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This is a video of a bear on a trampoline. Whatever argument you may or may not have tonight is invalid.

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark...

Well, I'll be damned.

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

The police insist they need astronomical sums of money and complete immunity from any harm they cause in order to be ready to protect us and then half the time they just decide they’d prefer not to?

Could you share the text of your homily? I'd love to read it.

WOW

Why I’m not going back to the U.S. I started singin’ bye-bye, Miss American PieDrove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dryThem good ol’ boys were drinkin’ whiskey and ryeAnd singin’, “This’…

Hearing more and more stories of scientists from abroad deciding not to come or to return to the U.S. I know Giulia from my PhD in Colorado. I very much understand her decision

Russia was never a hoax
The 2020 election wasn’t stolen
Tariffs are a tax on you
Haitians didn’t eat pets
The Epstein files exist

Change your vocabulary and stop using the language of the predator.

1. Underage woman = child
2. Sex scandal (involving children) = rape
3. Sex with child = child rape
4. Sex trafficking = rape trafficking
5. Pedophile = child rapist
#opdeatheaters

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Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone A U.S. Army veteran arrested during an immigration raid at a California marijuana farm says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his vehicle on his way to work.

ICE detained a veteran and U.S. citizen for three days.

They didn’t let him contact his family or a lawyer. They didn’t let him change or shower. They didn’t give him a reason for his detention.

Under this regime, no one is safe. apnews.com/article/us-a...

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i don't know who needs to hear this, but double the garlic

Humanity is facing a shared global problem that requires coordinated action by all authorities and institutions, so naturally we're doubling down on nationalism to the point of ethnic cleansing right now.

Eight Dirty Tricks Hiding In Trump’s Tax Bill A vanity sculpture garden? A tax break for online bookies? Incentives for Wall Street to fire you? What actually passed in Trump’s sprawling “Big Beautiful Bill.”

NEWS: Republicans quietly slipped a line into the Trump tax bill that gives their private equity donors a special tax break as a reward for buying up small & medium sized businesses, loading them up with debt, and then firing all their workers.

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Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Marc Andreessen Is a Traitor It is the tech oligarchs, not young radicals, who have turned against the system that made them.

“They have betrayed the society that enriched them, and have put us at serious risk of authoritarianism, ethnic cleansing, lawlessness, and stagnation. They have betrayed the values that made that society great, values which they apparently only ever held superficially”

There you go, Democrats. Handed to you on a silver platter.

Republicans are crushing Medicaid, starving children and grandmothers, closing rural hospitals, all to line the pockets of the wealthy AND they’re protecting pedophiles.

Try not to screw up the midterms, please. 🙏🏼

The best thread you will read today (maybe even the week)

How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis Some narratives in international development hold that ending poverty and achieving good lives for all will require every country to reach the levels …

Providing decent living standards for 8.5 billion people requires only 30% of current global energy and material use.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...

And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.

Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...

It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

History’s booming in podcasts – but many of its academics are out of a job We live in momentous times. History podcasts and books are more popular than ever. So why is academic history in crisis?

The decline of academic history in Australia: an interesting & important article in SMH by @nickbryantoz.bsky.social Much more to be said, but a good start. Includes @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @capandgown.bsky.social @michellearrow.bsky.social Anna Clark et al
#history @austhistassoc.bsky.social

Bracketed Belonging by Kelvin E. Y. Low | Hardcover | Cornell University Press Bracketed Belonging addresses how nations and their governance of security determine social constellations and shape socio-political and legal assertions of belonging and allegiance. Kelvin E. Y. Low....

What happens when nations decide who belongs and who doesn’t?

BRACKETED BELONGING by Kelvin E. Y. Low dives into the world of #military migration & the hidden #politics of allegiance.

A must-read for anyone curious about belonging and #globalsecurity.

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

After Bass spoke with what I assume is a DHS rep, they packed shit up and headed out. The whole neighborhood turned out to chase them out of the park. Some fruit was thrown, alot of yelling

It's A Robbery: Fascism as a Means for Plundering Authoritarianism isn't just an ideology or political project. It's also an avenue for stealing your money

Fascism is theft using violence and fear to loot a country and to loot other countries

We’re in a time of sorting as the empire crumbles and climate change looms as a paradigm shifting disaster. We’re being sorted into those who live and those who die.

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Baltimore is seeing the city’s fewest homicides in 50 years. Here’s why. Multiple people have taken credit for the historic drop that mirrors a national decrease in violent crimes. Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott says it’s due to a community-based approach to gun violence.

Put some respect on Baltimore and @mayorbmscott.bsky.social’s name. We are not your punchline. We’re a city figuring it out. Kudos to Mayor Scott & his team.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

It’s hard to think of anything more antisemitic than a non-Jewish person telling Jewish people they aren’t actually Jewish if they don’t vote for the person they want them to vote for