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The Texas way: why the most disaster-prone US state is so allergic to preparing for disasters | Greg Abbott | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/texas-disaster-weather-preparations-us
Troops, terror and tears in Los Angeles as Ice raids show no sign of slowing | US immigration | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/los-angeles-ice-raids-terror
There was a deal to fix this Alabama community’s raw sewage crisis. Trump tore it up over DEI | Alabama | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/13/alabama-raw-sewage-crisis-trump-dei
How the rightwing sports bro conquered America | US sports | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ng-interactive/2025/jul/13/sports-bro-announcer-pat-mcafee-espn
‘History’s most devastating document of war’: the simple yet graphic details of the Bayeux tapestry | Textile art | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/12/historys-most-devastating-document-of-war-the-simple-yet-graphic-details-of-the-bayeux-tapestry
Rosie O'Donnell Gets the Last Word Against Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2333180/-Rosie-O-Donnell-Gets-the-Last-Word-Against-Trump?utm_campaign=trending
Rosie O'Donnell Gets the Last Word Against Trump
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2333180/-Rosie-O-Donnell-Gets-the-Last-Word-Against-Trump?utm_campaign=trending
Lively embed in the comments of The View clip where she rips him several new ones
UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics - The New York Times (NO PAYWALL)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/business/unitedhealth-insurance-criticism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.h7tn.U030hnsJatTF&smid=em-share
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: More than meets the eye
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2333129/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-More-than-meets-the-eye?utm_campaign=trending
10 Gems of Bluesky Today - Day 37
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2332786/-10-Gems-of-Bluesky-Today-Day-37?utm_campaign=recent
Black Music Sunday: The soulful sounds of sizzling summer heat waves
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/13/2329646/-Black-Music-Sunday-The-soulful-sounds-of-sizzling-summer-heat-waves
Why Appalachia — and rural America — clings to Trump - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/07/12/why-appalachia-and-rural-america-clings-to-trump/
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From 1949, Woke As Hell | Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/07/13/from-1949-woke-as-hell/
Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries - The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/south-sudan-third-country-deportations.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.jrcW.X0V-2yXVpXx6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump Is Gutting Wether Science and Reducing Disaster Response - The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/climate/floods-trump-cuts-disaster-preparedness-fema.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.704K.PWf8_XJS8diu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
'Egregious.' 'Brazen.' 'Lawless.' How 48 Judges describe Trump's Actins, in Their Own Words - The New York Times (NO PAYWALL)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/07/12/opinion/editorials/federal-judges-quotes-trump-administration.html?smid=bs-share
Nassau County Will Let Officers Wear Maks When Working With ICE - The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/nyregion/nassau-county-police-officers-ice-masks.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Trump's Birthright Citizenship Ban Faces New Peril: Class Actions - The New York Times
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/birthright-citizenship-class-action.html?rsrc=ss&unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.wUv9.duslVxdh7L5R&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Hillary wrote the Epstein Files, claims area lunatic | Jeff Tiedrich
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/hillary-wrote-the-epstein-files-claims
How much will Long Beach push back on ICE raids? There’s ‘no playbook for this,’ mayor says | LB Post
https://lbpost.com/news/immigration/long-beach-ice-raids-push-back-lawsuit-mayor/
UN Group: US Is Conducting “Enforced Disappearances” | JoeMyGod
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/un-group-us-is-conducting-enforced-disappearances/
Tom Homan Offers To Fistfight Heckler At Kirk Event: “Get Out You Loser, I Guarantee He Sits Down To Pee” | JoeMyGod
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/tom-homan-offers-to-fistfight-heckler-at-kirk-event-get-out-you-loser-i-guarantee-he-sits-down-to-pee/
Hundreds Held At FL Camp Have No Criminal Charges | JoeMyGod
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/hundreds-held-at-fl-camp-have-no-criminal-charges/
National Park Service Orders Gift Shops To Ax Books With “Corrosive Ideology” About Historical Racism | JoeMyGod
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/national-park-service-orders-gift-shops-to-ax-books-with-corrosive-ideology-about-historical-racism/
Admiral Loses Promotion Over Years-Ago Drag Shows | JoeMyGod
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/07/admiral-loses-promotion-over-years-ago-drag-shows/
Head of Trump’s economic council circles around questions on 50 percent tariff on Brazil | Politico
