This is so over the top it looks like a Michael Bay movie
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h agoBLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, was the Capitol attack on January 6? COOK: I hesitate to use the word 'attack'
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago
Lost in the chatter about Todd Blanche and Trump's slush fund is the fact that anti-abortion Senators have demanded Blanche do a whole mess of things for them. The judiciary committee votes Tuesday morning. We're in the danger zone
Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · last wk.In the past month, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee have asked Todd Blanche to: *review DOJ's stance on the Comstock Act, a law antis claim bans all abortions *force FDA to end abortion pills via telehealth to settle a lawsuit *fan flames about abortions later in pregnancy this is all Bad News
Todd Blanche made more promises during a private call that a faith group inexplicably uploaded to YouTube. Expect to see this story cited in lawsuits against the FDA when it ends telemedicine of mifepristone for no reason other than pills by mail make anti-abortion groups very mad
Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
"Their trees are all gross."
Tree of Judgement: Bruh
ALT: Tree of Judgement: Bruh
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."
My taxes paid for our military and Claude to bomb a school in Iran, to arm Israel for their genocide in Gaza, and also paid Trump and Friends to build a bunch of concentration camps and paid the Gestapo to shoot innocent people in the street. I'm fine with folks getting cheaper food on my dime
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
A Monarch butterfly lands on on a flower at Tifft Nature Preserve in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joed Viera. https://buffalonews.com/multimedia/collection_8bb65cb8-b643-4db6-87f4-34faca2f2aa0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
Love to see these stories of community support during times of extreme events 😍😍
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2d ago“When Harmony Simon, a postal worker in Aix-les-Bains… rang the bell of a retiree’s apartment on a scorching recent morning, she wasn’t there to deliver the mail. She was there to check that the retired woman, Martine Combe, 68, who suffers from diabetes and asthma, hadn’t succumbed to heat stroke”
A synthesis of Republican bad faith and Democratic Party political failure.
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d agoIt's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that
"Trump wants Americans to unlearn what they have come to know about the history and legacy of enslavement. What his executive orders really promise to restore is a sense of comfort contained in the most reductive and sanitized stories about the United States — the bliss of ignorance." --M. Gessen.
Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 2d ago"...history has the potential to change a people’s future by changing its self-understanding." History is exceptionally powerful, which is why its expert work is degraded, distorted, accepted only as tourism. Always the authoritarian political instrument of choice. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
Jeffrey Gibson (Native American: Choctaw, Cherokee, born 1972) Mirror in the Sky, 2023 Screen print and collage on Arches paper 47 1/2 × 37 1/2 in (120.7 × 95.3 × 5.1 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
A man brushed a crow, stopped, and the bird handed the brush right back. Corvids rival great apes in cognition, using memory and intent to keep interactions going.
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary--embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. July was a bit of a whirlwind, and not just because of the pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
This actually is a symptom of how bad they think it may get for them
George Pearkes@peark.es · 6d agoNYT: Musk preparing 9 figure spending campaign in support of Republicans in "swing" states like Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas.
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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The sun sets behind the iconic 20-foot steel sculpture “Round Man” by Larry Griffis Jr. at the Outer Harbor in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Harry Scull Jr.: buffalonews.com/multimedia/c...
#EveryDayAPhoto 2026 July - December
We all know that Western New York is an amazing place – its diverse weather, beautiful resources and wonderful people. Every day, Buffalo News photographers continue to bring you an
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… why does the State Department need AI to make a map of Africa? They’re not particularly hard to come by.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
Someone posted this in slack and I actually thought it was The Onion. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Exclusive: RFK Jr. will host a new cooking show with celebrity chefs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in an exclusive interview, says he will be 'reintroducing' Americans to cooking again in a new series.
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I think this is a nice companion essay from @theultrasecret.bsky.social: if your politics revolve around not being “cringe,” just get out of the way. badfaithtimes.com/r/9a2cb044?m...
You Are With Resistance Politics Or You Are Against Resistance Politics
Opposing fascism isn't going to make you feel cool. Get over it.
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Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 6d agoI wrote about Superman as an unapologetic shitlib. badfaithtimes.com/superman-is-...
The Jokers - All Wrong [Tehran, Iran, Heavy Psych Blues] (1972) Power trio with Vaheed on vocals + guitar, Comran on bass and Afshin on drums. Oriental answer on Cream and MC5. https://redd.it/188exyx https://youtu.be/NDy1POltYIM
The Jokers - All Wrong [Tehran, Iran, Heavy Psych Blues] (1972) Power trio with Vaheed on vocals + guitar, Comran on bass and Afshin on drums. Oriental answer on Cream and MC5.
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100 Town Hall Tour Kick-Off! 📆 August 6 🕜 5:30 PM 📍Prendergast Library, Jamestown
Kolam, complex geometric drawing art form using rice flour or chalk on the ground, relating to philosophic & religious motifs, practised by female family members in many parts of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand #WomensArt
