China gonna be a lot tougher to deal with than a bunch of cones.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 17m ago

🎥 Taiwanese soldiers participate in day one of 'Han Kuang,' the largest military drills of the year as the island democracy attempts to prepare its population for a potential Chinese invasion

While i think Tim Kaine is a spineless turncoat, i do think its good that an actual doctor will be in charge. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

New CDC director is confirmed, giving agency its first permanent leader in a year

The Senate voted in favor of Dr. Erica Schwartz, who was deputy surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first term.

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Did we just collectively give up on UpScrolled? I got the name @worms please i need you all to move over to upscrolled.

Sometimes hacking the system means creating tools and resources to protect your rights today. That includes EFF's Privacy Badger, Certbot, and Surveillance Self-Defense guide—all thanks to EFF member support. You can join this community today! eff.org/vv

I hate libs as much as i hate republicans.

The $30 million AIPAC wasted in Michigan, wasted trying to help Haley Stevens, could have been used to fully fund and deliver 6 million malaria nets to sub-Saharan Africa. Or, it could have fully paid for universal free school breakfasts in Mississippi, America's poorest state.

The Strait is closed. The Strait is open! Oh wait, its not open yet. Wait nevermind its open! Just kidding its closed again. Should be open Wednesday. Closing the Strait on Friday! Should be open by Monday! Hows my stock portfolio doing?

Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC [via @slate.com]

Heat is killing Texas prisoners, and state leaders won't shell out for AC

The system for choosing who gets a "cool bed" is arbitrary, inadequate, and ineffective,” a judge ruled.

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While scientists are not too concerned about this particular piece of space junk, it highlights the growing threat as more and more items cram into orbit.

Discarded SpaceX rocket is on a high-speed collision course with the moon

While scientists are not too concerned about this particular piece of space junk, it highlights the growing threat as more and more items cram into orbit.

kxan.com

Content warning: suicide After May Pollard died on a late-January morning, a detective asked her parents a question: Had anyone wanted to hurt her? “A lot of America,” her mother answered. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.

nbcnews.com

New dispatch from @hrw.org: Rapid returns follow crossings of thousands of migrants & some asylum seekers to #Ceuta; Spain & Morocco should ensure rights-focused responses & independent investigations. Summary expulsions are wrong, regardless of how people arrive. www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

Rapid Returns Follow Migrant Crossings to Ceuta

The arrival of an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people in Ceuta, Spain’s enclave in North Africa, on July 30-31 was not only unprecedented but also tragic. At least 72 people died, including many who dro...

hrw.org

@cnn.com sponsored by Kalshi! Normies are so fucked.

They're probably hoping you won't hear about this. But tomorrow in TX, Tarrant County officials meet to vote on a GOP plan to cut almost HALF of Election Day voting locations, plus 8 early voting locations, some of them on campuses. Not hard to guess why. fortworthreport.org/2026/07/30/t...

Tarrant County considers cutting 140 Election Day polling sites for November

County commissioners vote Aug. 4 on proposed reductions to the number of early voting and day-of sites for the midterms.

fortworthreport.org

There he is! There's our guy!

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

hellgatenyc.com

Anybody else losing track of the number of places on fire right now? That's good, right?

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · 2d ago

🇬🇷 Flames flared up again in Greece on Monday, as wildfires that have raged west of Athens for four days remained a threat despite easing winds and the deployment of firefighting aircraft. ➡️ u.afp.com/SHJ9

James Talarico on Texas officially banning THC: “Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst."

A number of years ago, I heard Idaho described as three entities in one. Nazis in the north, aging hippies in the mountains and mormons in the south

I love to talk about finance without fully understanding it, so here goes... this is a symptom of what's to come. Its only a matter of time till this happens to an institutional investor that WILL cause a systemic collapse on par with the housing and dotcom bubbles. finance.yahoo.com/markets/arti...

Gen-Alpha’s Warren Buffett, Leopold Aschenbrenner, just learned Wall Street’s oldest lesson: Chart of the Day

The chip wipeout reached a climax this week. One of the AI boom's most prescient young investors was caught at the center of it.

finance.yahoo.com

How do i opt out of society?

Featured story: What changed? How did Christianity become the political weapon we see today? A new book from historian Joseph L. Locke investigates how "militant" Christian nationalism became the state religion.

One State Under Whose God?

Despite the grip of conservative Christianity on Texas politics, religion here has always contained multitudes, a new work of history shows.

texasobserver.org

Just a reminder that Gen X is our real, collective enemy.

lol fuck the new york times. letting the gen x nepo baby CEO completely destroy NYTs legacy is so sad to watch. The most profound fall from grace in modern media. Worse than CBS. At least Beri Weiss doesn't hide the fact that shes a lying propagandist and not an actual journalist.

🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”

Ok so now its suddenly cool to dunk on spyglasses? What happened to our childhoods? I watched First Kid. I always wanted all the spy gadgets from the spy store. And it had freakin VR in like 1997! We live in the First Kid reality.

We can't trust a single fucking thing coming out of the Donald Trump AI Slop Administration. Jobs reports, inflation numbers, immigration numbers, disease numbers, pollution, energy, war, water, the weather... absolutely fucking nothing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Africa map: US admits 'unfortunate error' after mislabelling countries

A State Department presentation at HIV conference put Ivory Coast in East Africa and made Nigeria landlocked.

bbc.com

As Texas prepares to take a bunch of THC products off the market, I reminisced about how funny it is that Texas lawmakers accidentally legalized selling fake weed that gives you a panic attack at the gas station for a few years and then clawed it back: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Texas got us hooked on gas station THC. Now the state wants us to quit.

In 2019, Texas lawmakers accidentally legalized some THC products. They've spent every year since trying to un-legalize them.

chron.com

When did they make RFK the voice for the Amber alerts?

Alright ajc.com ill give you this one, but im not giving up.

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL DRUG DEALER. STOP BUYING SHIT FROM THE GAS STATION.