He realized it was already September 1st
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He realized it was already September 1st
Only the one for me- Amazing Spider-Man #109. This is the favorite comic of John Romita Sr. of the ones that he drew himself. It's his homage to his idol, Milton Caniff.
A few days ago, Musk posted a map of the world that featured the birth rates for all countries. Way ahead of the rest of the world were countries in central Africa. Musk did not include any text. Just the map. Fear of a black planet is what popped into my head as a caption when I saw that.
AI has some good use cases, but most of it is a steaming pile of unreliable shit and a tremendous waste of resources. It may ultimately end up being the biggest fiasco in the history of the planet, with many hundreds of billions of dollars poured down the drain.
Eastern Parkway always feels like the heartbeat of New York during the West Indian Day Parade — the food, the flags, the dancehall and soca. Caribbean culture makes this city great 🇹🇹🇭🇹🇧🇧🇩🇲🇱🇨🇯🇲🇻🇨🇬🇩🇬🇾
Lori Chavez DeRemer: "What I want to share with the American people is there should be no threat of AI displacing the American worker ... we see no threat."
Brilliant
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o... #CDC #publichealth
Nice picture. Where is that?
My favorite Winchester episode is the one where he sets up Colonel Flagg for his ultimate comeuppance. Beautiful.
I didn't like him at first, but the character got a lot more depth to him as the series went on. Franks Burns, while a good source of humor, was always one note. You could do more a lot more dramatically with Winchester and he was a far more intelligent foil for Hawkeye.
ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... Rays of hope
I am hardly Josh Shapiro's biggest fan, but trying to make it look like it is somehow his fault that Joe Pittman decided to blow up the state's economy because big rural tough guys like him felt vewy diswespected by the cities is typical "only Democrats have agency" BS share.inquirer.com/456Y1l
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
I’ve polled 40 students at my liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest. 60% report that they avoid AI chat bots like the plague. 75% report having a generally or strongly negative opinion about how AI will impact the future.
WELKER: Should Trump dispatch the National Guard to Oklahoma where the crime rate is higher than New York and California? LANKFORD: The people of Oklahoma would welcome any help we can get to deal with crime issues
Yeah, man, totalitarianism is when people listen to experts. Good talk, always a pleasure to hear from you.
not just that he has no constitutional authority, there isn't even any particular legal or institutional mechanism by which the president can make anyone treat this as anything other than a weird advisory opinion.
RADDATZ: One of the things they are trying to do in DC with the National Guard is have them back up local law enforcement WES MOORE: They are picking up trash
💉 Shingles vaccine and heart health A global review found the shingles jab was linked to an 18% lower risk of heart attack or stroke, with protective effects seen even in younger adults. 🔗 www.theguardian.com/society/2025... #SciComm #HeartHealth #Vaccines 🧪
Fall On Me This song was my introduction to the band. A record store was playing it over the loud speakers when I walked in 1986. I bought their then current album, Life's Rich Pageant, off of that listen. Texarkana What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
My first thought when I saw this truly moronic pinpointing of US Navy ships was- does Venezuela have Exocet anti-ship missiles ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet
Bringing this back
all of bluesky rn
Additional morning.
If Platner and Mills both run in the primary and Platner doesn't win, that's a sign to me of someone who would have certainly lost to Collins. Requiring that Mills drop out because there might be "infighting" just screams weakness. If he truly is a great candidate, he can win a primary.
When Nevermind came out, Rolling Stone infamously gave it three stars out of five, which was a strangely poor rating given the generally very positive things actually said in the review. I never trust rock critics.
A rare and beautiful capture of Migaloo, a well-known brilliant white humpback whale. It was reportedly the only white albino whale in the world until an all-white calf had been sighted just a few years ago.
"A mural of the Statue of Liberty in shame" by JDL Street Ar in Lille , Roubaix France 🇫🇷
More Americans expressed concerns that tariffs would impact prices.
A constant in Danielle Smith's political career is that it's everyone else's fault. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
(Gift article ) 👉: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
It just keeps on getting more and more malignant.
You’re saying that telling your constituents they don’t need healthcare because they’re gonna die anyway isn’t winning politics?
"Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute, never be a dirty bird. In the snow or on the sand, help keep America looking grand!" 🪶
I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit in my day, but this might just take the cake.
The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.
If this oleaginous haircut thinks local crime rates merit a federal military intervention, then he should be leading the armored column down to his home state of Louisiana, which is one of the worst in the nation.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
Poor Rep. Mike Johnson. It seems the economics of his home state—Louisiana—like many GOP dominated cities and states, is much more depressing than he’d like to admit. The GOP should focus on solving local crime, health and economic issues in red states before attacking blue states. wapo.st/4mEjsRa
Some of my happiest childhood memories are of being at the beach at Gimli. My father would bring us up from Winnipeg during summer weekends.
Republicans belong to the party of family values.
