in Paris, had always intended to sell the Greenwich Village townhouse that she inherited after finishing its yearslong, multimillion-dollar renovation. Once she received a pied-à-terre tax notice in the mail, the decision to sell her childhood home got even easier. "You get this letter and you're like, 'Wait, what? Me?' " she said. Landau-Carter claims her property isn't a pied-à-terre because it hasn't been habitable while under construction. She said she spent 3½ days combing through the Department of Finance website, filling out forms and consulting AI to contest the tax, which would put her on the hook for more than $64,000. The Greek Revival home is listed for around $20 million.
Tweet from Congressman Troy A. Carter • ... @RepTroyCarter Republican talking points about getting rid of "waste, fraud, and abuse" are nothing but smoke and mirrors. Cuts to Medicaid, including requiring people to re-qualify for Medicaid every 6 months, are really about securing tax cuts for Trump and his billionaire buddies at the expense of working families. 1:37 PM • Aug 5, 2026 • 527 Views
Bubble chart showing that rightwing accounts now dominate Twitter
According to Keach Hagey, Altman met his future husband Oliver Mulherin "in Peter Thiel's hot tub at 3 a.m." in 2015. Mulherin was a computer science student at the University of Melbourne at the time and later became an engineer. He worked on Al projects in Australia before moving to the United States to work for the dementia detection startup SPARK Neuro. [120] Altman married Mulherin in January 2024|1211 at their estate in Hawaii;[122) the couple also live in Russian Hill, San Francisco and often spend weekends in Napa, California. [119|1123) The couple has a son, who was born in 2025 via surrogacy. 124][125]
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Democrats PROJECTED WINNER ABDUL EL-SAYED WINS THE MICHIGAN PRIMARY Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Haley Stevens Mallory McMorrow Votes 684,735 656,406 55,710 89.5% expected votes in (Est. remaining 164,000)
D 13 > 69.4% in D. McKinney S. Thanedar 46,400 51.7% 43,390 48.3%
Democrats TOO CLOSE TO CALL Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Votes 541,448 Pct. 49.7% Haley Stevens Mallory McMorrow 504,522 42,866 46.3% 3.9% 70.6% expected votes in (Est. remaining 454,000)
Democrats TOO CLOSE TO CALL Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Haley Stevens Mallory McMorrow Votes 479,793 446,345 36,528 Pct. 49.8% 46.4% 3.8% 64.5% expected votes in (Est. remaining 530,000)
Democrats TOO CLOSE TO CALL Candidate Abdul El-Sayed Votes 452,886 Pct. 49.7% Haley Stevens Mallory McMorrow 424,445 34,483 46.5% 3.8% 61.2% expected votes in (Est. remaining 578,000)
• D] > W. Lawrence 18,950 38.6% 39.9% in B. Brink 15,314 31.2% M. Maasdam 14,830 30.2%
AES up 52.6 to 44.3 over Stevens with 18% reporting
El Sayed up 26pts with 5.5% of vote in
El Sayed up 62% to 34% with 3% reported
Highly unrealistic Senate map showing Dems winning 60 seats in November
Trump Says He's Replacing D.C.'s Grass With Grass From 'A Friend Of Mine' A reporter who asked a fawning question Monday about President Donald Trump's efforts to "beautify" Washington, D.C. was rewarded with some actual news: Trump is replacing the city's grass with grass provided by "a friend of mine." Because "grass is like humans," Trump said. "We're replacing all of the grass that hasn't been replaced in the fields," said the president. "All the beautiful fields where the grass is. You know, grass is like humans: Uh, it has a life. This grass hasn't been changed in 100 years." Trump later added he expects to replace 700 acres of grass with new grass, directing reporters to inspect the grass in front of
The Democratic trifecta culminated with an acrimonious intra-party lame duck fight at the end of 2024, as pro-business Democrat House Speaker Joe Tate sat on popular bills, including nine that passed the legislature. Among them, legislation to lower healthcare costs for unions, expand working class tax credits, address predatory debt collectors, and fund an African-American history museum. Democrats had lost the house in the November election, and instead of sending the bills to Whitmer for a signature before the trifecta ended, Tate handed them to incoming GOP leadership, which also refused to send them to the governor. The state supreme court, controlled by Democrats, ruled several weeks ago that the bills had to be sent to Whitmer for signatures. Instead, Whitmer quickly vetoed them. Labor viewed Whitmer's move as a "betrayal," a top official with one of the state's largest unions, who declined to use their name to speak freely, told Drop Site. Michigan is a labor stronghold,
Among the allegations, Emily Moreno testified earlier this year in connection with a defamation lawsuit filed against her by Miller that he "took hot water from a pan he had just cooked eggs in and threw it at me". She has also accused Miller of holding a gun to her head, according to the New York Times. The couple married in 2022.
Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social I'm sure Bernie has accurate statistical data to back up his claim - data that wasn't provided by Hamas entities, that is. Aaron Rupar@@atrupar.com • 4h Bernie Sanders: "The immediate issue of the moment is whether or not we continue to put tens of billions of dollars into the extremist Netanyahu government which has killed 75,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com Private School Joined Apr '23 (I get that Bluesky is very obviously the Wow We Loved Lockdowns website but I think it's absolutely fine, five years after the fact, to wonder if we got the balance right between "protecting older people" and "making sure younger people weren't getting entirely shafted", arguments are allowed)
With Mr. Trump's aims shifting, Washington is losing credibility both militarily and diplomatically, analysts said. Its conduct in the war underscores the impression that the United States is an unpredictable instrument of global disorder, they said.
First side: 68 + 32, calculated the old way by carrying the 1 Second side: 68 + 32, calculated the common core way, with several additional steps
not some outspoken Israel supporter; not endorsed by AIPAC; but is a ... well, you know
"But also, criticizing the way a woman speaks is sexist.”
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Between prices and a diarrhea-causing parasite, lettuce is causing hard times at some restaurants 4 MIN READ • 51 MORE COVERAGE US economy grows at a sluggish 1.5% in second-quarter with inflation remaining stubbornly high 3 MIN READ 口 223 Average 30-year US mortgage rate rises to highest level in a year at 6.66% 3 MIN READ • 26 US filings for jobless benefits rise to 197,000 last week but lavoffs remain historicallv low
Gretchen Whitmer, in the oval office for a Trump press conference, ridiculously hiding her face behind a folder
Chart of Bush approval rating
In 2025, Americans placed roughly $166 billion in bets on sporting events. That's more than the entire U.S. movie, music, book, and museum industries generated in revenue combined.
Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.s...• 9m 4 Replied to rustyshacks.bsky.social The last set of general election polls where a month ago. Much has changed since then. Could the race be breaking open to Stevens given the ad spend, the endorsements, the day to day campaigning? Of course. My point - the perception that AES was a stronger candidate was never real.
Dangling keys for a baby
Hawkins reporting also found that Gov. Landry personally signed a nondisclosure agreement with a Meta subsidiary tied to a proposed $50 billion data center campus in Richland Parish. "The governor himself signed an NDA with Meta, a trillion-dollar tech company based out of California," Hawkins said. "That agreement says that if our governor, the highest elected official in the state, wants to talk about the data center being built in Richland Parish, he has to check with the company first to make sure that's OK."
Michael Jordan: Republicans buy sneakers too.
An excerpt from The Athletic: LeBron James warps the landscape around him. He's won at least one championship everywhere he's been. One will do in Philadelphia. David Aldridge, senior columnist
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states "based solely" on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
Laura Rozen • @lrozen • 1h X On Trump seemingly adding new conditions to the US Saudi nuclear deal, including Saudi Israel normalization, a Saudi source says: "It was signed. So nothing to renegotiate." "Tweets don't overturn signed agreements," he added.
