78% of Jewish Israelis are not troubled by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza. If that isn’t indicative of a broader problem than just Netanyahu, idk what else to say anymore.

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From this month's edition of The Onion.

Boba per capita in LA has to be off the charts.

For anyone curious, it’s 13% of Dems and 23% of independents. Way to reach across the aisle! 🫠

KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust: January 2025 | KFF As Senate hearings begin for President Trump’s health nominees, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest KFF Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows a decline in public trust for govern...

Today I learned that 40% of Republicans believe the COVID vaccine has killed more people than COVID (when including both the definitely and probably true categories).

What a time to be alive.

The one time I tried to go it was closed. I will return it seems.

Is this supposed to be a negative? If anything this is more transparent because of FOIA requests.

One thing I want to emphasize is that this basic dynamic is one that many people have been articulating for several decades. It is absolutely not that big donors on the left are unaware of it. They’ve been told for a very long time by a lot of people, but generally have no interest in funding media.

Large Majority of Jewish Israelis: Israel Making Substantial Efforts to Avoid Palestinian Suffering; Majority of Arab Israelis Disagree 78% of Jewish Israelis and 22.5% of Arab Israelis think that, given the circumstances of the fighting in Gaza, Israel is making efforts to avoid causing suffering to the Palestinian population there. ...

Recent survey: 79% of Jews in Israel are not so troubled or not at all troubled by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza.

Wow, it’s almost like promoting militaristic ethno-nationalism is a terrible idea.

Here's the latest on the City's attempt to remove diverters in northwest Portland This is a test of how Portland's new government makes decisions.

So far, I haven’t heard satisfactory answers to my questions and I remain very concerned not just about the impacts of removing these diverters, but about the precedent we would set by doing so.

bikeportland.org/2025/08/05/h...

The PPB access issue is just silly. There’s enough room for police cars and they could send bike cops. One could even argue PPB has easier access due to the lack of traffic.

The lack of public outreach and input is sketch.

Agents taunted, stalked Jose Castro and his family for several days outside of their home without once presenting a warrant for his arrest after failing to detain him.

By @afroxander.bsky.social

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I have 1/100,000th of that!

They claim to “love humans,” with the aim of using AI to reduce our work week. Problem is, they aren’t doing anything actually achieve that.

They just want to get rich and pretend they’re helping people while leaving everyone else to figure out how to survive without a job.

Another quote:

“Luckily, the people who were mad aren’t our target audience. We target tech companies, and the vast majority of people who work at and run tech companies loved the campaign.”

This is sociopathic.

I’m not linking the article cuz I don’t wanna send them any views.

Saw a “Stop Hiring Humans” ad in SF today. Already dystopian. Here’s a quote from the marketer:

“What we didn't know was that our controversial approach would lead to 10s of millions of impressions, 1000s of death threats, 100s of articles and our biggest growth months ever.

Was it worth it? Yes.”

The options for Cottonwood seemed pretty rough. However, the location decision represents a clear risk for immigrant students and others as well.

I’d have to look into it more, but I’m interested in other measures the mayor and councilors could take to protect students, if there are any.

Solid article!

I know Portland’s sanctuary status is meant to apply to the local government, but I’m curious if there’s any way to enforce it for building owners as well, especially with schools or religious institutions.

Maybe not, but haven’t seen this mentioned yet.

1/2

Gotta be willing to try and fail

Outside the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco.

“San Francisco is still fighting for the lives of Palestinians,” the artist said.

Sometimes I think about all the things we could do if we just cut the defense budget in half for one year. An extra $500 billion never hurt anyone right?

It was tough but also interesting watching The Last Class. Idk how Robert Reich managed to stay positive at all after seeing things spiral and not get better for so long.

Help an independent journalist:

I’m doing a short trip through SF and LA next week in hopes of covering immigrants’ rights organizing, advocacy, and resistance. I’m also aiming to directly document ICE raids if possible.

If you know anyone in the area who’d be willing to chat, please DM me.

Will Riker wearing a v neck that goes almost down to his dick

despite everything, i still believe in the potential of humankind to create utopia. but it will require hard work, courage, and above all else extremely deep v-necks that go almost down to the dick

Regardless, I think any reasonable human can see this is despicable and unconscionable.

To be 100% clear, there's debate over if Israel could legally board the Handala. From brief research, it seems the Handala was boarded on international waters and was flying a UK flag. This definitely weakens the case for Israel.

None of this considers if Israel's blockade is legal.

Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Meanwhile, there’s not a peep from mainstream media in the U.S.

Israel, the so-called “only democracy in the Middle East,” has illegally detained, beaten, and continues to imprison a US citizen for trying to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza.

Of note, Smalls was the only Black person on the Handala flotilla.

How is Adobe Premiere Pro $23/month and people aren’t moving en masse to DaVinci Resolve Studio? It’s literally a $300 flat fee for a product that is near identical, maybe better in some ways.

On Big Pharma, Food and Agriculture, These Are Kennedy’s Unexpected Bedfellows When it comes to weeding out corporate influence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas often align best with some of Trump’s loudest critics.

Mr. Kennedy’s nonprofit group, Children’s Health Defense, may be best known for spreading misinformation about vaccines, but that venture is part of its broader initiative to “systematically remove Big Pharma corruption”: ban drug advertising, remove regulators’ conflicts of interest and — its most universally supported aim — secure affordable drug prices.

I dream of an America where being a political reporter does not require pretending to have the intelligence and object permanence of a golden retriever
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NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.