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70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men. His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
I am begging my fellow Dems to emerge from the reflexive “it’s a trap” position on these issues and realize that some things are very simple: the public doesn’t like the federal government turning the military against its own citizens.The public doesn’t like the armed occupation of a city.Period.
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
this picture of a mom shoes off sprinting to the Mpls school: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... By Richard Tsong-Taatarii for @startribune.com, which should be a go-to source for anyone following
American guys out here thinkin of the Roman Empire every day. See how the US sacrifices kids to the Ba'al of the guns? Sir, you aren't Rome. You are Carthage.
To give the battle scenes in Joan the Woman (1916) added realism, director Cecil B. DeMille offered a bonus to the extras playing the English army if they captured Joan of Arc, and a bonus to the extras playing the French if they prevented it
The MAGA has some serious "We were always at war with Oceania" going on.
If somebody wants to build a bridge to Cuomo then I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell 'em.
"I get older but the girls stay the same age," he said. "It's because I am trapped in a vampire colony. Please send help."
FDA Warns Against Eating Potentially Radioactive Shrimp Sold At Walmart https://theonion.com/fda-warns-against-eating-potentially-radioactive-shrimp-sold-at-walmart/
One will often see the FBI carrying empty file boxes to give the press a photo op after they search some politico. I appreciate how they seem to have half-assed it for Bolton, not bothering to even assemble some of the boxes. & the important thing here is that Epstein didn't kill himself.
My favorite part of confession was when the priest said "Go thou & sin no more." And I was like all, "We both know I'm gonna."
The fact that WH launched a TikTok suggests they're gonna just ignore that whole sale or ban law. And the most important thing to keep in mind about this is that Epstein didn't kill himself.
I could watch that gif of the kid drifting his ride-on toy car for like hours.
Like, "How do I know this button doesn't have a microchip in it? You're clearly in the pocket of Big Button. Trolley buttons cause autism." This rant brought to you by this week's episode of @ologies.bsky.social , which is well worth a listen.
I dislike the trolley problem because it's a hypothetical & because of the assumptions it makes. Like, we've seen that around a quarter to a third of the US couldn't be arsed to push the button to save 5 people & kill 0 if it meant putting on a mask.
Our lad is in his 30s and the Kents kept his room just as it was when he left.
I'm still disappointed that Roman Catholic excommunication no longer requires a bell, a book and a candle.
Thinking a lot about how markets model crowd behavior in general. Keynes said, "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." A corollary to this seems to be "Electorates can remain irrational longer than you can remain alive."
Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
It would appear that Minsc from BG1 and the tiefling muscle mommy from BG3 are becoming the face of D&D Beyond & I'm kinda here for it.
Yes, @marketplace.org did this story, I looked. 😉 www.marketplace.org/story/2023/1...
OldBear gives a shout-out to Shane Hawk's "Never Whistle at Night" anthology--which a lot of editors rejected because they didn't know how to market it BECAUSE it didn't match up with colonizing perceptions of indigenous peoples. birchbarkbooks.com/products/nev... #WorldCon
Did these lads dream of being Cobra when they were little?
Agree that this is worth watching, all the way through.
Sometimes I wonder if we'd be stuck with Spotify if ClearChannel hadn't failed so hard.
Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Have you considered shuttering your blog to focus on your core competency of web games?
Really starting to seem like the US failed a DC 20 Constitution save.
Seizing the property of private organizations to punish dissent is totalitarianism. It is illegal, anti-Conservative, Soviet, and sickening. Yet people who drool ‘freedom’ whisper not a word to object. Lift not a finger.
@alyankovic.bsky.social 🎵 D-E-M-E-N-T-O, Al got started in his show🎵
Weird how when you use drugs for what they're designed for they can be pretty great, and when you use them for something they're absolutely not designed for, you can totally die youtu.be/tD8cqvlC0BE
When they said a rising tide lifts all boats, I do not think they meant this. apnews.com/article/vp-v...
