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[Pub @PubWanghaf]

YOUNG PEOPLE: food is so expensive this is getting ridiculous

THE LEFT: The only solution is to kill all white people

THE RIGHT: Have you considered buying copious amounts of hamburger helper and covering it in Great Value mustard you ungrateful ass?!

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Ceuta Hospital has revealed that five girls under the age of 14 have been admitted over the last week suffering from cases of extreme rape

On average, Ceuta records 3–8 rape reports a year, including adult victims.

This is MASSIVE cover up.

[merm @Tiredmermie]

@JordyVanDemLemb @KP_0_3 @lyndseyfifield Ah yes my unnecessary childcare costs

[Jum @JesterJum]

1 hard boiled egg? Perfect.

Fried eggs? Just two and I'm good.

Scrambled eggs? Three and I'm still hungry.

Deviled eggs? 47 please and thank you.

Egg logic makes no sense.

[Department Of Deportations @DoDeportations]

Your government hates you so much, they give employers tax breaks if they hire foreigners.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Waiting for y’all to discover Republican leaders in DC have also scheduled an October recess.

There are only 8 full work days and 8 half-days before the midterm elections. It looks like we’re intent on squandering a majority, until you understand Uniparty IS always the majority.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I calculated what it would cost to replace everything my wife does as a stay-at-home mom.

The answer: $131,130 a year.

Here's how I calculated that amount.

My wife genuinely loves being home with our four children. She homeschools them, manages our home, cooks for our family, gardens, and invests her life in raising our kids.

But every so often, she asks whether she should get a job to help financially.

Not because she wants a career outside the home, but because our culture can make stay-at-home mothers feel like they are not contributing unless they bring home a paycheck.

I always remind her:

“You already have a career. You work for our family.”

She may not receive a paycheck, but much of what she does saves us money we would otherwise have to earn, pay taxes on, and then spend hiring other people.

So I ran the numbers using typical rates in the Des Moines, Iowa area:

HOUSEKEEPER
12 hours/week × $20.74/hour
$12,942 per year

NANNY FOR FOUR CHILDREN
50 hours/week × $23/hour
$59,800 per year

HOMESCHOOL EDUCATOR
5 hours/day × 180 school days × $25.03/hour
$22,527 per year

PERSONAL SHOPPER
4 hours/week × $20.58/hour
$4,281 per year

PERSONAL CHEF
2 hours/day × $38.33/hour
$27,981 per year

PERSONAL GARDENER
3 hours/week × 30 weeks × $40/hour
$3,600 per year

TOTAL ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPLACEMENT VALUE:
$131,130

This is not meant to be a literal salary calculation. Some responsibilities overlap, but that is part of the point: replacing what one stay-at-home mother does would require hiring several different people.

And this still does not account for sick children, overnight care, appointments, curriculum planning, discipline, emotional support, family scheduling, or the constant mental load of knowing what everyone needs.

My wife may not receive a paycheck, but she creates enormous value for our family every day.

A paycheck is not the only proof that someone is contributing.

Thank a stay-at-home mom today.

[Camryn @dancingofpens]

this graph from the AP stunned me into silence

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

Steak n Shake will now serve 100% cane sugar Dr. Pepper and Sprite starting on August 7.

It is our mission to serve our loyal guests the best and most natural ingredients possible.

We are pushing our national suppliers to get this done. Americans deserve quality. 🇺🇸

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Confirmation of Anthropic’s BOOK BURNING for their AI: The Great Forgetting of the Amnesia Generation

In the quiet warehouses and shipping docks of 2024, Anthropic did not merely train an AI.

It staged a quiet erasure of human knowledge.

While the public was still dazzled by Claude’s fluent paragraphs and polished marketing emails, the company’s engineers and logistics teams were busy executing Project Panama—an internal campaign whose own documents announced the ambition to “destructively scan all the books in the world.”

The method was industrial and irreversible: buy the physical volume SOMETIMES THE LAST COPY, slice its SPINE with a hydraulic cutter, feed the pages through high-speed scanners, then pulp what remained.

Millions of books: scientific research, novels, rare technical treatises, obscure monographs, volumes that had already survived wars, fires, and decades of handling—were reduced to data tokens and then to wet mulch or burned.

They literally burn the evidence of this crime against humanity.

The company itself preferred the darkness. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this,” the planning memos warned.

A federal judge later blessed the slaughter. Because Anthropic had purchased the copies and then destroyed them, the court held, the act was “transformative” fair use. Ownership plus obliteration equaled permission.

The ruling handed every subsequent AI lab a legal license to treat the printed past as disposable feedstock.

That license is now being exercised at industrial scale. In 2026, companies like ISBNdb openly market pre-2022 books as the last pure reservoir of human language—text uncontaminated by the synthetic sludge that large language models themselves have already poured into the open web.

