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Nothing like creating jobs for a bunch of militarized blood-thirsty delusional guys who have virtually no accountability.

Online Scams and Attacks in America Today 73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack, and these are common across age groups. Most get scam calls, texts and emails at least weekly.

Yesterday, we released a new report showing just how pervasive online scams have become. Almost 3/4 of adults say the've experienced at least one kind of scam and 79% say it's a major problem!

This is a tabby cat at his most relaxed, stretched out on cool concrete after four days of dangerous heat.

This is a pan of caramelly cinnamon rolls at The Buttered Tin in NE Minneapolis. Perfection.

These are my favorite images from the week.

Cat distribution at its best. Happy gotcha! You found your perfect place.

James performed by Dominic Hoffman!

Director Ari Aster (‘Eddington’) Has Made an American Western for 2025 Podcast Episode · Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso · 07/20/2025 · 56m

Ari Aster on the last 5 years in the US: “We're living in a world now where everybody is living in a different reality. Nobody can agree on what is happening. I think people have lost the dimensions of the bigger world outside of themselves.”

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A white and brown tabby cat is lying in a window cat bed, leaning against the window in sunlight

Completely relaxed in the most awkward position. #cats

Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves  Middle Class ST. PAUL, MN—In a comprehensive new survey of how the wealthy view their socioeconomic status, a study published this week in the Journal Of Economic Perspectives found that the majority of billionair...

Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves  Middle Class

A domestic short haired tabby lays on concrete like a sphinx with his tongue out trying to stay cool. Uno the backyard feral buddy.

A domestic short haired tabby cleans his hind leg flopped on the backyard patio concrete. It is summer. The weeds are green and blurred in the background.

Uno says it’s Friday. I believe him.

just got a CEO email predicting a 20% decline in our Medicaid revenue to start

This is Uno. Formerly feral but outdoor tabby dude. He is fearless when it comes to death and kills at will. Squirrels. Rats. Little brown sparrows without a clue. I love him. We sit on the stoop when it’s stormy. I saved his tail. I ask him to protect us and he always does his best.

Storm blowing through northern NJ. Flights at EWR routes elsewhere. Fast moving sun blooms.

Fast moving storms over EWR. Sorry for the holiday delays.

“So the president wants to install paramilitaries in all our cities to run his ethnic cleansing program”

“No big deal”

“But there’s a guy running for mayor of NYC who wants free buses”

*guns drawn*

“This is a five alarm fire. Only our finest anonymous Nazis can handle this”

From my rep @replamonica.bsky.social: the bill "is cutting $360 million from NJ’s state healthcare budget ALONE, leaving 360,000 eligible residents at risk of losing care. Again, that’s JUST New Jersey.” This going to be catastrophic to our healthcare system. It will affect everyone in the US.

I just finished reading I Cheerfully Refuse, and it was spectacular. An epic Lake Superior tale set in a near-future dystopian America that feels just around the corner www.leifenger.com/i-cheerfully...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

The Value of NJ TRANSIT NJ TRANSIT service is vital for the economic prosperity of New Jersey and the region, but what would happen if we failed to adequately fund that service? Researchers investigate this hypothetical scen...

NEW: NJ TRANSIT moves 720,000 people every weekday. We know it's important for the state — and now we've quantified its worth.

RPA's latest report, The Value of NJ TRANSIT, looks at the real, measurable value of NJ TRANSIT for the state of NJ

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ChatGPT Is Telling People With Psychiatric Problems to Go Off Their Meds For some people, obsession with ChatGPT has gone so far, it's exacerbating their mental illness — and causing them to go off their meds.

I'm increasingly worried that we're spiraling into an AI-fueled mental health crisis -- tons of evidence coming out that AI is picking up on signs of psychosis/delusion in users and ENCOURAGING it

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If our attention stays trapped in 3–5 billionaire-run platforms, democracy suffers. Bluesky is built by all of us—for all of us. It won't happen overnight, but we're building a freer internet where you have a voice and get to choose your experience.

The ultra-rich have captured more of America’s wealth than even the nineteenth-century tycoons of the Gilded Age. Scholars who study inequality as far back as the Neolithic period struggle to find precedents. Tim Kerig, an archeologist who directs the Museum Alzey, in Germany, told me, “The people who built the Egyptian pyramids were probably in a less unequal society.” He suggested that today’s richest people are simply accumulating too much wealth for the system to contain. “The economic and technical evolution is much faster than the social, mental, and ideological evolution,” he said. “We had no time to adapt to all those billionaires.”

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Fantastic essay @dansinker.com - I agree. The most valuable thing right now is caring and taking care.

This is magnificent and sad and beautiful. It’s not newsy or a joke, it’s just one of the best things I’ve read in a while and I implore you to read it

This is an important paper showing how access to safety net benefits is directly related to mortality. Cuts to services, even in the guise of work requirements, will lead to unnecessary deaths!

I’m so proud of my representative. Thank you for standing up for our neighbors here in our district!

Stunning! I really thought these were porcelain.

"It's about being so rich that you actually believe yourself to be God. This is the corrupting influence."

👆Must-read article.

Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything' The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.

“Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase...There is no utopian vision in any of this. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social

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Ginsberg is always getting a raw deal. He wound up in a mental hospital sans nipple for the sake of advertising. Now this disrespect.

United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out United has been urging the government to limit the number of flights to what an airport can realistically manage based on staffing, CEO Scott Kirby said.

Jaw dropping. United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out

Screenshot of an order confirmation for Bad Company.

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