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What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

There is no world, no scenario, no imaginable or unimaginable turn of events under which the Trump Administration will not end up regretting this stupefyingly idiotic arrest.

Don Lemon today: "I will not stop now, I will not stop ever."

How daily life in Minneapolis has transformed since federal agents flooded the streets The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by immigration agents and a sweeping federal operation have transformed the city.

“Trying to go back to a phony-baloney corporate job of filing trademarks and talking about profit shares versus incentives and other just horse s--- is just so ultimately meaningless,” Young said. “I’ll figure something else out. But right now, my city needs me.’”

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every time someone has asked me the last week or so about priorities it is rental assistance. please please please people need rent to stay in their homes. scroll down to rent relief funds and pick something www.standwithminnesota.com

Mood in minneapolis right now

hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress

justice will eventually be served by someone. all of this is just for a season. people are mortal, armies lose battles, political coalitions collapse. don’t end up looking stupid or evil in the future because you thought this was the end of history.

Uvalde trial to resume after judge rejects mistrial motion A judge on Wednesday denied a defense motion for a mistrial in the case against a former Uvalde school district police officer charged over the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting.

Former officer Adrian Gonzales is charged with 29 felony counts of abandoning or endangering a child during the 2022 Robb Elementary school shooting. (via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social)

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Is it worth a pick up?

YouTube video by Coheed and Cambria Coheed and Cambria - The Father Of Make Believe (Official Visualizer)

For giggles I’m sharing my 10 iconic jams of 2025.

1. @coheedandcambria.bsky.social “Father or Make Believe”

I was eating good with a new favorite banger from my all-time favorite band this year. An incredible album overall but this is my standout pick.

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How many cautionary tales do we need about this? Can anyone in tech actually sit still long enough to finish a book or a film?

Just off the top of my head in fiction: V For Vendetta, Psycho Pass, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Minority Report, Equilibrium, The Giver

The Ezra Klein style of caring about political “strategy” over consistent moral principles and values of your own reminds me of how a lot of pop culture consumers obsessively track box office and chart performance rather than just evaluating based on whether things are good or if they like them

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TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

I believe this is known as "regime consolidation"

It would be very easy for ICE to make clear who its officers are and to display valid law enforcement creds. They’re choosing not to, to intimidate and spread fear. This is not how law enforcement should operate in a free society.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development. Follow live updates. - The Boston Globe The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections.

I hope that future historians absolutely *excoriate* a country on its way towards an HIV vaccine, among other things, that did THIS. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/n...

Bray Wyatt's Summerslam match against Finn Balor is one of my favorite "what the hell" redebuts ever. I was enjoying the Firefly Funhoise but seeing The Fiend with a remixed theme, the head of the old Bray as the lantern, and those other markers as he just murked Finn was truly awe. man had aura.

AAP Veers From Federal Guidance in Flu Vax Recommendations The group addressed vaccines containing thimerosal, recently targeted by a CDC advisory committee

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Ozzy Osbourne being Ozzy Osbourne.

An incomparable legend.

Ozzy is one of like 3 people in Decline of Western Civilization Part 2 that comes off as a decent human being and I always love the scene where Penelope Spheeris interviews him making breakfast while he explains the ups and downs of the business.

it’s not enough to ram AI down my throat, i’m also meant to take it seriously! i’m not meant to say fuck you to people who use it to do my job! if i brought some idiot to YOUR job and said hey, check out my boy here, he does what you do cheaper and worse, i hope you’d tell me to go straight to hell!

The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected.

The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.

That's the vision we should defend.

Flimmaker Ken Burns: Public broadcasting is a 'purely American expression' Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

Hell yes, 2 million raised for @gamesdonequick.com you LOVE to see it!

YouTube video by Democracy Now! James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass Speech "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"

One of my favorite annual @democracynow.org traditions is that we always play this video of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass's speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"

If you've never read or heard the speech, it's well worth your time.

Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”

“If you die, you let them off the hook.”

Needed this reminder today.

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