RFK Jr is driving this country towards an almost certain public health disaster. If Democrats can’t stop it, at the very least they can get it on the record now that they wanted him gone and the GOP wanted him kept in. Underline how they own the disasters to come. It’s Politics 101.
actually SSRIs prevent people from committing violence against themselves, hope this helps
Really interesting piece on how the filmmakers chose to lean into Springsteen’s complexity, creativity, and interior world rather than taking the usual biopic route #film #basedonatruestory www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/m...
"Companies will spend $375 billion globally in 2025 on A.I. infrastructure, the investment bank UBS estimates. That is projected to rise to $500 billion next year." Which is, of course, the best use to which we can put that money. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/b...
The article does not say he ordered the portraits hung. It’s just as likely, and possibly more frightening, that the Labor Sec ordered it herself, knowing it would please him. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Experts have studied this for decades, but RFK and his band of liars claim they found an aggregation of causes in a few months. What a disgrace to the nation.
On Friday, the U.S. is ending its de minimis rule that made it easy for cheap goods to reach consumers. The change will affect roughly 4 million such packages processed each day.
Guns may also be contributing to gun violence.
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
Seems like the kind of thing federal agents could handle if they weren’t busy tracking down America’s most wanted DoorDash delivery drivers in DC.
Frey: "We need an assault weapons ban nationwide. We need to have a high capacity magazine ban. And if the federal govt and states aren't gonna act, give us the ability to protect our constituents. Give mayors & council members the ability to protect in Mpls 435,000 residents that call Mpls home."
Breaking news: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Trump to block an attempt to remove her from office, setting up a legal clash that could determine the Fed’s ability to continue operating outside White House control.
I was not kidding
Love the taxonomic diversity of picnic table criminals. These guys seem specialised for coffee shops with pastries.
Family values.
Waste, fraud and abuse wapo.st/4mEOo3J
Healthcare is so fucked
I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes. Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die youtu.be/_AG7g0eCtcI?...
Mother Jones: “RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid” “The reality is that more and more people are becoming chronically ill through Long Covid and other health conditions…Around half…fit the criteria of ME/CFS..” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The sickening irony of this is that Trump is doing all of this using military inside the country shit because he fears a January 6 2021 type event occurring again, but the next time against a Republican presidency.
The reason Kilmar Abrego Garcia was not eligible for asylum in 2019 was nothing to do with the merits of his case. It was because of the one year filing deadline, which requires a person to apply for asylum within one year of entering the US. It's now been less than a year since he entered the US!
Update: it got funny again
If Trump only had the ability to lift anything over five pounds, we'd have seen this here too.
Back in February, I asked why an unelected oligarch and his band of minions felt entitled to your Social Security number. Six months later, it's clear it has ended in disaster. The Trump admin must answer for this violation of public trust that has put all Americans' private information at risk.
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
And hold the humans responsible for this legally accountable.
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."
And while the right wing story was constantly changing, the police report and the story from the teenagers both remained consistent. The teenagers say that big balls was harassing and trying to pick up the 15-year-old girl, and when he wouldn't leave her alone the boy jumped in to defend her.
Meanwhile, I can't think of a Republican who has risen up in recent times that I could imagine as being in any way likeable even judged completely outside of their political views. They are hateful and grievance filled, who look at their own supporters as stupid chumps to be exploited.
Mamdani just seems like the kind of person who likes other people.
There has really been an incredible ramping up of anti-science quackery in recent times among the right. Drinking raw milk somehow being healthy and beneficial. Ivermectin as a miracle cure. I'd also throw in the crazy anti-chem trail laws passed by Red states. Insanity.
Could have some more robust competition for this year’s Darwin Award. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Crackdown would be fine if they used the word completely unjustified in front of it.
They genuinely think that this is genuinely good promotional material, which says a lot about the those involved in running what is obviously a clownshow with malicious intent.
I bought all of these but the Thor issue at the time.
Andy is a terrific reporter who has covered all sides of this story. Don’t get mad at him because he’s following all the leads even when they include the Clintons.
Gift article...Can't claim much in common with haredi, but this moment brings that on www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/w...
Schiff on the release of the Ghislaine Maxwell transcript: "I don't think it will satisfy anyone. They go and they do this interview without the presence of a prosecutor who actually knows the facts, because they fired her. James Comey's daughter ... it all stinks to high heaven."
The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate billions of dollars in research funding to Harvard and elsewhere, could disrupt the science pipeline and threaten experiments targeting cancer, autism, quantum physics, military robotics and more.
wapo.st/4muawgS Gift article.
The Trump admin's attack on renewable energy is economic and environmental self sabotage. www.huffpost.com/entry/climat...
Another great morning with the owls!!!
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"Companies were reluctant to pass price hikes into stores, because they didn't want to make customers mad and lose market share. It's only now really sinking in that this is for real, and so the 'let's eat the tariffs for a while' thing is fading out." — @pkrugman.bsky.social
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
Bluesky isn't in the financial position to go through with litigation if charged for doing that. It's a dumb idea.
WARSAW – Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Poland on Saturday, kicking off a broader mission to deepen economic and security ties with European allies.