https://www.europesays.com/1363340/ Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Ukraine on current situation on the frontline, Russian advance, and most urgent needs of Ukrainian Army. #Ukraine #UkraineConflict #Ukrainian #UkrainianConflict

OH: it's not upper byte / lower byte, it's overbyte and underbyte.

Weirdo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/26/patrick-byrne-tina-peters-threats/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp68rz0zrrwo Canadians mourn as Jasper, jewel of the Rockies, burns | #climatechange is real

https://www.europesays.com/1363337/ Russian soldiers at the training ground fire from 73-mm 2A28 cannons removed from the BMP-1. This is the “Syrian experience”. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineWarVideoReport

#BlackCanyonFire #CAwx

Justin Roberts, Reporter
Jul 26, 9:40 PM EDT

The fire is now 9749 acres and 35% contained per the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).

https://share.watchduty.org/i/27405

The sun will rise in #StLouis #Missouri tomorrow at 5:58, 51 seconds later than the day before.
It will set at 20:16, 51 seconds earlier than the day before.

Lego-induced High Jump

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts #HashtagGames

You go Snoop.

NYT:

"If you drive a car made by General Motors and it has an internet connection, your car’s movements and exact location are being collected and shared anonymously with a data broker. This practice, disclosed in a letter sent by two Democratic senators to the FTC on Friday, is yet another way in which automakers are tracking drivers, often without their knowledge."

Chess by mail.

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts #HashtagGames

#PeteButtigieg #Harris2024 #HarrisButtigieg2024
"William Hill this week offered 14/1 (6.7 percent) on Buttigieg running as the Democrats' vice presidential pick, but the odds improved to 4/1 (20 percent) as of 5 a.m. ET on Thursday."

Pete Buttigieg Emerges as a VP Favorite, According to Polls - Newsweek

"A number of popular names have been floated as possible choices for Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate."
https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-pete-buttigieg-vice-president-choice-2024-election-1930910

Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns Expansion Includes Conan, Ghostface and the T-1000 - CNET

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/mortal-kombat-1-khaos-reigns-expansion-includes-conan-ghostface-and-the-t-1000/#ftag=CAD590a51e

#gaming

Smoke forecast for Friday through Sunday morning.

#wildfire

https://www.europesays.com/1363331/ Kamala Harris receiving $20,000 per minute in donations, campaigners say #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates

Thank you to these amazing firefighters from Mexico who have arrived to help with the devastating wildfires ravaging our country. We are deeply grateful to you all!

🇨🇦🤝🇲🇽

More are on their way from South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

Heroes one and all!

Our wildfires are getting worse every year 💔

Climate change is hell.

Yet another #recall:

Boar’s Head recalls more than 200,000 pounds of deli meat products due to listeria concerns

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/health/boars-head-deli-meat-recall-listeria-concerns?cid=ios_app

Balloon Juice - Friday Night Open Thread- The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

"JD Vance is going through some shit. And I have so little respect for that fucker he isn’t even getting periods in between his initials. But at any rate, ole JD is going through some shit:"

https://balloon-juice.com/2024/07/26/friday-night-open-thread-the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/

ICYMI: #AfternoonUpdate #AMUpdate Sensational Summer Reads: This week’s picks for adults and children https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/07/25/sensational-summer-reads-this-weeks-picks-for-adults-and-children/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

ICYMI: #AMUpdate #Weather Wausau weather for Thursday and Friday https://wausaupilotandreview.com/2024/07/25/wausau-weather-for-thursday-and-friday-32/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mental Gymnastics

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

Plant Care

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

'We sure this dude is a Republican?' MAGA influencer slams 'moron' JD Vance for tax proposal - Alternet.org

snirk

https://www.alternet.org/maga-influencer-jd-vance/

Behold the hockey stick. And this was only the first week. THE FIRST WEEK!

Tally ho, motherfuckers.

Just was outside the antique shop and the transphobe coffee shop ... The few people that walked out looked shocked and stunned ... One of the gay boys and I couldn't stop laughing

Hugz & xXx

Online Poll Vault

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashtagGames

⚠️🇪🇺Borrell appears to call on China to influence Russia to withdraw its occupational forces, end its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when calling for ‘war’ end (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3889340-borrell-calls-on-china-to-influence-russia-to-end-its-war-against-ukraine.html #Ukraine #Press #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #News #UnitedStates #EuropeanUnion #UnitedKingdom #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#Article7 #Article7HungaryNow

https://www.europesays.com/1363323/ Extrême seum #ActuMemes #france #Memes

Is Trump Scared To Debate Kamala? It Appears So. | Crooks and Liars

https://crooksandliars.com/2024/07/trump-scared-debate-kamala-it-appears-so

#Harris #Harris2024

Monday morning quarterbacking.