Over represented versus what?
They called him Adam Yauch but he was MCA. Born Aug 5, 61 years ago.
Al Franken tried this with AM radio and it didn't pan out. Not sure what they'd try different.
Apparently someone has. Now waiting for the movie.
Kinda wonder if anybody wrote the alt universe Superman story where he just stays on the farm & uses his superpowers for agribusiness.
At least it wasn't SecDef
I am beginning to suspect that more people become aware of coverage on legacy cable & broadcast media by hearing about it on social media. I don't dispute, for instance, that CNN's coverage is bad. But fewer & fewer people are watching it.
TFG is apparently firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the jobs report was bad. And the important thing to keep in mind here, I think, is that the Epstein files are not released.
The most important thing I believe we need to keep in mind about the ballroom is that Epstein didn't kill himself.
Oddly this tracks the arc of post Civil War sentiment in the South: few regrets, myth making and historical revision. Except this time we have video.
Some days you just want to take Ganto's axe to Chesterton's fence.
It's weird how much social media has become just reposts of what happened on other social media.
Do folks still have kitchen tables?
I'm muting this because there are only so many hundred times a guy can bear having the words "What in the ACTUAL fuck" in his mentions but I will note the original CTV article is fairly scant on details, this French interview has more details: www.noovo.info/video/je-me-... here's a rough summary:
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The bit from "Gone With The Wind" that I tend to get stuck on is how the view of the stratified South that Mitchell describes matches exactly with the view of the stratified society Orwell outlines in 1984: high, middle, low & nonpersons.
I tend to think that folks who see the book "Gone With The Wind" as pro-Confederacy also see "Fight Club" as pro-fight clubs.
In the book everything ends kinda crap for everyone. Rhett's alcoholic, Scarlett's being abandoned, Bonnie is dead. The book should not be read as though any of the white characters are admirable.
One should not speak ill of the dead. That is why it's important to call someone a dumb sunnofabich whilevthey are alive, so you can just refer back to those comments when the croak. Also the Iron Sheik is awesome.
Like, I had committed to memory multiple editions of the Marvel handbook when I was young & I'm still having some trouble keeping track of the MCU.
OK, how about a news ticker of "What You Need to Know" but for the Marvel series, explaining who TF I am looking at & where they last appeared, like Stan Lee used to do in the comics with a narrative box. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Noem let those girls die with search and rescue teams sitting on their hands waiting for authorization
“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.” The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.
Politico & Punchbowl report House Republican leadership is shutting down the Rules Committee - which is essential for moving party-line bills on the floor - for the week rather than vote on Democratic amendments on the Epstein files. Dems have effectively halted Republican legislation in the House:
We'll do it like 1980s BBC Dr. Who. It'll be awesome.
At some point the Dems really do need to consider new opposition research consultants cause I kinda feel like this woulda be useful a few months ago.
I'm like, I'm sorry... I thought you said chronic _venal_ insufficiency.
The takeaway from the ballad of John Henry is not that he won. It's that he died. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/e...
imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row
I am reminded of a piece of advice a friend of mine who was in choir once gave me, "Don't make a mistake Beethoven could hear."
I'm watching Sumner Redstone's kid and Larry Ellison's kid approach a merger in a way that I can't imagine Sumner or Larry ever would have. Maybe inherited wealth breeds complacency & spinelessness.
Early arcade games were designed with a try-fail loop meant to maximize the number of quarters you'd spend. The Continue screen exploited our sunk cost fallacy & our loss aversion. DLC and microtransactions are just refinements on the basic thesis of the industry: business likes money. (2/2)
While playing through an old CRPG I was reminded that games long ago were written to encourage the purchase of a physical hint guide. Or to encourage players to call a hint line. Others were written for Blockbuster rental with a try-fail loop that would require multiple rental periods to solve. 1/2
Culture of unicorn startup shaken as employees learn their CEO and CPO listen to Coldplay. fortune.com/2025/07/18/a...
