Melissa Dowell

Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

Card with the words, “Hiring: Visual Designer”

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These goddamned motherfuckers. No more Italian pasta on store shelves. Gummies and THC chocolates recriminalized. More cash handouts to MAGA criminals in the Senate. And no money for ACA subsidies or SNAP. This is what America gets because Democrats couldn't hold the line on the shudown. Assholes.

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i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers “The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”

SWAN Vancouver "used our Abuser Alert system to notify workers about the use of Ray-Ban Meta glasses and the videos circulating online. We also received reports from community members about clients entering massage parlours wearing the glasses and recording women without their knowledge."

jewels stolen from the Louvre

if you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, someone made a ready-to-print version of the heisted Louvre jewels

💍💎👑

www.etsy.com/listing/4392...

Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW! Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...

Hey fellow artists! This is a petition to pass a bill for transparency and upholding copyright for artists when it comes to ai art machines. This is in CA USA but anyone from anywhere can sign! I feel this would be an important precedent! Sign and share if you can!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/le...

you say "i asked chatgpt"
i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]"

an improv group wrote this report
instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

hey new york city, early voting starts today. be sure to look up your polling place, it may differ from your usual one.

The miracle of Effin' Birds is that I had to submit all the comics for the 2025 calendar by June 2023, so I wrote this joke somewhere between late 2022 and early 2023.

I remain a shitty Nostradamus.

(Get your 2026 calendars right now at eatf.art)

I was told they’ll look into a new insurance, but we renew our plans every August so that’s… a ways away.

Meanwhile I’m keeping my appointments and will probably just pay out of pocket bc I can’t just disrupt some of my things already in progress and, oh yea, I’ve been waiting 6 fucking months

I talked to HR about this and apparently even tho she’s in a different state, several of her hospital specialists have also been dropped.

All we were told to do is call the number on the back of our ID card to let them know how this “impacts you”

If goatse were a bagel…

UnitedHealthcare has apparently been dropping hospital networks recently, and my local network that contains 4 specialists (3 of which I’ve been waiting ~6 months to get a 1st appt with) has been dropped as of the end of the month.

Govt won’t give healthcare and apparently neither will insurance.

These folks have plainly joined the Dark Side (while trying to hide it under a cloak of sweet reasonableness). Also: you CAN refuse every project that uses generative AI. It's called "choosing a side." (And if we're playing with idioms: it's easy to wind up with too much nose and not enough face...)

I guess this is when we get to introduce the nation to the tale of the Bonwit Teller building: news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

A pittie-mix dog lying under a desk wearing a head cone aka the cone of shame. She takes up a lot of space.

Amelia is in face jail bc she won’t stop licking/biting her toes (assuming allergies but keeping an eye on it). However, she still insists on hanging out under my desk.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reebok Launches Its First Fitness Smart Ring, Entering the Health Tech Market The sportswear brand is breaking into health tech and prioritizing community in the fitness space.

The real cyborg future is just you being turned into a perpetual data feed by every company on the planet.

Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

here’s the article about the living wage for artists being passed in ireland, btw.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Annual PSA. The chemistry of Autumn leaves.
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...

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ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t. Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Qatari Fighter Jets Over Idaho? Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.

Some background on the "Qatari Emiri Air Force facility" planned in the western U.S. --> sofrep.com/news/qatari-...

I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.

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