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Grand corruption

1) holy fucking shit 2) reminder to anyone seeing this: we're hearing about this because reporters from a local, public broadcaster are on the case. the more local journalism is picked off/defunded in the next few years, the fewer of these stories we'll have any easily broadcasted info about.

What the fuck?

Oh my. I drive down this street at least once a week. 84 yo lady’s vehicle falls into sink hole right off Antoine in Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston. www.khou.com/article/news...

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

President Trump says that any branded or patented pharmaceutical products brought into the U.S. would face a 100% tariff starting Oct. 1.

How quick we are to forget about cats of yore's advocacy for feline smoking bsky.app/profile/cats...

We didn’t even limit ourselves to Homo Sapiens! We’ve got Neanderthal DNA all over the genome.

"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere, it's up to you...Chikungunya in my home town. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/n...

Without James Conway, I never would have been president. By attempting to prosecute him, I will make everyone forget that. by Donald Trump

A country that doesn’t build at least 85% of its own bathroom vanities can never be truly said to be secure.

Me waking up in Finland and looking at my phone: “The sofa tax & bathroom vanity tax combo is clearly an attack on Sweden”

This will be devastating for new home construction.

Bathroom vanities are now “national security”.

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

2/ I stayed by Monica Moreta-Galarza, who was seeking asylum with her family, until she was discharged from the hospital. “Over [in Ecuador], they beat us there too. I didn’t think I’d come here to the United States and the same thing would happen to me,” she said in Spanish.

Excellent summary

Justice Dept asks for judge for another delay in civil case of the plaque honoring January 6th police officer heroes Lawsuit from officers seeks court order requiring the plaque to be hung at Capitol, as required under law Justice Dept says it wants 3 more weeks to respond

Considering that what's already in the public domain, you are probably correct. JD posted this in 2016: “Maybe the Central Park 5 could take out a full-page ad to condemn the coddling of thug real estate barons who commit serial sexual assault” www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/p...

After the brutal ICE raid on the GA Hyundai plant, no foreign company is going to start a new US factory project (even if it were theoretically possible to make a decision, locate a suitable site, get all the permitting, hire crews, and actually break ground between now and next Wednesday).

See I didn’t know that sofas were in national security issue… I’m assuming this is JD Vance’s specialty

He even went so far as to say that the company must have broken ground or be actively under construction. By next Wednesday.

In the last 6 hours, Trump has imposed: - A 100% tariff on medicine unless its producer starts building a new U.S. factory in the next 5 days - A 50% tariff on kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities - A 30% tariff on upholstered furniture - A 25% tariff on “Heavy (Big!) Trucks”

if insisting that Jesus is all about dat genocide, ackshully doesn't sink evangelical Christianity as an ethically serious worldview then I don't know if anything will

We're indicting people for lying to Congress now? Anybody got the phone numbers for Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, Patel, Kennedy, ...

remember: right eye, right sleeve, you'll be all right

#MeanwhileInMichigan The Regime is big mad that Jocelyn Benson didn’t hand them my personal identifying information. So they are suing her to force her to give them all my private data. Mine & millions of other Michiganders. #MidtermFuckery is well under way. #UnconstitutionalAF #FightBackDamnit

This is the behavior in front of the cameras. Imagine what is happening behind. We must abolish ICE. It is the only way forward.

Sickening behavior by this agent. The fact that Mayor Adams has rolled out the red carpet for ICE is a stain on our city.

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

A new exhibition in Germany called “Queer Modernism. 1900 to 1950” highlights the contributions of queer artists to modernism.

Have a lovely day y’all! ❤️❤️

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

Study Finds Regular Journaling Can Help Provide Clues About Mysterious Disappearance https://theonion.com/study-finds-regular-journaling-can-help-provide-clues-about-mysterious-disappearance/

Russian Telegram channels report that there is a total fuel shortage in Russia, with about 360 gas stations shutting down due to a lack of gasoline. Supply disruptions have affected the Moscow, Leningrad, Ryazan, and Nizhny Novgorod regions, among others⤵️

creb. he returns

I know this is a waste of time, but of anyone in the Bay Area can take on a cat, this ~5 month boy I trapped for TNR turned out to be way friendlier than I thought and also has a limp that does not pain him but can't be easily fixed.

“You sure about this, Dad?” “Both Yelp reviews were fantastic.” “I know, but-“ “Hop out, kid.”

They don't want to offend their crunchy kook friends by pointing out that the antivax movement is a child murder factory

Yep, wages for the bottom third rose faster then inflation and the job market gave workers power for the first time in three decades. "Revolution of the elites" is the perfect description.

anti-vax is one the most toxic political positions in america but it hasn't usually been covered like that because one segment of the population where it *is* somewhat popular is among business and media elites.

If you look at the politics of the last few years as a revolution of the elites a lot of pieces fall into place

Those who used the app to report had their personal info leaked. /