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Reports indicate that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok, was briefly suspended from X in mid-August 2025 after stating that Israel and the U.S. were committing genocide in Gaza. — NBC

“…The suspension lasted only about 15 minutes, but the event caused confusion and controversy.” reported by NBC News.

This is fucking NEWS? My fucking hemorrhoid cream-selling, Viagra-endorsing, Tampon-using National Broadcast Corporation!

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Listen to this Cunt — He won’t say Genocide, and pals up with fucking Germ Bernie: Ro Khanna Exposes AIPAC Pressure & Democratic Divide on Palestine

Remember, those fucking dirty MAGA Maggots, too — No evacuations to the USA of injured-maimed by Jews from Gaza: So says Cunt Trump!

Sadism 101! And this one has a Hispanic last name?

A more than 30-year resident of Columbus, a border town of around 1,300 people, González likes the Republican president, who has come to be known for his hard-line immigration policies. Immigrants deserve criticism for not fixing their legal status, she said. “ Everything that happens to us is our fault,” she added.

The port of entry to Palomas — one of three border crossings in New Mexico — is quiet compared to the much-busier Santa Teresa crossing an hour’s drive east. While there are a few miles of desert from the port of entry to Columbus, Palomas sits directly on the border, its school buildings dwarfed by the 30-foot-tall wall constructed during the coronavirus pandemic.

A few street vendors wheeled carts selling hats and street food on that late June day. Americans wearing tropical attire sipped margaritas in one of the few tourist establishments, the Pink Store, a kitschy restaurant and emporium showcasing artisanal crafts from throughout Mexico.

The main attraction for U.S. tourists, though, are the Mexican optometry and dentistry clinics and pharmacies that line the first few blocks along the border and main street. Beyond that, Puerto Palomas grows into mostly dilapidated residential blocks and unpaved roads.

A few blocks down Palomas’ main street, a human-sized replica of the Statue of Liberty overlooks the Mexican pedestrians from atop a building that holds a bar. González, who owns the building, placed the statue there “because I’m an American,” she said, laughing, adding she prefers the vivaciousness of Palomas streets to the U.S., where “you go home and watch TV.”

Another statue stands in the bare and colorful plaza outside the Pink Store: a bronze depiction of Pancho Villa shaking hands with U.S. Army Gen. John Pershing — a depiction of cross-border friendship that never happened.

[They have the same LaLaLandia Lie statue in El Paso, both my stomping grounds]

Pancho Villa Handshake Statue, El Paso, Texas

The two men never met. Though Pershing tried.

After Villa led a 1916 raid from Palomas across the border to Columbus, leaving roughly 17 Americans and at least 70 Mexicans dead, Pershing led a 10,000-troop military operation in pursuit of Villa, which after almost a year proved unsuccessful.

Statue handshake between Pancho Villa and John Pershing. Note the telltale finger curl.

Francisco “Pancho” Villa, a Mexican revolutionary whose fondness for crossed bandoliers inspired years of south-of-the-border caricatures, died in a hail of gunfire in 1923. Protective of his image — his reported last words were, “Don’t let it end this way; tell them I said something important!” — Villa even played himself in a few D.W. Griffith-produced silent films. To this day his mustachioed likeness can be found on murals across Mexico.

Pancho Villa's index finger was bent from years of gunfights.

When icons unnaturally perish, they’re sometimes remembered with posthumous souvenirs. Crucifixion relics, stakes from Joan of Arc’s bonfire, pill bottles from celebrity ODs, all are collectible. Villa, who was both famous and infamous, reportedly had his corpse dug up and dismembered. Some of the pieces went to Americans, perhaps as spoils of war (He had, after all, invaded the U.S. in 1916). Villa’s head is supposedly displayed at Skull and Bones, the notorious secret society of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Pancho Villa’s index finger was bent from years of gunfights.

For those of us not as well-connected, a more visible Villa option is available at Dave’s Pawn Shop in El Paso, Texas. Displayed in the storefront window, nestled in a reliquary bed of fluffy cotton among abandoned class rings and silver dollars, is Pancho Villa’s withered, blackened trigger finger.

Blackened finger, mummified as if about to pull a trigger.

“It’s been there longer than I’ve been around, and I’m 38,” said Clay Baron, grandson of Dave and current manager of the shop, which has been owned by the family since 1950. Whoever pawned the finger has been long forgotten, but may have come from Mexico, whose border is only a few blocks away.

Elvis statue suggests that this is not a normal pawn shop.

The shriveled digit, smaller than you might expect, is crooked — as if Pancho was about to fire his six-shooter in his last, desperate moments. “It gets a lot of attention,” said Clay, who judged the grisly memento to be “more celebrated than reviled” to Texans. One of the Pawn Shop’s proudest possessions is a snapshot of First Lady Laura Bush, peering in the window at the finger.

The finger is visible just to the left of shop manager Clay Baron.

Its price tag — $9,500 — seems more obligatory than serious. Would the Pawn Shop really sell the finger, even if someone walked in with the cash? Clay was coyly noncommittal. “There might be some tears,” he said, but we hope that he would find an excuse not to sell what has become an unofficial icon of El Paso — and the defining property of Dave’s Pawn Shop.

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The Jewish State of Murder, man, think — Valued at a reported $500 million, the tanker deal will be funded through U.S. financial aid. Think 52,631 fingers!

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Look, I won’t be getting mail from my Scottish cousin Molly anytime soon. Trump hates the little guy, for sure.

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Jews destroying the world, and Trump on Mashed Potato IVs: He couldn’t understand this geophysical information even with Bill Nye the Science Guy tutoring him:

As glaciers melt, scientists study potential for more violent volcanic eruptions

Study: Melting Glaciers could cause more volcanic eruptions

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Now take it to this level, and Trump would blow his semen pipe: Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way.

