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Roses are red. Tires are flammable...

The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

In early 2025, I assumed the Trump regime would delete the Department of Justice’s press releases and other statements related to more than 1,000 Jan. 6 cases. So I downloaded them. We’ve now made them available to the public with a search tool. They can’t erase history. jan6memoryproject.org

watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.

Megan Rapinoe losing out on a world cup advertising brand deal for being an outspoken trans ally as a result of AI decision making underlines how these tools function as mechanisms for censorship and blanding culture into nothingness.

The news is always "This absolute fool was dismantled in hearings today. He is manifestly unqualified for the position and would be an existential danger if confirmed. Disaster. He is set to be confirmed immediately." When you ask why everyone is furious and exhausted all the time, this is why.

Update: We have a food epidemiologist @bugcounter on deck for the next ::monster truck announcer voice:: Cyclospora Livestream 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS Coming at you Friday Friday Friday 5:30pm Eastern on my YouTube channel, Farm to Taber!

With all due respect to how disgusting and perverse the news itself reliably is, there's something especially bracing and weird about how every stupid story out of the Trump administration reveals what the dipshit weirdos in these high offices are thinking about and doing instead of those jobs.

Why I’m not a fan, this is amazing

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Y’all also need to shoot anyone telling you that you can simply wash off a parasite embedded into the skin and even the folds and creases of alot of this produce. A parasite that is resistant to bleach, chlorine, and vinegar by the way. Signed, An epidemiologist

Perfectly normal that Mitch McConnell’s office is savvy enough to literally take a photo of him with today’s newspaper to prove he isn’t dead, but not savvy enough to have released a simple statement that he was having these perfectly normal health issues earlier than today. Not sus at all, man

Lindsay Graham and I often disagreed on whether you should overturn Democratic elections, starve the hungry, bomb anyone and bomb everyone dark, but nevertheless I hope his loved ones stay off the internet and the rest of you have some fun.

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

The first video of Satan meeting up with Graham has dropped. Mr. Williams in on fire...um on point today.

How about when he threw an angry tantrum in defense of a SCOTUS nominee credibly accused of rape? Did you all have a good collegial chuckle over that?

Who could have guessed that when you gut the CDC and put a quack with no medical expertise in charge of American healthcare, diseases we had eradicated would come back and there would be explosive diarrhea situations happening. Just no way to know.

Many, many years ago I worked for a certain legal news website to which Lindsey Graham subscribed. Anyway i hardcoded it to always spell his name wrong in the top corner, no matter how many times he tried to manually correct it.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

More people need to read this. There is no such thing as a "historically accurate Odyssey," because the 'Odyssey' is not set in a real historical time. It is set in the mythic Age of Heroes, not the real-life Bronze Age. #Odyssey #Homer #classics kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/07/odys...

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.

once a month someone sends me this game and says "have you seen this" and I have to look up, haggard, with ink stained hands, and say 'yes i made it'

Lindsey Graham spent the last decade of his life in public service as a US Senator, trying hard to be remembered as an enemy of the Constitution who worked to destroy American democracy and exhibited occasional signs that he knew why that was bad but kept doing it anyway. I will honor his choice.

RIP Lindsey Graham. You taught me it was okay to be a coward whose only skill is debasing myself until death for a tiny, ultimately illusionary crumb of power.

ME: oh man, just had a huge weight lifted off my shoulders SISYPHUS: [one eye twitching extremely violently]

Hey y’all, I track rural policy news for a living, so I wanted to share a quick and easy explainer about what led to the current Cyclospora outbreak. In a nutshell, Trump and the wingnuts he tapped to lead the CDC are to blame: 🧵

Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.

The Trump administration last year cut the CDC’s program that monitors food-borne illness outbreaks so they can intervene. In case you’re wondering why an outbreak of explosive diarrhea has sickened 2000 people but the CDC is only reporting 145 cases. www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...

IMPORTANT: Two websites for US food access. Please spread the word. This is a great, easy to use site to find free food near you:

Shana Bushyhead Condill recounts the Trail of Tears, the brutal forced removal of Indigenous peoples whose survival remains a testament to Native resilience that endures today. #WeAreAmerica250

he could be completely innocent of the allegations and he would still be a blackwater merc with a nazi tattoo

hold on, about to chat with mcconnell

Facebook’s own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools”, an internal report in 2016 found. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Mom, Dad & their 19 babies drinking some water from a backyard pond. These are Gambel's Quail (Callipepla gambelii) in the Catalina Foothills of Arizona. Let's ask why they drink via the 'sip-and-tilt' method... (📷: Desert Critters of Arizona via YT)

I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

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