Orders arrive for tens or hundreds of thousands of titles at a time. Non-disclosure agreements are standard.

The preferred language is “digital preservation.”

The actual outcome is the same mechanical process Anthropic refined: spine cut, pages scanned, original shredded.

Rare and near-unique copies are disappearing into the same pipeline. Booksellers across continents report sudden, strange bulk orders for specialized, low-demand titles that no ordinary collector would ever buy in volume.

Once the pages are gone, they are gone forever.

A website can be re-uploaded. A bestseller can be reprinted.

The last three surviving copies of an eighteenth-century botanical text cannot.

This is not progress. It is the Great Forgetting.

An entire generation of machines is being taught to speak by consuming and then discarding the physical record of human thought.

The companies that profit from the resulting fluency call the process necessary, legal, and even enlightened.

They speak of curated knowledge and domain-specific expertise while the spines crack and the paper is carted away.

Anthropic did not invent the hunger for data, but it demonstrated openly in private documents and then under court seal how far a well-funded laboratory was willing to go to satisfy it, and how readily the law would ratify the destruction.

Just to gain a temporary AI benchmark advantage.

The amnesia is already here.

Future models will generate elegant sentences to beat Al sorts of tests about history, science, and literature.

They will do so on the ashes of the books that once contained those sentences.

The generation that built these systems will leave its children fluent machines and emptier shelves.

That is the real product of Project Panama and its successors: not intelligence, but a carefully engineered cultural void, papered over with synthetic prose and non-disclosure agreements.

We are left to forget to remember. We are The Amnesia Generation with our brains being put into a meat grinder and fed back to us.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

This might be the most amazing one yet. More from Senator Obama on immigration.

Obama not only said that illegals must not be allowed to work here, he went one step further and said that employers should be forced to prove that they offered the job to American citizens before they are allowed to hire guest workers.

Democrats today would call this racist and xenophobic.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

B-b-but the experts told us printing six trillion dollars worth of stimulus checks wouldn't cause inflation!

[Stacy is Right @PoliticalStacy]

I'm old enough to remember when everybody was MAGA.

Bill Clinton 1993: "We have to end welfare as a way of life and make it a path to independence and dignity."

Barack Obama 2005: "We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected undocumented unchecked and go around our communities without our knowledge of them."

Hillary Clinton 2008: "If they've committed a crime deport them. No questions asked. They're gone."

Chuck Schumer 2009: "Illegal immigration is wrong plain and simple."

Joe Biden 2006: "I voted for a fence. I voted for 700 miles of fence."

Harry Reid 1993: "No sane country would grant citizenship to children of illegal immigrants."

Bernie Sanders 2015: "Open borders is a Koch brothers proposal that would make everybody in America poorer."

The Secure Fence Act of 2006 had yes votes from Obama, Hillary, Schumer and Biden.

Don't you dare allow them to gaslight you into thinking your values are racist and radical. These used to be mainstream Democrat positions.

They only changed their minds once their party decided to use illegals to steal power from the American people.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

A cost-of-living analysis comparing housing, education, healthcare, and household expenses suggests a full-time minimum-wage worker in 1971 had a lifestyle affordability similar to someone earning around an estimated six figures today.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

It’s evil.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The U.S. sends $2 billion to the Kingdom of Jordan each year. Their King spent $100 million on luxury properties in Malibu, DC, & London. I offered an amendment to end the welfare. Thank the 5 who voted w/me. @RepChipRoy @RepNancyMace @RepBrecheen @RepEricBurlison @Rep_Davidson

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

"You are spending $7.5 trillion?"
Congress: "Yes Dave"

"And you only have $5.5 trillion in revenue?"
Congress: "That's correct Dave"

"And you have $39.5 trillion in debt and 42% of all income tax revenue goes to paying interest?"

Congress: "That's correct Dave"

[merm @Tiredmermie]

@buzzleapedyear @22Lamb22 @nypost Could’ve done the Arthur Ave section of the Bronx instead

[The Italian American Civil Rights League @TheIACRL]

Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans.

First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026.

Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map.

Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans,

We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!

[Chief_Engineer @ChiefEngineerCE]

6 AM Call to Action

If you have a colleague here on a visa who clearly cannot do their job, report them anonymously.

They are here on the promise that employers could not find qualified Americans. Part of that qualification is the ability to communicate effectively and perform the work at the required level. Your company's bottom line might be in jeopardy if you don't.

You can report this safely and anonymously.

- USCIS Tip Form: https://t.co/RvF91BTY75
- Department of Labor (Foreign Labor Certification issues): https://t.co/YxwGF1Q5Nw
- DOL Wage and Hour Division: 1-866-4-USWAGE (1-866-487-9243)

This is not about nationality. It is about competence. If someone cannot do the job they were sponsored for, they should not be in that role.