Simba

If only my life was as great as my hair

[Mahmoud Massri | مَحْمُود 🇵🇸 @MahmoudMassri15]

But for a few hours, they were truly, truly happy.

[ethical hater @DijahSB]

might be my greatest tweet ever

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

What is with these demons and bombing schools and killing kids…?

[Lyth ♠️ @Lytherian]

I’ve never seen the powerpuff girls bleed that’s all ima say

[Mega Man @MegaMan]

This was a tribute illustration by designer Taro Minoboshi to mark the 30th anniversary of #MegaMan. He originally planned for 4 characters in the illustration, but his love for the series led to a massive gathering!

#MegaManStarForce Legacy Collection is available now!

☄️ https://t.co/qXKOrNvak9

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Adriana Camberos stole 10s of millions from American consumers.

Trump granted her a full pardon, allowing her to keep $48.8 million in stolen funds.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🌍 Gaza War Generated 33.2 Million Tonnes of Carbon Emissions — More Than 102 Countries Emit in a Year

🔸A peer-reviewed study published in the journal One Earth by researchers at Queen Mary University of London and Lancaster University found that Israel’s war on Gaza has generated 33.2 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent — more than the annual emissions of 102 individual countries.

🔸A joint statement from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and the Environmental Quality Authority, released for World Environment Day via WAFA, warns that Gaza is facing an environmental catastrophe. It notes:

▪️ Carbon emissions:
Direct combat emissions — artillery, rockets, military hardware — exceeded 1.3 million tonnes. The bulk of emissions, however, come from anticipated reconstruction: rebuilding Gaza’s destroyed homes and infrastructure alone is projected to account for nearly 30 million tonnes, given that ~66% of Gaza’s buildings have been damaged or destroyed.

▪️ Infrastructure collapse:
More than 90% of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure has been destroyed, price of water has risen seven-fold, while around 710,000 tonnes of household waste have accumulated across the Strip.

▪️ Rubble and housing:
More than 60 million tonnes of debris now cover Gaza following the destruction of over 330,000 housing units.

▪️ Agricultural devastation:
A recent UNOSAT assessment found that 86% of Gaza’s agricultural land had been damaged or destroyed by the end of June 2025, rising to 94% in northern Gaza.

▪️ West Bank:
The agencies also reported a rise in Israeli environmental violations in the occupied West Bank, with 685 incidents recorded in 2025, up from **535 in 2024

Photo: Accumulated waste in Gaza

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are building a 3460 acre resort on an Albanian island.

Thousands in Albania are protesting, and at the same time this isn't unique.

This is how Jared and Ivanka use their proximity to power — building developments for the rich, at our expense.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Big Tech poured over $1.4 trillion into AI only to see a $613 billion return on investment.

* Amazon spent $313 billion and lost $291 billion
* Google parent company Alphabet spent $287 billion and lost $262 billion
* Microsoft spent $266 billion and lost $235 billion
* Meta spent $230 billion and lost $227 billion

And all these companies chosen to axe workers, blaming AI for the mass firings.

[Simba @Simba_Pride_]

@BenjaminOscar77 @KaggyFilms REAL ONE

[Simba @Simba_Pride_]

I can’t wait for @KaggyFilms to be voicing everyone in my video games

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

#SummerGameFest

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

America is racist. Two white men chased and shot at a Black delivery driver. But, the judge dropped the charges. This is the same way southern judges refused to prosecute lynchmobs

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

"Water consumption is expected to reach 9.3 trillion litres, while CO2 emissions will rise to 399 million tons."

https://t.co/A9XO7uq2XF

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Annual power consumption from data centers is projected to double by 2030 — consuming as much power as all of Japan.

[Save Our Citizenships 🔻 @LetsStopC9]

⁨VIOLENT CHILD RAPIST Dillon Prest, has been sentenced to only four years in prison despite raping two young girls.

Search #PredatorReport for more.

One of his victims talked about what he did to her, and how she was "kicking and screaming," during the assault. She tried to fight him off, but he used his body to shove her, and grabbed her arms so she couldn't move.

He pleaded guilty to "five counts of rape of a child under 13 and one count of sexual assault."

Source:
https://t.co/Z5NG5pL05y⁩

[Drey @thedreydossier]

I wish I could say I didn’t see this coming