Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈

"Instructed to write a 'playful' obituary for a spirited, funny and faith-filled fake person, the AI tool said the man had been 'born on a chilly day,' 'lived by the words of the great Groucho Marx,' 'inspired everyone' and died in a 'sunny embrace,' despite being given none of that information."

Don't fall for the rope-a-dope, folks. No matter what she says, this woman is not your ally.

Definitely on my must-see list

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?"

My first night on AOL, I encountered a guy in a chatroom whose screen name was WHITEMINORITY. When I asked what that meant, he said that white men were in danger of becoming a minority in America and he wanted white men to "be ready to fight." This was in 1993.

This 2019 incident when Trump used a Sharpie to contradict official reports and spread misinformation about Hurricane Dorian's path says all anyone needs to know about the lies and nonsense that will be the next jobs report.

And to close the loop: Don’t miss @rygraham.bsky.social interviewing yours truly in this week’s issue of ¡Mira!, my bilingual newsletter: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/01/o...

Me and @marcelagarcia.bsky.social — my @globeopinion.bsky.social work bestie — interview each other for our newsletters: OUTTAKES and ¡Mira! globe.com/OUTTAKES

I'm a Mets fan, not a Yankee fan! That dig doesn't register at all!

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I still listen to this all the time.
Underrated classic.

When I read that Mamdani returned to the US "without incident," at first I was confused. Then I remembered that everything sucks and felt relieved that he returned to NYC "without incident."

On the other hand, we also have the capacity now to use the Internet to seek out follow up stories directly from the affected cities and states. (Support local media. ❤️)

False accusations against others, lies that's he's been cleared, and attacks against the media — straight from the Trump playbook.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

They'd rather have fruit rot on the vine than allow anyone they deem unworthy and beneath them to have even a small taste of it.

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

This is the kind of mess that will take generations for even the slightest improvements. So with more years behind me than in front of me, the hardest part is knowing that I won't live to see it get any better.

Deciding that one group of children is more worthy of survival than another is moral depravity, and the world would be a vastly different place if more people recognized that.

Whew!

I wouldn't doubt it. But capitulation is a bottomless pit with this evil lot. They'll just keep picking away until there's nothing recognizable left.

There was a recent story about how the law firms that capitulated to Trump have lost clients and business while those who said "Nope" are doing quite well.

It's a gangster shakedown. Deadass.

Because those people are exactly like them.

Pro-tip: Blocking idiots and bots is a great way to burn calories and lower your blood pressure.

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Sadly, Lego retired the typewriter last year which means it’s no longer sold in Lego stores including online. You can still find it on eBay or other secondary markets, but the price markups can be pretty ugly.

Exactly. It's been a kind of sanctuary for me for nearly two years. (I received my first set, a typewriter, as a gift in 2023.) Lego has really helped keep me sane through everything that's going on.

Most recent Lego build: