When I was 5, my parents were OK with me walking two blocks alone to the store or six blocks alone to kindergarten, but they’d give me a lift if it was raining.

Excerpt: The top donor to the Republican Party is obsessed with race. I mean, it’s a lot. No, really.

The top donor to the Republican Party is an ardent proponent of racial pseudo-science, amplifying discredited and disreputable theories about the superiority of the white race and the inferiority of others.

The top donor to the Republican Party has shared and endorsed posts on social media calling for “white solidarity” in America and urging “remigration” of those immigrants he apparently deems racially incompatible with the country he chose to immigrate to himself.

The top donor to the Republican Party is a promoter of the so-called Great Replacement Theory, the racist conspiracy theory that has sparked several mass shootings, including recent tragedies in America.

Supreme Court sides with Republicans over TV ad rates

Supreme Court will decide whether Missouri can gerrymander Kansas City specifically to unseat Dem Rep Emanuel Cleaver

What do you think? What are the odds that this administration will comply?

Investigator who objected that charge was too wimpy is fired

DHS spokesperson says ICE is providing “the best healthcare that many aliens have received in their entire lives”

ICE: Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Proud Boys?

Recruit: Yes.

ICE: Congratulations, you’re hired.

Tetris owner denounces Trump White House clone of game

Denouncing is nice. Suing would be better. They’d sure as shit sue anyone else who cloned Tetris.

Joel Shaprio’s specialty was giant stick-men, which is not the kind of art that holds my attention. ‘Blue’ is harmless, though, and the removal of art should be based on more than a whim. Obviously, the main reason Trump et al have torn it down is because of its name — if the damned thing was painted red and titled ‘Red’ it would still be there.

This is a strange article, written by someone who’s apparently not read the Saturday Evening Post in years. The magazine is barely anything these days, a collection of nostalgia articles aimed at senior citizens. It used to be great, though, and I hope someone buys it and makes it great again.

The New York Times can never say point-blank that Trump lies and lies and lies, but they tell the truth about Loony Tunes.

Vance’s mom says she’d ‘probably punch’ Abdul El-Sayed

Former staff members threaten to expose Fetterman’s internal messages

There is no ‘threaten’. There is only do, or do not. I’d side with do.

JD Vance reacts to airstrike on wedding: ‘Things happen’

It’s probably a war crime to attack unarmed commercial ships, but it doesn’t matter whether it is or isn’t. There’ll be no consequences either way. It does seem a bit Exxon Valdezy to shoot at oil tankers, though.

I don’t think there’s a more accurate way to describe this than serial killings. Will Trump and those who follow his orders ever be punished?

Two world wars have been fought against Germany over its far-right tendencies. We probably won’t face another world war about it, because the rest of the world is tilting far-right, too.

Fuck China.

Mount Sinai was once a prestigious place for medical care, but kiss the ring, baby. Lick the boot.

A new word needs to be invented to describe such elaborate think pieces in mainstream media, analyzing something, almost anything, and slowly coming to the conclusion anyone with the brains of a beagle has known all along.

Excerpt: “The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on AI to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.”

Me again: KRCR’s coverage comes with helpful AI-generated questions to ask the news site’s built-in AI chatbot. AI generated questions and AI-generated answers — no need for any human audience, then.

Excerpt: The suits, one for each plaintiff, allege the company notified law enforcement immediately about threats against its own staff but allegedly withheld potentially life-saving information about the Tumbler Ridge shooter’s violent chat history before the shooting.

Excerpt: In many parts of the country, extreme heat affects much more of the year than it once did. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Fulton County, Ga., which includes Atlanta, spent about 47 days a year with a heat index (a measure that combines temperature and humidity to estimate how hot it feels) exceeding 90 degrees. In recent years, Fulton County’s residents have typically endured 79 such days, an increase of a month.

The 1.5°C goal was empty piffle, agreed to (stupidly, because it allows way, way too much damage) by many countries, almost all ignoring the agreement soon as it was signed. Much bigger and genuine action is needed — basically, the end of corporate capitalism.

Excerpt: Cell phone video captured by La Motte directly contradicted officer reports, proving critical to convincing the federal jury.

Excerpt: 164 countries voted in favor of the resolution. Only the US voted no, with its representative saying the resolution was “superfluous”. There were six abstentions.

Excerpt: This is the first time Turbo Encabulator was recorded with picture. I shot this in the late 70’s at Regan Studios in Detroit on 16mm film. The narrator and writer is Bud Haggert. He was the top voice-over talent on technical films. He wrote the script because he rarely understood the technical copy he was asked to read and felt he shouldn’t be alone.