Could you imagine the wall to wall coverage that would happen if Capitol One closed 300 bank accounts of Biden’s and said it was for anti-money laundering reasons?
The sitting president of the United States had his bank accounts closed for money laundering and it's barely making the news.
for the first time in two and a half years, a new note was played in this organ performance today!
![Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) is a musical piece by John Cage.[1]
An organ in St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt in 2001 began a performance that is due to end in 2640. This makes it the longest running non-computerized piece currently being performed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiabq354dz537iuzii7lwylq56yyr4bcrzkj32by4z7fq3clewmssy)
Former J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Former J6 Prosecutors Beg Senators To Stop Confirming Election Deniers To Court Seats
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Are you effing kidding me? "For $1,250 a year, a member is guaranteed a spot aboard an Airbus A320 aircraft to Atlanta for a maximum of two hurricanes per season."
Scripps News@scrippsnews.bsky.social · 2h agoWhen the next hurricane heads toward Florida, some people won’t have to join the lines of traffic slowly snaking out of town. Instead, they will be swiftly flown out of state on a privately hired airplane.
Apparently a lot of people thought the Overton window could only be shoved to the right.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces that New York City is issuing cease and desist letters to more than 40 retailers selling illegal e-bikes (generally, vehicles that can go faster than local speed limits allow). The targeted retailers include Amazon and Best Buy.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
If you park your car on the streets of NYC, you got to do your bit and move on street sweeping days...
The New York City Parking Sticker of Shame Is Back (Gift Article)
After 14 years, the city has returned to slapping bright stickers on cars that do not move for street sweepers.
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Yes. We do not study the past with a view to feelgood vibes. Sometimes we encounter events and people that do that, but it is not the *purpose* of serious or just basically honest study.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)@armchairclassicist.bsky.social · yesterdayTruth. #History
New York, 1956 - Leonard Freed (1929–2006), photographe et photojournaliste américain, membre de l'agence Magnum, célèbre pour son travail humaniste engagé et ses reportages poignants sur le mouvement des droits civiques aux USA et la communauté juive en Allemagne. #MagnumPhotos #LeonardFreed
This border collie herds ducklings the same way he herds sheep, using the "eye" stare that gets prey moving without touching them
1,800-year-old Roman infant death mask, accidentally formed when sealing plaster leaked into the sarcophagus https://sinapti.ca/post/en/the-mask-accidentally-formed-by-plaster-on-a-roman-babys-fac-irabdbep
#HillfortsWednesday Castle an Dinas at St Columb Major. Dates from around the second and third centuries BC and consists of three ditch and rampart concentric rings, 850ft in diameter and standing 700ft above sea level. #Archaeology #History
Okay, I admit Ozempic has made me lose my taste for human flesh.
I really think we gotta explore why Republicans keep voting for guys whose whole personas are "serial killer with a chip on his shoulder." What is it about these obvious pieces of shit that draws these voters in.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h agoRep. Max Miller: "When I was reported for child abuse of my daughter for a broken collarbone, my daughter was in my ex-wife's care 9 out of the last 11 days and she took her to the emergency room, which is a contempt violation from our shared parenting plan."
Sun Tzu: The wise warrior uses all of their missiles as quickly as possible
One of my great frustrations with the media is they know Trump is full of shit on things like this. But because they don’t know if he’s lying or delusional they type up neither possibility. But they should be loudly writing that those are the only two possibilities and both are disqualifying!
Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · 22h agoNEW: The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump’s grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there: presswatchers.org/2026/08/the-...
A key detail of this that is not getting mentioned enough is that we would never have learned this if not for a lawsuit by the Trump organization!
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · yesterdayCapital One has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Org. over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts in 2021, arguing that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review — not retaliation for the Capitol riot, as the Trump businesses have claimed.
August Slutting Michigan, Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.