More than 3,500 deaths are confirmed since the earthquakes in Venezuela, the UN reports that the death toll could reach 10,000. Bellingcat has geolocated footage that appears to show several coffins placed in newly dug trenches. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/07...

Yesterday, Peskov said: this is no longer a "special military operation" - it is a war. This statement by an official is yet another step toward a future mobilization in Russia. What could happen if war is officially declared instead of a "special military operation" ("SMO")?

Based on model simulations, researchers estimate that there is a 10-23 % chance AMOC collapse already locked in. This existential risk can only be headed off by swift renewables-plus deployment. www.newscientist.com/article/2533...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C. theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

🇺🇦 Zelenskyy calls for nationwide mobilization and continued military support, stating that Ukraine must supply ammunition to frontline troops to achieve a “just and lasting peace.”

The US World Cup team went down to its worst defeat since the 1990s after opponents Belgium said they were fired up by a “sense of injustice” following Trump’s interference in the game. After the fourth goal, Belgium posted on social media “Overturn this”.

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

1/ A serious allegation just rocked the Maine Senate race, a week before Democrats’ ballot replacement deadline. I’m not litigating allegation here. I’m asking what happened online in the hours before & after it dropped. Smears before elections is routine #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

2/ Within a short window (before the allegation dropped) according to X user, at least 3 accounts posted word for word identical text and the same image: “Graham Platner’s events were suddenly canceled… this feels less like a scheduling problem and more like damage control.” Not similar. Identical.

3/ Worth knowing who owns the outlet that broke the story. Politico’s parent company,Axel Springer, is run by Mathias Döpfner, who has a well documented, years long friendship with Elon Musk & has been accused of pushing his own politics inside Springer newsrooms www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

4/ To be clear, that’s a separate observation, not a claim that Politico’s ownership shaped this particular story or that the story is false. No evidence connects the two. It’s just worth knowing who’s in the room and who is connected to who. My claim is there was clear coordination on the Right.

9/ So here’s what I’m actually asking. Who wrote that script, and who decided these three accounts should run it in the moments before this story broke. I’m not claiming the underlying allegation is true or false. That’s a separate question for reporters and, if it comes to that, the legal process.

10/ “Identical talking points within minutes of a damaging story, timed to a hard legal deadline” is a pattern with a name and a paper trail. Asking who’s pulling it isn’t an attack on anyone in the underlying story. It’s asking who benefits from chaos, & why the right wing disinfo machine was ready

Worth watching this chilling account from Amb. Samantha Power about Elon Musk & Trump ignoring evidence in plain sight that destroying USAID would lead to deaths around the world: “There was no regard for human lives at stake.”

Best case scenario here. Unlike the national party trying to nominate a presidential candidate, a state party can pull off a caucus process in short order.

The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

#ETTD www.nbcnews.com/sports/socce...

Belgian Team To Be Investigated For Mortgage Fraud

watched a Belgian fan say "we have been making beer centuries longer than they have been a country" and ykw, fair play

The political problem, though, is that the public doesn’t know this. They think “Oh, it’s crazy but it will all be fine, & our beloved 🏈/🏀 State U will still be there for our kids like it’s always been, in the same form” because no one has alerted them to the existential nature of the crisis.

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

Here’s a gift link because the article is really worth reading in full

What a cool thing for the president to do!

“Authorities from France to the Netherlands are quietly removing American tech from their systems, adopting European open-source software and urging civil servants to no longer use Microsoft Teams or Office.” www.wsj.com/world/europe...

“Finland's president and Norway's prime minister started workshopping their text messages to Trump, talking about which words they should render in capital letters.”

I’d like to give this cartoonist credit, because his cartoon is spot on! Can anyone identify him?

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Well, you know which one of your candidates has below average reading comprehension and it’s not El-Sayed.

"Sotheby’s listed for auction a thrift store find of a lifetime: a warm-up jacket worn by LA Lakers legend Wilt Chamberlain during the 1972 NBA Finals. Brown spotted the warm-up jacket during 1 of his visits to Goodwill in Hillsboro. He paid $3 for it. Sotheby’s estimates it to sell for $250,000" .

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shhh! shhhhhh! SHHH! (bellows) I heard it's EXTRA GOOD for BILLIONAIRES IN PARTICULAR to get TRANSFUSIONS FROM CLOSE RELATIVES and it makes them MORE POWERFUL AND VIRILE AND SEXY THAN EVER

Protecting your right to privacy is not illegal. Infringing upon it IS, and FLOCK is a major player in that arena. If this guy has a GoFundMe for legal expenses, point me towards it. I can't think of a much worthier cause.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ There are extremely worse, plausible & possible, short & middle term outcome states that are real easy to get to real fast even now, ceteris paribus. Long-term not considered. So it could be worse cold comfort as it is. There is no security so long as we leave Trump Regime in power.

A gentle reminder that Trump has virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority along w/unconstitutionally broad command of military that is obeying illegal orders to, say, murder people in boats & to commit warcrimes like fighting under an express doctrine of “no mercy” ETC ETC IT DOES GO ON

The sycophants & enablers & true believers & opportunists are willing to help shatter the world so long as they get some power in the meantime.

Shameless

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

Now presenting 24/7 soccer fields in the city that never sleeps. Find your next late-night game at nycopenplay.com.

AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report. (gift link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-d...

ICE just spent $1.5 BILLION to purchase two massive prisons in California it was already using for detention, in an effort to avoid oversight from the state, which has been pressuring the private prison company that owned them. CoreCivic will continue operating the facilities.

This is a huge loss. I visited as a requirement for a documentary research, graduate course to get a copy of the 1980, Chicago public schools’ desegregation consent decree. I didn’t even know it was there before visiting. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/c...

She blamed vaccines for her twins' deaths on an RFK podcast. Now she's charged with murder

National Guard troops on patrol in Memphis fatally shoot 20-year-old man, according to TBI. Tyrin Johnson was armed when he was fatally shot during a foot pursuit by Memphis police & National Guard members early Sun. morning, according to the TBI. Local leaders said Johnson was a student & a father.

Mitch McConnell is fine. He's on a farm upstate oppressing people, and he's very happy

RT @NewsHour: Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That's months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.

The don’t die guy announced that he’s dying of a gastric autoimmune disease. He says it’s due to sugary cereal as a kid. The internet has diagnosed him with Transfusion-associated graft-versus-host disease or TA-GvHD, from receiving regular transfusions from his son.