Ukrainians protested their government, surrounded their government buildings, in a war zone risking being hit by ballistic missiles because their president made an unpopular decision. Let that sit with you for a minute.

Senator Dick Durbin said Todd Blanche admitted, “I made a mistake,” Aaand none effort expended to rectify his on-purpose-mistake. Natch. Just a bite of today’s fuckery.

This year’s Olympics of Art featured a talking poop and a woman swimming in purified pee water. After the US exhibit’s controversial selection process-- new ideological guidelines and a commissioner whose last job was running a pet food store-- I wanted to see what America had to say for itself.

A spokesperson specifically highlighted the word “would,” bolding and underlining it, in an email exchange with WIRED about the apparent disconnect between Stone’s claim that NameTag doesn’t exist and Bosworth’s minutes-long description of it. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

Trump’s EPA wants to remove public participation and transparency from certain air pollution permits. Those permits cover the large diesel generators that help power data centers — and pollute the air. Trump is selling our right to breathe clean air to enrich his Big Tech donors.

Attn ‼️ Trump is expected to sign an executive order as early as Monday to reduce the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument.

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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July 9, 2026

They fucking killed him! JFC!!!!

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Hm. Who’d a’ thought Kazakhstan would be winning through all this

This is the secret main essential true 250th anniversary event: the brave voice of democracy and justice; the brutal forces of silencing; it's all here.

“…some [dictator] may hereafter arise, who laying hold of popular disquietudes, may collect together the desperate and the discontented, and by assuming to themselves the powers of government, may sweep away the liberties of the continent like a deluge.”

Strident Idiot Reveals Self In Circular Argument

“Our current models are connectionist systems, made possible by vast amounts of data and computing power. They generate answers based not on truth or reasoning, but on probable connections among the data they have been fed. Hence the name: generative A.I.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

Remember scientists aren’t giving up. After the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov and dismissed many of the federal employees who maintained it, former staff members launched a new independent website called Climate.us to help keep trusted climate information available to the public.

"The door, locked. Its windows boarded up. The only indicator of what might have been is a green sign at the top of the entryway: 'African-American History'. "The would-be exhibit is one of dozens that were scrubbed from federal land by the Trump administration..." www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

Something we just found with a lot more details: thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

A revolting habit of patriarchy's upholders is insisting all women are there to be judged as pleasing or not pleasing their sad little libidos. And really it's not even about that: it's about displaying to other upholders that they are the anointed judges and not the judged. But judge him. Harshly.

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Someone thinks they wear Big Pants.

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James told Democracy Docket it’s reviewing a report on this alarming incident. Prominent figures on the far right have called for ICE agents to be deployed to polling places in the midterms — a clear effort to intimidate voters.

POTUS : The same old Deep Thoughts on spelling and childish nicknames; criminalizing anyone but himself for ‘defacing national monuments’; and other outright lies.

4 out of 5 experts agree on who is the “shithole” country. Look for the world’s asshole and you’ll find it.

Not “just” a Racist, but a White Supremacist.

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Important update: More Republicans break from Trump than ever before—the Senate completely erupts. Trump compares himself to Mao and Stalin. Aides find Trump trying to decorate Oval Office with super glue. Trump lashes out as Obama’s approvals are better.

2013

holy metaphor alert Batman

It’s not AI, that is just the “branding”. It’s like when your gmo cereal calls itself “natural”. So if you wanna trade your water supply for basically an algorithm you’re just fodder.

I’m so sorry if this *seems* fantastical.

What a Loser haha Can’t control the Weather! Who’s to blame? Where’s my Legal Team? !!!!!

Gerhard Richter might help you understand www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/a...

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social "I’ll take the time to explain, again, why calls for Democrats to move to the right on their most popular political issue are fucking stupid. But first, I have to say this: I am so tired. I am tired of having to defend my humanity and the humanity of other women."

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This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

The only bidders were Hex Energy and the state-owned Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority.

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.

Trump announced today that he will be sending $700 million in taxpayer dollars to the coal industry to build more coal plants. Coal is a relic of the past that poisons our air and water AND raises our costs. We need to be doubling down on clean energy, not dirty, expensive coal.

At least 10 Trump officials hold as much as $43.8M in stock in Elon Musk's SpaceX or in xAI. That means the SpaceX IPO — which will make Musk a trillionaire — would also directly enrich Trump's lackeys. SpaceX has been boosted by over $10B in government contracts since 2025. See the problem here?

Just BTW, “sex-trafficking” is rape-trafficking.

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It’s absolutely crazy they can void an election with no consequences.

Read the attached article - more unbelievably scary new shit the government is doing.

for the tldr peeps - drumpf hired an airbnb co-founder to create spoof/fake versions of 40 fed govt sites that handle things, like voter info, that should not accessible, let alone manipulated or leveraged, by the executive branch. this is a shadow govt op with coup capability hiding in plain sight.