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/13/kevin-hassett-brazil-tariffs-00450411
Unsealed documents detail alleged Epstein victim’s recruitment at Mar-a-Lago | Politico (08/10/19)
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221
I Triggered Another Federal Investigation | Ken Klippenstein
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/i-triggered-another-federal-investigation
The Rise and Impact of Q: The 2024 Election from the View of QAnon Believers | PRRI
https://prri.org/spotlight/the-rise-and-impact-of-q-the-2024-election-from-the-view-of-qanon-believers/
Our Duty to Explain Israel’s Operation to “Concentrate and Move Population” in Gaza is a Manifest War Crime | Just Security
https://www.justsecurity.org/116459/israel-gaza-gideon-chariots-humanitarian-city/
25 Steps Democrats Must Take to Undo the Trump Catastrophe | David Rothkopf
https://davidrothkopf.substack.com/p/25-steps-democrats-must-take-to-undo
Mehdi Breaks Down the Trump-Epstein Friendship, With All the Receipts | Zeteo
https://zeteo.com/p/trump-epstein-relationship
Let Them Fight | JoJoFromJerz
https://open.substack.com/pub/jojofromjerz/p/let-them-fight-be4
MAGA is Big Mad About Jeffrey Epstein | ctrl alt right delete
https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/lets-troll-maga-over-jeffrey-epstein
CSUCI Professor arrested among Glass House raids | Pacific Coast Business Times
https://www.pacbiztimes.com/2025/07/12/csuci-professor-arrested-among-glass-house-raids/
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm | Daily Nous
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-professor-reportedly-assaulted-abducted-during-ice-raid-on-farm/
Cal State Channel Islands professor threw tear gas canister at police, U.S. Attorney says | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/cal-state-channel-islands-professor-threw-tear-gas-canister-at-police-u-s-attorney-says/
Assault-style rifle, ammo ‘missing’ from trunk of L.A. deputies’ vehicle | KTLA
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/assault-style-rifle-ammo-missing-from-trunk-of-l-a-deputies-vehicle/
Congresswoman tracks down U.S. citizen children detained at Ferndale facility | Bellingham Herald
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article310497985.html
2 Weeks!
A life was snuffed out in the pursuit of a quota | Welcome to Hell World
https://www.welcometohellworld.com/a-life-was-snuffed-out-in-the-pursuit-of-a-quota/
On being a warrior | Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-7e8
Pop Culture Wars: The Politics of the New, Woke, Punk Superman | The Left Hook
https://open.substack.com/pub/thelefthook/p/pop-culture-wars-the-politics-of
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning | meditations in an emergency
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/please-shout-fire-this-tis-burning/
About enforced disappearance | United Nations Human Rights
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/wg-disappearances/about-enforced-disappearance
The Abundance Plan: Cut Red Tape With More Paperwork | The Lever
https://www.levernews.com/the-abundance-plan-cut-red-tape-with-more-paperwork/
Trump's Economic Isolation and the Rise of BRICS | Meidas+
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-economic-isolation-and-the
Inequality, Part VII: Crypto | Paul Krugman
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality-part-vii-crypto
JEFFREY EPSTEIN IS ABOUT TRUMP’S FAILING ABILITY TO COMMAND ATTENTION | emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/jeffrey-epstein-is-about-command-of-attention/
Conservatives Predictably Outraged After Mattel Introduces New Barbie With Type 1 Diabetes | comic sands
https://www.comicsands.com/conservatives-diabetes-barbie
Sarah Jessica Parker Claps Back At Conservative Critics Who Want Her To 'Shut Up' About Politics And 'Act' | comic sands
https://www.comicsands.com/sjp-slams-conservative-critics
Rosie O’Donnell Responds to Trump’s Citizenship Threat: ‘I’m Everything You Fear’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rosie-o-donnell-responds-trump-163518808.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Conquers Madison Square Garden at Historic New York City Concert
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/weird-al-yankovic-conquers-madison-130317131.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
‘I Made Every Single’ Decision: Biden Fires Back at Trump Over Clemency Autopen Use
https://www.yahoo.com/news/made-every-single-decision-biden-031756136.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Nursing homes struggle with Trump’s immigration crackdown
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-nursing-homes-trump-elderly-6aa6a1d1e409859fb7e5c244ddbb0c8f
Documents Show FEMA Calls Went Unanswered. Kristi Noem Claims It’s Fake News
https://www.yahoo.com/news/documents-show-fema-calls-went-192606981.html
Trump Said ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Would Hold ‘Menacing Migrants.’ Most Don’t Have Criminal Convictions
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-said-alligator-alcatraz-hold-211214077.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
ICE Plans to Ramp Up Deporting Immigrants to Countries Other Than Their Own
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ice-plans-ramp-deporting-immigrants-174121740.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Elon Musk rips Trump’s ‘boys and gals’ defense of AG Pam Bondi over Epstein-gate: ‘Worst post ever’
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-rips-trump-boys-182925720.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer
