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[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Tom Homan says if you don’t want to be killed by ICE agents, you should just comply…. So here is an example of what he wants you to comply with.

In this video, a woman noticed vehicles in a parking lot that she believed could be ICE vehicles… So, she started filming.

The people noticed she was filming, and drove past her.

She was alone, so she decided to leave.

Then, they started followed her.

But here’s the thing… she wasn’t even 100% sure they were ICE agents.

They were in unmarked vehicles, and they weren’t using emergency lights.

As she was driving down the street, being followed by these unmarked cars, one of the vehicles pulls up beside her, cuts her off, and the cars box her in.

She had nowhere to go without hitting the curb, or hitting the vehicle that had just cut her off.

She honked, but the vehicle just sat there.

Eventually it moved, and the vehicles drove away.

Now, imagine being a woman, alone in your car.

A group of cars, you cannot clearly identify as law enforcement, start following you.

They don’t turn on emergency lights. They don’t clearly identify themselves. And one of them cuts you off and blocking your vehicle from being able to drive away.

What are you supposed to think is happening?

Because from your perspective, it looks like you are being kidnapped by random people.

And that is the terrifying part of what ICE is doing.

They are creating situations where people have no idea whether the people surrounding them are legitimate law enforcement officers, or strangers attempting to abduct, or rob them.

And Tom Homan’s answer to being kidnapped, or robbed, is…

“Just comply.”

Don’t try to drive away. Don’t defend yourself. Don’t try to escape.

Just calmly allow unidentified people, in unmarked vehicles, to follow you, box you in, and potentially kidnap or rob you…

Because if they happen to be ICE agents, and you react like a normal person who believes they are being kidnapped, you could be assaulted, detained, or even shot.

Do you understand how dangerous and insane that is?!?

“Just comply” means women are being told to surrender to potential kidnappers, and hope they turn out to be government agents.

And if they don’t?

Tom Homan says it’s their fault for not complying.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How U.S. interstate highways are numbered

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[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Nobody has ever made the dark feel as real as old Disney did.

In these films the night isn't an absence of light. It's a color, and someone mixed it by hand…

Disney had its own paint laboratory, built by a woman named Mary Weiser, the first of its kind in animation. Its job was to invent shades that did not exist yet. In the early thirties, when the studio was still making shorts, there were around eighty shades on the shelves. By the time they finished Snow White there were fifteen hundred.

Every one of them went on by hand, cel by cel, and each cel needed hours to dry before it could be photographed.

The Ink and Paint department was almost entirely women. According to the Walt Disney Family Museum, the paints were sometimes named after them, and to have a color carry your name was considered an honour.

So the dark of Bambi's forest, the lamplight in Geppetto's workshop, the blue at Cinderella's attic window: none of it is a filter or a setting or a dimmer turned down. Each is a specific colour that a specific person mixed in a jar, and some of those jars had her name on the label.

That is why these scenes still feel more alive than anything made since. We went from hands, to computers, to AI, and at every step there is a little less of the person left in it…

The author Joanna Maciejewska said it better than anyone: "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes."

[Historical Facts @Hstorical_Facts]

@JamesLucasIT Exactly!!
Was saying this same thing to s'mone some days back, no one makes films like Disney no more!!
This human-intensive process explains why classics like Bambi and Snow White retain a living warmth absent in today's algorithm-driven productions

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

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[Ceena 🩵 @Ceena03]

@majestic1776 @permapastures @jesseRoss597206 This 💯

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

I have no idea why the news has targeted your chain with this parasitic outbreak since you don’t own the lettuce fields this lettuce was grown in. Not to mention Taylor Farms also sells to McDonalds, Kroger’s, Chipotle and many others. But I will have to say I’m thankful your chain was proactive in removing this lettuce the moment you found out

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:

— He openly laid groundwork to challenge the midterms. He claimed our elections were "compromised," clearly setting up the justification to tamper with results before a single vote is counted.

— He said he'll "correct vulnerabilities" in our elections. Translation: he told you exactly what he plans to interfere with.

— He contradicted himself on China in real time. He first claimed China was "working to influence" and "undermining confidence" in him, then said he was doing a "great job" with them back when he made the claim. He couldn't keep his own conspiracy straight.

— He claimed China rigged the 2020 election, this time by getting journalists to write bad stories about him, because China supposedly wanted Biden to win since Trump was "wise to them."

— He said they found "burn bags" from the Obama Administration full of supposedly incriminating material, without ever saying what was actually in them.

— He said he needs "urgent measures" to stop our elections from being "hacked," citing Maduro's rigged machines in Venezuela in 2020 as his "evidence."

— He attacked networks for not airing him live, accusing them of being "part of the conspiracy to rig elections" and suggesting they should lose their broadcast licenses.

— He announced he wants to seize voter data from states he's deemed "vulnerable" ahead of the midterms.

This was a sitting president telegraphing, step by step, how he plans to undermine the 2026 midterms with egregious lies and conspiracy theories.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

These ancient carvings were discovered across three separate landmasses divided by enormous oceans.

The three figures shown here come from cultures separated by thousands of miles and, in some cases, separated by thousands of years.

The Gobustan petroglyphs in Azerbaijan date back roughly 10,000 to 5,000 years, the carvings in Japan’s Fugoppe Cave were created around AD 200 to 400, and the famous winged figure in Utah is generally linked to the Fremont culture, dating to approximately AD 950 to 1250.

Despite their striking similarities, archaeologists have found no evidence that these societies ever interacted. The resemblance is usually explained as a case of convergent artistic expression — different cultures independently developing similar symbols to represent spiritual beings, ceremonial figures, ritual leaders, or sources of power.

Although the images appear remarkably alike, they are generally viewed as separate creations rather than evidence of a shared civilization or ancient contact across oceans.

[NWS Milwaukee @NWSMilwaukee]

Another warm & smoky morning across southern Wisconsin. As southwest winds develop today, rain chances will increase & smoke should begin to move out of the state. An Air Quality Advisory remains in effect until noon. Additional chances for rain with cooler temps Saturday. #wiwx

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

My wife and I got into it last night about the grocery bill.

I pulled up an old Target order from February 2020.

28 items. $64.50.

Added every single one back to the cart just to see.

$158.30.
Same 28 items. Same store. Same cart.
$93.80 more.

In five years.
We didn’t buy more.
Didn’t upgrade anything.
Didn’t add a single extra item.

Just needed the same things we always needed.

They told us inflation was transitory. They told us it was under control. They told us the economy was strong.

Our cart didn’t get any of those memos.
145% increase in five years.

Not one member of Congress has looked at a grocery receipt in decades.

And it shows.

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Detroit, Minneapolis and Toronto were the most polluted major cities in the world early Thursday.

The air quality has reached hazardous levels near the Great Lakes. In some cases, conditions are worse than the apocalyptic June 2023 fires.

[MyRadar Weather @MyRadarWX]

A SMOKE OUTBREAK is coming through tonight (Wednesday) and Thursday, July 16!

We recommend breaking out the N-95 masks if you live in the orange, red or purple zones especially. Ground-level smoke aerosols (fine, small particulates that are irritating to the lungs) will be present in high concentrations.

This is due to an outbreak of wildfires burning in southern Ontario. The smoke is being swirled southeast into the United States behind a frontal boundary.

Boston, New York and Albany will smell it.

Pittsburgh, Toronto, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Watertown, Detroit, Chicago and all of Michigan will be unhealthy. Schools – consider keeping the kiddos indoors for recess; athletic programs may want to suspend outdoor practices.

If you live in Marquette, Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay or Duluth, minimize any and all time outdoors.

Might this seem silly? Yes. But you wouldn't sit downwind of a campfire and take deep breaths. You know that would be bad for you.

Likewise, we're a bit farther away, but the "campfire" is WAY, way bigger. Bigger wildfires, more smoke, longer distances.

Take this seriously!

[Michigan Storm Chasers @MiStormChasers]

A partial solar eclipse will be visible on August 12th this year. You will need eclipse glasses to observe this event, and Michigan only falls within 20% coverage - meaning we will not notice much difference to the naked eye.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

We grew up watching hand drawn Disney and now it's gone. We don't talk about this enough.

Every frame of this video was painted by hand, by a human being. Every single one...

To put that into perspective: to make Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney employed around 750 artists for three years, and they produced nearly two million individual paintings. More than 700 of the backgrounds were painted in watercolour. Over 150 people worked in a single department whose only job was to ink and paint the transparent sheets, called cels, that the characters were drawn on.

It all ended within our lifetime.

According to the Smithsonian, The Little Mermaid, released in 1989, was the last Disney feature made with the hand-painted cel method. The very next film, one year later, went digital.

And something was lost in that transition. In every frame of the old films, a human hand physically touched the surface. A person sat at a desk, held a brush, and made a decision. Two million small decisions, made by hundreds of people, most of whose names we will never know.

But the deepest difference is that the old animators knew they were making a cartoon. They did not try to copy the world. They stretched it, exaggerated it, bent it out of shape, because they understood something we seem to have forgotten: a drawing that imitates life exactly feels dead.

Walt Disney even had a name for this: he called it the plausible impossible.

Today, everything chases realism. And somehow, the more real it looks, the less alive it feels...

I started my newsletter because the past is full of beauty, and fewer and fewer people take the time to show it to us anymore. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

Thanks for reading.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Bryce Dallas Howard has shared a video of the late Sam Neill singing “Blackbird” with Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern.

“Sam had an immense passion for life. Generous with his wine, his stories, his time. One of the most unassumingly attractive and magnetic people I've ever met.”

[Ceena 🩵 @Ceena03]

Heartbreaking. Rest in peace Sam niell 💔

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The legendary Sam Neill has died.

He was 78 and had been battling stage 3 blood cancer, but announced in the spring that he was cancer-free.

His family described his passing as “sudden and unexpected.”

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Lindsay Graham has passed away at the age of 71.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

We all know and can see the various things Trump is doing to prepare to steal the midterms. The media is aware of it too.

The question is, why the fuck hasn't Congress done anything to stop it.

And how many Congressional Republicans are in on it...

Again.