Icymi the first time this ran, here’s a refresher: Vaccines today are more efficient and contain far fewer stimulants to the immune system than some used decades ago www.nytimes.com/2024/12/14/h...

some amazing stories in here (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

PAY TO PLAY www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I infer that Kimmel may have agreed to censor himself to an extant. He said he was worried about his employees having jobs. This sounds like a rationale for buckling. But I don't know. I'm not calling him out. apnews.com/article/jimm...

😂 Due to his "horrific music," Kid Rock has been suspended from playing in California by Governor Gavin Newsom. It appears to be a larger commentary about the country's treatment of the first amendment. metalinjection.net/news/governo...

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I Was Always Clear

ACCURATE.😲😬😆

New: We have just sued ICE to demand it turns over a secretive spyware contract that it refuses to release: www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

"In those wretched Countries where a Man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call any Thing else his own. Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors." - Benjamin Franklin #1stAmendment

dang, they lost the hulk, aunt may, and mr fantastic

The guy who wrote I Fought the Law also wrote the theme song to the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Mind officially blown. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/a...

Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

This is from 2017. Needs updating. But... Something that's never really been answered is why Trump took all those classified documents out of the White House and stashed them in odd places, as well as locked rooms, at Mar A Lago? Everyone's forgotten about that one. Why? Why'd he need them?

This is from April, but I just stumbled upon it touches on issues I've been trying to flag: Trump has been dismantling American intel defenses. Cyber defenses shut down, Russian specialists in CIA removed etc. Why? Why does none one look at Trump's curious insider relationship with Putin?

and crashing where?

Yes, this is actually a Technocoup within a coup. Once they get all they want from Trump they'll quickly push him aside and install Vance. The plans for Greenland, Canada and Panama are much aligned with the Technocrats that Elon's grandfather belonged to. torontolife.com/deep-dives/d...

July 15/24.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

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“As president of the United States, my response was not: Who may have influenced this troubled young man to engage in that kind of violence? And now let me go after my political opponents and use that,” Barack Obama said. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Separation of Church and Hate. Recommended book by progressive activist and humorist John Fugelsang. 💙📚 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Separa...

Can't win with AI. It's learning like a toddler; later it'll absorb the biases of its programmers (and its "reading material"), maybe becoming the moronic kid of a KKK chief. But if it's perfected to just be useful--then we will be nightmarishly dependent on it. Alone we'll be capable of nothing.

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A prophetic recording. This is not me singing, I'm acting out a short piece of prose I wrote, called NO APOLOGIES TO KAFKA. Deranged music in background by Mike Chocholak. Picture yourself in that corporation-run police state interrogation room.

"It was not immediately clear who might be behind the cyberattack, but experts said it could turn out to be hackers, criminal organizations or state actors" I suspect Putin, testing methods for weakening NATO's resolve.

The world is in a bad place 😢

Because nothing is more important than money.

DONATIONS DIRECTLY TO WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN wck.org/relief/chefs...

The day started off with a small number of people getting pelted with pepper balls and tear gas at dawn. A couple of them were elected officials www.wonkette.com/p/feds-in-ch...

It's okay if people starve if no one knows about it, I guess. At the foodbank where I volunteer USDA provisions have come to an end. Thanks to DOGE etc.There's markedly less food to give out.

Oracle’s owner, Larry Ellison, is partnering with his son David to build a broader media empire. David owns CBS; ...The Ellisons are also in serious discussion to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery — which operates, among other properties, CNN and HBO.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

www.france24.com/en/live-news... Here is a French article. I hit "deny" re: cookies and was able to read it.

Lunacy.

For years this cosmic #horror film was underrated. But smarter people found it & it's getting its due lately. Sometimes the average audience member or critic is just not bright enough to get a film. But now it's back--just saw it again at HP Lovecraft Film Fest. A trifle long in some bits but great.

"Hey Benny! It's Donald! You got a second? Hey listen you going to grab that Palestinian territory, annex it right? We got a deal, we got an understanding--I build the hotels there, once we get it cleaned up! We'll raze it, dump in some sandy beach and palm trees. But get the dead bodies out, okay?"