https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/newest-version-grok-looks-elon-104538523.html
Elon Musk's xAI pressed employees to install surveillance software on personal laptops
https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-xai-pressed-employees-092601003.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
IRS Rules Churches Can Endorse Candidates. A Progressive Pastor Says That’s Great
https://www.yahoo.com/news/irs-rules-churches-endorse-candidates-133000235.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses
https://apnews.com/article/utah-doctor-covid-fraud-charges-dropped-41927573624f0e8e2ee08822633ca5de
Cyborg Beetles Could Be Unlikely Heroes in Future Disaster Rescues
https://www.sciencealert.com/cyborg-beetles-could-be-unlikely-heroes-in-future-disaster-rescues
‘Superman’ and DC Studios fly to a $122 million opening
https://apnews.com/article/superman-box-office-dc-james-gunn-e66bcc163a8aebf01a25a8b2e7dc08f4
The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries | Atlas Obscura
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-yaupon-tea-cassina
The Ice Builders (or How to Create your own Glacier) | Kuriositas
https://www.kuriositas.com/2025/07/the-ice-builders-or-how-to-create-your.html
Photos by Charly Broyez and Laurent Kronental Celebrate Architecture Ahead of Its Time | Colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/charly-broyez-laurent-kronental-le-cite-oasis/
The Decline of Western Civilization III, 1998 | Flashbak
https://flashbak.com/the-decline-of-western-civilisation-iii-1998-476798/
The New Sepulveda Boulevard Tunnel Following Opening Ceremonies, Los Angeles, 1930 | vintge everyday
https://www.vintag.es/2025/07/the-new-sepulveda-boulevard-tunnel.html
50 Awesome And Insightful Graphs, As Featured By The Team At ‘Information Is Beautiful’ | Bored Panda
https://www.boredpanda.com/data-maps-informationisbeautiful/
The Raw Beauty Of The Human Spirit In 23 Award-Winning Portraits Selected By AAP Magazine | Bored Panda
https://www.boredpanda.com/powerful-portraits-photography-aap-magazine/
Inside Ireland’s Traveler Culture: 35 Unforgettable Photos By Joseph-Philippe Bevillard | Bored Panda
https://www.boredpanda.com/candid-photography-joseph-philippe-bevillard/
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Defense of Ukraine
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LegalEagle: “How The Supreme Court Ended Trans Rights”
“The Court ruled for outcome over merit using this one weird trick.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S80ivPamBoM
Brian Tyler Cohen: “Lawyer who defeated Trump BREAKS HIS SILENCE after HUGE VICTORY”
Brian interviews Norm Eisen about his win in court over Trump. (Being a USA citizen if you are born in the USA.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfV8IGXaDA
CONTENT CONTROLS
“Content Controls will allow you to see fewer posts from certain topics or tags while you browse Imgur.”
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HOW DO I MUTE OR BLOCK AN IMGUR USER?
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CHECK TO SEE IF A SITE IS SAFE
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https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/search
NOTE: Google keeps track of everything you search, including when you search on this site. Despite that, I use this site.
FROM Mirrormancer:
Saving things from the memory hole is good, and here's some tools for you and others to use for that. While a good ol printscreen grab will suffice, I like to use Greenshot to take snapshots of everything for documentation purposes. Been getting a LOT of use out of it over the last few months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenshot For documenting sites, I like to use ( archive.is ) to make backups + it's also good for bypassing paywalls. Example: https://archive.is/CHouq
CONTACT ELECTED OFFICIALS
https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
“Staying Safe While Protesting & Organizing” (PDF)
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50 PROTESTS. 50 STATES. 1 MOVEMENT
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INDIVISIBLE
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MOBILIZE
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KICK OUT THE CLOWNS: Women’s March
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MoveOn
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In a MAGA society filled with acts of performative cruelty, which are often preceded/followed by prayers, it is a victory to be kind.
In a MAGA society filled with incompetent leaders, it is a victory to avoid despair and alcoholism and drug abuse.
In a MAGA society filled with acts of performative and/or other stupidity, it is a victory to be well-read and well-educated.
In a MAGA society filled with badly lived lives, it is a victory to live a well-lived life.
Live your life so fully and authentically that gay men will dress up like you in PRIDE parades.
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58 Greatest Pride Songs and LGBTQ+ Anthems for Your Playlist
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/g32947794/lgbt-pride-songs-anthems/
The 100 Greatest LGBTQ+ Anthems of All Time
Here's a countdown of the songs that define queer culture.
https://www.billboard.com/lists/lgbtq-anthems-queer-pride-songs/
NON-VIOLENT PROTESTS WORK! (90 seconds)
It will take time and more effort, but we will prevail.
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