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[Noodles]

GOP "MAGA Act" Would Defund Washington DC Mass Transit Until Subway System Is Renamed "Trump Train" - Joe.My.God.

Just in via press release: Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Make Autorail Great Again Act to block all federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) until it officially changes its name to the “Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater...

www.joemygod.com

Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Make Autorail Great Again Act to block all federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) until it officially changes its name to the “Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access” (WMAGA) and renames the Metrorail the “Trump Train.”

We are in fact, living in an Onion Article.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Renaming a US Navy ship almost never happens.

Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship | Military.com

www.military.com

 

[Noodles]

Such strong warriors... Scared of a whittle namey wamey.

Fucking pussies.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

It gets worse. From the same article:

CBS reported Tuesday that the Navy is also considering renaming other John Lewis-class oilers including the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and USNS Harriet Tubman. Both Marshall and Ginsburg were Supreme Court justices, and Tubman was a Black abolitionist who helped slaves escape the South via the Underground Railroad.

 

[Free]

Maglink

 

[Free]

Terrible.

 

[Lexxi]

 

[Free]

What the fuck, why hasn't this been all over the news? I'm just hearing about it now.

109 children rescued, 244 arrested in Operation Soteria Shield, exposing widespread child exploitation in North Texas

Authorities call it a successful round up of child sex offenders, but it also shows how widespread the crime is in North Texas.

The Dallas FBI office and some of the 70 law enforcement agencies that participated announced the results of Operation Soteria Shield on Tuesday.

"The number of offenders arrested and the children rescued in this operation are stunning," said Jay Combs, the U.S. Attorney Eastern District of Texas. "It's stunning to hear them repeated here."

Operation Soteria Shield, which began in April, led to the rescue of 109 children.

"During this operation, many of the children recognized or rescued were previously unidentified," said Plano Police Department Assistant Chief Dan Curtis. "They'd never been reported missing. They had never had their abuse known to authorities."

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Culture wars go crazy

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-mural-that-said-all-bike-r-s-welcome-and-the-culture-war-that-followed

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Culture wars go crazy

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-mural-that-said-all-bike-r-s-welcome-and-the-culture-war-that-followed

When did we, as a society, become so fucking insane?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

When did we, as a society, become so fucking insane?

A few years after social media became popular, I think.

 

[Free]

A few years after social media became popular, I think.

I suspect it's closer to the time we learned how to ride horses. Or farming. Or speech.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.” ― Douglas Adams

 

[Free]

I think I could enjoy being a sponge.

 

[Noodles]

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Culture wars go crazy

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-mural-that-said-all-bike-r-s-welcome-and-the-culture-war-that-followed

This honestly might be the most disturbing thing I've read in a while.. really something to see that a some people hate queer people SOOO MUCH that a non existent trans flag still offended them.

I suspect it's closer to the time we learned how to ride horses. Or farming. Or speech.

One of my favorite historical antidotes for how crazy people have always been is that Isaac Newton was so annoyed by attempts to predict the end of the world when he was alive that he did his own Isaac Newton logic on the bible to conclude that the world would end no sooner than 2060. This wasn't to make his own prediction, it was just to shut people up.

 

[Casey Pelous]

A few years after social media became popular, I think.

You may have a point ....

145 people pricked with syringes at France street music festival

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/23/europe/france-festival-syringe-attacks-intl-scli

Ahead of the festival, feminist influencers like Abrège Soeur warned that calls had been made on social media for women to be targeted with syringes.

They think maybe it was Rohypnol or something in that family, but nobody really knows. Folks felt "unwell" afterwards. At least three did. No word on the other 142.

 

[Free]

This is what fireworks do.

7 unaccounted for after explosion at California fireworks warehouse

The warehouse caught fire and blew up in Yolo County, northwest of Sacramento.

www.nbcnews.com

A warehouse storing fireworks in California caught fire and exploded Tuesday, sending a fireball into the air, launching debris and causing pyrotechnics to detonate above the site, according to officials and video from the scene.

The Yolo County Sheriff's Office said the warehouse, near the Esparto area northwest of Sacramento, exploded and was actively burning.

Esparto Fire Protection District Chief Curtis Lawrence had no comment to reporters about whether there were any injuries Tuesday night.

YOLO county...

 

[detrius]

This is what fireworks do.

7 unaccounted for after explosion at California fireworks warehouse

The warehouse caught fire and blew up in Yolo County, northwest of Sacramento.

www.nbcnews.com

YOLO county...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Link to Guardian article

“It’s not surprising to see Patriot Front inserting itself into disaster relief in Texas,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, who has researched rightwing extremism in the US for decades.

“The group was founded there, and like other extremist groups, they want to take advantage of relief efforts to mainstream their ideas, present themselves as non-threatening and helping the community, and ultimately use what they hope will be positive PR to recruit and grow,”

Beirich noted that everyone from Klansmen to armed militias have seen value in public appearances providing disaster aid.