God's Own Monster

It does feel like the world is ending for real this time

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

[baudrillard laser eyes]

Boeing defense union goes on strike Boeing defense union announces strike after machinists in Missouri and Illinois voted to reject the latest contract offer.

Thousands of machinists who build fighter jets and munitions at Boeing’s defense hub went on strike at midnight Monday for the first time since the mid-1990s.

me driving to get lettuce because i can't afford a home in a walkable neighborhood after an american knife maker voted a certain way without realizing he needs swedish steel

Every day the news is like “the US government announces that meat can be sold without saying what animal it is & they are also mandating a return to mercury thermometers,” followed by “RFK Jr. has removed the coloring from Twizzlers in a major win for everyday Americans & their health & pocketbooks”

I overheard a guy at the airport bragging about being at January 6th and I walked by him sitting in first class. Wealthy business owners stormed the capitol. January 6th was loaded with people who had the leisure time and travel budget to be there. Interrogate who is telling you to hate the poor.

Billionaire Ong pleads guilty in Singapore gifting scandal Ong Beng Seng could be sentenced by a Singapore court as soon as Monday or at a later date. He faces up to seven years in jail and a possible fine.

A billionaire best known for bringing Formula One night racing to Singapore has pleaded guilty in relation to a scandal to supply one of the city-state’s most senior politicians with luxury gifts.

Reeling over alleged child sex ring, Alabama community asks: ‘Did no one know?’ At prayer meetings and other gatherings, Bibb County residents have grappled with the realization that horrific crimes may have been happening in their town.

For some Bibb County residents, the uncovering of an alleged child sex trafficking ring has shattered a sense of small-town safety.

But experts say rural areas are among the places where people are the most vulnerable to trafficking and abuse.

Balancing Fairness and Stability in Syria’s Political Transition The new government says deals with Assad-era cronies are a form of justice that protects economic recovery and provides no immunity for past abuses

How do you rebuild an economy soaked in blood? In post-Assad Syria, a committee is striking quiet deals with oligarchs. Billions are at stake, and so is justice. @kshaheen.bsky.social and @hhassan.bsky.social report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social.

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Skeleton Army - Wikipedia

Enjoyed learning about the history of the Salvation Army while using their cafe in Denmark Hill, but my attention was very much stolen by The Skeleton Army, their hedonistic 19th c foes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeleto...

“History is best told as a story of organized crime. It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory and population.” Luke Kemp

this is insightful and to it I would add that changes to birthrate mean that this is plausibly the last gasp of the old-heavy demographic pyramid.

I’m not sure that younger leadership is going to solve the problem- they could very well be worse- but there’s a predictable unwind coming

Mali: Army, Wagner Group Disappear, Execute Fulani Civilians Mali’s armed forces and the allied Russia-backed Wagner Group have committed dozens of summary executions and enforced disappearances of ethnic Fulani men since January 2025.

Mali: Army, Wagner Group Disappear, Execute Fulani Civilians
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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

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Climate change: Ban fossil fuel advertising says UN chief - BBC News The UN leader's call comes as new data highlights the worrying pace of global warming.

did you know the u.n. secretary general has literally called for all countries to ban fossil fuel advertising

BREAKING: China has officially banned cryptocurrency trading, mining, and related services

El Señor De Los Memes on X: "🍿 https://t.co/Hq4dtTrqO7" / X 🍿 https://t.co/Hq4dtTrqO7

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Timeline cleanse: Insta video of Allen Dershowitz being told by Martha's Vineyard police to stop harassing vendors or be charged with trespassing after three different sellers refused him service. 1/3

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My grandfather once told me that evil is stronger than good and that politicians everywhere are predatory degenerate subhumans and he was right.

TL cleanse:

if you still think the World Cup is happening here you’re out of your fuckin mind

Officials scour mountainous area for suspect in Montana bar shooting that killed 4 Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar in the small town of Anaconda, killing four people.

Attacks on Larne properties being treated as racially-motivated hate crimes Attacks on two properties in Co Antrim are being treated as racially-motivated hate crimes, police have said.

PSNI think 'hate crime' means they can turn a blind eye to paramilitary terror.

UDA South East Antrim, as a UDA mural clearly states - same brigade covers Rathcoole, Rathfern, Monkstown, Glengormley, Whitewell, Carrick, Shore Road, Greenisland, Ballymena, Whitehead, Antrim & Larne.

Join the dots.

are we going to not talk about the mit media lab/joi ito/n*ri oxm*n thing ever again or

How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein New documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly...

"elite university research center [that operated as a de facto AI start-up incubator for years]" i mean www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...

Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)