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Although Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Christina Henderson restored DeSanti’s rights in relation to a 2004 drunk driving case, in which he pleaded guilty to felony endangerment, she denied his identical request in a case where DeSanti pleaded guilty to felony possession of burglary tools after he and his cousin were caught stealing a metal ramp from a commercial yard near downtown Phoenix. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/neil-desanti-gop-candidate-who-pushed-election-fraud-claims-indicted-voting-illegally
Videos of the alleged incident posted online appear to show several officers attempting to arrest a man. At one point, multiple gunshots are heard. https://www.wkow.com/livestream/wkow-livestream2/watch-madison-police-holding-press-conference-on-downtown-shooting/article_98f43f1f-cb53-435d-83c8-cbc82793f6cf.html
I sipped coffee. "Speaking of plans, you were going to tell me about the sort of miracle that's going to distract the Swiss Guard while I whisk your young friend away." The ancient poet peered at me for a silent moment. "Just trust me on that, will you?" ENDYMION, by Dan Simmons (1995), Chapter 12
Pryce from Better Call Saul in front of his bright yellow Hummer with red flames.
Sergio Furnari, originally from Italy, had hoped the statue of the deceased far-right activist, which he intends to display in Times Square, would raise “millions” of dollars. Instead, he said he has been inundated by messages from people saying they intend to urinate on the sculpture. To add injury to insult, Furnari recently broke his foot working on the statue, after tripping over a roll of tape in his studio. “Is it cursed? Maybe. I don’t know,” he told the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/sculptor-charlie-kirk-statue-new-york
I was thinking about how free of mobs recent centuries had been: to create a mob there must be public meetings, and public meetings in our time consisted of individuals communing via the All Thing or other datasphere channels; it is hard to create mob passion when people are separated by kilometers and light-years, connected only by comm lines and fatline threads. The Rise of Hyperion, Dan Simmons
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in Staten Island, New York, on May 27, 1794, to Cornelius van Derbilt and Phebe Hand. He began working on his father's ferry in New York Harbor as a boy, quitting school at the age of 11. At the age of 16, Vanderbilt decided to start his own ferry service. According to one version of events, he borrowed $100 (equivalent to $2,100 in 2025) from his mother to purchase a periauger (a shallow draft, two-masted sailing vessel), which he christened the Swiftsure. However, according to the first account of his life, published in 1853, the periauger belonged to his father and the younger Vanderbilt received half the profit. He began his business by ferrying freight and passengers on a ferry between Staten Island and Manhattan. Such was his energy and eagerness in his trade that other captains nearby took to calling him "The Commodore" in jest—a nickname that stuck with him all his life.
"Home Coming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child," by John Bradshaw.
If this sounds like a bizarre merging of politics and play, organizers say it is not. [highlighted]“Most people want to be tapped and told how to help,”[/highlighted] said Mulligan, a longtime DSA member and the dungeon master of D&D-themed hit YouTube series Critical Role and Dropout’s Dimension 20. “Then, lo and behold, there’s this new way to participate, bringing the platform I have to bear.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/16/dungeons-dragons-tabletop-games-politics
Students will use a unique identification code when interacting with the robot during class, allowing it to access their learning data and provide personalized support based on their past communication with the avatar, Kiguel said. “They’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m student number 1234,’ and then the robot will be like, ‘Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?”
So yes the "great reset" is very much a real thing. Very much underway. You aren't looking at the puzzle as a puzzle with pieces that are moved strategically
Screenshot from Adam Carolla's Wikipedia page, highlighting that he and his wife divorced in 2021.
Opening of an Onion op-ed from May 7, 1998: I Think That Stripper Really Liked Me I know what you’re going to say when I tell you this, but I think that stripper down at The Kitten Klub really liked me. The little red-haired one, Kandi. I don’t know what it was, but we just seemed to have this… *connection*.
Sam Neill in UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (Wim Wenders, 1991)
Reddit comment: How the fuck does that happen ? Reply: This is a so-called flashover, the same phenomenon that occurs in almost all major fires and also occurred on New Year's Eve in Switzerland. A flashover (also called a fire jump) is the sudden transition of a fire into a full fire. All flammable materials and gases in a room ignite themselves simultaneously, causing the temperature to rise to up to 1000 °C within a few seconds. The resulting fire then follows the draft with the remaining oxygen and literally shoots outside until all flammable materials have passed high-rise. There is almost no chance of survival, as the environment, people, their clothes and all the oxygen is inflamed at the same time. The victims are usually already suffocated before they are burned or even simply remain unharmed on the ground.
Matt Gaetz looking extra smarmy
Paul Rudd playing video games with Seth Rogen, saying, "Wanna know how I know you're Canadian?"
"Don't sweat it," said Tyrena. This week's fashions included a hairdo which sent black spikes thrusting half a meter above her forehead and a body field opaciter which left shifting currents of color concealing—and revealing—the nudity beneath. "The first run only amounted to sixty thousand fax transmits so we're not out much there." "You said seventy million were planned," I said. "Yeah, well, we changed our minds after Transline's resident Al read it." I slumped lower in the flowfoam. "Even the Al hated it?" "The AI *loved* it," said Tyrena. "That's when we knew for sure that *people* were going to hate it."
"You're wrong!" I shouted. "Not everyone recognizes fine poetry, but there are still enough people who read to make it a bestseller." Tyrena did not laugh again but her smile slashed upward in a twist of green lips. "Martin, Martin, Martin," she said, "the pop-ulation of literate people has been declining steadily since Guten-berg's day. By the twentieth century, less than two percent of the people in the so-called industrialized democracies read even one book a year. And that was *before* the smart machines, dataspheres, and user-friendly environments. By the Hegira, ninety-eight percent of the Hegemony's population had no reason to read anything. So they didn't bother learning how to. It's worse today. There are more than a hundred billion human beings in the Worldweb and less than one percent of them bothers to hardfax any printed material, much less *read a book*."
For the first and only time in my life I became political. Days and nights would pass with me monitoring the Senate on farcaster cable or lying tapped into the All Thing. Someone once estimated that the All Thing deals with about a hundred active pieces of Hegemony legislation per day, and during my months spent screwed into the sensorium I missed none of them. My voice and name became well known on the debate channels. No bill was too small, no issue too simple or too complex for my input. The simple act of voting every few minutes gave me a false sense of having *accomplished* something. I finally gave up the political obsession only after I realized that accessing the All Thing regularly meant either staying home or turning into a walking zombie. A person constantly busy accessing on his implants makes a pitiful sight in public and it didn't take Helenda's derision to make me realize that if I stayed home I would turn into an All Thing sponge like so many millions of other slugs around the Web. So I gave up politics
Poster replying to author of unbelievably offensive essay: weird how often you chose to point out who is and isn’t Jewish in this story… Author: Good observation. I only do it to point out Jewish influencers whitewashing Israel's crimes. I supported Jill Stein for president, who is Jewish. There I go again.
Rape is a continuum ending with an ugly, overweight stranger stalking a woman, beating her, ripping her clothes off and violently … Platner’s offense was at the opposite end of the continuum.
This is a red silicone VR face mask cover designed to improve comfort and hygiene during virtual reality gaming. It is compatible with Meta Quest 3 and Oculus Quest 2 headsets, acting as a sweatproof and washable barrier between your face and the cushion.
Nicki Minaj standing like that.
Bertazzo was “a beautiful person with a great smile,” said Álvarez. “We are surprised that this has happened.”
Until recently I would have said that if you’re a good writer yourself or even just a prolific reader, you can pick up on a sort of AI texture to writing that clearly gives it away — but then I read an article at Serious Eats that I was sure was AI-generated and apparently others thought it too and called it out, and one of their long-time editors, a writer I respect and consider credible, said it absolutely wasn’t (and the author does seem to have a consistent writing style predating AI). So now I’m questioning my own ability to detect it, when previously I was confident I could tell. https://www.askamanager.org/2026/07/im-paranoid-of-being-accused-of-ai-generated-writing.html
Filled with sorrow, the bird carried the wood home himself and told the mouse what he had seen and heard. They were very sad, but were determined to stay together and make the best of it. The bird set the table while the mouse prepared the food. She jumped into the pot, as the sausage had always done, in order to slither and weave in and about the vegetables and grease them, but before she reached the middle, her hair and skin were scalded off, and she perished. https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm023.html
The Far Side comic "Nerds in Hell," in which an awkward-looking bespectacled man is in a line in an underground cavern, lined with flames and watched over by Satan, cheerfully asking the guy next to him, "Hot enough for ya?"
Bono leading the way through the ocean surf in a black suit and top hat. Edge and Larry also in black (the former wearing a cowboy hat as well), while Adam is decked out in pink. Red title text reads: U2 Street of Dreams
Spelling Bee from July 3, 2026: Letters are A (in the center), D, I, L N, O, R. I am stuck at "Great" level, with a score of 113.
