I love when cats lick their paws and then do the little face washing circle 🥹 how are they so perfect?!

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

More abuse enabling, at scale:

Task & Purpose@taskandpurpose.com · yesterday

Army ends anonymous reporting for harassment complaints trib.al/oQU93m2

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 24h ago

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

“Kaseya pointed out that some 60-70% of the new cases were recorded from spreading within a community, not from contact tracing… “Contact tracing is not working,” said Kaseya, “we don’t like the trajectory of this outbreak, and it’s already the second largest outbreak (ever) in the world.”

Ebola kills 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges

Ebola has killed more than 1,700 people in eastern Congo in what has become the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease.

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">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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Cori Bush, whose campaign to regain her lost seat struggled to capture the spotlight as progressives largely focused on Michigan, has been defeated by Wesley Bell, who received significant funding from the pro-Israel lobby to secure reelection. Bell snagged +70%. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Rep. Wesley Bell defeats former Rep. Cori Bush in a Missouri Democratic primary rematch

Bell won, NBC News projects, with ad support from a pro-Israel super PAC, while Bush had backing from prominent progressives.

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If you have any history of abuse, do not watch the video of that representative being interviewed. I shouldn’t have and I am still amped up hours later. Those of you lucky enough not to speak abuser should, though. The guy is textbook.

It’s likely she already has permanent cardiac damage because this has been going on for years, but how dare anyone comment on someone’s body 🙄, meanwhile she is starving herself to literal death. I’m glad she is going to be scaling back and taking time off and I sincerely hope she gets real help.

nuclear family hater@androgynyfiend.bsky.social · 21h ago

not to be pop culture brained but it is kind of crazy how libfem shit is being weaponized against ppl who are like holy shit Ariana Grande is about to die. fellas is it anti-woman to express concern about the health of a woman and the high mortality rates of eating disorders

Uh, lol. Alt text: image shows world map that is mostly red

World Meteorological Organization@wmo-global.bsky.social · yesterday

Above-normal temperatures are expected worldwide in the next 3 months. 🔴 indicates the likelihood of above-normal surface air temperature in the region; ⚪️ for near-normal; 🔵 for below-normal. Deeper shades reflect higher probability, not temperature intensity. https://bit.ly/4xchyvT

amplifying:

🏳️‍⚧️ anniejump (she/her)@anniejump.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨Hunger Strike Happening "Noah" Amber Smith, a trans woman locked in Mens Central Jail, has not been receiving her T blockers. She's been on hunger strike for two days. While on the phone, the nurses denied her meds agin. She informed the cops shes on hunger strike. They made her hang up the ph-

i absolutely DO think suspected ai media should be pointed out i absolutely do NOT think anyone spotting it is somehow superior to a person who shared it unknowingly and immediately takes it down once it’s pointed out this is a team effort

We’re also funding death squads but what’s really offensive is that somewhere out there a poor person might be able to eat

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

The cyclospora situation in Michigan sounds legitimately terrifying. Tens of thousands of people getting a version of the "24 hour stomach bug" that lasts for two weeks, people even dying from it now. It's like the entire state is one of those cruise ship horror stories or something.

Which honestly made the switch to, “ok everything is fine now!” So much fucking weirder and harder? Because obviously it wasn’t true.

K.B. Spangler@kbspangler.com · 2d ago

I have no idea what to do with this Covid revisionism. It feels like the bad kind of group therapy where you help each other ignore facts. We don't have to go *that* far back in the social media timelines to prove how fucked up it was. We were so scared we were scrubbing eggs and baking the mail.

If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

The right wants to look at your children's genitals! On fucking repeat! The sick fucks are just using trans people as an excuse to touch your kids! On fucking repeat! Say it! All the time!

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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If we care about disability justice, one of the lowest-hanging fruits is masks in healthcare. It remains unacceptable that vulnerable patients must ask, sometimes beg, healthcare workers to mask, while also explaining to them why respirator masks are better

If you're still on Substack, you're helping platform fascists and their enthusiastic minions, such as Bari Weiss, whom they actively partnered with just before her move to CBS. Go check out @buttondown.com and @ghost.org instead. You can even migrate yours subscribers and subscriptions!

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 3d ago

What if instead of starting substacks in twenty-fucking-twenty-six people learned to give one iota of a fuck about whether they want to associate themselves with nazis.

People really should start stocking up on well fitting respirators sooner rather than later…

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 3d ago

Welp. I can smell the smoke rolling in. Remember when we didn't have a whole fifth season when it rains ash and you can't go outside without inhaling the equivalent of 2 packs of cigarettes?

“eBay pig mask” to the tune of “where’s your head at”

As a disabled person i was amazed at the amount of accessible options that suddenly became available. I really felt like it had changed the world for the better. Then it all just got taken away and the world moved on and left us behind. Alone. I actually felt genuine grief.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d ago

if you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid

"AI" really is the perfect fascist technology

Days and days of ceding a bit at a time who we are, what we value, in the name of survival. That is what the fascists do. On purpose.

What does “endemic” mean? Do you even know? Do you care? Or do you just know it’s easier not to be the lone masker in a crowd, so you’re gonna do that instead? Do you know what you’re inviting in when you encourage AI use? Or do you just know the boss will get off your back?