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“Visibility hovered around or below 1 km in Fort McMurray, Alberta for most of the day Sunday, with the airport reporting exceptionally low visibility of just 200 metres at 5:00 p.m. local time.” The AQI hit 2242: 10x higher than the “hazardous” level. www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...

You ever just think about how much it sucks that Musk bought Twitter and absolutely destroyed it? Like man, that used to be where I'd meet new people, make real life friends, etc. Now, whenever I glance over there to check something, it's just unrecognizable.

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unreal

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

It’s extra funny because an extended segment of the rightwing tech influencer midwit scene see themselves as stalwarts of the type of American ingenuity and intelligence that Tao represents and now they get to create a new rationalization for how Tao, not Trump, is the problem.

i love how every article now reads like something you'd find as an ancient datapoint amidst the ruins of our dead society in a post-apocalyptic video game

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When this all crashes out I’m going to fucking clean up on second hand networking equipment

Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There “Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.

Trump sent Jerce Reyes Barrios to CECOT without charge, indefinitely, over a Real Madrid-inspired tattoo and a "rock&roll" hand signal. Jerce told us his story. (& he wants the world to know: “I’ll always be a fan of Real Madrid”)

w/ @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Not a bubble. Totally not a bubble. No, no sir. No froth in sight.

If Democratic leaders credibly said

“When we take power back, Elizabeth Fago is going to go to prison for this corruption and bribery, if public reporting is true”

they could MAKE it a story.

One thing I keep coming back to about Mamdani is that he rose from basically zero to an astonishing primary victory in just a few months in large part by refusing to nibble around the edges. He articulated a novel, sweeping, broad, positive vision, and just hammered at it. And people LOVED it.

i remain convinced that a democratic party that credibly promised to make life hell for all the hucksters, scammers, and grifters who have became so pervasive in everyday life would win by margins we haven't seen in a generation

If you regularly read the news and try to discuss it with another person you will sound more insane than a raving street preacher. Waving a big REPENT sign mumbling something about the bureau of labor statistics

You know what doesn't depend on a transparent and rule-driven political and economic order? Crypto! Related: www.axios.com/2025/08/01/t...

I think about these stories as I read about the various “deals” universities are signing with Trump. These deals do a lot of things but one is precisely try to ensure that these atrocities are allowed to continue by casting all discussion of them as antisemitism. It’s abhorrent.

“People find it easier to imagine that we can build intelligence on silicon than we can do democracy at scale, or that we can escape arms races. It’s complete bullshit…We’re a naturally social, altruistic, democratic species and we all have an anti-dominance intuition.” [?]

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The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt.

Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

spotify introduces AI-generated diss track concept album about your beloved grandparent

The FBI Redacted Trump’s Name in the Epstein Files The bureau’s FOIA team tasked with conducting a final review of the records blacked out the names before higher-ups said last month that releasing the documents ‘would not be appropriate or warranted....

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”
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a **federal judge** had his faith in the judicial system shaken.

By far the best one I’ve seen of those lmao

I moved here in the 90s and I don’t remember it being a consistent problem until this decade. There was the occasional monsoon before, but they were just that…occasional.

I like the strategy of not letting Dersh have any of the pierogis. I think this is scalable.

This isn’t how Title VI is supposed to work. Total lawlessness.