Pips #329 Hard 🔴 2:37 🎉🎉

The McConnell and Graham death/non-death makes it 100% clear that when Trump finally does sh*t himself to death on the toilet, the conspiracies about whether he was murdered, is actually dead etc are going to be long and large.

Pips #329 Medium 🟡 1:24 🎉

Trump ignoring a shitstorm sweeping across America is very on-brand. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...

Pips #329 Easy 🟢 0:17 🍪 🎉

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🥳 Strands #862 “Just what I needed” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵

I solved the 7/12/2026 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:40! 🎉

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I solved the 7/12/2026 New York Times Midi Crossword in 3:05! 🎉

It wasn't a fluke and it wasn't just in Russia that people were fighting. If the workers of the 30's and 40's were alive today they would have been on strike for the last 20 years. If you let people walk all over you, they do.

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The French team of 2026 - as the best team in the World Cup - seem to be sparking more racist ethnonationalism from conservative politicians outside France (Paraguay, Spain) than they did in 2018 or 1998.

Some leaders actually work in the people interest, not their own.

“For the first time ever, a presidential administration now claims that species protected by the Endangered Species Act shouldn’t be safe from habitat modification that destroys where they live, raise their young, or search for food” -Kristen Boyles Despicable. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

STEPPING UP Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent autopsy so Nolan Wells’ family can get answers they can trust. Tyler Perry is covering Nolan’s funeral so the family can focus on grieving instead of worrying about the bill. They didn’t have to do this. They chose to, and that matters.

Pips #328 Medium 🟡 4:46 😅

Pips #328 Easy 🟢 0:28 🥳

Cyclospora is a difficult diagnosis. PCR is best; microscopy sucks. In the pre-PCR era, we would often just treat empirically with TMP-SMX if the diagnostic suspicion was high (eg. ongoing outbreak, onset of illness in summer, subacute diarrhea with weight loss over weeks). #IDSky

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WATCH: When her son Chris was 7, Mary McGonigle-Martin gave him raw milk, as it promised to treat allergies and digestive problems. A month later, he fell gravely ill. Now 27, he’s still dealing with the effects of kidney damage and other health issues. This is their story.

🥳 Strands #861 “In the Big Apple” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵🔵

I solved the 7/11/2026 New York Times Midi Crossword in 3:19! 🥳

This is definitely a man in touch with how much the American people are suffering, the only way he could be more in touch would be if his personal lifelong mentor where Peter Thiel, a South African who hates American democracy and believes about half of all humankind (the poorer half) should die off

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Pips #327 Hard 🔴 8:24 🎉😅

Pips #327 Medium 🟡 0:39 🍪 🎉🎉

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🥳🤷🏻‍♀️ Strands #860 “Fishy fare” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵

He woke up before sunrise, just like he did every workday. His wife made him breakfast. He kissed her goodbye, grabbed his lunch and work boots, patted his dog, and climbed into the white van he used to take his construction crew to work.

I solved the 7/10/2026 New York Times Midi Crossword in 4:36! 😶‍🌫️

Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office. We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House. 📸: @ms.now @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social

I solved the 7/10/2026 New York Times Mini Crossword in 0:40! 🎉

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

Stumbled upon this by accident. Superb documentary. Highly recommend. She co-wrote the book that was the basis for Silence of the Lambs (among many other things)

Actual footage of every penalty run up in the World Cup.

I didn't have "Husker Du member reviews motorway service stations" on my 2026 bingo card.

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UK Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has rejected former Tory MPs for selection and is blocking anyone who supports Net Zero or the European Convention on Human Rights, the Telegraph reports.

Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey and Morocco captain Achraf Hakimi are facing criminal trials for rape while playing at the 2026 World Cup, two of at least nine tournament figures facing rape and sexual assault allegations spanning five confederations. #OpDeathEaters www.yacnews.com/at-least-nin...

Pips #326 Hard 🔴 8:16 🎉😅

The US space agency is looking to recruit four participants for its Moon and Mars Exploration Analog, a yearlong simulation program that is designed to replicate traveling and living on the Moon and Mars, it said in a press release earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4fchLb5

Pips #326 Medium 🟡 2:24 🥳