Andrew Baker © • 2nd Assistant Professor - Berkeley Law 1พ• look at my good buddy Jay making us corporate lawyers proud Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election? Clayton: I'm not going to get into that with you. Ossoff: Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president's delusions?
What they're saying: "Obviously what's happening politically around the country has impact on members of the House," said former House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who opposed the amendment. • Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), who also voted "no," told Axios that political pressure "probably" played a role. "I think Israel is in trouble," he said. • 'As long as Netanyahu is in charge, there are going to be many votes against Israel funding or support," Cohen added.
Democrats' Frontrunner In Maine Is Scrutinized Over Temper: Reports Troy Jackson, the presumptive Democratic replacement for Graham Platner in the Maine Senate race, is facing scrutiny over his temper, according to reports from The Washington Post and CNN, both of which interviewed his former colleagues in the state legislature along with other sources. The reports detailed an incident in which Jackson threw a plastic water bottle during a heated disagreement, engaged in shouting matches with other state lawmakers and cursed in conversations with colleagues Critics of Jackson have flagged concerns about his temperament, including conflicts he's had with women lawmakers. His supporters have argued that these conflicts point to his passion for certain legislative positions.
In contrast to every other aspect of Cuba's failed state, this model has yielded remarkable success.
Belief in each of the 10 antisemitic tropes that the group tracks has increased since June 2023. The tropes igclude, "They think they're the chosen ones," that Jews are "white and wealthy, that Jews run Hollywood," and that Jews "distike Christians." The Blue Square said that antisemitic attitudes had increased after the October 2023 Hamas onslaught in Israel, but had plateaued by mid-2024.
At the same time, a majority 52% of all respondents said it was harmful to blame Jews for the Israeli government's actions. Belief in each of the 10 antisemitic tropes that the grup tracks has increased since June 2023. The tropes include, "They think they're the chosen ones," that Jews are "white and wealthy," that Jews "run Hollywood," and that Jews "dislike Christians." The Blue Square said that antisemitic attitudes had increased after the October 2023 Hamas onslaught in Israel, but had plateaued by mid-2024.
In 1986, Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor, tried to buck the union. He proposed taking the lead requirement out of the code, after hearing from the health department that 1,644 children in the city were suffering from high levels of lead in their blood. By then every other major city in the nation had banned lead pipes and Ballanco's engineering organization was urging Chicago to adopt a model city code that excluded lead as well. But the plumbers union stood its ground and opposed the measure, and thus it failed to win approval from the city's aldermen. "Lead [pipes] have proven over a long time to do the job they were designed to do," Jim McCarthy, the union's business manager, told the Chicago Tribune at the time. "I'm hard-pressed to understand why people are talking about lead poisoning. We've had lead pipe in the water system here for 100 years."
Sam @samd.bsky.social • 4h very good example of how some unions have parochial interests that are diametrically opposed to what is best for society as a whole
93 degrees in New Orleans
Ilhan Omar about to punch a guy who threw some weird substance on her
Map showing south Louisiana as one of the few places getting sunrises before 8am
Norway fan who refuses to row because it’s “stupid” and ahistorical and copied from Iceland
The sting that birthed these charges began when FBI agents approached multiple Jackson politicians posing as real estate developers in 2023. Eventually, the agents invited Lumumba and Owens on a luxurious excursion in Florida, where, aboard a yacht, the undercover agents offered them cash bribes in return for helping to move the hotel project along.
Waymo is amazing. Driverless robo taxis are the future. Driving sucks!
"I have personal experience of challenging actions of the administration to accrue power for themselves at the expense of Congress, of the people, and I have experienced challenging that all the way up to the highest court in the land," Slaughter said in a phone interview with the News. "And my immediate reaction, on reading the sta y that Yale was considering settling, is that it cannot be that I, Becca, normal human, had the wherewithal to challenge something that was wrong and an abuse of power, and Yale - with its $44 billion endowment - does not, " she continued.