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I had a thread on Twitter where I talked about how people who grew up post Lawrence, fundamentally do not understand how dangerous it was to be gay, the things you had to do to stay safe.

JB Pritzker: “I reject criticism from Donald Trump who inherited his money and then went bankrupt six times and then defrauded his buisness partners. And by the way he cheats at golf too.”

candidate 1: i will kill you and your family

candidate 2: i will only kill half of your family, and maybe not you

candidate 3: I won't kill anybody, what the hell, that's so fucked up

Too many of you: Candidate 3 will just take votes from candidate 2, who we must elect to save democracy

How the world now sees America: Display at Trinity College Dublin of words discouraged by US federal agencies in 2025.

This study was published in Annals of Internal Medicine; the journal is NOT retracting it just because of political pressure from the world's most extreme & dangerous anti-vaxx activist

The lead author, Anders Peter Hviid, says "I have not been targeted by a political figurehead in this way before"

Two AIPAC-backed Dems announce support for ban on offensive weapons for Israel Reps. Maxine Dexter (D-OR) and Valerie Foushee (D-NC) flip-flopped on their previous opposition to block military aid to the Jewish state

It fell under the radar but Valerie Foushee and Maxine Dexter, two Dem congresswomen who enjoyed huge amounts of AIPAC & DMFI financial support in 2022 and 2024, have come out in favor of blocking offensive weapons from being given to Israel. Foushee also renounced taking AIPAC money in the future.

This does a great job of highlighting just how obsequious she has been to the tinpot dictator and how little it has helped her.

I don't know how many times universities and mayors and other administrators need to learn this lesson, but being spineless just makes you easier to crush.

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And Mom would say, "Hi Mr. Williams. We need $x more to fund all the scholarships."

And he'd cut a check. Anonymously.

I don't know how he had heard about it, I don't know the conversation that came about where he told Mom to call him every year. But he came through.

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Why? In the 90s, Mom worked with a group who gave out college scholarships to local kids who had fucked up, but were turning their lives around.

And when application deadline had closed, and all the other fundraising had been gathered for the year, she'd call him.

France slams Israel’s fresh Gaza plans as ‘disaster,’ Italy mulls sanctions Macron says he's pushing for creation of 'UN-mandated stabilization mission' in Strip; Italy's defense minister says Netanyahu's methods 'dangerously similar' to Putin's

French President Emmanuel Macron announced earlier today that his government is planning to propose the establishment of a United Nations Security Council mandate for a humanitarian and stabilization mission in the Gaza Strip, meanwhile Italy's FM compares Netanyahu to Putin and mulls sanctions.

"Tauba" youtube video for a song by some Virgin Music Group weirdos ripping off our Tamil Pulp Fiction cover image

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, 2008, cover illustration by Shyam, design by Malavika PC

AI slop plagiarists from @virginmusic.com ripping off (2025, L) our OG Tamil Pulp Fiction cover by Shyam & Malavika (2008, R). Tauba Tauba indeed 😡

Hope for red wolves Full tree canopies and blooming goldenrod. Shifting bird sightings with migrating flocks. The thrum of cicadas, late sunsets, and lightning bugs.  The final remnants of summer are all around — and in ...

GREAT NEWS: On August 8, the Fish and Wildlife Service shared the that the world’s only wild population of red wolves has grown by as many as 16 pups. The births are a critical step forward for a wild population that numbered only seven wolves in 2020: www.selc.org/news/hope-fo...

I was the Director of IT at an org and one day, found out our CFO was putting all our MOUs into his personal ChatGPT account and HR was having conversations with a personal ChatGPT account to determine what salaries we should be offering staff.

Very concerning!

Contrast with Beto O'Rourke, who said two days ago at Netroots Nation that Democrats should "use the awesome power of this country to establish an independent, sovereign state for the Palestinian people."

Exclusive: Foot traffic down 9% at American Eagle following Sydney Sweeney ad controversy Traffic fell for both weeks since the campaign dropped, per Pass_by

NEW: Foot traffic fell 9% y/o/y at American Eagle stores for the week that began August 3, marking the 2nd week of traffic declines since the retailer launched its controversial campaign featuring actor Sydney Sweeney

www.retailbrew.com/stories/2025...

“Wokeness was a mass hysteria the American people rejected,” is more wishful thinking than reality.

Norway sovereign wealth fund rolls back Israeli investments over West Bank, Gaza concerns * * *

"Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund says it is selling off its stakes in some Israeli companies, and is terminating all contracts with Israeli asset managers handling investments over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank."

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

Wayne Porritt, an Australian businessman who sits on TasPorts as an independent director, is now a full-time advisor for Our Hong Kong, a pro-Beijing group that had successfully pushed to "pass a law prohibiting acts of “treason, succession, sedition [and] subversion”

Yeah, like... ICE out of LA, Nat Guard out of LA, Marines out of LA, also LAPD and LASD out of LA

it’s legit radicalizing stuff that people are being arrested for these beliefs while the political establishment is, at the same fucking time, starting to agree with them

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

This conflation of rent stabilization, rent control, and affordable housing is galling enough before you remember that this fucking guy literally ran HUD

Parked cars vs Outdoor dining in the same urban canyon ;)

Purple cans of AriZona Iced Tea, with the 99-cent price printed on them, are in a factory. A headline reads: "Can AriZona's 99-Cent Iced Tea Survive Trump’s Tariffs?" Photo by Brian Fraser for The New York Times

The 99-cent price of AriZona Iced Tea’s signature tallboys has stayed the same for nearly three decades. President Trump’s 50% tariff on imported aluminum may change that. “I hate even the thought of it,” the founder and chairman Don Vultaggio said. nyti.ms/4lkTrVg

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed.

The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

Unionized Berkeley REI workers get pay raises after Labor Board claimed they were shut out An agreement reached last week between REI and two unions establishes a bargaining structure and provides retroactive bonuses and pay raises for some unionized workers who were denied them.

“Following a years-long organizing effort, some workers at a Berkeley REI store are set to get retroactive pay raises and bonuses as part of a labor deal with two unions representing workers at 11 stores across the country”

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/08/08/u...

ICE looted their restaurant and tried to break into the safe. News chopper footage caught them backing their cars up to the door and carrying out cases of food.

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”