When a cancer forms in our life we don't sit around and let it fester and metastasize. No. We nuke the shit out of it with radiation, or we poison it with chemicals, or we cut the son'bitch out because if we don't, we know damn well that cancer will kill us.

LAUREN

2025-07-11 00:36:13

Just ended a 10 year friendship because they don't want to get angry about "the news" and "both sides" have screwed things up. Also has become antivax and says she would not vaccinate her children now if she had a choice. And finally, is very very resentful of Covid and the pandemic shutting down her life.

Bad day.

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UN investigator and critic of Israel's actions in Gaza tells AP she was shocked by US sanctions
https://apnews.com/article/un-us-albanese-gaza-sanctions-israel-ceda1adc8e2a1a4511c24da87b0d2342?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump plans to hike tariffs on Canadian goods to 35%
https://apnews.com/article/trump-carney-canada-tariffs-import-taxes-572b7a2ac58145153443663cf818d598?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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But At What Cost? Compilation 😆

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#comedy #china #politics

Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo is working on a no-hitter at Yankee Stadium through 7 innings
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Oregon's Housing Crisis is the fault of "Investors" driving up prices, not a shortage of housing:

From the OR Capital Chronicle:

There is no large crisis in the raw amount or supply of housing. The crisis lies in its price.

In this current decade, Oregon’s population increased only slightly, from about 4.2 million at the decade’s start, to about 4.3 million now, and there’s been no mass destruction of housing. . . .

Legislative Republicans this April complained that in the last three years only about 43,000 building permits for residences had been issued in the state, well below the governor’s plan for 108,000. But the state’s number of households rose by about the same amount during that time. The new construction that happened should, in theory, have been enough to keep up with it.

In 2023 (the most recent year available), Oregon had about 1.75 million “households” with the average household comprising 2.4 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

That same year, the Census counted in the state 1.88 million “housing units” — over 100,000 more housing units than the number of households — including “a house, an apartment, a group of rooms, or a single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters.” It doesn’t include some other residential places, such as trailer and mobile home parks.

The upshot is that Oregon, like most states, has more residential units than households.

And there is no crisis for people of sufficient means. Anyone who can afford to plunk down a half-million or so (which includes many existing homeowners, in or out of state) will not have much trouble finding a house. People below that level, a large part of the population, may find that a house (or in some places apartment rentals, too) are simply out of reach.

The problem with Oregon’s housing crisis is affordability. The median house value in Oregon (which reflects purchase prices) as of May was $540,300, according to online real estate market platform Zillow. One home-buying calculator estimates that if a purchaser puts down 18% for the home — the median downpayment of home buyers in the U.S., according to the National Association of Realtors — they would need to have more than $97,000 saved, and earn more than $120,000 per year to afford their mortgage payments. That means fewer than a fifth of Oregon households could afford a median-priced house based on income. (Sales by owners of currently owned houses could expand that number.)

Despite the limited pool of buyers, prices have climbed and stayed high.

Why?

Oregon’s notably strict laws on land use are often mentioned as a cause of the problem. They may contribute to it, but many other states — such as next-door Idaho — have far fewer building restrictions but still have house pricing problems as bad, or worse, as Oregon’s.

High priced homes can be more profitable for builders and developers, so they build more of them.

But the key explanation for why so many more houses are purchased, compared to the number of local residents who can buy, seems to be that relatively wealthy investors — individuals and especially businesses — are buying large numbers of houses and apartments in Oregon, and around the country.

Many national studies have found as much.

Redfin News, which tracks home sales nationally, said last August that investor home buying has been rising steadily in recent years — about 3% annually — and bought one of every six U.S. homes that sold — purchasing $43 billion worth of properties — and one of every four low-priced homes that sold.

Redfin found that during the 2nd quarter of 2024 in Portland, 13% of homes sold (valued at $511,419,529) were bought by investors, an amount rising in recent years. Many homes are then flipped and resold for still higher prices. All of that activity places upward pressure on sales prices of other homes as well.

A variety of buyers have been among the mass purchasers. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has for several years focused on the role of hedge funds in home buys, and with U.S. Rep. Adam Smith, a Democrat from Washington, introduced in 2023 the End Hedge Fund Control of American Homes Act.

Merkley called hedgefunds, “a contributing factor that has made it more difficult for middle-class Americans to become homeowners and is contributing to America’s twin crises of housing unaffordability and wealth inequality.”

Others have disagreed about how large a role the finance organizations have played. But someone can afford to buy all those houses — in many cases well beyond the asking price — and less-wealthy wage earners cannot compete.

That would be a real and pertinent, albeit sensitive, topic for the new state agency to address. Until someone does, the housing shortage for most Oregonians will go on.

#Housing #Houselessness #Capitalism

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Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-su…

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

CUNY suspends student activist leader, fires four faculty members in escalation of repression against

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

^{Billie Estrine (Mondoweiss)}

Oh girl, you’d be in trouble if you left me now, ‘cause I don’t where to look for love. And I just don’t know how….

~ The Chi-Lites

#YodaMode #Audiophile #Music

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• Lawyer (13%, 2 votes)
• OnlyFans (66%, 10 votes)

Bill in Congress would prevent schools from using student fees to bankroll college sports
https://apnews.com/article/nil-congress-student-fees-57a299db827cac915f141480be8b77c1?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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MAGA Don speaks

whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/0…

A statement summarizing the end of USG $$ going to illegal aliens. In brief
- HHS restricting 13 programs
- Education ending free tuition
- Agriculture ending food assistance
- Labor ending grants & assistance
- Justice ending access to benefits

I've seen a few MDM outlet reports - they only mention HHS.

Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Are for American Citizens — Not Illegals – The White House

Today, at the direction of President Donald J. Trump, the Administration is taking the biggest step in more than 30 years to protect taxpayer-funded

^{The White House}

Recent photos sent from the Galileo space probe orbiting Jupiter’s moon, Europa, suggest that it meets the conditions necessary to support a primitive life form.

Just what kind of life form?

You guessed it, Frank Stallone.

#NormMacDonaldJokeOfTheDay

Apparently Libre Office is free and contains no AI.

#AI #Microsoft #LibreOffice

#AI is a tool used by #police to launder accountability.

“According to the EFF, Draft One "seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public." In one video from a roundtable discussion the EFF reviewed, an Axon senior principal product manager for generative AI touted Draft One's disappearing drafts as a feature, explaining, "we don’t store the original draft and that’s by design and that’s really because the last thing we want to do is create more disclosure headaches for our customers and our attorney’s offices."

The EFF interpreted this to mean that "the last thing" that Axon wants "is for cops to have to provide that data to anyone (say, a judge, defense attorney or civil liberties non-profit)."”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

“Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used”

Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used

AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.

^{Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)}

I have a rat, and it's a smart ass of a prick

I have set up a camera that had an alarm in it

The rat will not win

I now know where it's getting in

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700% of zero is? 😎 Besides, the claim of a 700% increase in assaults on #ICE agents are incidents like👇 and no charges filed.

"A grandmother planning to document ICE arrests at the #SanDiego courthouse instead became the story Tuesday after video of her own arrest began circulating.

An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her. After she spent hours in custody, she denied that to NBC 7 on Wednesday."

ICE handcuffs grandmother, a US citizen, at #immigration court – NBC
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ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court

An ICE agent accused the woman of pushing her. After she spent hours in custody, she denied that to NBC San Diego on Wednesday.

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