🚨 New video: Students spotted at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill jumping out of buildings after reports of active shooter on campus. The first news conference is scheduled for 5 PM today. WRAL confirmed 1 death. WRAL NEWS in NC

A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter& YouTube activity. Repression has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can hand down the death penalty for nothing more than tweets. Saudi authorities should quash the verdict. hrw.org/news/2023/08/2…

tonight on coup TV

Update to this: Judge McFadden held #Jan6 #CapitolRiot defendant Brandon Fellows, who insisted on representing himself, in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT and sentenced him to five months in jail for his conduct during the trial, per docket. He also awaits jury verdict.

Holy shit! A trump-appointed judge just held a 1/6 rioter IN CONTEMPT and jailed him for five months for his behavior during trial. That’s five months JUST for his conduct during trial!

My Inflation Reduction Act is lowering your costs. 2024 Republicans want to raise your costs.

Second-biggest owner of Twitter is executing a man for his tweets. Silence from the owner of Twitter, who is a self-styled ‘free speech absolutist.’ Not even a “concerning”.

“Anti-vax agitation and crypto enthusiasm are both aspects of a broader rise of know-nothingism, one whose greatest strength lies in an intellectually inbred community of very wealthy men.” Nobel Laureate, Paul Krugman

Maybe Senate republicans didn’t but lots of republicans said terrible terrible things about john Fetterman

The armed settler filmed this week violently detaining a Palestinian child was actually hosted at the British Parliament by Ian Austin in 2019. Hagar Shezaf has reported in Haaretz that avihai shorshan has been harassing Palestinian children for years as they graze sheep.

NEW: “Clarence Thomas reported three 2022 trips on the private jet of [Harlan Crow] in a financial disclosure form released Thursday, and for the first time detailed the businessman’s purchase of three properties from the justice’s family years earlier.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/…

Half the staff has quit at Atlanta magazine after a crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage that originated at company headquarters in Michigan, says the Washington Post. washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/… These clawbacks on editorial policy are going to become more common, I'm afraid. [gift link]

Wow

This Proud Boys loser — who “stormed the f*cking Capitol, took the motherf*cking place” — was sentenced today to 17 years in prison on seditious conspiracy charges. 👉What do YOU think a fair sentence would have been?

There's a new Rudy Giuliani scandal. An FBI whistleblower says Giuliani, when he was digging for dirt on Biden for Trump, was co-opted by Russian intelligence. He claims his investigation of Giuliani's activities was blocked by higher-ups. Check this out. motherjones.com/politics/2023/…

“Republican President Candidate Ron DeSantis Is Afraid of Questions From 15-Year-Old Quinn Mitchell” reports ⁦The Daily Beast⁩ thedailybeast.com/republican-pre…

You folks ever heard of a mirror?

Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola begged and pleaded for leniency at his hearing, claiming he was done with political thuggery. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. It must have felt like a win, because Pezzola raised his fist and shouted “Trump won!” as he was escorted out of the

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