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Point Pleasant’s 13-Month Nightmare: Mothman, UFOs & Men in Black | Monsters & Mysteries

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Upstairs

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The Magnitude 8.8 Earthquake off the coast of Russia triggered a volcanic eruption at Eurasia's largest volcano - Klyuchevskoy. Klyuchevskoy stands at 15,584 feet and last erupted in 2023. The volcano is located in the Kamchatka region

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The Man-Eater of Gummalapur: "Shaitan"

The saga of the Man-Eating Leopard of Gummalapur took place in the 1950s. A female leopard turned to man eating after a forepaw injury inhibited her from going after her typical quarry.

The she-leopard was dubbed “shaitan” by those she considered prey. In this context, Shaitan means “evil spirit,” “demon,” or “devil.” Indeed, her human prey believed her to have supernatural abilities, and this notion was most deserved.

Her modus operandi was particularly abhorrent. Unlike tigers who prefer wait in ambush and take men and women in broad daylight, Shaitan attacked during the “witching hour,” enter a home through the roof, and steal a person through the same hole she entered. Sometimes, without even waking other residents of the shelter. Shaitan indeed.

Finally, a hunter named Kenneth Anderson endeavored to end her paranormal reign of terror, and excise her from the realm of the living, a feat that he would’ve failed, and possibly lost his own life in the process, were it not for the help of an enduring little friend he made along the way.

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Can Animals See Ghosts

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How Death Drives the Anthropocene | Sheldon Solomon

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📷 Hung Ton

Palouse Falls, Washington

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Hello everyone! Want to get some art from a Palestinian artist while also helping Palestine? I'm going to be running a raffle this week for Gaza Soup Kitchen, the winner will get a Tarot card from me! These tarot cards I usually charge upwards of $300 for due to complexity and time, so if you are pulled, you can receive one for as little as a $5 donation!

You can have multiple entries based on your donation. One entry starts at a $5 donation, multiple entries will be at each increment of $5 (ex: $10 = 2 entries, $15 = three entries, $20 = four entries).

A winner will be pulled on August 3!

Link to the form

Gaza Soup Kitchen's website (you can donate either through them or their GFM here. I will accept receipts from either):

Rules:

You must have proof of your donation to Gaza Soup Kitchen. I will not accept any entries that do not have proof of donation. I have two examples in the Google form of receipts I will accept + please crop out or censor any sensitive info.

I will ony be accepting entries through Google forms - this is how I will keep track of everything and then transfer to sheets for the raffle.

I will only be focusing on donations for Gaza Soup Kitchen. Please only send me your receipts from them and not any other org.

Communication will be through the desired email listed in the form. If you have any questions or concerns, please send me an ask or a message through my art email: alsudaniart@gmail.com.

I will not draw any hate imagery or sexual content (non-sexual nudity is totally okay).

Thank you everyone!

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A Politics That Won’t Stop at Power

How Trump’s is building a totalitarian system—not just through power grabs, but by dismantling the very conditions that make truth, dissent, and public life possible.

James B. Greenberg

Aug 02, 2025

They didn’t shut down the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They just fired the woman who told the truth. The July jobs report landed with a thud: just 73,000 new jobs—far below expectations—after downward revisions erased more than a quarter million earlier gains. Within hours, the president fired Erika McEntarfer, the BLS Commissioner confirmed by the Senate just last year. No hearing. No evidence. Just a Truth Social post accusing her of manipulating data to help Kamala Harris.

Under the emerging regime, the numbers on jobs, the air quality index during wildfires, and the maps of rising heat are no longer treated as data. They’re framed as political assets or threats, depending on how well they serve the regime’s narrative. Any independent institution—public media, statistical agencies, universities, libraries—that might question the official line is being targeted. They’re being hollowed out, defunded, or absorbed. Sometimes the signs are subtle: a reshuffled staff, a mission rewritten. Other times, the attacks are blunt: firings, closures, cuts.

This is where we are. Leaders at the CDC, the EPA, and the NEH have already been removed. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is now on the chopping block. The White House has signaled it may place the Library of Congress under executive review. DEI programs have been eliminated in dozens of public institutions. Teachers have been fired for using curriculum that hasn’t been “approved.” Science funding is being conditioned on ideological alignment. When you stitch these together, what emerges is a strategy to centralize cultural, scientific, and institutional life around loyalty—not truth.

