Misun aka the fresh mint 🍃✨

Hudson Williams, of course 💯

From A.I. to Tariffs, 14 Charts That Explain 2025

📊YEAR IN CHARTS📉📈

I pulled together 14 charts to summarize the trends that shaped business and the economy in 2025

My 3rd time in a row doing a year in charts for DealBook, this edition is the most robust one yet in both charts & text!

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/b...

🎁 link nyti.ms/3LdhNo3

I’m sorry to be that person but please please please buy my book or come to my reading or request at your local library. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

The world is a dumpster fire, Jacinda Ardern tells Yale graduates The ex-NZ prime minister told the class of 2025 the world has moved from “tumultuous to an all out dumpster fire” in a matter of months.

“Empathy teaches that power is interchangeable with responsibility.” Jacinda Ardern

#politics #nzpol
#kikorangi

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Omar and his cat. Both killed by Israel 💔💔💔

Via: @yahiapal on X

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Pitiful state of affairs…

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What town is this? Love your photos.

A reminder for these times.

Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

an ACLU as that just has big text saying TRANS PEOPLE BELONG IN OHIO

this still feels like a threat, but there's a little hope

NPR host Adrian Ma remembers his girlfriend who died in D.C. plane crash NPR host Adrian Ma's girlfriend, Kiah Duggins, was aboard the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Potomac River. He spoke to NPR about that night and about his late girlfriend.

“I knew someone on AA5432.”
That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy.

www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

Questlove confronts the 'burden of Black genius' in a new Sly Stone documentary In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."

In SLY LIVES!, Questlove documents the genius of a funk trailblazer — and the pressure Sly felt as a Black artist. "Sly will be ... the first domino in a long list of people that will self-sabotage."

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

American Medical Association (AMA) The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies and other critical stakeholders. Our mission is to promote ...

American Medical Association is providing regular updates on bird flu and other infectious diseases on YouTube. I highly recommend subscribing to their page, especially since CDC has been axed by FOTUS #Voices4Victory

m.youtube.com/user/AmerMed...

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

Together, Trump and Musk are trying to rewrite the rules of the American system. They are trying to instantiate an anti-constitutional theory of executive power that would make the president supreme over all other branches of government. They are doing so in service of a plutocratic agenda of austerity and the upward redistribution of wealth. And the longer Congress stands by, the more this is fixed in place.

Again, if Musk had been elected to some office, this would still be one of the worst abuses of executive power in American history. No one in the executive branch has the legal authority to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations. No one has the legal authority to turn the Treasury payments system into a means of political retribution. No one has the authority to summarily dismiss civil servants without cause. No one has the authority to take down and scrub government websites of public data, itself paid for by American taxpayers. And no private citizen has the authority to access the sensitive data of American citizens for either information gathering or their own, unknown purposes. The thing, of course, is that Musk isn't elected. He is a private citizen. He was neither confirmed for a cabinet job nor formally appointed to a high-level position within the administration. He does not even have a presidential commission; he has been designated a "special government employee." Musk says that he is acting on the authority of the president of the United States. Even still, it is not as if the president nftha lInitad Ctatachne the authoritietn

Clear-eyed, direct NYT op-ed by @jamellebouie.net using the kind of non-euphemistic language the headlines should embrace:

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back theSkimm makes it easier to live smarter. You're welcome. Get all the info you need from AM to PM, wherever you are.

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on!

Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

The Toxic Aftermath Of An Urban Fire When a fire burns in an urban area, it unleashes a slurry of chemicals. Scientists are trying to understand the chemistry at play.

When a fire burns through an urban area, it can release a mix of harmful chemicals.

Dr. Rima Habre and Dr. Mark Wilson discuss the toxic aftermath of urban fires and the research needed to fully understand the health risks.

What’s happening is deliberate. Please read what Swiss sociologist and mental health advocate Jennifer Walter says about how to protect your mental health while staying informed as we go forward. MAGA need not participate in this dialogue as it doesn’t concern you.

Updated list of companies committed to DEI

Costco, Meijer, Kroger, Giant Grocery, Ben & Jerry’s, Ulta, Macy’s, Old Navy, Nordstrom’s, TJ Maxx, GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…), Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans

CHANELLE IS MISSING IN HESPERIA, CA: last seen at Oakwood Ave And Eucalyptus St. She's 7 pounds and chipped:
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JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

‘Trying to rewrite history’: Boise woman guilty in Capitol riot rejects Trump pardon Pamela Hemphill said she was “in a cult” and got out, and called pardons a slap in the face of police officers who were attacked.

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Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as an 'organizer of the people' Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.

Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as an 'organizer of the people'