Giant Chunks of The Seafloor Are Mysteriously Upside Down, Scientists Find

There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across, that, according to a release from the University of Manchester in the UK, “defy fundamental geological principles”.

These mounds pile atop structures known as sinkites, the result of a process called stratigraphic inversion, and never before have they been found in such large numbers.

“This discovery reveals a geological process we haven’t seen before on this scale,” says geophysicist Mads Huuse of the University of Manchester.

“What we’ve found are structures where dense sand has sunk into lighter sediments that floated to the top of the sand, effectively flipping the conventional layers we’d expect to see and creating huge mounds beneath the sea.”

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Nearly Half of Young Adults Are Living Back Home With Parents - Bloomberg

Trump is calling for forced marriages and forced adulting work camps!

Young adults are pushing back the big milestones Americans have historically associated with growing up — moving out of your parents’ house, getting a job, getting married and having kids.

The big picture: In 1975, about half of America’s 25– to 34–year–olds had done those things. Fifty years later, less than a quarter have, according to a census working paper out this month.

Living With Your Parents: How to Make It Work - Boundless

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It’s not California’s to call their any way: The Iipay Nation of Santa Ysabel recently reacquired more than 1,000 acres of its ancestral land in San Diego County, the tribe announced Tuesday.

“There’s just a bunch of beautiful nature there, which is just so exciting to see get back into tribal ownership and care,” Geneva E. B. Thompson, deputy secretary for tribal affairs at the California Natural Resources Agency, told SFGATE by phone. The acquisition was funded by the agency’s Tribal Nature-Based Solutions program, which allocated $100 million to placing land back into indigenous stewardship via partnerships with various tribes across the state.

The Iipay Nation plans to open a cultural and educational center on the property called the Ewiinally Traditional Ecological Knowledge Center, the tribe wrote. The public will be able to visit the center along with other portions of the property, Thompson said. Hiking trails and campgrounds may also one day open on the land.

They have to pay for what was stolen from them???

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The Smithfield Foods plant in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., shown in 2023, is no longer the...

The Smithfield Foods plant in downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., shown in 2023, is no longer the largest emitter of toxic chemicals in the state.]

Indian Country? South Dakota industries released nearly 7.5 million pounds of chemicals in the air, water and land in 2024, according to recently released data from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Oh, that hometown, small-town-loving, hick-valorizing Semen Drip Trump:

EPA rescinds protections for Iowa drinking water

The Environmental Protection Agency has overturned a 2024 ruling that sought to protect some of Iowa’s largest waterways that provide drinking water for half a million people.

Nitrate levels in many of Iowa’s rivers, lakes, and streams are already above federally accepted standards.

Based on the EPA’s standards, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources added seven of Iowa’s major urban drinking water supplies to a list of impaired waterways for exceeding safe nitrate concentrations.

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Freshly cleaned oysters are seen in Nova Scotia’s Chance Harbour. Credit: Molly MacNaughton/IJB

You get the shits when the bivalves eat your shit!

Mark Kapczynski had been looking forward to it for weeks.

He had VIP tickets for him and his wife to attend an upscale seafood festival in Los Angeles last December, where they would feast on the food he grew up eating as a kid in Boston.

Surrounded by shellfish presented raw on ice by some of the city’s best chefs, Kapczynski said he chose to sample a few “Fanny Bay” oysters harvested from the southern British Columbia coastline.

“After three or four hours, I wished I was dead, it hurt so much,” said Kapczynski, who was hit with severe abdominal pain, vomiting every 30 minutes for five hours. “It was the most painful thing I’ve ever felt.”

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A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick held by a wildlife biologist on the Hoopa Valley Reservation in August 2024. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

And you thought it was all about Gaza in Semen Trump’s pinhead?

The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story

A small percentage of species protected by the law have ever recovered, but an even smaller fraction have gone extinct. With all the threats they face, including long-shrinking federal support, that’s an achievement, scientists note.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum speaks during a news conference at the White House on Aug. 11. Credit: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images

White Psychosis and Double Speak:

“The Endangered Species List has become like the Hotel California: once a species enters, they never leave,” Burgum wrote in an April post on X. He’s referring to the roster of more than 1,600 species of imperiled plants and animals that receive protections from the federal government under the Endangered Species Act to prevent their extinctions. “In fact, 97 percent of species that are added to the endangered list remain there. This is because the status quo is focused on regulation more than innovation.”

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Glad the InBred UnUnited Queendomers are working hard to stop the crime of, err, genocide? Nope. Loud Music.

Man listens to music on bus. File pic: iStock

Ban passengers playing loud music on public transport, say Tories

The Tories say they would change the law to so that nobody has to “endure somebody else’s choice of crap music” while on the move.

Rail operator will issue $116 fines for 'bare beating' on trains | CNN

Have your say: Should passengers who play music out loud get £1,000 fines?

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The first Gazans? Native Americans:

A company that produces maps for hunters and hikers has partnered with a conservation nonprofit to create a map of Bureau of Land Management-managed parcels in the West that appear to be at risk of sale or “disposal,” including numerous parcels in Southern Idaho. The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and onX published the data in early August. It highlights around 6 million acres of public land in 17 states that has been flagged as eligible for sale or disposal — a designation that doesn’t necessarily mean the land will be sold.

The Idaho parcels identified on the map have been flagged for potential sale for varying durations. Many of the parcels in the Boise area are attributed to a resource management plan for the Bureau of Land Management’s Four Rivers Field Office that was approved just last year. Others include management plans for the Owyhees and Challis issued in 1999, a plan for the Jarbidge area near Twin Falls dating to 2015 and the 1985 Medicine Lodge plan for parcels near the Wyoming border.

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