Popeworldbuild
@popeworldbuild.bsky.social
Trying to make the world a little better, one story at a time. He/Him Available to GM on https://startplaying.games/gm/popeworldbuild Donations https://ko-fi.com/popeworldbuild https://streamelements.com/popeworldbuild/tip Icon by @naladraws.com
We all figured this was his goal, but to have finally spelled out… More graft, more corruption, more looting the treasury.
Liz Dye@lizdye.bsky.social · 3h agoNYT says Trump is going to take the Qatari bribe jet AND one of the old Air Force Ones when he leaves office. He can put the broken down old one in his presidential library and do what he likes with the new one we just paid billions of tax dollars to retrofit. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
The Danube River is so low that a whole fleet of sunken Nazi battleships are visible.
The Danube River's water is dropping so low that World War II ships are emerging
In the middle of the river separating Serbia and Romania near the Serbian port of Prahovo, a rusty hull is now visible along with a broken mast where the Nazi flag used to fly.
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‼️SINGLE DISABLED MOM‼️ needs help with water(due the 6th) and electric bill(due the 8th). Water: $380 Electric :$318 Shut offs will happen by Monday if I can’t get these paid.Any help is appreciated! PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf Cashapp: cash.app/$juniperkewpie Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/coffinfairy
Btw as soon as I get help with my MA then I can go back to funding for a car for my kids and I! Meaning my disabled kid can go back to his weekly therapies, my daughter can see her doctor for gender affirming care and I can get my kids vaccines before school!!! I also can help my elderly dad again!
A new California filing shows that Visa plans to lay off more than 300 employees at its Foster City campus, after reporting rising quarterly revenue and profit.
New California filings show hundreds in Bay Area to lose jobs at Visa
A new California filing shows that Visa plans to lay off more than 300 employees at its Foster City campus, after reporting rising quarterly revenue and profit.
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Viva La Grot! A fun little project I was inspired to make after a friend graciously gifted me the new armageddon grots 😊 #nerdlings #warhammercommunity #warhammer #miniaturepainting #minipainting #orks
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. (Published April 2025)
“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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There is a player on the LA Queens, Brittany Apgar, who has a limb difference and traveled back to Illinois from receiving her first ever batting prosthetic *today* and is 3-for-3 in her first game playing with one. Incredibly cool.
I never thought I’d see testimonies like this before the U.S. Congress. These are grown men who should know fact from fiction, yet they stand there shamelessly gaslighting the American people & performing for an audience of one. It’s both astonishing & deeply sad to see how far the U.S. has fallen.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoholy shit -- Schiff ties Trump's judicial nominees in knots by asking them who won the 2016 before *before* asking them who won in 2020, which results in them sounding like election deniers about Trump's victories!
The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.
Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan
The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.
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i saw this headline and thought something from 2021 was just popping up because of current news but.... nope it is from yesterday thehill.com/homenews/hou...
Grisham files restraining order against Max Miller
Stephanie Grisham, the White House communications director during President Trump’s first term, filed a restraining order against Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) on Monday, amid allegations that Miller ab…
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The UK Supreme Court basically pulled an originalism on the intent of a text whose authors are still very much around and telling them their contradictory and incoherent interpretation of the law is complete nonsense.
Elizabeth Taylor@elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 2mo agoAn excellent piece from the civil servant who helped draft the Equality Act and worked a policy and strategy director at the EHRC until resigning under Falkner. I hope @sundersays.bsky.social and the other new commissioners will read this, giving particular focus to this section
We already know wolves can make roads safer, and now it's been shown that the presence of cougars reduces deer collisions by 76 per cent
Large predators reduce car accidents by keeping deer off roads | New Scientist
We already know wolves can make roads safer, and now it's been shown that the presence of cougars reduces deer collisions by 76 per cent
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Wow! @menendez.house.gov says that the EXACT scenario I flagged two months ago, where ICE "releases" someone having a medical emergency solely so their death won't be recorded as occurring while in custody, happened last month at the infamous Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, NJ.
Matt Shuham@mattshuham.bsky.social · yesterdayDays before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
“White Sands Missile Range US military personnel were conducting a GPS jamming exercise that left [pilots] within 100s of miles unable to use modern navigation systems. Forced to revert to older technology, the medevac pilots got disoriented & crashed into a mountain.” www.wired.com/story/a-civi...
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
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On Monday, a federal judge paused a New York law that prohibited ICE agents from obscuring their faces while on duty. In the case, the federal government argued that the law was invalid because states can’t regulate the actions of federal agencies.
Federal judge blocks New York’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks
Ruling says New York can prohibit cooperation between local police and federal immigration officials.
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Days after Nick Judin reported that Mississippi had suddenly denied scholarships to 170 Mississippi foster students, a nonprofit has pledged $800k and colleges are working to ensure their education isn't disrupted. Lawmakers are also vowing to fix it. This is what impactful journalism looks like.
Mississippi Nonprofit, Colleges Help Foster Students Denied Scholarships as Lawmakers Vow Fix
The Woodward Hines Education Foundation is dedicating $800,000 to help fund Mississippi foster students denied full-ride scholarships.
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"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.
Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 8h agoPresident Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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BREAKING: Judge Carlton Reeves (Obama/SDMS) rules that tower dumps, which provide police with time and location data on many or all phones connected to a cell tower, are "per se unconstitutional general warrants," violating the 4th Amendment. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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Critics of SCREEN warn its reach is potentially much broader than even some state age verification laws: “It doesn’t differentiate between search engines, social media, bookstore websites, or porn... it could be up to a handful of individuals to decide whether a website has harmful content or not.”
Adult Entertainment Group Opposes Age-Verification Bill in Senate
A trade group representing the adult entertainment industry is mounting a last-minute blitz to defeat legislation that would require websites hosting sexually explicit content to verify users’ ages.
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Remember at the beginning of lockdown folks were like why does California have so many filtration masks, it must be a conspiracy, and we were like buddy we have a goddamned wildfire season that spreads soot and cinder yearly? Now, I think, they might finally understand
Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · yesterdayThe entire continental US is covered by smoke plumes and there are spots in the northwest that are absurdly toxic, do NOT go outside there. For reference, "hazardous" starts at an AQI of 300. fire.airnow.gov
Mike Rogers wants us divided. But there is so much more that unites us than sets us apart. The power is ours. This land was made for you and me.
Trump inherited one of the strongest economies in the world, yet 33% of Americans still think he inherited a disaster. The power of right wing propaganda. #BlueWaveIn90Days
