Atheist's Apprentice

Michigan's Senate Finance Committee will consider a Bill on Wednesday that would prohibit lenders from issuing mortgages of less than $50k, and from issuing home improvement loans of less than $5k. This would be another kick in the groin for low income people. www.legislature.mi.gov/Home/GetObje...

I'm looking at reporting from Al Jazeera and the BBC about the the tanker hit deep in the Gulf. US outlets aren't covering it. Yahoo News had it earlier, but took it down.

this is incredibly fascinating and the implications this has for treating neurological diseases like ALS is enormous. two minute read. amazing stuff. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Congressman Jack Bergman (R) MI-01 announces funds to replace our rural hospitals with telehealth. Republicans cut Medicaid by $900B over ten years with the Big Beautiful Bill. Those cuts will kill our hospitals starting right after the mid terms in January 2027. bergman.house.gov/news/email/s...

We as a nation are so stupid that we nuked ourselves. Not once. 94 times. The entire continental US is contaminated. Our neighboring nations too, but not quite as heavily. sgs.princeton.edu/news-announc...

To my friends in the Upper Peninsula. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sitting and thinking about how $100k/mo would buy me early access to Trump's "Truths" so I could smartly invest the $46 remaining at the end of a month with no surprise expenses.

We are the nation of war crimes now. There is no collateral damage theory for an 18 facility campaign. www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...

Wife of former Michigan House Speaker Republican Lee Chatfield, charged w embezzlement, is allowed to plead guilty to reduced charge and gets probation/community service. There is a two tiered justice system. michiganadvance.com/2026/07/20/w...

Hypothetically, how much would the owners of a corporate farm whose produce had tested positive as the source of Trumpareah have to pay a corrupt politician at a secret meeting in order for the test results to get reversed?

Ordered socks from walmart.com They came postage due. Paid at the post office, got home, not what I ordered. Returned at local store, refund, but not of the postage. Employee said, "You have to make sure it says fulfilled by Walmart." No. I'm just not shopping at a place that allows these scams.

Miller's mad at the untermensch

The Nazis built Auschwitz in Poland. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

Congressman J. Bergman MI-01 sent letter chastising Canadian PM M. Carney re wildfire smoke crossing the border. This despite Republicans blocking action on climate change. Complains about insufficient forest thinning despite Republican's 26-48% tariff on C lumber. bergman.house.gov/uploadedfile...

ICE Agents are too dumb to be trained in how to not walk out in front of moving vehicles.

" The main goal of mission is to conduct a crewed test of commercial equipment from SpaceX and Blue Origin" Looks like a NASA mission in service to Musk and Bezos. Launches cost $4B-5B. NASA is funded by the federal government. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Fragility is taking the drinking water from 20,000 innocent people to show how tough you are. A person who would do that should never hold political power.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

It's bug season, so here's a helpful hint for those who venture into ravenous, blood sucking/meat chewing, flying insect habitat. Do not shower until afterward. The natural oil on your skin hides the scent of your blood, which insects can smell right through your skin if you wash off the oil.

Learned a new word today, and it turns out that all of Trump's cabinet and most Republicans in Congress are coprophagic.

Trump is threatening to decimate Iran. Is he really planning to kill 9 million people, or is he too stupid to understand the meaning of words?

You know how your voice messages are automatically transcribed now? I never gave Apple permission to listen to my messages, run them through a voice to text program, and compile them in a data base. Did you?

We need to have a discussion about the steps we will need to take in order to send Trump and senior members of his administration to Iran for trial over war crimes.

Trump to Iran 4 trial.

Hi America. You paid the higher prices caused by the tariffs. Maybe even lost your job because of them. Now the taxes you just paid will go to pay them again. No, you can't have healthcare.

Universal healthcare would mean we would all have the chance to heal up and start fresh. Strike for a fair wage while battling cancer or caring for a child with a disability. Plan for retirement. Universal healthcare is freedom. Freedom to tell your boss to eat chalk.

The current Republican hypocrisy regarding religion makes me happy that I've freed myself from it. Religion is having an invisible friend who is always watching for the chance to take offence. A "friend" who might help if you beg hard enough, but won't. LOL, you can keep that shit.

Exclusive: China moves to block entrance to disputed South China Sea shoal, images show reut.rs/427RPah

China gets half their oil from Iran. Is Trump willing to sink a China flagged tanker? If the answer is no, then the blockade is unenforceable. If yes, we are on the brink of war with China. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...