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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

“Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble.”

@theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

The Speaker of The United States House of Representatives stands before a microphone and states there's "new legal analysis" he learned from a headline saying they don't have to pay furloughed government employees because he doesn't want to admit its some shit Trump just made up yesterday.

Oh no the billionaire with multiple private jets also is using AI that guzzles fresh water and pollutes the air who could have seen this coming

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When you start commenting "Is your workplace unionized" on a company's comments on TikTok all of the sudden you don't see viral videos with companies commenting anymore

Omg

You won't regret your tattoos if you get ones that are sick as fuck

Scientists find new bite-resistant wetsuits can reduce shark bite injuries Australian scientists have tested bite-resistant wetsuits by letting sharks bite them at sea. The study shows these suits can help keep swimmers safe.

Australian scientists have tested bite-resistant wetsuits by letting sharks bite them at sea. The study shows these suits can help keep swimmers safe.

So apparently the hardest part about recovering from a tattoo is making sure your dog doesn't fucking lick it. He thinks it's a fun silly game.

It's 7 am EST and Tumblr is already in shambles

Look if the fic is properly tagged I am not responsible for you not reading all the tags in the fics I recommend

Pope Leo refuses to authorise an AI Pope and declares the technology 'an empty, cold shell that will do great damage to what humanity is about'

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Holy shit

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

Dog sitting this weekend and I have made the gracious decision to not watch the Omegaverse show on my friend's Viki Rakuten account on her TV to preserve her sanity.

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Rural Georgia hospital plans to close its labor and delivery unit, in part due to Medicaid cuts St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will discontinue its maternal health services next month as its parent company moves to consolidate OB/GYN services to one location, the hos...

"St. Mary’s Sacred Heart Hospital in rural northeast Georgia will close its labor and delivery unit next month...

"The closure is one of Georgia's first casualties of the GOP budget reconciliation package, colloquially known as the 'big beautiful bill'...

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/rura...

These are trying times so here is Archibald

Any "history" buff dad who has an "interest" in WWII who can't recognize authoritarianism rising in their own nation should donate their WWII books cause it's obvious they didn't learn anything from them.

Meghan Blanco, an attorney who represented Mojica, said it was significant that jurors did not believe the statements of such a senior official. “These jurors had the opportunity to listen firsthand to the CBP officer overseeing enforcement nationally and could not have found his testimony to be credible,” said Blanco, a former federal prosecutor. “It is a bad sign for the federal government. They are doing everything they can to try to legitimize their prosecutions, and thank God the jury and the public are seeing right through it.”

underneath all the doom and hideous stuff happening at the top of our country is a more inspiring story: regular Americans are not buying all this crap. and they're still willing to call the government out on it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income.

Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

Israel’s recent strike in Yemen reportedly killed 31 journalists – one of the deadliest attacks on the press in over a decade.

As we fight to protect the freedom of the press at home, we must also do so abroad.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/19/yemen-journalists-strike-israel-houthis/

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Oh poor Jimmy Kimmel NO WHAT ABOUT NATIONAL TREASURE LOU WILSON?!?!?

An ICE agent unholstered his gun at a protest this morning.

Please don't let yourself become numb to this.