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‘Targeted assassination’: Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff condemned Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.

Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.

Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

whatever.scalzi.com/2020/08/07/o...

the whole reason we do what we do.

The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.

Adults who are just as bad as crying children:

People who vape
Who talk on speakerphone in public
Who drive massive suvs in a way w zero regard for pedestrians/bikes
Who do not have a clue about how to behave on public transit/planes
Are drunk & picking fights
Take dogs Everywhere

Trump Administration Live Updates: President to Deploy National Guard in Washington, D.C.

Let’s be clear about what’s happening. Violent crime in DC is at a 30-year low. There is no emergency. This is a test run. If the courts, Congress, and the rest of us let him get away with this, he’ll do it in every city that doesn’t capitulate to him.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...

Live updates: Trump promises new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump said that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next Friday in Alaska to discuss bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin has not yet confirmed the details.

President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, prompting the city’s mayor to voice concerns about the potential use of the National Guard to patrol the streets in the nation’s capital. Follow live updates.

I had a 2 hour commute once, which i dealt with by having a budget line called trader Joe's or take out(whichever was cheaper or easier). If you are single you can eat a pizza for days. Or just get tge frozen food aisle of trader Joe's.
I like to cook but that commute Sucked.

"The Persistence of Memory," Salvador Dali (1931)

I mean RFK jr's skin looks like a ruined leather handbag abandoned in the Mojave, maybe that's a sign not to listen to that fuckin' dehydrated alligator

The only thing worse is the Scott Peterson apologists

He really is going to tell someone they can meet him outside during a debate isn't he?

Remember Jessica Simpson talking about buying groceries to throwing them away bc her husband needed a wife who cooks but she was working/traveling for a week at a time?

“We Want to Save This Investment”: Advocates Race to Secure Maternal Health Funding Before It Runs Out Over the last five years, nearly $90 million has gone to state committees that review maternal deaths and identify their causes. Advocates say cuts to the program would be “devastating.”

At least five states rely entirely on federal dollars to pay for their maternal mortality reviews. Committee members expressed alarm that this money may evaporate.

“If we get defunded, I suspect it would be devastating,” one said.

By @cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social

As if anything will stop package issues first of all
Second you know the maintenance guy is useless & dont care, why would I waste money on that?

This just reminded me my idiot landlord stole my carbon monoxide detector bc they thought it was a camera do i need a new one

This. I've seen and felt the ally fatigue, the drying up of interest, the withdrawal of promises and support. If *they're* tired, can you imagine how *we* feel?

Astronauts return to Earth with SpaceX after 5 months at the International Space Station Four astronauts are back on Earth after a five-month stay at the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Saturday, a day after departing the orbiting lab.

Four astronauts are back on Earth after a five-month stay at the International Space Station.

The most likely place one of the US scientists fired by a 19 year old will end up isn't in some other country's version of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, but like, McDonalds or Doordash.

The brain drain will be mostly into shitty gig jobs, not picking up that research elsewhere.

Emmy Noether was arguably more important for physics than Einstein.

Poincare or someone else would have fully discovered relativity later that year, but anyone other than Noether being able to literally pull the laws of physics right out of abstract algebra would have been unlikely.

Prosecutors may appeal to US Supreme Court on 1979 missing child Etan Patz case Prosecutors say they may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to restore a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Prosecutors say they may appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to restore a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz.

Kennedy being both a vampire & not able to know what's up, pretty great

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 American astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of the failed 1970 mission to the moon that nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and the basis for the hit movie "Apollo 13," has died at the age of 97, NASA said on Friday.

OBITUARY Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97 reut.rs/3UPKubN

To the Adlar & the shrine in his memory his wife gave Chicago

It's weirdly jarring if you've seen it because it's a large landscape painting set in a particular way in a room. This just looks...weird.

A man suspected of killing 4 people at a Montana bar is in custody, authorities say Authorities say they have captured dead a man suspected in a shooting at a Montana bar that left four people dead and prompted a lockdown of a neighborhood.

Authorities say a man suspected of killing 4 people at a Montana bar is in custody after a weeklong search.

I absconded to the other building.
Which is full of kids so he never goes here, ironically

How Extremist Gun Culture Is Trying to Co-opt the Rosary Why are sacramental beads suddenly showing up next to AR-15s online?

Yikes.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My favorite is the income tax stuff from indiana

How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.

ICYMI: How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map, by @robwdavis.bsky.social