An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to Donald Trump Jr. said it received at least $100 million from Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major policy wins from the Trump administration. (Published June)

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr.

An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. At the same time, the Ambani family secured major polic...

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What a contrast in detail.

Loved her in “Shock Treatment”.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social · 3y ago

And Jessica Harper deserved to break bigger. There is entire alternate history of 70s and 80s Hollywood that recognized what it had in actresses like her.

The man who stabbed an Asian man and a Jewish man on the UES has been charged with a hate crime—but only for the Jewish victim. Pro-Israel politicians have entirely erased the Asian victim in their messaging about the attacks. www.nydailynews.com/2026/07/24/a...

Man accused in 2 UWS stabbings gets hate crime charges, but only for Jewish victim

Charges against Raul Morales, 51, were still pending on Friday as detectives try to unravel the motive behind the back-to-back attacks. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch admitted Thursday that the NYP...

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Casual reminder that the original plan for Ben Shapiro's "Lady Ballers" was for it to be an undercover documentary where dudes sign up to compete in women's sports, only to find out that places that allow trans athletes to compete actually have rules and standards.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 6d ago

Ben Shapiro spends his entire show mocking the WNBA and its players. Including a montage his team put together of missed shots at the All-Star game which he laughs at. It's incredible how much transphobia can just let you be an open misogynist.

Yet Untitled Maxim: Whenever a Big Two superhero gets a dramatic costume change, that story/era will be periodically referenced through the rest of their publishing history. This occurs regardless of that era's quality.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.

Painting New York’s Queensboro Bridge, July 31, 1948, by Bob Kradin. Crikey.

Antisemitism is genuinely rising, and we need alliances to fight it, and prominent American Reform rabbis would rather burn their credibility defending a war criminal who has nothing but disdain for Reform Jews anyway! It’s a betrayal of our community in so many ways.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s embarrassing that the rabbi of Central Synagogue - one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in the US - is portraying Mamdani’s accurate description of Netanyahu as a war criminal as a sign of antisemitism. This is part of why young people take antisemitism less seriously than they should.

In 2016, San Antonio cop Matthew Luckhurst was fired after giving a homeless man a sandwich filled with feces. Last month, he became police chief in Benavides, Texas.

Records: Ex-SAPD officer fired for giving feces sandwich to homeless man promoted to South Texas police chief

A former San Antonio police officer fired for giving a homeless man a feces sandwich was promoted to serve as the chief of a South Texas police department, according to records reviewed by KSAT Invest...

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Hmm.

NEVER surrender in advance. When you fight you can win!

Them Fatale,@mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 3w ago

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hampstead Garden Suburb from Willifield Way, c.1914, by William Ratcliffe.

I quite like the header photo: udreview.com/photo-galler...

Check the date on this post.

Jorts (and Jean)@jortsthecat.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Misogyny aside, what gets me about this is “women in Asia”. Yeah, that narrows it down.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social · 3w ago

Casually threatening mass rapes

I'd thought about posting "Is it weird that my first thought upon hearing Sam Neill died was 'the red meat guy'?" But then I saw my friend who's also an Australian post the same thing. So no, not weird.

Christ.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

“Knight and Dragon", by Bernie Wrightson, c.1987.

Assorted Crisis Events #9: Good! Fantastic Four #14: Good!

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

A mathematical formula inscribed on a wall at the Maya site of Xultun in Guatemala has revealed the name of an important Maya mathematician-astronomer for the first time. And the person was called Sak Tahn Waax, or ‘White-Chested Fox’. 🧪 🏺 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mathematics formula found on Maya wall rivals insights of ancient masters

Mathematical texts from a Maya site in Guatemala identify an astronomer called Sak Tahn Waax.

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It’s okay to just not like things. “The first ‘Harry Potter‘ book was successful because of a vast capitalist conspiracy…” No, no. You don’t need to make up shit about J.K. Rowling when the real shit she’s done is so abominable.

i still have an account there so that no one yoinks my username and does god knows what with it. why on earth anyone would *post* there or read it regularly anymore is really beyond me

JKR and her new org apparently helped get the new Amnesty International report on how TERF organizations destroy lives taken down from their site. Well, guess what? The Streisand Effect is real. Here's the entire report in a thread. Read it. Share it.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 4w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

🔭 NGC 6188: Dragons of Ara Image Credit & Copyright: Rod Prazeres ap260707

🔭 Dueling Bands over the Atacama Desert Image Credit & Copyright: Julien Looten ap260706