Who knew predators could be this pretty? 🩷✨⁠ ⁠ The abyssal comb jelly (Beroe abyssicola) patrols the midnight zone searching for its favorite food—other comb jellies. When Beroe finds their next meal, rows of tiny cilia lining their mouths act like teeth, helping them grip onto their prey.

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Loud, online liberal movement.

The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

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I’m not reposting your substacks or your alt text-less posts. Do better.

i really have no patience whatsoever for people who are scared of muslims having elected office

Centrists can never lose. If they lose against the right, it was the left’s fault. If they lose against the left, the left didn’t really win somehow.

Politico@politico.com · 14h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Two wins for abortion rights: Voters in Kansas and Missouri easily defeated ballot measures that could have threatened abortion access in their states

Just me reacting to questions I am seeing about whether Abdul El-Sayed can win the general. If it were his opponent who was favored to win tonight, people would be talking about how lefties need to get over themselves and support the nominee. But we're not hearing that for a couple of reasons.

Hot brown men in your area (running for office).

stop. making. people. feel like. chatbots. are "conversational" and their friends.

Mark Follman@markfollman.bsky.social · yesterday

My new investigation into a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT reveals numerous red flags—and some very disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before his attack on Florida State University www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0... 1x 🧵

“Participation decline” and “no longer receiving “ is the passive language of sycophants & this is why I stopped donating & listening in 2016 after a literal lifetime of loyalty & support. Pathetic & shameful cowardice & complicity.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes. n.pr/4w5XSc9

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Our flight from Seattle to Sacramento was delayed by a few hours last night, but we were rewarded with an epic sunset on Tahoma (Rainier) as it poked through the low stratus layer. The pastel peach backdrop was made possible by the horrific wildfire smoke from all the PNW fires.

To the extent that the media is treating this as a horse story: Max Miller is not a some random candidate from Ohio. This is a picture of President Trump speaking at the wedding of Max Miller and Emily Moreno.

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death

Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes

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With great sadness we report that @baruch.cuny.edu @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @historygc.bsky.social Prof. Johanna Fernández passed away on July 30, 2026. We mourn her loss and celebrate her achievements and legacy: blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/history/?p=447

A far-right thug who performed Nazi salutes at a "protect women and children protest" has been exposed as a serial stalker and abuser.

Glasgow Nazi salute protester exposed as serial stalker and abuser

Ryan Marshall was pictured making the "sieg heil" gesture at the Unite the Clans rally in Glasgow last Saturday, which resulted in at least 15 arrests

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From 2011 to 2024, #Alcohol use, binge drinking, and heavy drinking increased among pregnant women in the US, indicating ongoing public health concerns about prenatal alcohol exposure. ja.ma/4wuHG5b

The Democratic Party has to fucking reckon with how anti-Islam and anti-brown it is, just sickening.

ICE releases Johns Hopkins researcher detained while boarding flight

Johns Hopkins researcher Fatima Ameaka released from ICE custody

A public health researcher at Johns Hopkins University who was arrested by immigration officials while boarding a domestic flight has been released after spending multiple days in federal custody across...

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Lawrenceville. 46th Street. Caller said that their neighbor is digging a hole in their own yard. Caller is suspicious.

stop paying for AI, I'll tell you lies and make you go insane for free

Check Your Pantry: Over 180,000 Cans Of Soup Recalled Due To Spoilage Risk www.delish.com/food-news/a7...

Check Your Pantry: Over 180,000 Cans Of Soup Recalled Due To Spoilage Risk

Here’s everything you need to know.

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I love when I search my iPhone photo album for food, and it brings up the 3D ultrasound pics. I’m always staring for a sec like…what did I make there? Oh, a baby.

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

I spoke with Lux, the high school teacher arrested for clapping at a data center zoning meeting in Kansas. some very interesting twists and turns in this one

“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting

"I have a right to speak. I'm here to speak. I have a right to clap, and if you want me out, you're going to have to drag me out."

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