BuzzFeed headline with photo: Taylor And Travis's Wedding Has Sparked Scrutiny Over How Performative It Felt
Butters from South Park tap-dancing moments before things go horrifically awry.
One of the truths the makers of these early films got hold of and were able to exploit until cheap video obliterated the film market was that, paradoxical as it seems, most straight men do not fantasize about sex with *women* so much as they fantasize about sex with *secretaries*, *nurses*, *waitresses*, *prostitutes*, *women doctors*, *women's magazine editors*, *schoolgirls*, *movie actresses* seen on the screen, *housewives* and *businesswomen* passed in the street.
Once, when WAP (Women Against Pornography) was leading its tours through the area in the early eighties, I did an informal tabulation of six random commercial porn films in the Forty-second Street area and six random legit movies playing around the corner in the same area during the same week. I counted the number of major female characters portrayed as having a profession in each: the six legit films racked up seven (one had three, one had zero). The six porn films racked up eleven. On the same films I took tabs on how many friendships between women were represented, lesbian or otherwise, in the plot. The six legit films came out with zero; the six porn films came out with nine. Also: How many of each ended up with the women getting what they wanted? Five for the porn. Two for the legit.
Friday surprise Snugglebear.
We don't think the same as the face and body boys.
Mom: Just left the Bemidji Cinaplex after seeing The Mandalorian and Grogu. Action-packed & Grogu is adorable. 😘 Me: They actually had to get a new Grogu because the original Grogu was caught driving an RV across state lines that had about 20 pounds of meth in it and two underage teens. You can barely tell it's a different guy, though.
"Life" A long winding path You may prefer a straight path That's not how it works —GS
Jenny Lewis with her arm around Blake Sennett at the end of a Rilo Kiley show at the Chicago Theatre on Friday, May 29, 2026.
Guy standing up at the town meeting meme, saying, "It's bad to let dogs off-leash in public areas."
Tracy Jordan saying, "Solid—you be awesome, unc."
Garrett on "Community" (S05E03) spilling some folders out of his locker and yelling, "Oh, great, now I have these folders to deal with!"
Email with the subject line "Heat is on."
"I've been rewatching The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and I noticed that Will is a high school sophomore going on dates with grown women — and [Uncle Phil and Aunt Viv don't] say anything!" —justchillman
Court Rules Meryl Streep Unable To Be Tried By Jury As She Has No Peers
Cover of the Onion's fictional Weekender magazine: We Talk To Craig T. Nelson, Founder Of Craigslist
Tweet from @screentime: Neighbor who was caught on video fighting Reacher star Alan Ritchson admits he pushed him first "He was coming towards me on his bike," he told TMZ (There's a pic of the neighbor from his Zoom interview with TMZ and there's a red MAGA cap visible in the background. The text is not clear in this pic, but you can see it says "Make America Great Again" in the video.)
Lola
During the initial settlement of Fargo, there developed two cities: one (unofficially) called "Fargo on the Prairie" and the other "Fargo in the Timber". "Fargo on the Prairie" was known for being well run by Northern Pacific engineers, while "Fargo in the Timber" remained mostly lawless and full of apparently "desperate and reckless characters", according to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. Eventually, "Fargo in the Timber" would see its demise after a crackdown by federal authorities, and the modern Fargo would develop out of "Fargo on the Prairie".[10][11] The area started to flourish after the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad and the city became known as the "Gateway to the West." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo,_North_Dakota
An orange cat flopped heavily over the chest and left shoulder of a simple, honest man in an armchair.
You know, I just got Limitless on my iPad. I bet I can get it on the TV. Oh, isn't that the one where the guy becomes limitless?
Bob Odenkirk in the "Diner Wink" sketch from I Think You Should Leave, saying: "…and it was a very uptight sushi restaurant that doesn't even allow you to order supplemental soy sauce."
The Top Gun soundtrack
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThoPdsNK/
Headline: Chief Justice John Roberts warns personal attacks on judges have 'got to stop' Subhead: Roberts' comments follow President Donald Trump's most recent criticism of the Supreme Court over its tariffs ruling.
Michael Scott, annoyed.
A meme divided into four panels. In the first, Adele is smiling like Anakin in the Anakin/Padme meme. In the second, Oprah is laughing and saying, "But of course you don't go into relationships thinking even if you break up, at least you'll get another hit single out of it, do you?" In the third panel, Adele looks annoyed now, like she doesn't care for the question, and in the fourth, Oprah repeats, "Do you?"
Trump saying, "Nothing bad can happen. It can only good happen."