BREAKING: Ignoring Supreme Court, Trump issues two more birthright citizenship orders

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*It you are pro-AI or anti-AI, I would recommend that you look this over

https://boyswhocriedai.lovable.app/archive

I just said this to my friend. I must record for posterity:

“Look, my position on Christianity is pretty much my position on #Warhammer

I’m not really into the gameplay & a lot, though not all, of the people who are REALLY into it aren’t okay & freak me out, but the lore & art design are AMAZING.”

A history of Singapore through ten dishes (written by a friend!)

https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2019/a-history-of-singapore-in-10-dishes/

#Food #Singapore

Denazification in the US would look a lot like Reconstruction and it would be called an attack on Christianity and Southern culture, among other things. And they will be right because those institutions are corrupt to the core.

The three sweetest words any man can say to another man: you were right.

Two weeks ago, I went in for my annual skin check. My dermatologist noticed a spot on my left shoulder and said, “This one doesn’t look good. Let’s biopsy it.”
A few days later, I got the call. It’s cancer.
“The best cancer you can get,” the doctor said. Still, cancer.
I asked how soon I should get it removed.
“Within six weeks.”

Today I had it removed. Annual skin checks - get them.

"When Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and Andreessen mine science fiction for blueprints, they are not finding the only possible futures. They are selecting the futures that justify their power."

https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem?ref=life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io

A bunch of "hackers hacked" stories in my timeline today. 🙄

Reminder: the more you (journalists and editors working at media companies) misuse the h-word to make your story sound 👻 scary 👻, the more you entrench the idea that the problem with security of our day to day devices is that there exist people who have technical skills and are able to break into them – rather than the fact that their manufacturers don't give a crap about security, making that easy.

And the less secure we all become.

Don't do that kitty! You look like a french noble 😭

Good Law Project backs legal challenge to government and EHRC over transphobic trans guidance

https://www.scenemag.co.uk/good-law-project-backs-legal-challenge-to-government-and-ehrc-over-transphobic-trans-guidance/

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution through Binary Manipulation by @zacchiro et al: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.24888

As we dug into a little-known church, we started to see a pattern: women describing similar abuse; a preacher who knew what was going on.

And the same prescription for the problem: forgiving and forgetting it happened.

Listen to the latest episode of "Paper Trail": https://www.propublica.org/podcast/old-apostolic-lutheran-church-sexual-abuse-clint-massie?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Church #Religion #Minnesota #Police #Children #Abuse

#KeepAndroidOpen

"We can bring down prices by stopping the war in Iran" she said. "We can also roll back the illegal tariffs that are driving up the cost of avocados; we can break up our meat cartel that's driving up the cost of meat. There's a lot that the Trump administration could do to lower prices, but instead what they're doing is raising prices. And you know what? It shows up in your burrito."

Elizabeth Warren's sizzling fact-check stokes MAGA burrito war fire - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/elizabeth-warren-2677668787/

A Discussion with Michael E. Mann on #ScienceUnderSiege | My conversation with the awesome Malorie Mackey for “Malorie’s Weird World Adventures” podcast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LCbNWjgkI8

AI "oopsies" are cringe, ok
#Meta #AI

Myanmar refugees in Thailand are being granted non-citizen identification cards, allowing them to work legally as Thailand faces a labor shortage. “After getting the card, I don’t have to be afraid anymore when travelling around,” said Gay Lah, a Myanmar refugee since age 6, Read more from @france24

https://flip.it/qmTfaj

#Thailand #Myanmar #Refugees

If you’ve decided to file Heidi Blake's NewYorker profile of Andrew Tate away for later,
let me just distill for you why I think it’s unusually important.

First is the scale of the depravity.

It’ll drain the color from your face.

It’s weird to say that the terms “sex trafficking” and “rape” are insufficient to convey the depth of evil Blake uncovered.
But there’s really no other way to put it.

There was nothing incidental or concealed or limited about their crimes.

They quite openly ran something like a global multilevel-marketing scheme,
but for sexual exploitation,
arguably even sex slavery.

Second is the reach of complicity.

Because of how we talk about right-wing influencers, and how rightists plead innocence and naïveté whenever they get caught,
I think there’s a widespread assumption within the political establishment that Trump world was attracted to the Tates for politically transactional reasons.

They had a big audience of impressionable potential voters;
The Trumps could grant them access to the corridors of power;
Everybody wins.

Not that this would be exculpatory,
but it’s an alibi of a sort.

Occam’s razor pointed to another case of malign indifference or neglect.
-- Just another couple scumbags in or adjacent to Trump world.

The Tates were useful, so Trump world arranged to spring them from Romanian captivity without asking too many questions.

Then, when Trump cut them loose this month, declining to intervene against their extradition to the U.K.,
a further inference was straightforward:

Before, Trump and his advisers didn’t know; now they know, and the truth is too hot even for them.

This appears to be false.

People well ensconced in Trump world, including members of his administration and even his family
were participants in, or at least aware of, what went down in the Tates’ online and in-person network,
-- which they called the War Room.

The War Room was a paid-access forum for instruction on, and sharing stories about, violently or psychologically coercing women and girls into nonconsensual sex and pornography.

Last week, I noticed Yassamin Ansari, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, had asked Republicans to open an investigation into these ties,
-- and, as part of it, to subpoena Barron Trump.

Her letter cites different reporting,
but when you read the Blake article,
it’ll dispel any reflexive notion you might have that Ansari is pulling a stunt, or trying to dirty up Trump’s college-age youngest son.

She is completely correct.

If Barron Trump is truly put off by physical abuse of women, he’ll be happy to share what he knows.

I want to be generous here and note that Democrats don’t control oversight committees in either chamber.
-- So they can’t do much more than make a stink.

But Ansari shouldn’t be demanding answers alone.

Among many thoughts I had reading the article was that this reporting ought to be an existential emergency for the American right-wing elite,
MAGA, Inc.,
and even elements of the international far right.

But the reaction is eerily mute due
(I’d hypothesize)
to the decline of reading and (yes) weak political opposition.

It’s like a second Epstein scandal,
except with the veneer of worldly sophistication and intellectual ferment swapped out
for the aesthetics and physicality of a snuff film.

In some ways it’s worse.

Say what you will about Jeffrey Epstein (the worst way to start a sentence) but he at least didn’t openly attempt to build an international movement of copycats.

Also, in this case, the Trump family and Trump world connections are much clearer and more recent.

There is no way for any decent person to read this article and not feel physically ill.

And yet, here in the vertical video era,
readers are so fragmented and few and far between that their organic disgust hasn’t coalesced into any kind of organized backlash.

So I’m writing this to do my small part to make that happen.

Read and share the piece,
and maybe even contact your representatives about it.

This simply has to be on the Democrats’ oversight agenda in January.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/andrew-tates-empire-of-abuse?_sp=17b747d8-9838-4019-9321-6e9d180e9b54.1785498893250