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from the NY Times: "Mr. Khalil had recently gotten his master’s degree from Columbia …" Should it not be he "EARNED his master's…" not only for grammatical correctness & ease of reading, but also reeks of a microagression, as if he somehow "got" this scholarly title instead of working for it.
It's insane that we're here. Fucking vote please.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "You have a golf course right now -- it's old, tired, beaten up, it's useless. It doesn't do much business. We want to do something great for Washington. We're going to basically build a better golf course. It's going to be one of the great courses."
My god, SCOTUS acted within hours to clear the way for this execution and Tennessee completely botched it and tortured her. She's still alive. This barbaric practice needs to end. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c...
Court stays Christa Pike execution in Tennessee: Updates
Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 killing of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer. A court stayed her lethal injection that was scheduled for Sept. 30.
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when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last mo.Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:
Thank you to the USPS whistleblower. May your courage be contagious.
In 1966, Marlon Brando bought a Polynesian atoll after filming ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’. He had the invasive rats removed, then just let it be. It's now a thriving wildlife sanctuary. For example: 15,614 turtles hatched in a season. The power of rewilding. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-o...
In 1966, Marlon Brando bought a private Polynesian atoll after filming ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’; it is now a wildlife sanctuary where 15,614 green turtle hatchlings emerged in one season
A private Pacific atoll once owned by Hollywood actor Marlon Brando has become one of French Polynesia’s most important marine conservation sites, with thousands of sea turtle hatchlings recorded afte...
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David Fair has died. With his brother Jad, he founded in the experimental indie rock band Half Japanese. A band who once said they wrote either love songs or monster songs. Half Japanese performing live in 1987. #RIPDavidFair #IndieRock m.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKa...
Half Japanese Live – 9:30 Club 3/26/87 – Jad, David, Mark, Ricky, Jay, Don Fleming, Kramer
YouTube video by Barry Stock
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Last week, we requested a transcript of an interview the New York Times did with Gov. Kathy Hochul. The transcript revealed more about NYT's framing of a story about Hochul, Mayor Mamdani, and Israel. More here, on the latest ep of the Hell Gate podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Vo...
UK festivals Reading and Leeds replaced the BBC's long-running new artist showcase with a "nepo baby stage"
Reading & Leeds Replace New Artist Showcase With "Nepo Baby Stage"
When the UK sister festivals Reading and Leeds took place over the weekend, there was one hilariously bleak change in the programming. Since 2007, when the BBC launched its BBC Music Introducing platf...
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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Eminem shares a note from Dolly upon his induction to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on his IG
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.
OMG it's raining and cloudy in Iceland...so sad for totality viewers.
I love that the comments are a lot of "free free palestine" x www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2Kc...
NASA LIVE: Solar Eclipse of the Century | Total Solar Eclipse 2026 LIVE from Spain, Iceland | N18G
YouTube video by CNBC-TV18
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Finally on the Libby app @nirenberg.bsky.social (though I have to wait for two other readers to finish...tell your publisher to push more copies to @bklynlibrary.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Are we really going to let this happen? I'm sick… *gift article link* www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Reminder: destroying bridges, and attacking energy infrastructure or water supply/cleaning plants, are considered war crimes.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3mo agoBREAKING The US and Israel are planning what could be their harshest bombing campaign yet against targets in Iran. The targets include energy infrastructure. There is also discussion of cutting electricity in Tehran. If this moves forward, it would mark the Israeli military’s return to the war.
George Clinton was born in Kannapolis, North Carolina on this day in 1941. The Prime Minister of Funk turns 85 today. 📸 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, 1976
