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know your rights. memorize this. and/or keep it handy in a photo on your phone. or on a piece of paper in your wallet.

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we celebrate the endless and bountiful contributions of Native people. Let us continue to center their voices and wisdom, and staunchly advocate for their community and land prosperity, especially as it relates to climate change.

report from a well known source regarding an identity data breach.

The administration has provided zero evidence that these are drug traffickers, and even if they were, there are legal processes for their arrest and trial. What we DO know is that the administration has stopped pursuing actual drug cases to go after immigrants instead.

Russia's drone war is getting faster. ㅤ Moscow launched a mass missile and drone assault and sharply increased its use of jet-powered attack drones. Ukraine struck Ust-Luga and other military targets deep inside Russia. ㅤ Kyiv is seeking more Patriot interceptors.

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💥 SEPTEMBER IS HERE 💥 We’re kicking off the month with the KAPOWstitutional Convention, game night, tax help, movie night, Mutual Aid Day, a park cleanup, and a KAPOW Q&A stream! Come start the month off right, learn something new, or just hang out :) kapow.works/events

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump administration’s new U.S. Postal Service rule setting new restrictions for mail ballots. Judge Talwani’s TRO lasts for 14 days while she considers the preliminary injunction requests, with a hearing set for Sept. 3.

Mass shooting: 1 dead and 11 injured in shooting involving an assault weapon at a house party in Chicago, Illinois. gunmen open fire at planned large gathering, killing 1, injuring 9; shell casings from multiple weapons, incl a rifle recovered. Deceased identified as 35 year old Rontonio M Guterz.

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The end of summer (officially at least) in Ukraine today, where it's also Day 1650 of ensuring the country's independence never ends again. Russia's full invasion continues, and so does the daily thread. Thanks for reading, please don't forget to share and like when I deserve it!

Good morning on Day 1649 of Ukraine's defence. Welcome along, though updates today may be somewhat limited for personal reasons... feel free to wish me happy birthday 🎉 Anyway work to do, let's start.

Mass shooing: 1 dead and 3 injured including 2 children in possible shootout at Crest Hill Memorial Park in Crest Hill, Illinois.

The fact that we still don’t really know what’s going on with Mitch McConnell is absolutely ridiculous.

August 30, 2026

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simple solution to reward everyone working hard enough to earn social security points/credit towards receiving social security payouts. and this will help the economy down the line.

Kansas' new law preventing transgender people from having accurate identification or using the right bathroom is an alarming intrusion on our rights and safety. Kansas, we'll see you in court.

it took a year for this article to find me. i'll be touting the need for the management of groundwater going forward.

2 dead in shooting in Hempstead, New York. 2 adult brothers found fatally shot in parents' home.

this is the first thing to note whenever talking about trump or elon musk. don't forget everything else, but always start with this.

what could possibly ever go wrong? who could've ever seen this coming?

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

What a great night at the Iowa Wing Ding! Folks here are ready to shock the nation in November by sending Josh Turek to the Senate and sending a message that our country is done with corporate sell outs and corrupt politicians.

I covered a townhall tonight in rural Maine for the Union. A few observations: 1. I was the only Black man in the building and people noticed. 2. Parts of Maine much as well be the deep south. 3. Conservatives are just so full of hate and they revel in it. /1

Listen to what Hillary Clinton is saying: “I think it is very likely that after the midterm elections, Trump will become even more uncontrollable. Let’s assume — from my point of view — the most favorable scenario: we take back control of the House and the Senate. He will not cooperate with them.

If Trump were a foreign asset, how would he act any different, example #1103

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

The USS Abraham Lincoln has been at sea for 200+ straight days, and reports say conditions onboard are so bad that multiple sailors have tried to jump off. Our servicemembers deserve better than this. There needs to be an investigation.

August 13, 2026

Ukraine is reaching deeper into Russia while its Patriot stocks run thinner. Ukraine is pushing strikes deeper into Russian military and energy infrastructure as Moscow uses faster drones and more ballistic missiles. The next limit may be simple: who still has interceptors when the missiles arrive

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Welcome to the Ukraine daily thread on Thursday 6th August, Day 1625 of its fight for survival. It's another day when Ukraine has struck oil in Russia, but Moscow targets grain ships and railway stations in return. All the news (almost) all the time, fact-checked & dependable.

Trump is accelerating his use of the word "treason." Intelligence officers who have served overseas analyzing authoritarian movements recognize this kind of rhetoric, they understand how it has been used to erode faith in democracy and target political opponents.

Extreme heat waves struck the U.S. in July, bringing dangerous temperatures to most of the country over the Fourth of July weekend. In over 200 segments on ABC, CBS, and NBC, coverage failed to connect climate change to the extreme weather.

This is a brief but utterly harrowing description of our nation in decline and the role of Trump's disastrous presidency in making it all happen, from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the pod. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/2121...

Hello on Day 1580 of Russia's war on Ukraine. A new working week has begun with Europe basking in a heatwave. It's touching 30 degrees across Ukraine as well, and they have to fight for their survival. Here's Monday's daily thread:

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The mass warrantless surveillance law FISA Section 702 has expired. They'll try to tell you the sky is falling. Don't believe them! Instead, tell your reps: NO spying on Americans without a warrant. Period.

1 dead and a child injured in shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.

Mass shooting: 6 wounded including 2 children in shooting in industrial park area of Hanover, Maryland.

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Not a deal folks. CNN ought to know better. It is an MOU for a framework to begin a negotiation for a concept of a deal that is likely to never be achieved. Just like the Gaza "deal" was.

It’s a problem when data centers are being built without any input from the people that live nearby. I’m working to make sure communities and data center companies are both involved in the decision making process, and that residents aren’t footing the bill for big companies.

Russia promised Kyiv in two days. Ukraine has now struck 30 of its 32 major oil refineries. 40% of refining capacity offline. By autumn, whatever fuel survives goes straight to the war. Putin called it "Dvizhuha." Ukraine called it a target list.