Demand for Pokémon is exploding. Here’s how a local game shop is weathering the storm. For local card stores, the latest surge in demand for Pokémon cards like Destined Rivals, Prismatic Evolutions and Surging Sparks has been a mixed bag.

Demand for Pokémon is exploding. Here’s how a local game shop is weathering the storm.

To me, the parable of the Good Samaritan is about loving and being kind to people that aren't in the groups that you're in. That's what Jesus said we should do. It's so important.

SHE DIDNT “APPEAR TO”. SHE DID. QUIT COVERING UP THE BAD OF THIS.

Could hit?!?

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant The press’s pathological need to normalize autocratic misrule is paving the road to ruin.

The Media Is Responding to Trump With a Huge Face-Plant
The press’s pathological need to normalize autocratic misrule is paving the road to ruin. newrepublic.com/post/193002/...

The President has politicized the Department of Justice and threatens to unleash the power of the federal government on his political enemies. For example, he has promised to punish law firms that provide legal support for his opponents, Now, many are no longer willing to do so. Critics who once held security clearances or security details have them removed. Organizations fearful of threats from the President preemptively erase ideas, or silence dissenting voices. The President has suggested that critics are supporters of terrorism, using vague language that allows him to threaten nonprofits, or promise to deport protest leaders. Words and ideas are banned. Censors rifle their way through government documents and websites to remove them. Federal spaces, like schools on military bases, are purged of books that even mildly hint at the idea that diversity is a good thing. Executive orders that purge these ideas tend to be ambiguous, leading organizations to respond broadly and to self-censor. Funding of research ideas is being taken away from research experts and handed to political appointees who are defunding the ideas they dislike. Campus officials are trying to decide how to respond to government orders to remove ideas.

I wanted to put, in one place, a documented list of all of the ways that speech is being threatened.
The list is admittedly incomplete. It is also overwhelming.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chill...

DO IT!!! Breaking it will be the only thing to fix it. Finance bros in the exec suite will only respond to pocketbook hits.

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Where’s the lie?

When MAGA watches Saving Private Ryan, are they rooting for the Germans?

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’ US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan Donald Trump is receiving widespread backlash after he likened himself to a “king” on social media following his administration’s decision to rescind New…

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

We the People are pissed! #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #BuildTheResistance #PoliticalRevolution #NoVoiceUnheard #NoKings #VoicesOfFlorida #VoicesUnheard @polrev.bsky.social

Well oiled machine.

Germany’s Scholz Slams Vance on Democracy in Escalating Dispute German Chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed US Vice President JD Vance’s combative comments on European policy, adding to escalating friction between Europe’s largest economy and one of its most important a...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz slammed US Vice President JD Vance’s combative comments on European policy, adding to escalating friction between Europe’s largest economy and one of its most important allies.

These statements are a lot of things — petty, exaggerated, cynical, clueless — but more than anything else they are negligent. Assuming superintelligence arrives during Vance’s term in office, the time to prepare for the impact is now. But he waved that all away. “The A.I. future is not going to be won by hand-wringing about safety,” he said. And perhaps hand-wringing about safety won’t “win the future,” if by “winning the future” you mean “building superintelligence before China does.” But Chinese dominance of AI is not the only or even the most serious risk of building machines that can out-think us — a fact that no amount of cowboy posturing can change.

America's new plan for AI safety is "let's see what happens." I wrote about JD Vance in Paris www.platformer.news/paris-ai-act...

That last one on your lap. (Sobbing in the school pickup line.)

Please just take us out.

Middle East crisis live: ICC ‘condemns’ US sanctions and pledges to ‘continue providing justice’ International criminal court says it ‘stands firmly by its personnel’ after Donald Trump signs executive order imposing sanctions * Trump imposes sanctions on ICC, accusing it of targeting US and Israel Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…

Middle East crisis live: ICC ‘condemns’ US sanctions and pledges to ‘continue providing justice’

A Honduran child asked why my daughter is blind. I told her because we could not come up with the tens of thousands of $ fast enough to have the operation. she went blind at 32. She said we are 3rd world and in Honduras we would have saved her sight. I said really? which nation is 3rd world?

As a casual non-white observer, it’s so bizarre to see folks work so hard to try to prove their superiority over someone like me when they could spend that time actually bettering their own lives and…I don’t know, be happy instead of miserable fucks.

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. History Is Happening Right Now in Kansas And the news comes as the Trump administration has “paused” all public messaging by the CDC.

The Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak in U.S. History Is Happening Right Now in Kansas
And the news comes as the Trump administration has “paused” all public messaging by the CDC. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

This was not an accident or "blunder".

Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention.

Sad to hear this. Also relieved that she will not have to see what the next four years bring to women.

It’s just so important to have an algorithm heavy social media site designed to destroy America and drive everyone to madness while stealing all our information owned and operated by an American company because they’re more effective at it you know

What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Same.

Any post or bio that contains the phrase “I’m an ally” as opposed to just not being a horrible person is generally a real tell about someone