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Elizabeth Warren Trolls Trump and Vance: ‘I Wouldn’t Trust Them to Move My Couch’ (www.rollingstone.com)
Anti-LGBTQ+ hate preacher says racists go to Heaven and MLK is burning in Hell (www.lgbtqnation.com)
TIL 28 different copies of the Rosetta Stone have been discovered (www.youtube.com)
This video is really cool. It’s a curator talking about what is on the stone and why. They were supposed to be put in every temple in Egypt and were done so for many years, which is why so many have been discovered since the original famous one.
Trump Calls For Gun Confiscation In Fox News Rant: Cops Should ‘Stop And Frisk And Take Their Gun Away’ (www.mediaite.com)
You’ve got to let the police do their jobs, number one. Number two, you have to do a policy of stop and frisk. When you see a guy coming down the street and you can — the police know every one of them. They know their middle name. They know where they live. They know every one of them, the local police, and they’re great....
Ex-Pentagon official alleges US has recovered nonhuman specimens (thehill.com)
New Covid Shots Were Approved. But Who Will Get Them? (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine strikes airfield near Volgograd as Russia presses forward in Donetsk (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine has carried out a night-time drone attack on a Kremlin military airfield near the city of Volgograd and announced the capture of another village in Russia’s Kursk region, as Russian forces pressed on with their advance in the Donetsk region....
‘Hitting kids should never be allowed’: Illinois bans corporal punishment in all schools (apnews.com)
Legislation that Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law this month bans physical punishment in private schools while reiterating a prohibition on the practice in public schools implemented 30 years ago....
A white supremacist warned me to comply with his demands or else. Now, he's in federal custody. (www.newschannel5.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/a-white-supremacist-warned-me-t…
Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year (boltsmag.org)
Chicago police are required to document every time they pull someone over. But a new investigation reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms....
Thousands march on DNC without incident — or a permit: 'We just want a peaceful protest.' (chicago.suntimes.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/dnc-protests-union-park-united-…
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis trailer withdrawn over fake quotes (www.theguardian.com)
Trump pulls out of interview after paper questions dubious claims about crime rate (www.independent.co.uk)
Federal data shows the national crime rate has dropped under President Biden...
Russia was going to take Kyiv in 3 days. Now it’s installing concrete shelters at home (www.politico.eu)
Reinforced concrete shelters will be installed across the Kursk region, local Russian authorities announced Thursday as Ukraine keeps up its daring attack on Moscow’s territory....
Map Shows States That Will Vote on Abortion Rights in November - Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)
These are the states that will put the question to their voters in November.
Comedian Bassem Youssef quits X over ‘safety issues’ after Gaza posts [Bilge Kotan | 21 August 2024 | Middle East Eye] (www.middleeasteye.net)
Youssef said he might return to the platform if his safety concerns for his loved ones are resolved...
FBI probes insect attack on Democratic breakfast in Chicago (www.usatoday.com)
Chicago Police and the FBI are investigating if saboteurs placed bugs in a breakfast buffet prepared for delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday....
Facing a National Shortage of Baby Formula, Trade Officials Opposed a Plan to Boost Imports (www.propublica.org)
Mustache-Less Mike Lindell Is Roaming the DNC Arguing With Dems (www.thedailybeast.com)
12ft.io/…/mustache-less-mike-lindell-is-roaming-t…
China leans into using AI − even as the US leads in developing it (theconversation.com)
TIL a British short film about the dangers of paedophiles was presented by Rolf Harris who was later charged as a paedophile (en.wikipedia.org)
Suddenly it all makes sense. (lemmy.world)
TIL about Vertical Series, insane soap operas streamed in chunks of ~90 seconds in a vertical video format. They are all silly, terrible and some possibly written by AI. It is becoming a huge success. (www.rollingstone.com)
“Guys, please watch this insane ad I got on TikTok,” the caption of a viral thread on X (formerly Twitter) read last month. The thread, which has more than 20 million views, contains clips from a film titled Forbidden Desires: Alpha’s Love, about a college professor named Adrian who falls in love with his student, who also...
Antivax dog breeding is a thing. (lemmy.world)