Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

The corruption never stops.

DEVELOPING: The Lone Rangers (I don’t think you can pluralize that) have withdrawn from President Trump’s America 250 celebration.

For the umpteenth time: The most corrupt president in American history.

There are no free wins in this dojo. 🤝🏾 #BlackSkyGamers

Free newsletter: The economics of AI don't make sense. Monthly subscriptions to AI services are scams that represent a product that is impossible for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide long term, and AI data centers are an economic disaster at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

You know how everyone is (rightfully) mad at Elon Musk for DOGE cuts resulting in hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in African countries? Mark Carney did the same thing without any negative press. Cut $2.7 billion from international foreign AID which will result in thousands of deaths

Tomorrow's Premium: OpenAI needs to raise or make $852bn through 2030 to pay for the compute costs associated with Stargate and other data centers. If it fails, Oracle dies, and destroys Larry Ellison's wealth. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Fantastic piece of gaming criticism and reporting exploring why the Saudis are investing so heavily in the industry, and the writing is stellar to boot.

Exactly one year ago today:

BREAKING: President Trump signs an order directing the creation of a national eligible voter list, a move expected to face swift legal challenges.

The strait of Hormuz is open for transit.

The funeral for 56-year-old Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a disabled Rohingya refugee who was found dead after he was abandoned by Border Patrol agents miles away from his home, was held yesterday.

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Anyone at CNN says anything Scott Jennings:

My hands are tied.

What the oligarchs think New York will be like after Zohran Mamdani wins.

awesome that conservatives get to lie about being victims and generate enough death threats to shut down an entire store

But the aliens from Independence Day wanted to mine all the earths resources and ruin the environment and ummm, I kind of lost my point here.

It must be deviating to go online and learn that your spouse listens to Coldplay.

I've given serious thought to the election for NYC Mayor and I cannot stress this enough, under no circumstances should you rank Andrew Cuomo and this is why. My new Olurinatti Production breaking down the rise, fall, and return of a corrupt governor youtu.be/LB4gqnUfp-k?...

The Manitoba legislature has passed Bill 43, adding gender expression to the provincial human rights code. In this doom and gloom climate, it's important to mark victories like this, to remember that despite the rise of the far right, we can still organize and win for 🏳️‍🌈 people.

Dogs are great and all but I think it’s time we start the process domesticating bears. Give me a bear about the size of a bulldog that I can take on walks.

NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

This is so far over the line it’s disorienting.

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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Gotta say the new Pope’s communion wafers look delicious.

The effect of Israel’s total siege on Gaza has become catastrophic, doctors say. Shortages of food, water and medicine are prompting a surge of preventable illnesses, and deaths. nyti.ms/3GzOJV1

New episode about nasty people and their nasty business. youtu.be/dwdAEkJks8A?...

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

Ok boomers! (Respectfully).

I left both of my sets of headphones at home when I left for work today. Absolutely devastating turn of events, sick to my stomach.

I’m currently reading Parable of the Talents and I’m not sure what’s more disturbing. That Octavia Butler had a sort of prescience about what was to come or if we’re always on the edge of becoming the world from her books.

I am not loving a lot of the answers Mark Carney is giving in this debate.

Movie idea. Basically it’s the Huge Grant plot line from Love Actually but it’s Bolsonaro contracting every disease possible to get hospitalized so he can spend time with a nurse he has a crush on.

Bob’s Burgers is consistently good but the Topsy episode is next level.

Due to unforeseeable events in the economy all cowboys will now have to choose between being rootin ’ or tootin’ until further notice.

For a guy that doesn’t read Trump sure does love chapter 11.

Anything by Big & Rich but specifically when I hear Save a Horse I die a bit inside.

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