Dust-Licking Pimps Mark Twain and Quincy and Immigration

Last year, I had hope that we would make progress. This year I hope we won’t devolve into an autocratic police state. I hope I have healthcare. I hope my kids can afford to buy groceries. I hope my neighbor isn’t deported.

I have hope. I am also paying attention. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Canada wildfires cause poor air quality in the midwest and northeast U.S. Health officials from Minnesota to Maine have issued alerts warning of poor air quality from wildfires burning in Canada. People are advised to limit outdoor exposure.

Health officials from Minnesota to Maine have issued alerts warning of poor air quality from wildfires burning in Canada. People are advised to limit outdoor exposure.

#PlanetWidePolluters

80 Years After Hiroshima Bombing, Art Needs ‘Courage to Be Afraid’ Eighty years after the city’s destruction, we seem to be blundering into a new age of nuclear perils. It is time for culture to rediscover “the courage to be afraid.”

80 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, the world has blundered into a new age of nuclear perils, Jason Farago writes. “To survive this second nuclear age we are going to need models from the first one: artists who faced up to what the bomb did, and what the bomb made of us.”

A long exposure image of the Earth from orbit showing the Dragon capsule, the city lights appearing like streaks with the green and orange atmospheric glow, many stars in the background of space with the streak of the Milky Way and both Magellanic Clouds as large circular blobs.

3 GALAXIES CAPTURED FROM ORBIT!!!

YOU CAN SEE THE MILKY WAY AND BOTH MAGELLANIC CLOUDS!! 🌌🌌

yet ANOTHER banger from astronaut don pettit

Ballrooms, even the grand ones, don’t cost $200 million.

Bribes, kick-backs, money laundering. Clock it.

When people talk about having two systems of justice, this is what they mean.

These CA tomato pickers make 86¢ per bucket. The worker runs back to try and make as many buckets as they can. Because of the hot weather they often only work 4 to 5 hours a day, so every bucket counts towards paying their bills. #WeFeedYou

Trump Mimics Stalin, Uses Total BS to Kill BLS You play with the truth. Oh you're killing me with your Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro, Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ganda - Muse, "Propaganda"

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The worst ones are people like Hassett, who are very aware that they are lying to the American people week after week on Sunday shows to cover for Trump, but do it effortlessly with a smile. In many ways worse than the brainless cultists. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Adorable!

He lost an election and refused to accept the results.

He forced the Smithsonian to lie about American history.

He fired the head statistician bcuz he didn’t like the jobs numbers.

He can’t handle the truth. We elected the biggest pussy/coward/sore loser in all of human history.

I don’t check coffee prices at Starbucks anymore. I just hand the barista my wallet and whisper, “be gentle with me.”

We need more human beings.

Epstein victims’ lawyer Spencer Kuvin: “Straight from the President’s own mouth—we now know Virginia was telling the truth. She was trafficked out of Mar-a-Lago. No more spin. No more silence.

Release. The. Damn. Files.”

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The most corrupt White House in 🇺🇸 history. Pay for play. Selling the country for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

Listen.

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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein" | @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.

With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.

If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq

Virtually all children infected with COVID-19 show signs of blood vessel damage, study shows Making matters worse, this sign of cardiovascular damage is being seen in asymptomatic children as well as kids experiencing COVID symptoms.

Children getting blood vessel damage was known from 2020!! #Longcovid All children are at risk. Each reinfection carries cumulative risk of damage. studyfinds.org/children-wit...

Talarico and Texas Dems break quorum to Halt Gerrymandering Vote.

Trump’s about to pay us a lot of money to take drugs.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump can proceed, at least for now, with an executive order directing numerous federal agencies to end collective bargaining with government employee unions.

Forget eggs—the cost of coffee is skyrocketing, and folks are noticing.

I heard it was coming, so I stocked up weeks ago, but my supply won’t last forever. Trump’s Brazil tariffs are to blame.