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But fighting shitty people as opposed to actually fixing the inequalities that enabled them is an American discursive pass time

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not.

That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held its silence. For the first time, using intelligence reports and witness testimony, we piece together what occurred during the April atrocity – and why it was not stopped

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’ Stephanie Kirchgaessner and David Smith Wed 6 Aug 2025 17.46 EDT Share JD Vance’s team had the army corps of engineers take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake in Ohio to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned. The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for an August outing on the Little Miami River, according to a statement by the US army corps of engineers (USACE). Vance was spotted in the south-western Ohio area on 2 August, his 41st birthday, according to social media posts that noted he was seen canoeing on the river, a tributary that Caesar Creek Lake feeds into. One source with knowledge of the matter who communicated with the Guardian anonymously alleged that the outflow request for the Caesar Creek Lake was not just to support the vice-president’s Secret Service detail, but also to create “ideal kayaking conditions”. The Guardian could not independently confirm this specific claim.

What good is being VP if you can't abuse your power to have the Army Corps of Engineers making your kayaking trip more ideal by changing the waterflow of a lake?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

About That Stock Market Policy has gone mad; why aren’t stocks down?

"if you ask why Trumponomics hasn’t caused a stock crash, 1 answer is that many of the market effects of Trump’s policies have been masked by the AI boom.. if Trump hadn’t won & implemented tariffs, we’d..be dealing with overheating driven by AI spending"
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/about-that...

just got this note from my kid in L.A. Fucking nuts.

ICE just did a massive raid operation at the Home Depot by my apt where we’ve been trying to do defence patrols. Jumped out of a U-Haul like 30 people with big guns and arrested women selling orange juice. They called it “operation Trojan horse”

THIS MUST BE STOPPED. IMMORAL . CRIMINAL. CRUEL. HOW DO THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT? Please I hope they are identified and exposed and arrested.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Uprooting confederate statues and shipping them to a museum where it could be given proper historical context WAS the compromise position so yes when we get back in the answer is to smash them to bits on Live Television like the Berlin Wall.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

The planetary implications are clear: a generation of investors hell-bent on rewarding a gaggle of end-days cultists is not a generation capable of giving a fig about its grandchildren. Everyone's piling into the hottest new trend: necro-accelerationism.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I called and am getting transferred to the secretary, that direct line is: 202-690-7000
Introverts: it's after office hours right now, so you won't have to speak to a human if you call the direct line now and leave a message.

#DidThisToday

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA WASHINGTON, DC-AUGUST 5, 2025-The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency. "We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted," said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. "BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We're shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate." The wind-down affects a range of programs including: • Cancellation of BARDA's award to Moderna/UTMB for an mRNA-based H5N1 vaccine. • Termination of contracts with Emory University and Tiba Biotech. • De-scoping of mRNA-related work in existing contracts with Luminary Labs, ModeX, and Seqirus. • Rejection or cancellation of multiple pre-award solicitations, including proposals from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur, CSL Seqirus, Gritstone, and others, as part of BARDA's Rapid Response Partnership Vehicle (RRPV) and VITAL Hub. • Restructuring of collaborations with DoD-JPEO, affecting nucleic acid-based vaccine projects with AAHI, AstraZeneca, and HDT Bio.

This is going to cause so many otherwise-preventable deaths. We are literally voluntarily giving up a future with less death, less suffering, less loss, less hardship.

Ah, an intellectual battle between a stochastic parrot incapable of true thought, designed in a laboratory to satisfy the whims of the far-right, and Grok.

Donate to Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!, organized by Eileen Gunn Nisi Shawl, a wise and wonderful writer of science fiction and fantasy, had a… Eileen Gunn needs your support for Help Nisi Shawl write the book of her dream!

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏

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It's gonna be two jobs in America. Working at one of the camps or being held in one of the camps.

The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You Air pollution is less dramatic than floods or storms, less inconvenient, and much harder to politicize. It’s also much more deadly.

Air pollution has long been a factor in the cause of respiratory illnesses.
#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #Pinks #BlueEarth

The Invisible Climate Change Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You newrepublic.com/article/1986... via @newrepublic.com

Will Rural America give up on Trump? These small-town activists think so. Rural organizers say Medicaid and SNAP cuts could help Democrats win rural votes in 2026. Republicans say: Don't count on it.

www.yahoo.com/news/article... this is a smart approach to turning rural voters away from the GOP and trump. #ProudBlue

Fact checking this BS again:
-MOST PEOPLE ON MEDICAID WORK
-THOSE WHO DON'T WORK ARE KIDS, DISABLED OR RETIRED
-THE SMALL NUMBER OF ABLE BODIED PEOPLE ON MEDICAID & NOT WORKING ARE NOT "HEALTHY YOUNG ADULTS JUST HANGING OUT." THEY ARE POOR WOMEN OVER 40. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

“It's further proof that the plastics industry has been actively deceiving the public for decades about the recyclability of plastics” says Davis Allen of @climateintegrity.org

New evidence shows DuPont knew 50 years ago

from @desmog.com

So you’re telling me the Wizard of Oz presented itself as a towering force of overwhelming technology, only to be unmasked as just some guy, off-screen?

Conservative legal luminary Jack Goldsmith points out that Justice Barrett's opinion in the universal injunction case rests on an error: For the purposes of historical analysis, she looked at the wrong statute and got the relevant date wrong by nearly *a century.*
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‘Help is not on the way’ - High Country News As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

This wildfire season is going to get really ugly.

This is a fantastic interview. I wanted to both boost it and to link to the research report it's talking about, so people can see for themselves, because the CAPTAIN project has every hallmark of being a landmark report.

And the CAPTAIN pulls no punches. 💪👊🏳️‍⚧️

www.splcenter.org/resources/re...