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Journalist Marisa Kabas’s grim reaper post precedes The Guardian’s announcement of Dick Cheney’s death, as is fitting in oh so many ways

@marisakabas.bsky.social even scooped them in my feed

So it’s a SECRET plan

This is the No Kings Protest clip of the day!

HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a MASSIVE CROWD peacefully protesting and marching down the streets of NYC to protest Donald Trump and his administration’s actions and policies.

Just look at that turnout!!!

📍New York City, NY

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

Trump is absolutely cratering in new Quinnipiac poll:

Overall approval: 38-54
Approval on economy: 39-56
Approval on trade: 39-54
On National Guard into cities: 42-55
On immigration, his "best" issue: 41-55

Trump is weak, unpopular, and failing. Treat him that way:

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

‘Chief Of War’ Producers Confirm Season 2 Will Show Hawaiians Battling Mark Zuckerberg

‘Chief Of War’ Producers Confirm Season 2 Will Show Hawaiians Battling Mark Zuckerberg https://theonion.com/chief-of-war-producers-confirm-season-2-will-show-hawaiians-battling-mark-zuckerberg/

This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.

Fact check from a constitutional law professor 🧑🏿‍🏫.
Josh👇🏾 is correct. ✅

State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

Vaccination with mRNA-encoded membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimers elicited tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in a phase 1 clinical trial Membrane-anchored HIV envelope trimer mRNA vaccines elicited high response rates of serum autologous tier 2 neutralizing antibodies in humans.

Amazing! mRNA vaccine candidate from Moderna that instructs cells to produce a cell membrane-bound version of the HIV envelope protein elicits neutralising antibodies in 80 % of subjects! 🧪

Why Is Star Trek: Strange New Worlds So Obsessed With Giving Spock a Girlfriend? The Paramount+ drama is shortchanging Spock — and the franchise's progressive legacy

Halfway through season 3 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I find myself wondering... Why is this show SO obsessed with giving Spock a girlfriend? www.tvguide.com/news/star-tr...

We are seeing all Spock’s failed romantic relationships with these women to show us how his true life partner is Kirk.

I am incorporating this into my head canon for the furlings being stuck in an alternate dimension. #stargate

News - Newly Deciphered Cuneiform Tablet Contains Unknown Sumerian Myth - Archaeology Magazine CHICAGO, ILLINOIS—A riveting lost Sumerian myth was recently rediscovered thanks to University of Chicago Sumerologist […]

New Sumerian myth just dropped

It’s similar to how anti-trans bathroom policing overwhelmingly ends up targeting cis women

YouTube video by PAR - ArqueoVirtual Reconstrucción virtual en 3D de una taberna romana (thermopolium o caupona) de Pompeya

Anyway, here's really neat, 3D reconstruction of Pompeii's theropolium. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaCJ...

Even with Donald Trump playing king, CEOs should remember that bribery is STILL ILLEGAL.

Without Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel would not have been so effective in media-suppression

Without Peter Thiel, we wouldn't know today's Musk or JDV

Without Musk, we wouldn't have DOGE (and would still have Park Service, State Dept, NIH, etc)

So we note Hulk Hogan's passing, as we might Roy Cohn's.

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

BREAKING:

Mike Johnson just canceled votes for Thursday and is sending the House home early for summer recess in order to shut down Democratic efforts to demand more votes on releasing the Epstein files.

ATTN: If you're one of the Treasury employees that handled Epstein's Suspicious Activity Reports, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off so can their parent company Paramount

here's today's post: "CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off" — so can their parent company Paramount.
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ATTN: If you’re one of the 1,000 FBI agents who reviewed the Epstein files, feel free to reach out to me via signal (in my bio). I’ll keep you anonymous- as I have the thousands of current and former federal workers who have sent me tips. Please share this widely. 🙏🏻

This stinks to high heaven.

Hanging in the window of my local comic book store.