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Tonight’s state of the union.

It’s coming along. I feel like I have to build up courage every time I put the brush to canvas. I have to remember to give myself grace to paint things I’m not happy with because I can always move forward and paint over it.

Light Yagami would be having a field day with the Epstein files…

Do they all get deported now? Is that how this works?

I say call a spade a spade. Trump is a felon who was found guilty by a jury of his peers of fraud. He is pals of Epstein, a rapist, and a pedophile. He is a racist white supremacist who race baits at every opportunity. He has no idea how to take accountability, only credit from others work.

Your headline is factually incorrect. Gardasil prevents over 10 types of cancer caused by HPV.

Lonely

Nekomancer complete with wearable Nekonomicon I made and wore to NY Comic-Con.

YouTube video by Hello Future Me How Democracy Really Dies

In this video, Hello Future Me looks at depictions of authoritarianism in both fiction and in real life. Worth watching and sharing…

youtu.be/DfmViBWBXgE?...

“I think you mean ‘Bad News Bear’” - Jason Mendoza

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

DM - "It looks like the orcs brought gifts for the chief.."
My character (Tidal) - "I think it's pronounced 'jifts'..."
Fellow party member - *Rolls Edritch Blast*
DM - "Which orc are you casting that at?"
Fellow party member - "I'm casting it at Tidal"

As an IT worker in networking and telecommunications, I can see the benefits of a Butlerian jihad.

I read that in the same voice Captain America used when talking to Falcon at the end of Endgame…

Divest in everything CBS/Paramount

Under Dr. Oz, Medicare is launching a pilot program that will use AI to determine whether patients would be covered for certain procedures.

Companies running the program will be paid a share of the savings from rejecting claims.

Who in their right mind voted for this? No one.

It’s amazing how many GenX are pro-Trump authoritarianism. Literally the largest pro-Trump group at this point.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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Russian Lures Confused Old Man to Alaska in Elder Scam “We’re afraid the Russian will trick him into signing something away," said an associate of the geriatric dupe.

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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

At what point do we start protesting the media for not standing up to authoritarianism?

Why is every national newsroom with windows not having a full on protest outside?

Make it impossible for them to talk about anything else.

Suspended SC state Rep. RJ May resigns as he faces federal child porn charges May, who owns a political consulting business, was elected to the Lexington County seat in 2020 and was a driving force behind the creation of the SC House Freedom Caucus.

I think we can all assume until they release the files that all of them are involved.

www.thestate.com/news/politic...

Finally figured out why the air in our data center is so dry…

Someone dropped this silica gel packet on the ground instead of disposing of it properly.