The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Desperate plea for more submissions from non-Americans.

I love you my Yankee friends, but there are so goddamn many of you and your cultural hegemony needs to be challenged.
seizethepress.com/submissions

Pay more attention to their actions than their rhetoric.

*bookmarks for one of those days*

This failure to protect Americans' privacy may well have just handed Donald Trump dramatically expanded warrantless surveillance powers while defeating the single meaningful privacy reform that remained in the debate by the slimmest conceivable margin.

😮An amendment to close backdoor search loophole just failed on 212-212 vote. This is a sharp betrayal of every American. Members who tanked this vote have long histories of voting for this protection, including Nancy Pelosi, Ted Lieu & Rep. Joe Neguse.
clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024114

I’m at the gym baking my birthday cake 🍑 but my phone is going wild with birthday wishes and donations to the charity bundle and my heart is SO FULL. HOW DIDNWE ALREADY RAISE $1k????

When asked how fascism starts, Bertram Russell replied: “First, they fascinate the fools. Then they muzzle the intelligent.”

Several journalists including a CNN stringer have been injured after Israeli forces surrounded & attacked Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, leaving one in critical condition. Per TRT bureau chief in Jerusalem, Israeli tanks launched a “targeted attack” on several journos.

The most senior Israeli commander 'dismissed for his role in the drone strike which killed seven aid workers' for World Central Kitchen in Gaza 'is a settler who signed an open letter in January calling for the territory to be deprived of aid.' telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

We call it the Sammy Jankis system.

'The village is not rich, and carving stone to catch a god is long, weary work with doubtful promise.'

Eat the World by R.K. Duncan
lackingtons.com/2022/08/03/eat…

What modern actor brings the Bronson Pinchot vibes?

Trying to replace lost belongings after my bag got stolen. Also my shoes and jacket, which both have holes in them. Please help - share if you cannot give. ca$kittiekot vm@kittie_kot ko-fi.com/mxkittie

Omg omg omg omg omg omg, I've been dreaming about remake of The Running Man forever.

“The only limit to the number of buildings we blew up was the time we had inside Gaza,” says one [IDF] sapper in a combat-engineering battalion. “If you find a Kalashnikov or even Hamas literature in an apartment, it’s enough to incriminate the building.” economist.com/middle-east-an…

'And still on the subject of books: Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on.'

'The apocalypse was nigh — but it always is, these days. Looming and dooming, never resuming. Forever nigh and dry.'