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Courts Let Trump Strip Collective Bargaining Rights From Huge Number of Federal Workers Just days after a federal appeals court cleared the way for President...

Around 379,000 civil servants, more than 2.6% of all unionized workers in America, lost collective bargaining rights.
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The military takeover of Washington is not a “distraction” from Epstein. It’s a military takeover of Washington, which is an even bigger deal, and those of us who kill brain cells reporting on this stuff knows it’s been an explicit goal since before the election.

The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S. ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...

NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.

Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.

Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…

I can’t help but notice the Wall Street Journal stopped getting Epstein leaks after Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell and she was moved to a minimum security resort.

I'm just imagining the grim reaper having to show up to tell God that a dog ate his homework.

If I live to the year 2100, I'm having a Hobbit themed birthday and you're all invited.

an elderly man sits in a chair with his hands folded Alt: The old man victim from Knives Out sits in a chair with his hands making dramatic claws to simulate arthritis while saying in a mock old voice "I'm so old." This was the actor's last movie, so he wasn't exactly incorrect.

My son: huh, in 2100 I'll be, like, old, huh?
Me: yeah
My son: and you'll be dead
Me: ... Yeah
My son: that's not a threat, but it sounded like it I just mean you're older than me

The United States inherited that status, after the war. Along with something like forty percent of the world's wealth, and almost a third of its GDP.

That's what gave us the economic and cultural dominance that we've enjoyed until now. It's what first the USSR and then China sought to challenge.

Genuinely, Germany was *THE PLACE* science was done. If you wanted to study Physics, or Psychology, or Medicine, you learned German.

And then.

Idiots like RFK, Jr., irresponsibly regurgitating nonsense about vaccines, don't just kill people through a lack of medicine.

The music never stopped, the crowd sang along to everything.

Always like five different things going on, one of which was usually the actual game.

Loved it.

Brain: Did you make progress on the List today?

Me: The List? The Neverending List of things to do? The list with a hundred items, checked off one but then added five?

Brain: But you finished one! That’s progress!

Me: Yeah, no, sorry, we can’t positive vibes our way out of the List.

There was a race between babies.

A fan caught a foul ball and that means the batter is out.

A player wore a tutu the whole game and no one mentioned it at all.

A guy NOT wearing a tutu did ballet as he came up to bat.

Finally watched an entire Savannah Bananas game on live YouTube today.

I think Banana Ball is baseball for people whose ADHD means they thrive on chaos and are powered by memes.

Since that describes me, I obviously loved it.

A dude pitched WHILE ON STILTS.

I'm drinking caffeinated soda, we can be dangerous together.

It's really time and past for Olympic athletes to announce they're boycotting the 2028 Olympics.

James Lovell, astronaut who commanded the Apollo 13 moon mission that nearly ended in disaster, has died. He was 97.

The “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the Enemy The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the…

In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers.

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I'm not complaining, I'm just very confused.

I do not understand what has happened with this McDonalds delivery order.

First I got an email from them saying it was cancelled & a refund was sent.

Then an email confirming the order.

Then a text from door dash that they were delivering it.

I now have food, & am unsure if I paid for it.

Like I can pull the release inside the vehicle, but then you need to reach under the lip of the hood to pull another lever to fully open it, and my fingertips can't reach far enough under to even brush it.

I can barely reach in my Prius now, I had no chance in the Plymouth I drove back then.

I remember in high school someone in the parking lot after school was all "girls don't know how to open their car hoods, hurhur," and I didn't even try to prove him wrong.

Not because I didn't know how, but because my fingers are too short to reach the catch to fully open the hood underneath it.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

Oh, I like that.

I'd hoped a week of marveling at geological time scales would make me more prone to see Donald Trump as a passing fad in the larger sweep of our political history. But I came back instead a bit more sensitive to how far we’ve fallen in such a short time.

I was reading a commentary on Colossians that said we should be quicker to forgive and I was thinking that’s me, I am like that, just with blocking instead of forgiving

The good news is, you can block and forgive at the same time. In fact, forgiving someone is probably much easier if you never have to interact with them again.

"May God go with you, because I sure as hell won't."
- Me, practicing practical modern forgiveness.

“Le vamos a hacer mierda la ventanilla y lo vamos a sacar a rastras” Hemos documentado casi 50 casos de agentes de inmigración que destrozaron ventanillas de autos para realizar detenciones, una táctica que, según los especialistas, rara vez se utilizaba antes de la…

Hemos documentado casi 50 casos de agentes de inmigración que destrozaron ventanillas de autos para realizar detenciones, una táctica que rara vez se usaba antes. ICE afirma que sus agentes usan una “fuerza mínima”. Saque sus propias conclusiones.