Gabbertoons
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Edritch love child of Hestia, Folgers, and a haunted Scrabble board that only works with the OED. Culinary experimentalist. 🔪 Bibliophile. 📚 Ailurophile. 🐈 Father to the Gabbercats. Recipes, cats, and cat-free recipes @ https://imgur.com/user/gabbertoons
🎧 When data becomes sound 🔊 We've talked to Geraint Jones, mission project scientist, & Ben Ruggles, a Univ. of Portsmouth undergraduate, about the sounds of the ESA/JAXA Bepicolombo spacecraft flying past Mercury. Tune in to 🎙️ 'Expedition Sound' 👉 https://shorturl.at/08khh 🔭🧪 #planetsci
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
CNN@cnn.com · 2d agoThe US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
At just 13 years old, Grace Wisher worked alongside Mary Pickersgill to help sew the flag that inspired “The Star-Spangled Banner.” For generations, her contribution was largely overlooked, but her story deserves to be remembered. 🇺🇸 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"
Great timing for this to come out as we're learning 60 Minutes spiked an Epstein story.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterdayOh yeah, David Ellison is legit scared he's gonna lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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 · yesterdayBombshell 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:
MS: One of your criticisms of Fauci is that he said one thing publicly, where he sort of downplayed the virus, & one thing privately, where he acknowledge its seriousness. President Trump did exact the same thing. Does Trump deserve the same level of scrutiny? RAND PAUL: *immediately changes topic*
If Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.
Trump needs to keep his hands off Head Start. Democrats have stopped him from dismantling it before. And we’ll do it again.
Here's your ad for this fall, Democrats.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayIf Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.
Oh damn, this a capital-I investigation
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterdayBombshell 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:
On the campaign trail, Trump promised to make in-vitro fertilization completely free. Of course, he lied. Now, Senate Republicans have unanimously killed Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s proposal to expand coverage for military service members and their families. So much for being the “pro-family” party.
G.O.P. Kills Bid to Expand I.V.F. Access in the Military
In a notable shift, Republican senators voted unanimously against a proposal to expand the military’s coverage of fertility treatments.
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It’s not going to make a difference in the vote to confirm but I’m glad they are pointing this out for what it is. And to the larger point: Trump is going to pardon most of his cronies before he leaves office but inevitably he’ll forget a few or they’ll piss him off somehow so there will be scraps.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayWhitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."
He gets it. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayBlumenthal on Blanche's "walk back" of Trump's slush fund: "Commentators have talked about 'loop holes.' There are no loop holes here. This document itself is a sham ... tomorrow Donald Trump's counsel can go to court and seek to establish that thug fund if he chooses to do so."
Absolutely nothing stops them from resurrecting the whole scheme again later in another form.
Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · 2d agoThis deal solidifies the Trump family's immunity from tax audits. Under no circumstances should the American people believe that Trump‘s former personal attorney will stop his schemes to funnel taxpayer dollars to his allies and supporters.
Alcohol retailers push Congress to keep hemp THC drinks legal (Newsletter: August 4, 2026) New bill to color-code cannabis beverages; TX & VA hemp restriction lawsuits; MA liquor store lobby: don't roll back marijuana…
Alcohol retailers push Congress to keep hemp THC drinks legal (Newsletter: August 4, 2026)
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French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. You’re only diminishing yourself with comments like this.
I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
“.. he is so set on avenging his election loss and pursuing retribution against his political enemies that he has Americans looking backward when many have signaled they would rather he explain why the country is at war ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...
