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A U.S. envoy calling murderer Putin a humanitarian while visiting him in Kremlin — when after failing to achieve his military goals, Putin directs Ukrainian civilians to be hunted in the streets or executed in their own homes. Kids will read about this one day and ask: what was everyone else doing?

Doing our bit

Dropped a Neil Young line on a younger coworker and got a “who’s that?”. Now I’m waiting for the Logan’s Run hunters to take me away.

Cory Doctorow meets the Onion

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...

Veronica! This is why you don’t swim right after eating!

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If you watch the Exorcist backwards it’s about a bad little girl who was cured by drinking pea soup.

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why is everything awful for everyone but the super rich? Because Fox News

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Sagittarius - the archer, often shown as a centaur. Always seeking, always learning, to be more human than animal.

Scott MacFarlane reports from Trump’s Reflecting Pool renovation, which remains a mess. There’s no date certain for when it will be fixed, and the only people coming by are “rubberneckers” who want to see “the scope and size of the damage.”

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Looks like Temu has been designated as the official Wholesaler of the United States going out of business sale. Red states up to 70% off

Taurus, #myzodiac

all I ask is for AI to wait for the 4th Season of Silo to drop before it destroys humanity

Every bit of breaking news about the racist billionaire who is funding the Republican Party and destroying our entire world contains salacious details that would normally launch a full-scale assault by the entire media, but I guess he can't compete with "guy who films himself at a computer talking"

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

continuing with the Zodiac and picking up a few more Procreate skills. Leo

The 75 Most Corrupt Things Trump Did in 2026. So far. The scams, schemes and grifts have been endless, as the Trump Family seems to spend most of their time and energy finding new ways to profit off the presidency. Here is my Top 75. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

as soon as the next mass dinosaur extinction event..

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ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

“This custom, state-of-the-art service container is covered in beautiful 24-karat gold and outfitted with the latest security and antimissile technology,” Donald Trump said as he showed off the luxury catering truck, which reportedly cost U.S. taxpayers $900 million.

Trump To Order Redesign of Aircraft Carriers Because They Don’t Look Right talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

I wrote about Big Bend, the power of nature, and the Trump administration’s assault on our national imagination. www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-desec...

Note this is the anniversary of Charlottesville. This is Todd Blanche’s love letter to neo-Nazis. www.cnn.com/2026/08/12/p...

Pope Hat night might be the greatest ever MLB promo abc7chicago.com/post/white-s...

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Wouldn't it be easier & far less time consuming to just report when he actually tells the truth?

since my last piece was Gemini flavored, trying other Zodiacs for a creative prompt: Pisces a go-go. #digitalart #procreate

Meaning of life

Tales of everyday corruption. Pete Hegseth cancelled the $400,000 contract for making uniforms for the Blue Angels on the grounds that the contract with "The Sewing Box" was DEI since the firm is Black-owned. Instead, he awarded it to a Trump donor for $1,690,000, a 325% price increase!

Two security researchers shipped me a pink plastic kid's smartwatch from Amazon. When I wore it, they tracked my movements, surreptitiously took photos of me, even listened to my conversations. The same backend they hacked is used by 30+ watch brands for kids. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/hacker...

As someone living in Kyiv, I’m begging you: Please help us stop this. Almost every night, russia strikes Kyiv with ballistic missiles, hitting civilians, homes, and warehouses. We can’t stop these missiles because we don’t have enough Patriot systems. People are dying.

Monsters

my gemini nature #procreate #artwork

what I love about #procreate is the freedom it gives me to try many ideas on a single piece using layers and undos until I’m happy with a layout. #art #illistration

“Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back.”

the fundamentals of storytelling

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

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I hope people are starting to understand that as leftist ideas grow in popularity, as economic conditions worsen, and as opposition to the tech oligarchs grows that the powerful are going to criminalize all of it in order to maintain control. We have to prepare for it because it’s coming.