We can hardly wait. Our Congress passed a bill demanding that this happen, but they seem too corrupt/intimidated to follow up on it. We're hoping to replace most of them soon, but whatever you can do will be helpful & much appreciated. #ProudBlue
Joachim Frank
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Scientist, 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize (math and computational methods underlying cryo-EM of biological molecules), fiction writer, photographer, gardener. Climate change, science education, fight of fascism franxfiction.com and joachimfranklab.org
What if, just spitballing here, the government gave a foreigner billions of dollars and made him the richest man on the planet
Friedrich Flender, local early 18th century hero of my hometown josha-journal.org/wp-content/u...
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Trump sued the reporters for billions and spent months calling the story fake news, yet stands there smirking and throwing his hands up while they accept an award for uncovering his Epstein ties. The shameless narcissism and complete lack of remorse is absolutely staggering.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... It was institutional capitulation starched, pressed, perfumed, and tuxedoed, seated beneath enough crystal to illuminate a minor monarchy, smiling on cue while the load-bearing beams of a constitutional republic were quietly unscrewed one canapé, one engraved….
The Fourth Estate Forgot to Stand the Fuck Up
The Correspondents’ Dinner Was a Black-Tie Surrender
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FUCK CHARLIE KIRK & FK naming anything after his life. Nobody needs that hateful pos's name on anything. meidasnews.com/news/charlie...
Charlie Kirk Memorial Highway Signs To Be Removed by Officials
Outcry from Vietnam veterans prompt relocation plan for the signs
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A couple times when I worked at the Strand I had to fulfill rich peoples' interior decorator requests, which would be like, "12 feet of old hardcover books with gray binding," and I was so disgusted that these mfers were never even gonna open them, but holy cow this is way worse
companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...
Photographer Martin Le-May was walking through a London park with his wife, hoping to show her a green woodpecker for the first time, when he snapped this incredible photo: a weasel riding a flying woodpecker.
A complete list of Lindsey Graham’s sister’s qualifications for running for his Senate seat:
Three years of stalling. Every appeal exhausted. The Supreme Court already said no. This week, E. Jean Carroll finally collected every cent from Donald Trump—down to the penny. And she had five words about it. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-lied...
“Thus the increasingly desperate and widespread effort by Trump and his apparatchiks to tilt the electoral scales in a big way. The Trump administration can’t afford to lose power. So it will do everything it can over the next two and a half years not to.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-t...
The Real Threat to Our Elections Is Donald Trump
And it has been for years.
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"One of the first questions posed to Blanche was whether he was Trump’s friend. He replied, “I am his lawyer . . . was his lawyer.” There you have it! For two seconds, Todd Blanche spoke the truth before he caught himself". open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
"I am his lawyer . . . was his lawyer."
July 16, 2026
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The proposed OMB rule is for the "regulation of federal financial assistance" and covers more than 40 agencies, all the ones that give federal grants. So yes, that's NIH, NSF. NASA. It's also Veterans' Affairs! Education! Housing and Urban Development! Transportation! All of these under threat.
A few days ago, Lindsey said he was going to check on Mitch McConnell.
Coming from the ultimate parasite, this rich
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