TFG really shoulda gotten a presidential dog. Then at least he'd be able to say the dog ate the list.
Henry Ford in his book "My Life And Work" wrote, "The fact that a piece of work is now being done by nine men which used to be done by ten men does not mean that the tenth man is unemployed." It's been about 103 years since he wrote that. And it's just as stupid now as it was then.
I know what you meant but "beandad" is now a thing.
A man who entered an MRI room during a scan in Westbury, New York, on Wednesday was pulled into the machine by his chain necklace and was hospitalized in critical condition, the authorities said.
And, here it is. www.wsj.com/politics/tru...
Okay I’ve heard about this too. WSJ working on a piece on Trump/epstein. Buzz was that it was coming out earlier this week. I’d heard that it contained a birthday card from Trump to Epstein with some raunchy stuff. That part I can’t confirm. But this is the first more than rumor thing…
You should probably follow /r/Syria if you're looking for local insight into the ongoing situation and are on Reddit
I don't care what that study says. The foyr presentations of autism are Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Gummo.
Indeed. If you want a handheld mic use one. ( I want either one like Bob Barker or like the okd time radio hour.)
Amid stifling summers Japan warns of future restrictions on children’s sport
We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...
We're somewhere around 8b right now, with projections suggesting we will stabilize & potentially start trending downward somewhere between 9b and 10b.
I suspect this is going to be an effort to disrupt the legacy distribution channels along the lines of DropOut, Nebula, and HistoryHit. Barriers to entry are so low that the value-add from legacy distributors is increasingly marginal. (e.g. Why am I paying for Discovery when I have HistoryHit?) 2/2
Ron Perlman is up to something mysterious at watrfall.io . (The site may be getting hugged to death following his recent FB announcement.) 1/2
The strike came as clashes continued in the southern Syrian city of Sweida after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed.
President Donald Trump accused Sen. Adam Schiff (D-California) of mortgage fraud, and a senior administration official told The Post that a criminal case had been referred to the Justice Department.
The Trump regime is about to burn 500 tons of USAID emergency food. Why? Because it expired after its shipment was delayed. 1.5 million children could have eaten for a week. Now, taxpayers will spend $130K for it to be destroyed. This isn’t just inefficient – it’s cruel.
In fairness, in order for Red Bull to give you wings it would have to resort to some kind of aggressively replicating neoplasm...
Immigration authorities are demanding that landlords turn over leases, rental applications, forwarding addresses, identification cards and other information on their tenants, a sign that the Trump administration is targeting them to assist in its drive for mass deportations.
There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”
Teachers suggested holding me back a grade because of my handwriting. To this I now say, "Ha!"
WOW: Just spent 30 minutes refilling a script on the Veteran's website - something that normally takes ten seconds. The website is a fucking mess. 404s and 502 bad gateways, looooong wait times... I imagine this is a product of gutting the USDS in favor of DOGE. What a nightmare for our Veterans.
Kinda want to roll up on the Shalla Bal haters like, "Name three other heralds of Galactus. No Google."
Shalla Bal first appeared in the comics in 1965, long before most of the folks kvetching about her movie appearance were born.
In fairness though this Prime Day sweater is pretty sweet.
The neither chuck wood nor mar mots. Though they do hog ground somewhat.
Truth Social, Twitter & the rest of social media get reposted everywhere so I am reasonably confident I am not in an echo chamber. I do contend that the political right is in a narcissus chamber, however.
At what point does access to the administration become worthless? Why does the press need the Prez more than the Prez needs the press?
Kristi Noem must resign now.
BREAKING: Judge rules that during its large-scale enforcement operation in LA, DHS/ICE has been arresting people without probable cause -- based on factors like accent and line of work. She orders the agencies to stop. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
MAGA Murder Regime.