how is anyone staying hopeful right now

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

A new week has come so you know what that means? More calls.

As a reminder when calling your House Rep you need to also tell them about:

KOSA
SCREEN Act
COPPA 2.0
RESET Act
Sammy Act
App Store Accountability Act
GAMING Act
Safe Messaging for Kids Act
Parents over Platforms Act

Cont.

I tagged you and @evangreer.bsky.social on this message (I'm including it here btw): There's plans afoot to insert provisions of KOSA and the SCREEN Act into the NDAA as part of the AI Preemption issue.

It's awful, but least the upside of this is that it can be attacked as one issue...

NEW: The 2026 NDAA final text out tonight calls for the Under Sec of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to convene a "US–Israel Defense Industrial Base Working Group" to study the "potential for greater integration of the defense industrial bases" of the US and Israel (1/4)

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para9 graph (2), the Secretary of Defense may not— 10 (A) maintain an office relating to diversity, 11 equity, inclusion, or accessibility or any sub12 stantially similar office; 13 (B) maintain or employ a chief diversity 14 officer or a substantially similar officer; 15 (C) develop, implement, distribute, or pub16 lish plans, strategic plans, reports, or surveys 17 relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, and ac18 cessibility, or substantially similar plans, re19 ports, or surveys; 20 (D) develop, implement, or maintain an 21 employee resource group or an affinity group 22 based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, national 23 origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity;

Tucked into the NDAA is a provision that prohibits "an office relating to diversity, equity, inclusion, or accessibility or any stantially similar office;"
AND developing "an affinity group based on race, color, ethnicity, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity"

goodbye

i guess i am done fighting

Nvm I forgot Schumer was still in charge, back to dooming

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Democrats Retain Control of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court with Three-Seat Sweep - Bolts Three Democratic justices on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have defeated an unusually high-profile Republican bid to unseat them. They secured large statewide victories on Tuesday, following an histo...

Democrats have successfully defended three seats on the all-important Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This means the court will be controlled by Ds through the midterms, and almost definitely through 2028 as well.

My story on the result: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

i am still feeling doom, but tonight’s election results have given me some hope

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.

Kristi Noem claims that ICE has not detained or arrested any US citizens. We're calling BS.

The shutdown debacle enters its SNAP era — and it’s about to get ugly Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.

Tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their grocery benefits as Washington remains locked in a shutdown fight. This is really bad.

foodfix.co/the-shutdown...

i think we’re underreacting to the $130 mil being floated to the white house rn to pay the military
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it’s over y’all, fr
they’re never going to re-open the government, we’re done

Are you kidding me right now? This is the last thing we need. KOSA is back no thanks to Senator Blumenthal who is working with the GOP and bringing in Republican Senators to convince the House to support it.

Please, CALL GOP House leadership and tell them to keep opposing it!

Kidnappings across Chicago’s Northwest Side, Bronzeville, Cicero and suburbs; DHS confirms 37 arrests in South Shore apartments raid • The TRiiBE A day after federal officers swarmed an apartment building in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, agents returned to the South and West sides on Wednesday

ICE in Chicagoland today:

CBP agents were seemingly everywhere, with arrests across several neighborhoods and the suburbs. Exact numbers are unknown.

Neighbors in Garfield Park witnessed feds choking a Black man in the street, and Border Patrol snatched people at retail strips and traffic stops.

Trump’s Chicago ICE Crackdown Intensifies With Drones, Helicopters and Trucks

Chicago: “The Border Patrol official said that snipers rappelled down from helicopters on top of the apartment complex, as a precaution from potential violence.”

Data analyzed by @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social and @adrianacardmag.bsky.social shows 5,200 people were processed through Broadview Jan. 1 to July 28 — a 3x increase from the same time last year.

“They treated us like animals or worse than animals because no one treats their pets like that.”

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

does it matter

WATCH: Trump, Hegseth address rare gathering of U.S. military leaders from around the world President Donald Trump revealed that he wants to use American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday in declaring an end to “woke” culture...

President Donald Trump revealed that he wants to use American cities as training grounds for the armed forces and joined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in declaring an end to “woke” culture before an unusual gathering of hundreds of top U.S. military officials. https://to.pbs.org/4gJUopu

drawing of a man crying, the character is Juhwan from Flip Turn

mood forever:

Trump says he'll send troops to Portland and sanction “full force” against Americans That would be illegal, except perhaps in moments of serious unrest—which this is not.

Intentionally provocative, morally wrong, and almost certainly illegal, if SCOTUS were not complicit:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

i think tech corpos fanning rage farming via social media and trying to sell you ai companions that are eternally pliable is connected. for the possibility of connections between ppl and the planet to work it's imperative to cultivate thoughtfulness and empathy & let yourself and others be "cringe"

Jared Kushner’s Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts

The oligarchs are going to make sure they control all the media, that includes video games.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About State Supreme Courts - Bolts State supreme courts have come under a brighter spotlight as battlefields for some of today’s most pressing issues, from abortion rights and climate to extreme sentencing and ballot access. And... Rea...

There's been growing attention on state supreme courts, as spaces that are more insulated from SCOTUS, & can develop different approaches to the law & people's rights.

Do you know how your state supreme court works, why it matters, & why you should care?

We at Bolts put together a 🔥 explainer!

didn't think I was going to die before 32 but eh I guess this is what I get for not trusting my gut and leaving earlier