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❗Join us this Friday, Aug 8, for a Map Collections Showing as we dive into some of the longest and tallest maps in the Leventhal Center collections❗

This free showing will be Friday, Aug 8 in the Leventhal Map & Education Center with staff members available to answer questions.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

*WHITE HOUSE FIRES MOST OF PUERTO RICO’S OVERSIGHT BOARD MEMBER

Paul Seibert: New York in August - gm - 🌃✨ #viaX #cfoto #NYC

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Nothing better than a blowy rain shower just when I’m ready for my late morning catnap

A big talking point of climate change skeptics is “…but the 1930s were hot!”
It’s true. They are right. 1930s summers were super hot in the US!
But zoom out, and most of the globe was not.
Top image: 1930s global temp anomalies, compared to…
Bottom image: the last 10 years 1/

Facebook post with a photo of Alec and contact information: MISSING: Alec Luhn, last seen July 31st in the afternoon. Was headed from Odda, Norway on a solo backpacking trip to explore the glacier @folgefonnanasjonalpark. Planned to stay at DNT Holmaskjer and DNT Breidablikk and finish Monday morning at Årsnes Kai bus station. Red Cross search with volunteers and dogs and helicopters is underway in the area. PLEASE SHARE AND TAG AND REPOST THIS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. If anyone has seen him or has information please contact Drew Avanell Gaddis or Veronika Silchenko

Our friend @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing in Norway's Folgefonna National Park after a backpacking trip to the glacier there. Please share if you're in the area or know people who might be. Come home safe, buddy

www.facebook.com/share/p/18xA...

Tesla Grants Musk $29 Billion in Stock to Keep ‘Elon’s Energies Focused’

Elon Musk granted $29 billion in additional shares, which is more than twice as much as all the US foreign aid spent on sub-Saharan Africa last year before Musk took his chainsaw to USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/b...

Right?!🥺

Scarsdale woman detained by ICE was released, lawmaker says Yeonsoo Go, left, and her mother in a fundraising photo. Yeonsoo Go, 20, was taken into custody last week at 26 Federal Plaza by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents [ more › ]

Scarsdale woman detained by ICE was released, lawmaker says https://gothamist.com/news/scarsdale-woman-detained-by-ice-was-released-lawmaker-says

🇩🇪 Germany will launch the world’s first commercial-scale AirBattery, storing clean energy as compressed air in underground salt caverns. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, it uses no lithium or rare earths, making it more sustainable and geopolitically stable.
ctif.org/news/new-sal...

Yesssss. This.

It would probably be useful if we (entire anglosphere) started talking about healthy democracies and unhealthy democracies rather than democracy and not a democracy.

Also Cassif seems to be a marginal left wing figure and how does it factor in that he was elected at all?

Many heads of household with SNAP benefits are working one or two jobs and it’s difficult to shop for and prepare nutritious home cooked food when you’re always exhausted and stressed. And many of these people don’t have their own transportation which also limits their choices.

The Mysteries of Melania Trump: What Does the First Lady Know? The enigmatic FLOTUS has been with Donald for over 25 years. What was the nature of *her* relationship with Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell? And why is no one asking?

"Melania Trump & her husband were cavorting, for years, with the two most notorious child sex traffickers in recent history, who also have deep connections to foreign intelligence services. Their relationship w/Epstein & Maxwell is not just a matter of curiosity; it’s a matter of national security."

He’s also smart, funny and down to earth.

2 dead, 58 sick from Harlem Legionnaires' disease cluster A second person has now died and more than 50 people have fallen ill as part of a growing Legionnaires’ cluster in Harlem, city health officials reported Monday.

“A second person has now died and more than 50 people have fallen ill as part of a growing Legionnaires' cluster in Harlem, city health officials reported… The cases from the cluster have been found in five Harlem ZIP codes: 10027, 10030, 10035, 10037 and 10039, along with the bordering communities”

Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781

This is not meritocracy, it's white supremacy.

Do we choose AI?

Or humanity?

Thomas Weaver is coming in on Thursday to sign copies of “Artificial Wisdom” - if you want a dedicated copy, order on the website before Thursday!

It’s a great read - about a future where humans choose whether to let an AI rule to fix climate change.

bertsbooks.co.uk/product/arti...

When I first started the sentence o thought the chicken was to be “pressed and harried”!

Surprised more people aren’t talking about this. All the signs are there.

A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair

New photos and documents reveal the inside of Jeffrey Epstein's NY mansion and how he interacted with the elite.

• He prominently displayed photos of him hanging out with Trump & Clinton

• There were surveillance cameras in the bedroom

• And much more...

🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

The letter from Woody is nuts. The focus on Soon-Yi and the food is extremely odd.

Same with most Caribbean countries. Often they’ll give the parents visas and not the young children.

State Department may require visa applicants to post bond of up to $15,000 to enter the US The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

You know countries are going to reciprocate this. And whether or not we release the bond when tourists leave our country... a lot of countries are not going to release our money. It's another bad idea to start this crap.

A gray bird sitting on a branch in tree with green leaves and large light pink flowers that resemble orchids with a few Oleander leaves in the background. And some Fishtail Palm leaves to the side.

A Gray Kingbird I think. Sitting in the Orchid tree. From the verandah it looked like he was levitating bcs you couldn’t see the branch he was on. It’s a gorgeous morning and all the birds are out singing 🎵

The official account of the United States Department of Defense. What a fucking joke we’ve become with these ass clowns running the government.