Donna of Queens

Saying billionaires create wealth is like saying ticks manufacture blood. No, asshole. They're just exceptionally good at extracting it.

Tuesday's Weather Rating: 9/10 You guessed it - it's another gorgeous day out there! Much chillier than yesterday, with high temperatures barely reaching 60° F this afternoon. Still, it's sunny with low dew points and a light breeze. The vibes remain excellent!!

It's ridiculous that CEOs require millions of dollars in compensation when most employees under them are living paycheck to paycheck. So many problems in this world are caused by greed.

Besides the whole saving the knowledge of antiquity and the numerals and the science and the exquisite art, it's pretty easy to google Arab Nobel prize winners

I'd been wondering who'd be willing to do this after the NFL conspired to get Macklemore kicked off of Ed Sheeran's tour.

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Obviously this is racist and gross, but it's also shockingly historically illiterate? No one who has taken a single high school world history course would deny that Arab culture has produced incredible science and literature. This is why we need basic humanities education.

This heckler is all of us ✊🏾

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

Another person has died in ICE custody — this is the 28th known death this year. The cruelty of this rogue agency is beyond unconscionable. Abolish ICE.

Make a band edible. The Rolling Scones

.@NYCMayor gets a kiss from Pickles the seal to celebrate his and Councilmember @kaymsanto's $2 million investment in the New York Aquarium

Low-dose naltrexone (4mg) shows promise for Long COVID. A Stanford study of 230 patients found fewer symptoms and improvements in fatigue, brain fog, sleep and post-exertional crashes after 3+ months. Promising results, but without a comparison group, benefits remain unproven.

Trump is interrupted by a protester in Mississippi: "Shove that ballroom up your ass!"

crying

That little peanut is going through so much💔 Guns😡😡😡

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Good news for melanoma patients! The first ever mRNA vaccine to target cancer is in our near future. ~15 yrs ago, patients w/advanced melanoma survived for a few months. A successful Phase 3 clinical trial showed that intismeran reduced the risk of recurrence by 42%. 🧪 archive.today/pp6mX

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I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.

Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

Took a photo of the moon through the pub window and accidentally created a new universe.

Kerry Kennedy says she 'absolutely' blames her brother, Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., for recent measles-related deaths in Pennsylvania. The state has surpassed more than 1,000 measles cases this year, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades.

This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Finally they got something on the mayor. Secret pickup basketball. Oh dear. Oh no. (The only legitimate complaint I can see is that it disrupts other NYPD operations, but then my question is why are they training recruits after 10 pm - and are they actually training recruits after 10 pm?)

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Years Of Learning To Love Self Undone By Single Glimpse Of Body In Self-Checkout Camera https://theonion.com/years-of-learning-to-love-self-undone-by-single-glimpse-of-body-in-self-checkout-camera/

"Table stakes"? WTF McConnell ghostwriter?

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

There's no freaking way Trump has ever been to a Cheesecake Factory, so it's hilarious imagining Natalie having to explain it to him.

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

After years of delays, appeals, denials, and litigation, New York City's most secretive agency may finally be forced to cough up a tranche of public documents revealing details of police surveillance programs. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-foil-co...

One of those moments I'll never forget.

Word. The insane decor can be part of the fun and doesn't change how delicious the shrimp blt is.

It's National Lie Down For A Bit Day

I think the fact that Marissa Mayer would voluntarily disclose this to a reporter is a pretty good demonstration of how deeply the culture of Silicon Valley has diverged from the rest of humanity

Brown and RISD students have taken the streets, joined by Providence community members, to demand justice for Nolan Wells and Kohen Wiley! Nolan Wells didn't drown, police executing 1 year old Kohen could never possibly be justified, and we are fed up with the racist capitalist system.

“I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them.” — KURT VONNEGUT

Oh, man, he's so close to getting it.

Sigh

From Zelenskyy. Patriot interceptors that could save innocent lives are sitting in European countries for weeks, which they paid for, unable to be transferred to Ukraine because Hegseth refuses to sign off.

you know I just assumed it was my adult palate that's made the chocolate in things like hershey's or reese's taste worse to me but no, apparently the chocolate has also gotten worse!