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New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

From Harvard & UConn researchers on the June 14th No Kings Day protests. (report came out in August)

THIS is why MAGA is so spooked by the upcoming (Oct 18th) peaceful protests.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

Meanwhile in #Portland

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Trump Is Waging War on an American City The real threat to people in Chicago ​(and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

I wrote about Chicago: "Is this city burning? There is a definite answer to the question. In all these cities, the answer is no. No American city is currently on fire, and if Chicago is a war zone, it’s because it’s being invaded by the president."

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

A Mysterious Web of Tunnels Connects Brain Cells—Like the Network of Trees in a Forest The ‘fourth pillar’ of brain communication potentially impacts Alzheimer’s and other diseases.

A new study imaging mouse and human brains discovered dynamic nanotube tunnels connecting dendrites, the roots of neurons. These wispy structures seemingly spawn from any point on the vast dendritic network and dissolve in minutes or hours.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Someone should do a FOIA request for the raw footage of the videos they took of that Chicago raid and then edited into a fascist ad for ICE.

A biological 0-day? Threat-screening tools may miss AI-designed proteins. Ordering DNA for AI-designed toxins doesn’t always raise red flags.

AI can take an existing toxin and design a protein with the same function that's distantly related enough that the screening programs do not detect orders for the DNA that encodes it.

Removing these 50 objects from orbit would cut danger from space junk in half “In their rush to move quickly, they are adding to the long-term collision hazard.”…

Russia and the Soviet Union lead the pack with 34 objects listed in McKnight's Top 50, followed by China with 10, the United States with three, Europe with two, and Japan with one. Russia's SL-16 and SL-8 rockets are the worst offenders, combining to take 30 of the Top 50 slots.

ICE writing long screeds whining about someone from Cato calling out their bullshit shows how they know they're losing the narrative here. No one likes ICE. No one trusts ICE. And they're flipping out about how weak they look.

Here’s a fun one @erinbiba.bsky.social

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

Trump: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' | Press Watch Why is this quote not all over the national media? Because it raises questions about his mental competence.

Why is one of the most extraordinary, revelatory quotes ever uttered by Donald Trump being ignored by the national media?

I’ll tell you why: Because it raises all sort of questions about his mental functioning and agency that the access-dependent Washington press corps would rather not acknowledge.

Fascism and Dead Plants It's very hard to maintain mental health because so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted

Fascism and Dead Plants - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2022/09/fasc...

This is true. In AI mode no reponses to question "Does Trump show signs of dementia" but long analysis if you ask "Does Biden show signs of dementia"

So whole AI thing is now Orwell-level of corruption and monopoly abuse just three years into its public explosive introduction.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Circle, circle, dot dot dot…

A person in a very loose shark "costume" huddled in a corner sitting on a pillow.

waiting for the edible to kick in

800 Years of English Handwriting - Google Arts & Culture Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

800 Years of English Handwriting. Really fun history lesson.

artsandculture.google.com/story/800-ye...

The Plot Against America The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings.

The richest men in the country are in the final stages of a 40-year plan to kill America and crown themselves kings. They’re bragging about it. And they’re convinced they’ve got you too distracted to care.

theplotagainstamerica.com

Well you can't just say that and not share the playlist. Share the rage!

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

“Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty,” the researchers wrote in the paper. “Such ‘hallucinations’ persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust.”