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Whale dies after collision with small boat off New Jersey shore A minke whale has died off the New Jersey shore after colliding with a small boat. The incident occurred Saturday in Barnegat Bay and the impact nearly tipped the boat and threw a person overboard.

They did that “person collided with car and died” thing, but in the ocean.

No, the whale didn’t collide with a boat. A person driving a boat hit a whale and killed it.

There's no story here, as the story points out starting in paragraph 11.

‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...

From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths

I don’t think anyone can fully understand Trump’s appeal unless you have at least one person like this in your life, someone with absolutely no real problems who hyperfixates on their minor annoyances about, like, light bulbs and builds an identity around it out of sheer boredom.

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s"

An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us:
www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

Child killed, mother and 2 kids hurt after struck by SUV at NJ intersection A mother and her three children were leaving a doctor’s office when they were struck by an SUV at a New Jersey intersection, according to police and witnesses, killing one of the children and injuring...

A 4-year-old is dead and a family is destroyed, and it’s just going to be chalked up as the cost of doing business in a world built to exonerate people driving hugely oversized vehicles with big-screen entertainment systems whose time is more valuable than yours

www.nbcnewyork.com/new-jersey/c...

A lot has happened to PATH in the past 25 years -- 9/11, major construction work, COVID, etc. But consistent across all of these events have been ensuing reductions in off-pk service levels: since 2005, the number of PATH trips crossing the Hudson on Saturdays has fallen by *50%*

Send it across Kearny to connect with the West Side branch of the HBLR

This graphic alone is like a fucking dissertation. Incredible stuff. Master class.

Blows a massive hole in every govt's excuse that their level of gov't has no control over freeway spending.

Aid Groups Blame Israel’s Gaza Restrictions for ‘Mass Starvation’

The distance between what is in happening Gaza, fully backed with US dollars and political support, and the reaction of American politicians who by and large just don’t seem to care or support it is just completely brain-breaking.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/w...

It’s absolutely horrifying how Israel is starving the people of Gaza and how the US continues to support it

Okay, I will say this: the famine in Gaza is a deliberate policy decision by Israel to mass murder two million people and they are doing this on the dime of US taxpayers.

The bloodstains from this will never wash off.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/19/live-israel-kills-more-than-50-in-gaza-as-un-warns-of-catastrophic

Meanwhile, and this is truly beyond belief, the solution to famine in Gaza is RIGHT THERE.

Which is what makes this starvation a deliberate and genocidal act.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."

"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."

It's basically safer to be a subway rider in New York City that a driver or passenger in a car anywhere in the US.

andreessen could be feted like a king by the people of iowa and wisconsin if he put his billions into supporting public institutions. but he doesn’t want the adoration of the people he considers to be hogs, he wants stanford and harvard and the new york times to tell him he’s a special boy

gotta say i think FDOT bears a lot of the blame here. this is a railroad from 1885 which always hosted fast trains, even when it was freight-only. what the hell were your traffic engineers thinking

I think PATH ran extra WTC service yesterday (though the only communication about this was the countdown screen suddenly jumping from 15 to 5). Also, at Grove St, the 33rd trains still appeared on the countdown even as the PA repeated the suspension message.

If you're American, consider this series of events —

Wednesday: We ask Republicans if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine and Lebanon since 10/7. None did.

Thursday: Republicans & Democrats smile alongside Netanyahu.

Friday: Israeli settlers kill another American.

A new study of vehicular crashes in the UK shows that—after accounting for driver characteristics, road conditions, & more—adult pedestrians & cyclists had a 14% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV rather than a regular car.

Children had a shocking 77% higher fatality rate when hit by SUVs.

Sure, you COULD take the AA bus from Trenton to Atlantic City via PHL for just $1,966.

But you could also do it for just 12,000 miles and $0, making it one of the "best" miles redemption values around 🤪

i think even if you're someone who disagrees about free buses (many well-informed people do) you should be skeptical about editors coming to you with article offers to write about this in context of the concerted media-wide effort to discredit and slander Mamdani for non-bus-related reasons.

AI also requires a great deal of water

A sign of a healthy intellectual movement is when a week later you are still talking about something that didn’t happen

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the flood risk in Texas.

NEW: in the wake of devastating floods in tx, some officials say NWS forecasts weren't sufficient enough to warn them, while others are warning that DOGE cuts may have made predictions less accurate.

meteorologists told me: NWS did a solid job with the forecasts around this storm

Media came down on Mamdani like a ton of bricks for a phrase he literally never once said. Trump says a slur on stage on camera and they twist themselves in pretzels like this. If this is what journalism is, I welcome its death

After about 35 min and 5 disappeared buses we decided to walk and this made me soooo crabby 🦀