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Valencia president Carlos Mazón resigns over botched handling of deadly floods Leader of Spanish region’s People’s party had clung to power despite calls for him to stand down over 2024 disaster Carlos Mazón, the embattled president of the eastern Spanish region of Valencia, has bowed to public fury and political pressure by resigning over his botched handling of the deadly floods that killed 229 people in the area just over a year ago. Mazón, a member of the conservative People’s party (PP), had hung on despite calls for him to stand down after it emerged that he spent more than three hours having lunch with a journalist as the floods hit and people were drowning in their homes, garages and cars. Continue reading...

Valencia president Carlos Mazón resigns over botched handling of deadly floods

Trump administration faces Monday deadline on use of contingency funds for SNAP President Trump's administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds.

President Trump's administration faces deadlines on Monday to tell two federal judges whether it will continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds. n.pr/490aPMO

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Its time

Do not give Trump a Civil War. It will be hard not to do this over the Next year. We need to get to the Mid Terms. He will do everything he can to stir this pot up. Anything to call off the elections. When you vote this year. Straight blue nothing else. We need to hold Our cities and keep them Blue.

I am one with the box.

#CatsOfBlueSky
#Cats

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.”

Nailed it.

Not good at all

Obsessed that you can (finally) pin albums to your Apple Music like they’re your favorites on Letterboxd lol

Time to boycott ABC for pulling Jimmy Kimmel.

#ProudBlue
It should "go without saying" but...

I'm wondering how long the #mapoli dark money "Boston Policy Institute" will stay in operation, now that the Boston mayoral election is effectively over.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

YouTube video by JoanJettVEVO Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Crimson and Clover

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd5M...

The last survivor will be Fallon, speaking his blistering truth* to the third lead from NBC’s NEE hit drama Chicago Insurance Adjusters

*playing a few free-spirited rounds of Celebrity Uno XTREME

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

I stand with Kimmel.

Cover of The Poetry Review. The cover illustration is a bunch of gold ballons deflated. The names on the top right are Safia Elhillo, Forrest Gander & Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Harrison Hamm and Safa Khatib. At the bottom the verse: "ricocheting // not unlike baptism sideways"

Two of my poems are in the autumn issue of The Poetry Review!!! 😭

Yes, THAT Poetry Review! The main British Poetry magazine and one of the hardest in the world to get into 💅🏻

Big thanks to @poetrysociety.org.uk and Wayne, marvellous editor

All Republicans No one is left out of this one its all of them.

Posting pictures I have taken of birds to stop my feed here just being depressing politics #birds #birdsofbluesky #ukwildlife Goldfinch, London, March 2017

Boycott all of #ABC and boycott All advertisers. Using ABC period

FCC Chair Carr’s post from 12/30/23: Free speech is the counterweight—it is the check on government control. That is why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream.

👀

This is really bad...

Horrible Republicans should have that designation period

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik Recent killings have dazed the world and provoked condemnation. But little is said about the calibre of Palestinian journalism, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik

A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.