Poisoning Pigeons in the Park

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Cause it’s funny:

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
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Cause it’s interesting

Contrary to popular belief, Michelangelo was not a starving artist.
When Professor Rab Hatfield dug into 500-year-old bank records, he uncovered that Michelangelo had a fortune worth roughly $47 million today, making him the wealthiest artist of the Renaissance.

Cause it’s True

Garland?
Garland?
Garland?
Anybody . . .

House panel recommends criminal charges against former US president Donald Trump

The panel probing last year’s assault on the US Capitol recommended Donald Trump be charged with crimes including insurrection — raising the stakes in an investigation that could put the former president in jail

A very American coup attempt: Jan 6 panel lays bare Trump’s bid for power
Executive summary of report released by House panel investigating January 6 details a failed self-coup

Jan. 6 panel report executive summary

What was in Trump’s FBI file when he came down the golden escalator in 2015?
AFAIK, we know one thing from the recently released Australian Government’s minutes from 1986: that Trump was intimately involved in the mob.

RawStory has obtained exclusive chats leaked by an infiltrator that show neo-Nazi accelerationists discussing an Atomwaffen offshoot called National Socialist Resistance Front as being tied to the Moore County, N.C., power grid attack.

 

Artists fed up with AI-image generators use Mickey Mouse to goad copyright lawsuits
‘People’s craftsmanship, time, effort and ideas are being taken without their consent…’

 

36 Stratagems of War
Besiege Wei to rescue Zhao
When the enemy is too strong to be attacked directly, then attack something he holds dear. This will force the strong enemy to retreat in order to support his weakness. The name came from Qi forcing Wei’s army to retreat from laying siege to Zhao’s capital by laying siege to Wei’s capital in 354-353BC.