David Palmer

Russia to import gasoline from Asia as nearly 40% of refining capacity shuts down, media reports Russia is considering importing fuel from China, South Korea, and Singapore to stabilize its domestic market, according to Kommersant.

That grinding sound you are hearing is the Ukrainians relentlessly dissecting arguably the most important part of the Russian economy. And they are doing this with almost no help from their partners--indeed the US has tried to stop them from attacking into Russia. kyivindependent.com/russia-to-be...

Today, 52-year-old Ilona Revut has died in a shelter in Kyiv due to an acute reaction to stress.
A beauty parlor where Ilona was hairstylist wrote of her death.

Russia doesn't always kill with direct strikes.
Many Ukrainians have serious health issues after surviving Russian attacks.

In fact, there's good reason to suspect that Kennedy and others in his orbit will encourage Americans to get even more sun. Last October, in a post on X, Kennedy warned that the FDA's "aggressive suppression" of sunlight, among other supposedly healthy interventions, was "about to end." Casey Means, a doctor and wellness influencer whom President Donald Trump has nominated for surgeon general, is also a sun apologist. In her bestselling book, Good Energy (which she published with her brother, Calley Means, an adviser to Kennedy), she argues that America's many ailments are symptoms of a "larger spiritual crisis" caused by separation from basic biological needs, including sunlight. "Shockingly, we rarely ever hear about how getting direct sunlight into our eyes at the right times is profoundly important for metabolic and overall health," she writes. An earlier version of Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill tried to repeal the excise tax on tanning beds. (The provision was cut in the final version.)

The nominee for Surgeon General, who did not complete medical training and has never practiced medicine, recommends looking directly at the sun for “metabolic health.” archive.ph/2025.07.22-1...

Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump. The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

nothing calms conspiracy theorists faster than a cryptically written letter

Ted Cruz Assures Texans He Working Tirelessly To Get Vacation Refunded KERRVILLE, TX—Promising grieving Texans he would do everything in his power to make things right in the wake of last week’s deadly floods, Sen. Ted Cruz assured his constituents Wednesday that he was working tirelessly to get the rest of his Greek vacation refunded. “I have spent countless hours on the phone persuading Capital One […]

Ted Cruz Assures Texans He Working Tirelessly To Get Vacation Refunded
theonion.com/ted-cru...

Federal courthouse in greenbelt with people milling about outside. A woman holds a sign that reads "Gestapo ICE 2025"

HAPPENING NOW: Hello again from Greenbelt, Maryland, where an ICE official is set to be questioned about the Trump administration's plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia if he's released from criminal custody in Tennessee.

I'm here for @lawfaremedia.org.

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Just imagine what would have been coming out of McKinsey's Berlin office in 1940 if the company had existed then

ICE Rolls Facial Recognition Tools Out to Officers' Phones Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam.

www.wired.com/story/ice-ro...

For weeks, I have been saying this is out of control.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

The Big, Beautiful Bill assigns each American a billionaire who will live the American dream for you. You can check in on your billionaire at intervals and see how he is using your money. Maybe he's building a 19th pool. Maybe he's buying himself some formerly public land! Maybe he's taking a Supreme Court justice on a dream vacation! Maybe he is reupholstering the Statue of Liberty to hide the poem.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Should humanity exist? Let’s ask a man who cofounded an online payment-processing platform 27 years ago

If I went back through my whole life, I still don't think I could collect even a single fuck to give about Ted Cruz's opinions on movies.

I would be interested to hear the self-mythologizing of ICE agents about why they hide their faces, I bet there's a lot of 'I'm fighting the cartels and they would hunt my family' as they drag a screaming four year old away from her parents.

seinfeld characters as intelligence services: a thread

Protest saying Bring Kilmer Abrego-Garcia home.

Yes it is!

In that there won’t be any more vote by mail.

Trump vilified tech giants. Now they’re giving him millions. After years in which Trump called them enemies of the people, Silicon Valley executives are hoping $1 million gifts and Mar-a-Lago dinners will mend bridges with the president-elect.

Tech inaugural donations:

Biden
Apple CEO: $0
Amazon: $276,509
Google: $337,500
Meta: $0
Microsoft: $500,000
OpenAI CEO: $0

Trump
Apple CEO: $1,000,000
Amazon: $1,000,000
Google: $1,000,000
Meta: $1,000,000
Microsoft: $1,000,000
OpenAI CEO: $1,000,000

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Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better.

But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.

The most Arizona Cardinals thing ever is hosting your first home playoff game in a decade and your team isn't playing

lookin good sir, real healthy sir, like if christopher walken playing the role of “b-17 tail gunner on his ninth bombing run over berlin” sir

Wow. I think I would’ve taken this deal. Does no time, and conviction goes away after three years.

We’ll pitch to Alvarez and it’ll be okay because we’ll just have our center fielder pull it back out of the seats…

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday!

This might be the best title I’ve ever seen.

Looks delish!

Positive Covid test result

Had a fun long weekend in Seattle. Now paying the price…