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts #HashtagGames

The IKEA Dash: On your mark, get set, go buy a KALLAX bookshelf! First one back wins.

I might hold the world record on this. I studied floor plans to find secret passageways and everything.

They said the 10 Minute KALLAX couldn’t be done. I said nay.

#OlympicGamesForIntroverts
#HashTagGames

To put it another way: Red State Policies Kill. #USpol #COVID19

https://www.europesays.com/1363321/ Cool ta vie #france #Memes #rance

horrible thought:
do you think I could ferment Ginger Tea into a beer?

All computer science curricula are missing one crucial topic:

how to deal with private equity and management takeover

Competitive Door Dash; see if Red Robin can beat Panera

#olympicgamesforintroverts
#hashtaggames

Content warning: A little bit of cynicism. As a treat. Click to open/close

Just 5 years for the murder of his own child?
Life is cheap.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/seven-year-old-died-child-neglect-minnesota-b2586545.html

Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to the radical Catholic group Opus Dei

Heritage Foundation leader has long received spiritual guidance from the group and his policy goals align with its teachings

Kevin Roberts, the #Heritage #Foundation president and the architect of #Project2025,
the conservative thinktank’s road map for a second Trump presidency,
has close ties and receives regular spiritual guidance from an Opus Dei-led center in Washington DC,
a hub of activity for the radical and secretive Catholic group.

#Roberts acknowledged in a speech last September that
– for years – he has visited the Catholic Information Center,
or #CIC, a K Street institution headed by an Opus Dei priest and incorporated by the archdiocese of Washington,
on a weekly basis for mass and “formation”, or religious guidance.

Opus Dei also organizes monthly retreats at the CIC.

In the speech
– which he delivered at the CIC and was recorded and is available online
– Roberts spoke candidly about his strategy for achieving extreme policy goals that he supports but are out of step with the views of a majority of Americans.

♦️Outlawing birth control ♦️is the “hardest” political battle facing conservatives in the future,
the 50-year-old political strategist said,
♦️but he urged conservatives to pursue even small legislative victories
– what he called “radical incrementalism”
– to advance their most rightwing policy objectives.

Roberts gained notoriety this year as the leading force behind Project 2025,
a foundation plan backed by more than 100 conservative groups that seeks to radically upend a broad range of policies
if Trump gets elected again,
from 🔸limiting abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights and 🔸dismantling the Department of Education, 🔸to ending diversity programs and increasing government support for “fertility awareness” programs, like 🔸ovulation tracking and practicing periodic abstinence, instead of more reliable contraception.

But Roberts’ personal ties to Opus Dei and the significance of his affiliation, has received far less attention.
Gareth #Gore, the author of a forthcoming book on Opus Dei, called the Catholic organization “a political project shrouded in a veil of spirituality”.

The group’s founder, Saint Josemaría #Escrivá, saw his followers as part of a “rising militia”, Gore said, who were seeking to🔸 “enter battle against the enemies of Christ”.

“Like Project 2025, Opus Dei at its core is a ⚠️reactionary stand against the progressive drift of society,” ⚠️Gore said.
“For decades now, the organization has thrown its resources at penetrating Washington’s political and legal elite
– and finally seems to have succeeded through its close association with men like Kevin #Roberts and Leonard #Leo.”

Leo is a conservative activist
who has led the Republican mission to install the rightwing majority in the supreme court
and finances many of the groups signed on to Project 2025.

Like Roberts, Leo also has links to the Opus Dei-linked CIC.
In a 2022 speech accepting the CIC’s highest honor,
the John Paul II New Evangelization award,
Leo praised the center while also referring to his political opponents as
❗️“vile and amoral current day barbarians, secularists and bigots” who were under the influence of the devil.❗️

Democrats, including Kamala Harris, have been sounding the alarm on Project 2025 to warn voters of what a second #Trump administration could do.

“[Trump] and his extreme Project 2025 agenda will weaken the middle class.
We know we have to take this thing seriously.
And can you believe they put that thing in writing?” Harris said this week in her first presidential campaign rally, to laughter.

“Read it. It’s 900 pages.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Louisiana’s MAGA governor went on 'weeklong jaunt' in Europe while hurricane hit his state - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/jeff-landry-2668822024/