A 7% fee on cargo seems like a fair tax on the American people for their ill considered election of Trump. At this point it seems like a bargain.
Gallery Chapel ♿️
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PNW Art, Disability, Dad jokes, whatever.
How incompetent an engineer do you have to be that your rocket collides with the nearest object to Earth in the endless space of the universe?
Star Trek Spock: Logical!
Alt: Star Trek Spock: Logical!
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So You Are That Guy? @soyouarethatguy.bsky.social · 6mo agoSince my teenage years, I've adhered to and promoted the following: 1. Steer clear of men who refer to women as "females". 2. Steer clear of men who refer to grown women as "girls". 3. Steer clear of men who support, encourage, or are involved with men who engage in #1 and #2.
The president of the United States is the pettiest bitch who has ever lived.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6h agoThe Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
A sweet little girl with autism brought her stuffed puppy to the dog show. One of the judges noticed her, came over, and asked if she’d like to show her dog too. What followed was pure magic. Original post
Doc Oz -- so brave of you to take on the President and his crooked kids like that.
Dr Oz: "When you steal money from the federal government, you ought to go jail and go to jail for a long time"
This is a breakdown by the Council on Foreign Relations. Apparently, Trump & co are controlling Venezuelan trade in gold and other mineral resources, too. None of it with any transparency, meaning that Trump's almost certainly skimming off the fund. www.cfr.org/articles/the...
The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign Relations
The American and Venezuelan people remain in the dark about how the Trump administration is controlling billions of dollars of Venezuelan oil revenue. Without accountability mechanisms or a clear demo...
cfr.org
New at Fight the Fire: "Kennedy is not, as he portrays himself, an independent thinker positing theories as part of the scientific method. He’s more like a man who claims a medical degree after he reads a few back issues of the National Enquirer and Weekly World News." Free links/subscriptions.
That boy's a worm short of a full bait box
RFK Jr. dazzles us once more with the medical degree he doesn't have
fightthefire.substack.com
Trump: “Canada is nasty. They are nasty.” Thing is, Canadians know a fucking depraved, vulgar, weak willed, cowardly thug when we see one. The entire world hates you with a passion that is indescribable. There is no one whi is not looking forward to reading your obituary.
yes, i stole all of her pillows BUT i offered use of my thigh for a VERY modest rent payment??? and she was not grateful??? the pillows were just there! she wasn't using them productively!
Corps raised prices. SCOTUS struck down tariffs Corps got $100 billion in refunds Some are keeping it Nintendo's argument: you got the product you paid for. Consumers are now suing to get their money back because we're witnessing a wealth transfer with receipts. fortune.com/2026/08/05/w...
The Trump administration has doled out $100 billion in tariff refunds, but Americans are suing U.S. companies for not seeing a penny of the returns | Fortune
Customers of Five Below, Sony, and Nintendo have filed class action lawsuits demanding they receive refunds from the struck-down import taxes.
fortune.com
There may well be active duty troops in the Middle East right now who have family members locked in ICE jails. Congress authorized Military Parole-in-Place specifically to avoid this situation. But the Trump admin has shown little care to families caught in this situation.
AILA@aila.org · 17h ago"President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda." https://bit.ly/4br4M4m
If you were black Max you would be in prison but because you are white, you get a pass just like so many white proud boys before you.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h agoRep. Max Miller on Newsmax: "If any of these things were true, I would be in prison"
Why do you think the GOP is so intimidated by Trump. They too are in the Epstein files. And that includes some members of the Supreme Court.
Books are often the full course meal version of topic you can find on a webpage as a microwave dinner.
"The flooded wells are evidence that brine is 'migrating' underground through crooks and crannies in the rock... Complicating matters, as many as 66,000 undocumented, old-fashioned oil and gas wells pockmark Ohio, according to state estimates."
In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground
The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
nytimes.com
But school fraud is ok with tru’p, right? I mean his school was a fraud he didn’t have to repay.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 16h agoSo many people I encounter, especially in HigherEd, believe the only strategy for this moment is "keep your head down." @debtcollective.bsky.social didn't change priorities in 2024, nor in 2020, nor in 2016. They barreled ahead. There first big win was $800 million. This one is $11 billion.
“Search ‘how much gold does a Flock camera have’ and Google’s AI Overview doesn’t even push back a little bit. Instead, it flatly asserts that a ‘Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its internal circuit boards and wiring.’”
Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
futurism.com
Embittered Raisin Won’t Shut Up About How It Could Have Been Wine https://theonion.com/embittered-raisin-won-t-shut-up-about-how-it-could-have-1827840677/
ICYMI last night, DHS is currently being fined every day for contempt of court until it coughs up the cell phone records of officers involved in immigration stops in L.A. last year that looked like racial profiling rather than reasonable cause. short thread -->
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · yesterdayFed. judge holds DHS in civil contempt of court for refusing "intentionally and not in good faith" to provide plaintiffs with phone images they intend to use to prove DHS was racially profiling people arrested in Los Angeles without reasonable suspicion. Order from July 28, unsealed today.