From an anthropologist’s view, this is a cultural restructuring. Public knowledge—once understood as a shared resource—is now treated as a threat. The systems we used to rely on—universities, public media, statistical agencies—are being recast as partisan, elite, or untrustworthy. Once discredited, they become easier to ignore, then defund, then remake.

But this goes well beyond knowledge control.

What’s taking shape is a fully developed machinery of repression and ideological rule. It’s not just about misleading the public. It’s about building the tools to punish, silence, and remove those who don’t conform.

The regime is building the machinery for the mass deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants, backed by an expanding network of detention facilities and the deployment of the National Guard. Immigration is being weaponized—not to protect the public, but to produce fear.

Today, these centers hold the undocumented. Tomorrow, their use will expand. The homeless are being redefined as a threat to national security. Executive orders now permit their forced removal into federally run “treatment centers.” These aren’t housing programs. They’re mechanisms of disappearance. Poverty is being criminalized under the cover of compassion.

And the list of targets will only grow—because the goal isn’t order. It’s obedience.

Following the Project 2025 plan, tens of thousands of civil servants are being purged and replaced with ideologically vetted loyalists. Federal employees—scientists, economists, public health experts—have been reclassified so they can be dismissed for disloyalty. Public administration is no longer treated as a profession. It’s being remade to serve the will of the regime.

Executive orders are rolling back civil rights. Trans healthcare has been banned in multiple states, with no pushback from the federal government. LGBTQ+ visibility is under attack. DEI initiatives are being dismantled. Voter suppression is escalating—not just through ID laws, but through control of election boards, aggressive gerrymandering, and the purging of voter rolls.

And behind it all, surveillance expands. Protesters, teachers, and journalists are being monitored. Social media is scawnned for dissent. Whistleblowers punished. Agencies that once mediated between society and the state are being reforged into instruments of control.

We’re not just witnessing government assert power—we’re watching it extend a totalitarian reach into every domain once buffered by norms, distance, or civic purpose: education, science, libraries, public health, research, and the press. Not to dissolve these institutions, but to bend them. It doesn’t take formal censorship when a grant disappears, a university is threatened with accreditation loss, or an agency head is replaced with a political operative. The institution remains—but its function is inverted.

This erosion doesn’t come all at once. It comes through attrition: firings, closures, edits, reorganizations. The rules meant to protect independent institutions are being quietly rewritten. The public still sees familiar logos—but underneath, the mission has changed.

We once assumed these institutions were strong enough to withstand political winds. But what’s underway isn’t a gust—it’s a hurricane. And the damage doesn’t just land on experts or civil servants. It falls hardest on those who already live on the edge: the poor, the undocumented, the elderly, the sick. Because once public knowledge collapses, so does public leverage. When the facts are gone, what remains is force.

There is still time to push back—but the window is closing. We need to defend not just the right to speak, but the conditions that make speech meaningful. That means protecting the institutions that preserve public memory, independent analysis, and shared knowledge. It means holding the line on public data. It means defending schools, universities, and libraries not just as facilities—but as spaces where truth is still allowed to be inconvenient. And it means recognizing that this isn’t just about rhetoric. It’s about infrastructure.

Because once these lights go out, they’re not easy to turn back on. What gets dismantled may not return—not in time, not in form, not in trust.

And if that happens, we won’t just lose policy debates. We’ll lose public life itself.

Suggested Readings

Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Doubleday, 2020.

Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt, 1951.

Chomsky, Noam. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. South End Press, 1989.

Greenwald, Glenn. “The Real Danger to American Democracy Is the Fusion of State and Corporate Power.” GlennGreenwald.com, 2023.

Snyder, Timothy. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Tim Duggan Books, 2017.

Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos G. The Rise of Necro/Narco Citizenship: Belonging and Dying in the Southwest North American Region. University of Arizona Press, 2025.

Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs, 2019.

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Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

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27 July 2025.

"A young Palestinian boy carries an IV bag for his injured brother, walking across the cold hospital floor…

A scene that captures the collapse of Gaza’s healthcare system. Severe shortages of medicine and supplies, and a grim reality, paid for by families under relentless bombing and blockade."

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