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Someone in my neighborhood has begun hanging these cloth stitch signs from telephone poles. Often, but not always, about ICE

How much of Gaza is left standing? Analysis by independent researchers reveals the scale of the destruction

“The studies imply that estimated life expectancy [in Gaza has fallen by more than 35 years, to half the pre-war figure. In percentage terms…bigger than…during China’s Great Leap Forward; in absolute terms it is similar to the one in the Rwanda genocide”

never take freedom of the press or access to news for granted. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...

5 Ways that Trump Rapidly Ramped Up Immigration Detention Through threats and incentives, the administration conscripted local jails, federal prisons and private companies to detain immigrants.

After 6 months of Trump, we took a step back to ask: How was he able to ramp up detention so rapidly? The big takeaway: The US history of mass incarceration meant a giant infrastructure was already in place and ready to be deployed to cage people.

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/01/t...

This is a dagger through the heart.

Lobelia siphilitica, great blue lobelia flowers on a single vertical stem

Helianthus microcephalus, small-flowered sunflower, with small delicate yellow flowers on the ends of many stems

Veronicastrum virginicum, Culver's root, has multiple white flowering spires emerging from a single stem in the garden.

Close up of Eutrochium pupureum, Joe-Pye Weed, flower, a compound inflorescence of many tiny pink flowers forming a curved dome. The flowers appear above a single tall stalk, four to six feet tall

Late summer blooms in the yard - lobelia, small-flowered sunflower, Culver's root, Joe-Pye weed. #midatlantic #nativeplants

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Others have recommended Army of Shadows (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969) as a companion view. Archive dot org if you want. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/army_of_sh...

Free trade, open borders, taco trucks on every corner, halal trucks on every street, dim sum behind every door.

A millennial who believes courts have no authority over the president of the united states is now a CCA judge for life because Nevada's two Democratic senators decided they don't think Muslims should be appeals court judges

There is no longer any aspect of the federal government meaningfully under the practical control of Congress.

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.

Adams's oppo field HR to right gave the Houston announcers PTSD flashbacks. *Clang*.

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

(I went to Adrianne Lenker that day, but did get to see Bad Moves' farewell show at the Black Cat last night!).

Scotland ftw.

Send this one to the NYT pitchbot acct! (I will not subtweet, that still seems rude. Subskeet. Subspeak)

When you strip away humanity

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So annoying.

In pictures: Starvation in Gaza Food markets are empty. Human waste is piling up. Illness is spreading. And people in Gaza are “collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration,” humanitarian organizations warn.

A horror. “Editor’s note: This gallery contains disturbing images. Viewer discretion is advised.
Food markets are empty. Human waste is piling up. Illness is spreading. And people in Gaza are "collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration.”

Gaza suffering man-made mass starvation, says WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus issues warning, as more than 100 aid groups urge Israel to ease blockade

When Andrew Jackson sent Native Americans on the Trail of Tears, it was a policy choice.

When the British diverted food away from the Irish during The Great Hunger, it was a policy choice.

The starvation & death in Gaza is no different. This is a policy choice & our government is complicit in it.

Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders? A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God.

Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.
forward.com/opinion/7575...

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

Border Patrol says he was at the red mark, 65 feet south of the border, when he "made an abrupt starboard turn and struck the port bow of the Coast Guard small-boat," causing him to capsize.

He says that's ridiculous, he was in Canadian waters and was going to shore to talk when they hit him.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

ANDRE THE GIANT "I don't like to speak badly of people. | have grown up thinking and being told that if you cannot say something nice about someone, you should not say anything at all. But I must break that rule in this case because I hate Hulk Hogan very much. He is a big ugly goon and I want to squash his face."

Without Hulk Hogan, Peter Thiel would not have been so effective in media-suppression

Without Peter Thiel, we wouldn't know today's Musk or JDV

Without Musk, we wouldn't have DOGE (and would still have Park Service, State Dept, NIH, etc)

So we note Hulk Hogan's passing, as we might Roy Cohn's.

Real discussion:
CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan

Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me?

CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking