Two tweets from August 2 2025 or earlier.

bamorav: "What is going on!!! The price of coffee has nearly doubled in the past 6 months. I purchased a 25 ounce container in January for $7.79. Same store, same coffee today is $13.99."

sam.baxendale: "As someone wisely said, your dipshit in chief thought the global economy was 14 years old, so decided to fuck it."

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/931202/wage-theft

Have a nice weekend everyone, but watch out for the goose!

Quick oil study.

Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to ​step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, ​Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June ⁠30, it said.

A source familiar with the matter said that ​Gabbard had been forced out by the White House.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-05-22/Community_view

TL;DR

Since 2016–2019, aggregate monthly pageviews of Wikipedia's "Vital Articles" are down −26% across eight major languages I sampled (en, es, fr, de, it, pt, ja, ar). The Vital Articles are an imperfect set, but they cover a much broader set of topics than my last sample set, and are widely replicated across wikis. (All of these wikis have at least 80% of the articles, making it more apples-to-apples.)

The decline isn't even across topics. Mathematics, physical sciences, and technology are down 43% to 85%; biographical articles and geography are down less than 10% in half the languages I looked at. The per-topic ordering (which have declined the most or the least) is nearly identical in every one of the eight languages.

Freshness of article content matters, but not as strongly as topic.

Messages obtained by New York Magazine show the Democrat mocking free healthcare, dismissing the Epstein files as a “nothing burger,” and calling Democrats hypocritical for their outrage at the killing of nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Fetterman has been a thorn in his party’s side on a host of issues.

In January, according to the report, Fetterman sent staffers an article about how annual healthcare costs for a typical working American family are nearly $4,000.

“How should it cost? Free?” he wrote. “I don’t understand what affordability it is.”

Also in January, as the Trump administration was dragging its heels about releasing the Epstein files, Fetterman messaged a staffer: “Epstein was a nothing burger. Worst pics I’ve seen were from Clinton lol.”

Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say. Fetterman has been sounding more like a Republican, staffers say.

Then, after federal agents repeatedly shot Pretti in the back during anti-ICE protests, Fetterman complained that Democrats shouldn’t be taking his side because they had objected when Kyle Rittenhouse “brought a gun to a protest,” as Fetterman characterized it.

“Kyle Rittenhouse brought a gun to a protest,” Fetterman, 56, texted a staffer. “He was roundly condemned for that. Why are now democrats defending the nurse it was legal to carry. Both legal weapons. Square that.”

Unlike Pretti, though, Rittenhouse actually fired his gun. He shot three men—two fatally—during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020 after the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer. Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide, among other charges. He was found not guilty.

Pretti’s killing, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Office determined, was a homicide.

Fetterman’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast.

Archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/s6iC8

NYMag article archived at https://ghostarchive.org/archive/7ayBq

Or as my GF calls it: Spring descruffication.

I swallowed a bee. Not on purpose. I was out boking and singing along to my current favorite album (the last best concert I went to) and, well, my relationship with bees requires some explaining.

When I was a kid, bees liked to land on my glasses, then climb around to the inside. In between the glass and my eyeball. Have you ever tasted your bravery? Courage? Just whether you could stand really fucking still? Bees like my eye juices okay.

So a bee came at me. Went in my mouth while I was singing on my bike ride. If you can't sing while you're exercising, you're working too hard. I may or may not have been part of a roving band of violent minstrels when I was younger. That's beside the point. The damn bee I can still feel it on my uvula. Aaaaaa

Water vole numbers nationally are in free fall, with more than 90 per cent lost since the 1970s.

FD Signifier says it well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rkhswBLwK4