Francis Heaney

Dessa loses South African choir planned for Midwest shows due to U.S. visa denials Amid rising U.S.-South Africa tensions, the Twin Cities hip-hop star is “completely heartbroken” she cannot be joined by 29:11 at her August shows.

White Afrikaaners are granted refugee status but members of the South African 29:11 choir, who have performed numerous times in the U.S., can’t even get visas to travel here for a Midwest performance tour

No paywall

Q: It seems like your desk was chopped to pieces with an axe shortly after you started your new job. Do you blame your predecessor?

A: Yes

(note: I am stubborn and will not be paying the fee, because although I've been using Yahoo for ages in addition to Gmail and I might as well continue, one has a hard time deciding to pay for a product that isn't great and keeps getting worse)

Yahoo Mail instituted a 20 GB limit this morning and is it just bad design that you can't search by message size, or that the memory management tool is laughably bad, or that deleting the trash is slow, or are they deliberately making it hard to manage memory so you just give up & shell out the fee

It's Jessica Fletcher

Feel like they were already that dumb and it's just making it more obvious

The cruciverbalists yearn for the lack of yearning

*the* best Bowie tribute album

Labubu, labubu, labubu / The girl that's hard to get

I mean this is basically a midi so yeah

This man’s great sin was losing his green card and asking for a replacement

we’re past “you had a dui in 1984” into “if you appear at any ICE office anywhere you’re a quota target”

Hey in case you didn't get in on this yet, there are now bonus puzzles (including two cryptics edited by me)! Remember: the pride will continue until human rights improve

The Trump regime is arresting protesters now. This was the plan all along | Will Bunch Federal felony charges against nine ICE protesters in Spokane reveal how Trump's secret police are expanding their web.

Well, the American experiment was nice while it lasted.

Charlie Day in It's Always Sunny, with a crazed look on his face, cigarette in hand, pointing at a wall of papers and lines connecting them like he's onto something

so you see, 'Remy' is a nickname form of the French verb 'remuer', which means 'to stir', a critical cooking skill -- he's stirring everything! sauces, soups, reductions... "Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse" yeah bc Remy is a *rat* not a mouse, don't you get it? it all fits together

Sounds like we did a great job promoting it

This subreddit is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here.

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.

Emmy-winning Austin, TX based TV meteorologist on Facebook:

"To assume that he sees this as a game - he's the president of the United States. He understands what's at stake here. He's not willy-nilly trying to sow economic discord just for TV ratings," said one White House official, granted anonymity to share the president's thinking. "He understands what he's doing here, and there's very clear goals that have been outlined."

"It's not like the president is a baby brained moron," a White House official said, laughing nervously. "He's not, you know, a big stupid asshole who doesn't give a shit about anything except attention" www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Turns Out Appeasing Trump Only Emboldened Him Having evaded accountability when he was out of power, he’s running amok today.

Fortunately, Trump learned his lesson from all the legal trouble he faced, and even though none of it led to any accountability, he moderated himself and served the people with distinction.
That I assume is @ryanlcooper.com's point- Wait, it turns out Trump doubled down!

For transgender people in 2025, freedom is more a dream than a reality | Opinion In Philadelphia — the birthplace of American liberty — freedom is a word we celebrate with pride. But what does that freedom mean if we’re willing to deny it to some of our fellow Americans?

There's nothing really new being said in this article, but it is wild to me how hard the local paper for my newly adopted city is willing to go on highlighting injustices perpetrated on trans+nb folk, and what a contrast that is to other mainstream media share.inquirer.com/8ND3as

Have you read "The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle"? That was a fun time

Dear @ericswalwell.bsky.social I'm a Jewish people & I'd thank you to not use me and mine as an excuse to throw the most exciting Democrat we've seen in decades under an establishment bus

Oh so it's fine to do the Trump lip thing and even REFER to it as "the Trump lip thing" as long as you're a Fox personality, gotcha

Weird Al's "Bob" doesn't count?

After mostly shrugging off Trump’s assault on government for the last five months, establishment Democrats have finally found something to be outraged about: Zohran Mamdani’s primary win.

I always try to conceal how mad this makes me but I'm very bad at sneak pique

If you like global intifada / And getting caught in the rain

An addled president is shredding the Constitution to usher in white nationalism and fascism while destroying the economy and our health care, so if you’re going to write an alarmist op-ed because a mayoral candidate might open five (5) city-run grocery stores, you can kindly get bent.

Sadly the one I was pulling for in 2024 ("sanewashing") didn't make the cut anywhere that I know of

And they'd use photos of Cuomo that they clearly thought projected "strong leadership" but instead looked like a picture of a sour, frowny, toxic jerk (I'm not sure there's any other kind of Cuomo photo)