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August 8, 2025 (Friday) During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed he could stop Russia’s war on Ukraine with a single phone call.

“Apparently, after he was killed, Russian officials learned that his mother, Juliane Gallina, serves at the CIA. By giving Witkoff an award named for the first head of the Soviet state to pass on to a CIA employee, Putin appeared to suggest that the Soviet Union had won the Cold War after all.”

Just discovered that international cricket umpires make 300k USD a year and I suspect I made bad choices in my life.

r/WritingWithAl Join u/Busy-Vet1697 • 1d Has a character named Elias Vance come up for you when using Al? I just completed a novella and lo, there was Elias Vance as a main character. Little did I know this dude is some kind of Al trope on the level of Not_ but _ _. Have you ever seen Elias Vance?

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Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs Domestic demand is surging. And Indian generics could make slimming cheaper worldwide

Wegovy to go off patents next year. This could result in a drop in price of between 80-95% for the wunderdrug.
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Thread from March 2021 on how if Dems do not hold Trump and his cohort accountable and address structural problems, then all the Biden admin wil be is an interlude between autocracies. Someone with better eyesight is welcome to retype it all by hand but I'm not doing that; thus alleged altvtexr system with a tiny box of type is not designed for people who are vision impaired like me

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Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.

This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

Woman taken to hospital after car falls into sinkhole on Tanjong Katong Road | The Straits Times Both directions of the affected road have been closed to traffic. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Just realised this was very close to where my friend used to live before university. There used to be the Amber Gardens condo and a mall that was re-developed from a HDB estate (?) Then even that was removed to make way for condos and roads. Now this. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/si...

Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose and

This is an executive order that lays the groundwork for sending homeless people and people with mental illness to concentration camps to be "civilly committed." It was never going to stop with immigrants.

This is horrifying beyond words.

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US will soon charge most travellers an extra $320 in ‘visa integrity fee’ | The Straits Times The fee will subsequently be adjusted for inflation and will likely be non-refundable. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Telugu: Orei America, pora.
Tamil: Dei poda.

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"Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart."

Hunter on Musk and immigration.

‘They're Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...

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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

As @yessfun.com has reported, the fossil fuel industry directly funds anti-trans panic because it distracts the public from "the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.”

Funny how all that protect women’s sports energy went out the window as soon as WNBA players showed up with T-shirts bringing awareness to the lack of financial equity they have in their league.

Trump approval rating down to 42% amid...

Displeasure with economy — public wants focus on prices, not tariffs
Disapproval of Big Beautiful Bill — most say wealthy benefit
Declining deportation marks — most say dangerous criminals not being prioritized

Analysis: www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-new...

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per a new CBS News poll, public opinion on immigration has flipped. people now mostly think that trump’s deportation agenda is going too far

There is extensive evidence that the president of the United States is a serial sexual abuser of women and girls, and the media has not talked about it nearly enough.

Israel's Druze say the country they helped create has turned its back on them In the early dawn of July 20, a few hours after the Israeli parliament passed a divisive law defining the country as a Jewish state, Amal Asad reflected on what that law meant for him and people like ...

"450 Druze gave their lives for the state and Bibi Netanyahu passes a law telling me the country doesn’t belong to me?" IDF Gen (ret) Amal Asad after Netanyahu passed the disgrace known as the Nation-State Law, seven years ago, at 3 am.
@ntarnopolsky.bsky.social

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Yup. Although I somehow still have a teensy bit more faith in SCI, partly because of cultural proximity (and therefore hope), and partly because the judges are limited to 1-2 year terms. 🙂

Singapore’s Home Minister announcement in the day: We are being cyber-attacked by a China-related group, UNC3886. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/un...

Singaporeans later in the day:

Bullet Points: "We're in Danger" edition - by Dave Karpf Substack's new funding round, doubting Epstein drama amounts to much, and NYT columnists should shut up about Mamdani.

“We have a secret police and concentration camps now. We are demolishing our scientific and educational institutions. All of it is plainly illegal, right up until the Supreme Court again decides 6-3 that “eh, it’s fine so long as Trump is doing it.”” davekarpf.substack.com/p/bullet-poi...

The United States is using sexual violence as a political weapon. What are we going to do about it? On the unnecessary body cavity searching and strip-searching of non-citizens, immigrants, and those in prison

“According to US Code 920-art.120, this was an act of abusive sexual contact, as it was forcing the woman to touch her sexual organs under threat [..] However, because the people in charge were CBP agents, it likely wasn’t illegal; body cavity searches don’t require a warrant”

Resistance Summer School is officially in Session! Columbia cancelled my class on Race and Media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Columbia canceled my class on Race and Media. But I decided to teach it anyway. So I built a school, instead.

500+ students online and in person.

My first independently operated course and lecture begins TONIGHT!

WE MOVE!!

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'There's no moving on': 8 months on, parents of teen who died in Maldives still searching for answers - CNA St Joseph's Institution International says it has made repeated efforts to understand what happened to Jenna Chan, but has received no investigation details or evidence from Maldivian authorities.

This is such a heartbreaking tale. As a parent of a 10-year-old myself, thoughts go out to the family. www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/sj...

#TaxTheRich

How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages An excerpt from ‘The Hindi Heartland: A Study’, by Ghazala Wahab.

“Hindi is nobody’s mother tongue. We gave up our own languages to create a national language.” […] “Once the British linked Hindi with employment, people surrendered their languages.”

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Utter contempt for facts, law, and even the lower courts that examined a ton of unrebutted testimony from a lot of people who stood to lose:

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

He’s just like any one of a vast sea of dudes who get angry when history courses focus on “interpretations” rather than dates and facts. “I thought this class was about the Civil War, where’s the play-by-play of the battle of Antietam?!?”

We are a few months out, at best, when it will come out that a mexican american citizen died in ICE/CBP while in detention and it will realistically not register as a news event for longer than a few days

An except for access sign on a fence at the Botanics in Glasgow, except the picture depicts a constitution class starship and a Klingon bird of prey

A sign on the riverside opposite Finneston cran, warning No Godzillas 8am to 6pm except Sundays, with a graphic depicting the big kaiju fella menacing the cran and the horrible wee hotel next to it.

Whoever it is going round Glasgow putting daft signs on stuff, please keep up the good work. Thanks.