When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

17 detainees were loaded on yesterday's ICE Air flight at MSP.

A few of the shackled people loaded at 1:00 pm here in Minnesota arrived in El Paso around 8:00 pm.

The local ERO drivers appeared to be fan-girling a bit, watching the Minnesota Wild, who were also at Signature, flown in by Delta.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

They think you're stupid.

Please don’t use generative AI. They steal from working living breathing artists to do train these models

You take money out of artists pockets when you use generative AI

It's wild how "they're gonna let treatable people die to cut costs" was an argument against universal healthcare and now we have *no* universal healthcare *plus* the "death panels" they fearmongered about

“Aktion T4" (German) is the name given to campaigns of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia which targeted people with disabilities and the mentally ill in Nazi Germany.” - Wikipedia

“we are deliberately killing the immunocompromised, disabled, and chronically ill”

Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

President, Extremely Normal Brain-Wise: Pope Weak On Crime, Also I'm Dr. Jesus Christ | Defector The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is a deranged old pervert whose brain, long since sodden and pitted from a lifetime of indulgence and Diet Coke, is foaming out of his ears. Over the ...

It’s a high bar and I’m biased anyway, but this is one of the funniest things @albertburneko.bsky.social has written in recent memory:

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One big reason America has a core of its population who will ALWAYS support the most hateful politics and fascist politicians is bc American Christian evangelicism & megachurches are a nakedly far right wing political & economic project that preach right wing politics untaxed & unregulated

The Rocky Horror Picture Show at 50: Let There Be Lips Half a century later, the midnight movie that refused to die still sparks freedom, community, and unapologetic queer joy.

It’s Tim Curry’s 80th birthday today!

As a gay kid in the suburbs who loved old monster movies, Curry’s Dr. Frank-N-Furter saved my life. He made me feel understood and part of a bigger community and history.

Last fall, I wrote about what a corset-clad Curry meant and means for so many of us:

This chart from @scotusblog.com shows how the Roberts court votes on presidential power issues.

When a Democrat is the president, the justices vote less for the government position.

When a Republican is the president, the justices vote more for the government position.

The Killing That Won't Let Go | Defector Grief has no expiration date, and there’s no statute of limitations on murder. Twenty-one years ago this summer, Steve Cornejo was shot in the back and died in the courtyard of an apartment complex…

From Dave McKenna: The killing that won't let go

The things you learn in the Iceland airport…Tom Jones and The Cardigans did a cover of “Burning Down the House” 🧐

I never thought about this before and now I’m mad

I think it’s important context to mention to people who think this is just a crackpot Trump/RFK thing that the Bush II admin set USA back years with a war against stem cell research.

Destroying scientific advancement that can save lives for specious or superstitious reasons is Republican policy.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Reminder that governments want you to present your IDs and facescans and link those to your social media (And hell a lot of the wide internet) while this is happening, hell we've had already 2 massive biometric information leaks in less than half a year.

How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered - Bolts The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to... Read More

Louisiana now makes it a crime for police to refuse ICE cooperation. Florida created a board to punish officials who don't comply with ICE. Texas forced nearly all sheriffs to become immigration enforcers. And the crackdown on resisting ICE is spreading.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

You cannot make appeasing these people your entire political project.

Difference between then and now isn't that companies like blockbuster cared more about privacy, but that Congress made it specifically illegal in the Video Privacy Protection Act 1988 (in response to someone giving Robert Bork's rental history to a newspaper to try and sink his scotus candidacy)

If Blockbuster Video had thought they could make $5 by selling the list of everyone who rented Schlinder's List to the KKK they would've done it in a second. It's not like evil corporations didn't exist back then!

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

S/o to the girl in the next stall who sing-songed “well at least I’m not pregnant,” I love that for you