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Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

Federal Workers Sue to Disconnect DOGE Server Two federal workers, citing reports that Elon Musk’s associates are operating an illegally connected email server at OPM, seek a restraining order.

Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit.

By me at @wired.com:

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

I CAN’T EAT MY PANCAKES WITHOUT MAPLE SYRUP WE’RE ALL OUT OF IT

I CAN’T EAT MY PANCAKES
WITHOUT MAPLE SYRUP

Long Beach, CA

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

RFK Jr. Spread Anti-Vax Misinformation Before Measles Outbreak The second day of confirmation hearings for Trump’s secretary of health and human services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again focused on his long record of vaccine skepticism, his shifting position...

Samoa's Health Chief Says RFK Jr. Spread Anti-Vax Misinformation Before Deadly Measles Outbreak

Mood

Therapy

Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.

God bless

Trump Threatens Everyone at Davos With Global Trade War Donald Trump just took his tariffs threat to a catastrophic level.

“My message to every business in the world is very simple: Come make your product in America and we will give you among the lowest taxes of any nation on Earth,” Trump said. “But if you don’t make your product in America, which is your prerogative, then, very simply, you will have to pay a tariff.”

Morning Briefing: Proud Boys Promise Retribution for Investigation and Prosecution of Capitol Rioters Members of the Proud Boys and their supporters online are engaged in violent rhetoric and revenge fantasies against their perceived enemies: 'They need to pay for what they did.'

Morning Briefing: Members of the Proud Boys and their supporters online are engaged in violent rhetoric and revenge fantasies against their perceived enemies: 'They need to pay for what they did.'

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

Let's Gooo!
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fresh audio product:

• Laura Jedeed on San Francisco and tech moguls’ plans to “fix” it
• Yasha Levine, co-director of Pistachio Wars, on the Resnicks and water in California

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Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

In the National Parks, Fire Crews Do More Than Fight Fires Protecting sensitive habitats and cultural resources from the smoke and flames is part of the job too.

In the National Parks, Fire Crews Do More Than Fight Fires

Gotta love ppl who work in book shops

Los Angeles: The city's mutual aid groups are urgently looking for long-term warehouse space to receive and stage emergency supplies.

Requirements: storage for 30-50 pallets, a loading dock, and a pallet jack or forklift. Ideally for 18 months.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

As Pacific Palisades burns, firefighters report hydrants coming up dry: 'Water supply just dropped' L.A. developer Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village, says he received reports that there was 'no water in the fire hydrants' as firefighters battled the Palisades fire.

Some firefighters battling the Palisades fire in LA are reporting that hydrants are coming up dry.

Southern California has gotten approximately .1 inches of rain since this past May.

We need urgent climate action now.

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My view of downtown LA right now. Never seen anything like this. Can’t even begin to process the scale of the devastation here.

Long Beach, CA

Trump’s tech allies and MAGA base clash over visas for skilled workers The rift laid bare the tensions between wealthy members of the tech world – including Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers – and people in President-elect Trump...

Trump’s tech allies and MAGA base clash over visas for skilled workers

16 million homes sit empty across the United States. Greed creates the unhoused. Capitalism breeds misery.

Blue birds huddling together for warmth

No-knock warrants are used without restriction in 34 states, and conditionally in another 12.

20,000 no-knock raids are executed each year.