The Blood Runs Deep available on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JPC6B Writer. Recovering stay-at-home mother. Member SFWA. Sadly NOT a professor of rare moths. Middanheim.com
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suingMilitary veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.www.npr.org
Will anyone ever face consequences for all the crimes and abuse?
Senator Ron WydenBombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:
Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/ZShZlIS
This is him.
Parks & Rec: Bobby NewportYouTube video by Elisabeth McBeeyoutu.be
Donnie Cunningham, a parent whose foster daughter found out this week that her college plans had been derailed, said that the impact on other children like his would be devastating. A total of 170 foster students in Mississippi are being denied full-ride scholarships because of a lack of funding.
‘Soul-Crushing’: 170 Foster Students Denied Scholarships at Last Minute Across MississippiThe State of Mississippi is denying 170 Mississippi foster students full-ride scholarships weeks before classes begin due to lack of funding.buff.ly
Soft Rains Day. "Today is August 4, 2026, in the city of Allendale, California. Today is Mr. Featherstone's birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita's marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills." RIP Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
Small Town’s Make-Out Point Purchased By Multinational Make-Out Conglomerate https://theonion.com/small-towns-make-out-point-purchased-by-multinational-make-out-conglomerate/
The truth about AI-generated content and writing is that, if you're actually paying attention and are actively engaged, you can tell the difference. AI only works in a society where people are dissociating and distracted and unengaged. That's the point of it. To just forward an unlived life.
Let's not lose sight of this... ...over just this past weekend alone it became obvious that Donald Trump intended to put an innocent American citizen in prison for years (and still intends too) in an attempt to cover for his lies about the reflecting pool. How does this not matter to so many?
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.netwww.librarian.net
NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...
My local hospital was doing 3 ECMOs a week. Every floor, every unit was full of COVID patients. These people think that because there weren't cars in the lots, there weren't people in the beds. They all came in via ambulance and no visitors were allowed.
Reminder: AI "detectors" are pro-AI. They make money the more people use AI. They sell the data back to AI companies, if they aren't already a subsidiary. They make more money the more people THINK there's AI, just like gang task forces get bigger budgets by inflating the stats on gang activity.
could worked remotely, but mfg/assembly continued, voluntary masking (few did), no businesses closed. In 2021, OR vaxed ASAP, GA did not. OR 8,730 deaths, 910,700 cases GA 44,069 deaths, 2.46M cases 2X population 5X deaths And now? Many GA coworkers got sick, some have long covid 6 yrs later.
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced LaborThe lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.futurism.com
🔴EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s War on 'Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation Mainstream American conservative icons WHO inspired Trump’s assault on diversity were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation, reports @nafeez.bsky.social d bylinetimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
Trump’s War on 'Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics FoundationMainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundationbylinetimes.com