Seriously, wtf is even running(lol) this country?

August 11, 1968 - The Atlanta Braves signed famed Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige to a contract. At the time, Paige was in his 60s, but the Braves took the action so Paige could qualify for a Major League Baseball pension.

My god, what an image. Dead kings in a plastic box, carried off as the world burns.

Reuters@reuters.com · 6d ago

Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r

Personal Trainer: what are your goals? Me: to pet all the dogs. PT: no, fitness goals. Me: to be able to run fast enough to pet all the dogs.

One hour sitting beside this lake is worth more than 100,000 Space X's.

A reporter at a robust high school newspaper in Marin did some actual investigative journalism and searched for his community in the Epstein Files. He says he was just doing his homework. Gisele Attias Bonnouvrier immediately threatened to sue. www.wired.com/story/epstei...

A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out

An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.

wired.com

you're getting closer to figuring out just how bad it really is . . .

Secret Agent Number Six@designationsix.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Epstein class should be recognized as a global terrorist organization.

Driving 101 south from Humboldt, so many overlapping memories along this road. Delivering the Independent along the Avenue on a day we'd scooped the Times-Standard. My mom telling me when I was a kid about our Potter Valley ancestors who used to travel by stagecoach through the hills that turn . . .

i miss Anthony Bourdain

Good News: Harvey Weinstein is in the hospital with heart failure.

It's not just Trump's DOJ covering this kind of thing up: When my mom reported the organized, well connected, intelligence-community-adjacent pedophilia in our family to the FBI, they told her if she tried to make a case, she'd be killed. That was in the Clinton years.

DianaResists@dianaresists.bsky.social · last mo.

New Mexico Accuses Trump’s DOJ of Interfering With Epstein Ranch Probe newrepublic.com/post/212913/...

A federal judge has rejected Elon Musk's bid to void the jury verdict finding that Musk defrauded Twitter investors by trying to drive down the company's stock price after agreeing ‌to a $44 billion takeover.

There’s something unfair about dreaming of a place that now exists only in memory.

Rapists attitudes extend to all aspects of their existence. As we are seeing playing out on a large scale right now.

Lyndsey Fifield with more details on what keeps looking more like it was the NYT doing a halfassed attempt of a catch-and-kill on his behalf with how that previous Graham article was written.

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

this is why it is not a coincidence that the richest man on earth is a fascist

r@recombobulating.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign. Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.

AI, crypto, and space exploration get hyped as solutions to humanity's woes, but they're built on fantasies. They become ponzi grifts because that's all they can be. The real work of fixing the world is often difficult, specific, and inglorious; so it's beyond the abilities of our current rulers.

Free Reading@jakelehman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hiring philosophers to study "AI" is the equivalent of hiring zoologists to study Teddy Ruxpin. It's a degrading stunt.

But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the world is swayed, and ruin weighs heavy in the scale.

One of the small joys of indie publishing has been hearing a new generation pronounce the word "zine" so that it rhymes with "spine." In my day "zine" was short for "magazine" :) If I've been able to introduce people to the liberties and democratic power of owning physical media, I'm glad!

I always scoff at the term 'crypto industry.' Industries make things, crypto is a money laundering technique. Producing 'decentralized' fiat currency doesn't add any real wealth to the world, it only devalues other currencies and creates price inflation, as we've seen lately.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Crypto was invented to drain small investors and give the super-wealthy a convenient way to bribe the president.

So, the argument below is shaping up to be the Republican/MAGA party line for the upcoming midterm elections. It was retweeted into my feed by a staff writer at the Atlantic, @radiofreetom.bsky.social Your establishment at work.

Raycat@raycat77.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is pretty alarming:

The Epstein files are never going to be released without an Edward Snowden style leak.

I miss Casa de Que Pasa, a part of the heart of downtown Arcata when I was a kid. Casa lived up to its name, a busy restaurant in a beautiful old building with wood floors that glowed in summer evening sunlight, where you'd hear people call out hellos to friends they saw walking in the door . . .

I’m so tired of these crazy old men making all of these life and death decisions for all of us. apnews.com/article/iran...

Iranian drones attack Bahrain and a ship is struck in the strait after US airstrikes

Iran has launched a drone assault on Bahrain, which is home to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet. Separately, a ship in the Strait of Hormuz has come under attack.

apnews.com

Years ago I had a Palestinian taxi driver who was well informed. He told me that he believed strongly that Palestinians and Jews could work out their problems if only the governments would stay out of it-that his people and the Jewish people actually had so much in common. I still think about that.

And for those who grew up and had to choose how to handle the family tree: If you chose to break the cycle by staying childless, respect to your boundary and your wisdom. Ending the chain of pain is a quiet, heroic victory.

This little bug reminded me of childhood wonders. 🥹

Am I the only one who thinks Mossad has Epstein dirt on Trump? Plus a lot of other dirt?

yeah, Epstein operated *like* Russian intelligence, but it's still taboo in the mainstream to name the nation Epstein operated *for* As a Jewish person, I believe the only path to long-term survival is through accountability and recompense for these corrosive and ultimately self-defeating tactics.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bill Gates is the first billionaire to say publicly what many in New York business circles have talked about for years: Epstein blackmailed many of the world’s wealthiest men, he operated like Russian intelligence, gathering kompromat through his network. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...