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The blue trays were disgusting at the chow hall in my wing of the Mark Stiles Unit, a Texas prison 85 miles east of Houston. Grease-stained. Flecked with days-old tomato paste. Slimy, smelly and woefully unsanitized.

The post Why Can’t I Get a Clean Food Tray at this Texas Prison? appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

In the Deep South, everybody loves their pets. People in prison are no different. We have pet squirrels, lizards and even mice. But the most beloved and coveted of all Florida prison pets is the regal jumper, a species of jumping spider found in parts of the U.S. and Caribbean.

The post The Top Pet in This Prison Is a Special Kind of Spider appeared first on Prison Journalism Project.

Welcome aboard Svelte Airlines flight 362426. We’re so glad to have you with us today. Not you, econo-fat in 49C; we just tolerate you. For now. Please sit in your assigned seat. Unless the person next to you doesn’t like that. Ultimately, the person to your left will decide...

U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) called it a "challenging time" after her son Tyler Boebert was charged with five felony counts of child sexual exploitation.

Tyler Boebert, 21, faces three counts of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, according to court records.

All five counts are felonies alleged to have occurred on Jan. 1, 2024.

Tyler Boebert was released on a $10,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Garfield County District Court on Aug. 19, the Denver Gazette reported.

"I love my son. We take these allegations very seriously and pray for everyone affected during this challenging time," Lauren Boebert told the Daily Mail.

Tyler Boebert had previously been charged with child abuse in July 2025 after his toddler son got out of the congresswoman's home, Westword reported.

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Donald Trump seems to finally be coming to terms with just how monumentally he screwed up by launching a useless war with Iran that he now can't seem to find a way out of, as Iran makes a fool of him at every turn.

Despite his incessant claims that he would launch and end a war with Iran within a matter of days that would see the dissolution of Iran's nuclear capabilities, Trump's war with the country is now raging well into its sixth month, without so much as a semblance of an end in sight, leading the President to privately confess to his White House officials that he's considering abandoning the nuclear agreement requirement in an effort just to end this damn thing before it finishes ending him.

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Picking Apples, 1888 #pissarro #danishart

“U.S. forces fired on a Panama-flagged ship that attempted to run the American blockade of Iranian ports early Tuesday, a U.S. official said, stepping up enforcement as the Trump administration attempts to squeeze the regime economically,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Bloomberg: Trump ready to let economic pressure build on Iran.

“President Trump said Monday he has not spoken to Attorney General Todd Blanche nor Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. regarding prosecuting Dr. Anthony Fauci,” NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “I have not spoken to them about that, no.”

On a recent Old Navy shopping trip I spotted the Hudson Valley on some of their new t-shirts. Continue reading…

Researchers say it took fewer than 20 prompts for a public AI tool to find a flaw (now fixed) allowing anyone on a Zoom call to hijack another participants’ device.

The man whose vanity led him to accept a bribe in the form of an insecure plane took to sneaking onto a third plane via a food truck. And in the process, he may have exposed another inadequacy of the Flying Bribery Palace.

The post From Flying Bribery Palace to Failed Leak Investigation to Catering Truck appeared first on emptywheel.

Apparently the nightly email didn't go out last night. The problem was an error when it tried to read the Linkblog entries for the day. I've seen reports that these errors happen when you try to read the Links tab on scripting.com. The error shouldn't kill the email sending, it should just omit the linkblog entries, and publish the rest. These kinds of problems always pop up at the worst time. Luckily yesterday wasn't a big news day, and you can read about it on the blog.