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This orgy could’ve been an email

Ban this anti-human tech from your life.

We scored a Herman Miller office chair at a garage sale and my husband keeps accidentally calling it the “Stephen Miller Chair.”

Punish everyone. Strive for nabisco to make a buffalo chicken cookie with a blue cheese filling. Buttermilk biscuit cookie with a Mike’s Hot Honey filling. Oh wait! That one might be good.

Kavanaugh stops

War zone.... Hahahahaha, catch breath, hahahaha.... Trump wants to provoke a violent response so he can declare martial law. Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting a rude awakening as his Portland invasion backfired and his antics make him look weak and desperate. youtu.be/2sXcZhDnzTg?...

“I hate globalism” bro you live on the globe. Why the fuck would you just want to be in one area your entire life? Idiot.

According to UNHCR, more than seven million Syrians remain displaced inside the country.

Although, if it had been a bit of a prank, my admiration for the world body would have increased immeasurably.

Away from the diplomacy at the UNGA, Israel is escalating its genocide in Gaza, killing 36 people on Tuesday.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

BREAKING: At least 84 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 69 people in Gaza City, hospital sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/i4tlc9

We're witnessing the culminating rot of shareholder capitalism in real time. Some of the most powerful corporations in America have sided with an authoritarian regime in order to protect their short term profits — the fundamental rights of everyone else be damned.

For crying out loud, let's get this done. It's time to ban congressional stock trading.

A win!!! We want to thank you all and celebrate this victory. Because you spoke out and made your voices heard, a harmful website that was doxxing individuals has been removed.

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

this is the key point. there were so many fantasies among people who really should have known better that this "had to be a military hit". no, this is just the country we've built. access to guns and gun culture means that there are millions of random people able to inflict military level damage

"only god can judge me" not true, literally anyone can

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

The Guardian has now completely retracted quotes from an anonymous high school source who had called Tyler Robinson a “leftist.” The source now says they couldn’t accurately recall details of their relationship.

This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

The national news will move on, but Minnesota will not.

Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.

Breaking news: A federal judge is giving Florida 60 days to clear out the immigrant detention facility called Alligator Alcatraz. The ruling forbids state officials from moving any other migrants there.

Houston may see an additional round of storms this afternoon as a disturbance drops into the area, and then fairly widespread showers are likely on Thursday and Friday. The outlook for the weekend is sunnier, with lower rain chances. #houwx

NEWS: Far-right MAGA network Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 MILLION to settle a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election lies LINK: meidasnews.com/news/newsmax...

For Every Red 🩸 Blooded American 🇺🇸…. This Is A Abomination of The American 🇺🇸 Flag. and All It Stands For. It’s in Several Russian Papers as well as News Broadcasts. This is Treasonous on the part of a President! Period.

dressing myself for kindergarten and getting applauded by my parents

Trump is threatening to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines via executive order

NYTimes: Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Houston faces ongoing heat and decent rain chances, and there’s a new tropical blob in the Gulf. Also, we're excited to share our first stab at a list of regional weather web sites for other locations that are similar in tenor to Space City Weather. #houwx

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.  You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

At the Howlin Wolf in New Orleans last night. Apparently Louisiana didn’t get the memo that they don’t matter in national politics. So they’re showing up, organizing and fighting these fascists with all they’ve got. Louisiana and Texas will have each other’s backs!

The United States Air Force is set to deny retirement benefits to transgender folks who have served and earned them. If you think this is right then you can kiss my black ass French style.

Boring and calm weather in August is the ideal for Houston. This will never be a month for nice weather. But it is often a month for nasty weather. Fortunately, this year, we're not seeing that. (So far). #houwx

The Click to Cancel Act has been introduced in Congress. The bill would outlaw subscription practices that make it easy to sign up, but difficult to cancel a subscription.

Light rain here in Houston and the power is projected to be out until around 1:30pm while our governor is threatening congresspeople for breaking up their little power grab party. What the actual fuck?

Growing up is apparently just too hard for white men

Dozens killed on Saturday include 38 Palestinians seeking aid at controversial distribution sites, according to sources.

Following public backlash, the military is reversing its decision to halt the distribution of critical weather forecast data. The Navy’s Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center confirmed it will continue to release information from the

We are going to have the fun thing happen again where a dozen cisgender female athletes discover they have Y chromosomes.

This is Scott Soucek, husband of Republicans of Door County Chair Stephanie Soucek. Scott was arrested and charged with having over 300 images of child porn.

Everyone was baffled when Trump claimed his smart Uncle John taught the Unabomber at MIT last week. As it turns out Jeffrey Epstein used to regale his friends with a story that he studied with Ted Kaczynski in college. Did Trump roll out an anidote from the old days hanging with Epstein? My latest:

Busted