“The litigation has revealed a clear pattern: Uber’s lawyers scour women’s private communications, medical records, therapy notes …They grill the women about those issues, their sex lives and their behavior on the night of the incident.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/b...

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

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The same old Susan Collins charade. As soon as a controversial nominee or a bill has enough votes to pass, she announces she will vote no when it doesn’t matter. She never casts a deciding vote against Trump. Now she will claim this shows how she is so “independent.”

my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop

The In-N-Out Burger shooter comes from a family immersed in Trump propaganda. The shooter loved General Flynn, Elon Musk, and RFK Jr. He was pro-natalist and wanted to join ICE, but didn't have a college degree.

Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸@andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 3d ago

The shooter at the In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho that killed 3 people and injured 2 people is a Republican, white male. Shocked.

I thought a lot about Elon Musk's casual use of dehumanizing language and came up with this. badfaithtimes.com/the-rich-man...

The Rich Man Is Projecting

A different way to think about Elon Musk's casual use of dehumanizing language

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FYI Science Policy News: More U.S.-trained physicists are leaving the country, an exodus that adds to fears of a U.S. "brain drain" www.aip.org/fyi/physics-... a near-doubling of non-US citizens left the US after receiving their PhD, around 29%, in 2025 @aip.bsky.social

Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate

The exodus of non-US citizens has “certainly” been influenced by science funding and visa policy changes under Trump, a new AIP report says.

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One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

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The FBI will not disclose the "seven" states' water systems affected by likely Iranian hacking so that Trump can blame a blue state to deflect responsibility for a foreign government attack on Americans www.fbi.gov/investigate/...

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever. www.wired.com/story/ice-dn...

ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children

Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.

wired.com

the problem these people have can be boiled down to a simple binary: (a) they look down on every person on earth but (b) they are the lowest of all people on earth. they venerate "civilization" but themselves are wholly uncivilized. sanctimonious and judgmental, criminals and antisocial scum

The NYT writes about rubber stamped consolidation under Trumpism but it takes until the 10th paragraph to even introduce the idea of harms to real people, and even then it's framed as dismissable opinion in a "both sides" debate this is not journalism, it's extraction class agitprop

Companies Rush to Close Daring Deals Under Trump

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United Democracy Project, an AIPAC-affiliated super PAC, is running YouTube ads featuring an AI-generated Trump assisting Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan campaign. “Don’t Help Trump’s Candidate,” the ad warns. Meanwhile, United Democracy Project’s largest donor is Paul Singer, a major Trump fundraiser.

Mr. I want to save the ecosystem has some doubts about his ability to save the ecosystem. Maybe he will just destroy shit. He’s good at destroying shit. Very good.

WIRED@wired.com · 5d ago

The impact will kick up a plume of debris so high, it’ll likely be visible through some telescopes. Astronomers will be watching. www.wired.com/story/spacex...

Bryan Johnson: "I'm going to be dead soon" *Crowd cheers* "...dead serious about my new cure-all oil! It's made from rattlesnake blood and concentrated albino twink cum! Two spritzes a day into each nostril and we'll all live forever!" *Crowd boos*

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Kyle Clark@kylec.bsky.social · 5d ago

CO GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is soliciting unlimited contributions, appearing to openly defy campaign finance law Campaign finance attorneys call Marx's plan unprecedented and "patently illegal" Marx's campaign won't say where the money is going www.9news.com/article/news...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responds to Trump: “DOGE took an axe to CISA and left the U.S. exposed to cyber attacks."

Trump Claims Minnesota Is Behind Cyberattack on Its Own Water Systems, Not Iran

"Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota," said Trump.

gizmodo.com

I truly believe that the next trend in AI-generated fuckery will be the manipulation of operational images, such satellite images & medical scans—technical visual documents whose default (para)empirical status can be leveraged. Google playing its part in recreationally extinguishing the evidentiary.

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

And here is the same Alex Jones bullshit appearing in Rolling Stone. Unbelievably embarrassing to publish this.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d ago

The conspiracy she’s referring to here is a Slack chat among scientists in 2020 where they went, “it could be a lab leak, let’s look into it!”

Corrected headline: Anthropic hacked three organizations during tests.

Blurry TV Headlines@blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 6d ago

ANTHROPIC'S AI MODELS HACKED THREE ORGANIZATIONS DURING TESTS

All political donations, of any kind, to any org/person, over $5000, need taxed at 10,000%

George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d ago

NYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.

MARKET PRICES CALLING WARSH A MORON

Blurry TV Headlines@blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · last wk.

WARSH: MARKET PRICES CERTAINLY NOT SAYING ALL CLEAR

Even the worthless dumb fucks can’t stand this loser.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨🚨 TRUMP APPROVAL IS UNDERWATER WITH WHITES WITHOUT DEGREES! February 8, 2025: +27 July 25, 2026: -6

SpaceX rocket that exploded shortly after takeoff destroyed land & wildlife: Concrete chunks had left craters a foot deep & were strewn across tidal flats, almost four acres of state park burned, 7 bobwhite quail eggs & a collection of blue land crabs incinerated. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

SpaceX Blast Left Officials in Disbelief Over Environmental Damage

Fish and Wildlife Service biologists expressed frustrations in emails obtained by Bloomberg.

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Cant reform this.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.

im very tired of this move by the global reactionary movement. "my politics are purely oppositional but also opposing me is violence." incredibly resilient brains to withstand what would otherwise be lethal levels of cognitive dissonance

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup

CBS reports that Ashley Moody did precisely what the entire GOP has accused Tim Walz of doing -- and yet, somehow, that crack fraud task force has not arrested the GOP nominee for Senate. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...

Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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