jon ben-menachem

JUST IN: Abbott says he may treat fleeing lawmakers as having “forfeited” their offices and move to replace them. He also suggests they could be subject to felony charges if they accept payments to cover impending fines gov.texas.gov/uploads/file...

I saw someone say that Twin Peaks is scary in the same way that the Willy Wonka boat scene is scary. And they were true

I am no expert but what I have heard is the trick with fish is not flipping it until it's ready

If there's any pan-scrapage happening I wouldn't use those, I would use this

(They are each 12 inches long)

Lmao it's a foot long

Nah just something I bought online

I was using grill tongs for a lot of stuff and it was dumb

kitchen tweezers

I was seeing people using these in youtube cooking videos so I picked up a couple pairs and wow, instant keep, big level-up

Oh hi, I think we've emailed before! I will bother you during work hours sometime soon

NVivo feels like it was designed in a lab to discourage its own usage. And it doesn't help that I run into license issues multiple times a year

Why is qualitative data analysis software so fucking bad?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

First run was before full voice acting and I read fast lol

I have completed the game twice and I have 38 hours logged. I'm so confused about why the quoted user thinks this is an enormous time commitment that takes you away from friends and family

yeah how is it being framed as some giant imposition and difficult thing lmao

the most complicated choices in this game involve choosing whether or not to wear a cursed tie, choosing whether you'll pretend to be a communist or lean into fascism, choosing whether you want to develop close bonds with your partner

huh? disco elysium is basically a visual novel. you don't need to spend time studying the blade, so to speak. you are expected to fail most rolls and then laugh as your loser protagonist character flails around on screen. you sit there and listen to the nice voice acting. not that hard

i'm so confused about that post. disco elysium is a point and click virtual novel

The ADL's hypothetical scenario involving flyers critical of Israel's demolition program encapsulates many other issues that those who reviewed the material or completed a training raised. The scenario begins with a student leaving their dorm room to find a flyer taped to the door "warning that your residence hall will soon be demolished" "The rest of the flyer contains 'facts' about how many Palestinian homes have been demolished by the Israeli military to collectively punish and 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians," the toolkit continues. The ADL is referring to the highly charged debate over Israel's mass expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank. The training material then offers the Israeli narrative around the demolitions, claiming they target "terrorists" and "deter others from terrorist action". *. Other homes were demolished because they were "built without proper permits", the ADL states. "While you may agree or disagree with these Israeli government actions, the charge that Israel has demolished these homes to 'ethnically cleanse' Palestinians is inaccurate and inflammatory," the ADL material states.

According to the Guardian, the ADL is now creating education materials for schools in which the civil rights organization justifies Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in occupied Palestinian territory.

Exclusive | Columbia janitors forced to scrub swastikas after brutal assault by anti-Israel mob settle with school for undisclosed amount The two filed complaints against Columbia over their chilling experiences of being trapped by an anti-Israel mob and forced to scrub swastikas.

Ostensibly you don't need to be Jewish to receive money from this pool nypost.com/2025/07/24/u...

International Sociological Association bars Israeli public institutions from membership over refusal to condemn genocide The suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society by the International Sociological Association marks a significant milestone in the international academic boycott of Israel.

"[T]he first major successful BDS campaign at an academic sociological association, as realized through the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society."

"The struggle for a free Palestine continues, and we call on all scholars to join us."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

I want the Forbidden Pierogies so bad.

DOJ plans to ask all states for detailed voting info • Michigan Advance U.S. Department of Justice officials say the department will seek voting and election information from all 50 states, according to a national group that includes many top state election officials. The...

U.S. Department of Justice officials say the department will seek voting and election information from all 50 states, according to a national group that includes many top state election officials.

The Budget Lab at Yale University, a nonpartisan research center, updated its tariff tracker on Friday. It calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year. Shoe prices, for example, are expected to rise 40 percent in the short run. America’s total economic output — its gross domestic product — is estimated to shrink by about $120 billion annually in the years to come.

Nonpartisan budget lab at Yale has "calculated that American consumers will have to contend with an average effective tariff rate of 18.3 percent, the highest since 1934. As a result, the center estimates that price increases will cost each household on average $2,400 this year."

I typically apply on baseboards and near water sources as well

If it’s roaches try advion

i mean it depends on the research question.

New: In addition to UCLA's NSF grants, looks like ~494 NIH grants and 2 DOE grants were also suspended. Will have more details later once they are processed.

Looks like we’ve got the rare August weather in NYC that’s not humid and below 90 degrees, and we’ll get a solid week of it