The sun is shining. ☀️

Wrapping up July with a solar peak record of 21,774 MW! 😎⚡

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Today’s Daily Cartoon in the New Yorker, by Guy Richards Smit

If there is still an editor at the Washington Post who decided to publish the crap somebody wrote for that pile of shit Jeanine Pirro - and the editor is not already drunk at this hour - the editor should be fired

Dean Cain is that dude that is like 4 years older than you when u graduate that hangs out at high school football games offering you Boones Farm who doesn't understand his best days are behind and he looks pathetic hitting on teenagers

We’re working on it. That’s all I can say for now. Subscribe to The Onion.

“Surviving Jeffrey Epstein” is the most-watched documentary right now on Amazon Prime. It came out in 2020. But it’s right at the top (#1) of “most watched” on the site.

In case anyone thought people had forgotten about the Epstein files.

THEY HAVEN’T.

Outside watching the satellites rush by over the sky deep in Glacier and one thing that has surprised me is the large number of satellites - I don’t remember seeing so many growing up - and my star finder app tells me so many are Starlink.

old enough to remember when, if uniformed active duty soldiers were seen walking around a metropolitan downtown in large groups, they were trying to get laid

It’s unbelievably stressful getting berated in a meeting with a company partner and only being able to tell them that “the project has unfortunately been delayed due to some external complications” when what you want to say is “[x] company fucked us over and if we misspeak even once we’re toast.”

‘No country is safe’: deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say Historically cool nations saw hospitals overheating and surge in drownings, wildfires and toxic algal blooms

It definitely feels important to include the fact that Norway specifically is uniquely and disproportionately responsible for the nordic heatwave here, because we profit wildly from supplying the cause of the substance causing these deaths, injuries and environmental catastrophes

Fluffy yellow dog on a rug with a leather pig toy

BEWARE Pomeranians may accost you, move into your apartment without your consent, and force you to provide them with medical & dental benefits

I figured out Republicans are always lying about “dangerous neighborhoods” back in 2014 when I moved to LA, immediately started hanging out in South Central in the middle of the night, and the worst thing that happened is I found a dog in the street and now I have a permanent expensive lazy roommate

come tf on SDOT isn't doing *anything* on modal split

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Stripe says it’s accepting payments for LGBTQ content
JVA site starts working with Visa again
Mastercard reportedly panicking and making Riot moderate messages

The tide is turning
We are going to win this
Keep calling
Keep writing
Keep fighting

You can do this

mold is starting to strategically target rightwingers

in case you are wondering: yes, markwayne was like this when he was still working his plumbing business before he went into politics. he's like world's drunkest dad.

The news out of DC is consistently awful but it’s still kind of amusing to see all these tough guy members of Congress lining up in front of the cameras to say things like, “I can’t step outside the Rayburn Building when I’m here because if I hear rap music I’ll shit myself.”

Issue-specific targeted checkpoints like DUI checkpoints can be constitutional, but a generalized roust-everyone-for-anything checkpoints are definitely not. There may be an exception for a special purpose to help a career sex pest and rapist evade attention to his connection to a serial pedophile.

A late night message from Gavin Newsom

Americans are being conditioned to think of crime as an urban issue. Ask why.

Alabama's murder rate is far higher than New York City's.

Urban crime is not worse than rural crime. It's just more visible. In cities everything is more visible.

So be careful what you blame city leaders for.

The movie The Purge, but only super-rich people are allowed to commit crimes and get away with it, and it’s every day… and I’m just describing our country right now… never mind.

Ohio parents of kids with disabilities are receiving letters from the school board demanding they pay “extra” for their disabled children.

This is ableism and discrimination at its finest.

They weren’t even given adequate warning. Just 17 days to pay up.

Last I recall, general checkpoint vehicle stops are presumptively unconstitutional.

MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES I. INTRODUCTION What will it take to get the LAPD to respect the constitutional rights of journalists? Once again, and less than a month after this Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order in this action, LAPD's past unlawful treatment of the press "proved prologue." Order Granting Temporary Restraining Order, p. 1. [Dkt. 44] ("TRO Order"). On July 10, 2025, the Court issued its TRO Order prohibiting the Los Angeles Police Deparment ("LAPD") from barring journalists from entering closed areas at protests; from "[intentionally assaulting, interfering with, or obstructing any journalist" who is reporting at a protest; and from "[c]iting, detaining, or arresting a journalist who is in a closed area for failure to disperse," TRO Order at 12-13. Yet less than one month later, the LAPD attacked a peaceful protest and reporters present and violated each one of these terms. On August 8, 2025, LAPD officers formed a skirmish line and began forcing peaceful protestors away from the immigration detention facility in downtown Los Angeles without declaring an unlawful assembly, giving a dispersal order, or making any provision for journalists. The line of LAPD officers advanced on journalists openly displaying press identification and shoved them to the ground and hit them with batons — even as journalists yelled that they were press or held their press identification up for officers to see, as shown in Exhibit 109: Ss., PLAINTIFFS' EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR CONTEMPT; SANCTIONS

Only after the initial assaults, forcing the assembly back a block, did the LAPD give a dispersal order. While most of the protestors left, approximately 20 remained with nearly all of the press. Beckner-Carmitchel Dec. 1 20. The LAPD kettled the remaining protestors and the press, forcing them into a side street. The journalists were detained, ordered to stand against a wall and zip-tied, including those with press credentials still hanging from them prominently displayed, for one to two hours, as shown in Exhibit 107. While some journalists were released on site with a Field Interview Card alleging failure to disperse after an unlawful assembly order, LAPD transported two up to its detention facilities on Temple and Los Angeles streets. These violations occurred even after the Court directed LAPD to distribute a summary of 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 the TRO Order to all members of the Department, which LAPD did, and voluntarily incorporated the broader definitions of "journalist" codified by the California Legislature in California Penal Code $409.7.' And these violations occurred even as Plaintiffs identified themselves as press and made repeated attempts to obtain a supervisor or Public Information Officer ("PIO") representative on the scene and to get LAPD officers who answered the phone at the Department's PIO office to address the unfolding situation. Defendants' actions evince a blatant disregard for the First Amendment and an unwillingness or an inability or both on the part of the City to take steps necessary to ensure ' A copy of the LAPD's notice to all department personnel is attached at Exhibit 110. PLAINTIFFS' EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR CONTEMPT; SANCTIONS

compliance with this Court's Injunction. This Court has broad authority to enforce its orders through civil contempt. Plaintiffs submit that a finding of contempt and issuance of appropriate sanctions are both justified and necessary to ensure Defendants comply with the Court's order in the future. Specifically, Plaintiffs request that the Court: • Modify the TRO Order to expressly encompass use of batons and any other type of force and to require LAPD to have a designated liaison from the Office of Operations at every protest or First Amendment-protected event. • Find Defendants in Contempt and set a hearing on and Order to Show Cause why further sanctions against Defendants should not issue; • Impose civil contempt remedies as appropriate, including but not limited to monetary sanctions; violations of the TRO Order and • Appoint a Special Master to investigate the LAPD's conduct on August 8, 2025 and report back to the Court with findings on the reasons for noncompliance and recommendations for how to ensure compliance with the TRO Order and any subsequent Preliminary Injunction going forward; • Award reasonable attorneys' fees incurred in responding to Defendants' violations and this application. II. STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY A. The Temporary Restraining Order On July 10, 2025, the Court issued a Temporary Restraining Order that provided, in key sections, the following restrictions on the LAPD: 2. If LAPD or another law enforcement agency establishes a police line or rolling closure at a demonstration, march, protest, or rally where individuals are engaged in activity that is protected pursuant to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, LAPD is enjoined from: a. Prohibiting a journalist from entering or remaining in the closed areas. PLAINTIFFS' EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR CONTEMPT; SANCTIONS

Los Angeles Press Club/Status Coup just filed a contempt motion against the LAPD for violating a recent TRO that ordered they stop arresting, detaining, and assaulting journalists at protests. Motion alleges they did just that at last Friday’s protest. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70553...

California's richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize Wonderful says the nursery in Wasco, Calif., was losing money. Some question whether the company is laying off hundreds of workers to send a message to others.

California’s richest agricultural family is shuttering a farm the UFW sought to unionize

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?