Benjamin Graham

From the Nobel Committee today:

“Democracy depends on people who refuse to stay silent, who dare to step forward despite grave risk, and who remind us that freedom must never be taken for granted, but must always be defended – with words, with courage and with determination.”

These Billionaires Have Gotten $450 Billion Richer From Striking AI Infrastructure Deals For Their Own Firms These founders, CEOs and investors—from OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and others—keep getting richer while critics condemn their “circular deals.”

These founders, CEOs and investors—from OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and others—keep getting richer while critics condemn their “circular deals.”

Silence is complicity. Just like the Dead GOP-PEDOCONS.🤬

IRS Halts Most Taxpayer Services As It Furloughs Nearly Half Its Workers Tax filings and payments are still due and Criminal Investigation will stay on the job. But processing of refunds and amended returns will likely be delayed.

Tax filings and payments are still due and Criminal Investigation will stay on the job. But processing of refunds and amended returns will likely be delayed.

Old fashioned watercooler tv in the best possible sense. Highly entertaining stuff. #Traitors

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions Every year players are pushed to their limits in a sport that chases the sun. But the number of retirements, withdrawals and injuries this season has been shocking

‘You want a player to die?’ Heat is on tennis after players wilt in extreme conditions

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband Out on a digital detox in the western US backcountry, scientist Fred Ramsdell was startled when his wife let out a yell. He feared she had spotted a grizzly bear, only to discover a far better surprise – he had won the Nobel prize in medicine. The Nobel committee had been unable to reach the immunologist, whose phone was on airplane mode as he was on a hiking and camping trip, but finally got through to the couple early on Tuesday morning, Swedish time. Continue reading...

Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains

Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

The speed with which they just fucked off, suggests to me they had no specific warrant to apprehend the man. Just go out and see what you can grab.

Thugs.

If arresting people on the streets randomly isn't the peak of lawlessness then I don't know what is.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

‘Nine-jobs Nigel’ Farage denies not declaring extra earni... Roles outside Parliament make Reform leader the highest-earning MP, but register of interests has not been updated since end of May

Nine jobs Nigel Farage hasn't updated his ­register of interests in months.

Potentially hundreds of thousands of ££££ from his many "outside interests" remain undeclared

observer.co.uk/news/politic...

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

My cure for the state of the world is to buy a dog, secure matching furniture, and then occasionally go and look at him during the working day to remind yourself that everything might be OK.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it?

If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say?

Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Dems are being serious about saving healthcare for American families, while Trump is fixated on a fake issue.

📌 Undocumented immigrants don’t qualify for Medicaid or the ACA and he knows it! Trump and Republicans should just enforce the law.

#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown
STAND STRONG, DEMOCRATS

Keir Starmer’s donkey field: what are the allegations and how has he responded? PM denies putting land he bought for his parents into a trust, after report claims he may have done to avoid inheritance tax

Keir Starmer’s donkey field: what are the allegations and how has he responded?

‘Find it in your heart to seek the truth’: Epstein survivor pushes for lawmakers to release files Jess Michaels says authorities are ‘completely ignoring’ hers and dozens of other victims’ statements about Epstein’s trafficking

‘Find it in your heart to seek the truth’: Epstein survivor pushes for lawmakers to release files

Trump Falsely Claims FBI Agents Acted As ‘Agitators And Insurrectionists’ On Jan. 6 An earlier probe found “no evidence” the FBI had undercover agents in protests at the Capitol.

An earlier probe found “no evidence” the FBI had undercover agents in protests at the Capitol.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Elisabeth McNair. #NewYorkerCartoons

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A sign of the times

Have you been noticing lately when having conversations with your friends, at some point the conversation takes a turn like this: “I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but…”

Bookie Tied To Ohtani’s Interpreter Says Half Of All Pro Athletes Gamble On Sports Mathew Bowyer, the illegal bookmaker who took $326 million in wagers from Ippei Mizuhara, is about to serve a year in prison for his crimes. While his operation has been shuttered, he says the $84 billion illicit betting market is here to stay.

Mathew Bowyer, the illegal bookmaker who took $326 million in wagers from Ippei Mizuhara, is about to serve a year in prison for his crimes. While his operation has been shuttered, he says the $84 billion illicit betting market is here to stay.

Johnson says he will never use government ID

I wonder if this guy is related to "Boris Johnson" who introduced "voter id" as Prime Minister in 2023 ... off the back of some crazy US conspiracy theories ... and in the process, made digital ID pretty much inevitable.

Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America “Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but it lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions...

“Shadow Ticket” is the first new work by Thomas Pynchon in a dozen years—and, at 88, he’s “still panoptic, exciting, abstruse, distractible, and, for good or ill, unrestrained,” Kathryn Schulz writes.

Bravo to New Mexico on two fronts:

📌 Universal Childcare for every family

📌 Special Session next week to address Medicaid cuts and exploding insurance premiums caused by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill and to take on the corporate hospital crisis

This should be nationwide!

“A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.”

~Zen Shin ❤️🌱

#gardening #bloomscrolling #photography

There is not one member of Trump’s cabinet that is not corrupt, ignorant, and unfit for their job.
That’s because they were appointed by a man that’s corrupt, ignorant, and unfit for his job.
Birds of a feather…

Haha. Got them on that one