Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

Meanwhile... and for quite some time now.

Kashmir Deserves a Lasting Peace Three generations have grown old since India and Pakistan started fighting, with civilians on both sides living under the forever-looming threat of war.

Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan

All because one word strikes the pearl-clutching fanatics in the wrong way.

And that's how the sausage gets made: Sabotage the national programs and then make the argument that it's better off being run by the private sector.

If SCOTUS rules to consolidate power, taking it away from lower courts, they are going to find themselves in a really nasty conundrum. As if they weren’t in one of their own making already.

Coward

Here’s hoping the #SCOTUS justices are well aware that if they ignore the written text of the 14th Amendment, that a future Court could ignore the written text of the 2nd Amendment, using the rulings from today’s hearing as precedent.

@asharangappa.bsky.social

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Alito practicing his arguments about how to ignore the explicit text of the 14th Amendment.

This is bleak reading

Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

"Multiple Trump White House officials have ties to antisemitic extremists." Trump regime is not about combating antisemitism, they are about silencing dissent. www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

Suddenly, “textualism” goes out the window… I wonder what Alito’s excuse will be this time?

How Trump's dismantling of NOAA threatens the Keeling Curve—and why that matters A small group of scientists is scrambling to preserve our ability to track atmostpheric carbon dioxide.

"After just three short months of the Trump administration, we are contemplating the abdication of US leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science."

from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org

I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin As an oceanographer, I study how the ocean shapes our world. For Australia and other nations, the lesson is urgent Antarctica is often viewed as the last truly remote place on Earth – frozen, wild and untouched. But is it really as untouched as it seems? This vast frozen continent is encircled by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the only current in the world that connects all the oceans, showing how closely linked our planet really is. Continue reading...

I just returned from Antarctica: climate change isn’t some far-off problem – it’s here and hitting hard | Jennifer Verduin

Even Kash gets no cash…

Maybe an FBI memecoin, then?

Trump Media CEO’s 8-Figure Pay Dwarfs the Company’s Revenue Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes was paid more as a share of revenue than the leader of any comparable company.

SLOAN: ".. I’ve been reading proxy statements since I became a business journalist more than 50 years ago, and don’t remember ever seeing a CEO pay package like Nunes’ that was so much greater than the revenue of the CEO’s company."

@barrons.com $DJT
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in an op-ed for @wsj.com, Trump Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent makes a series of highly specific promises of economic improvement in the second half of 2025. Bookmark to review later. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

It seems some people think hiding in plain sight is a good idea.

THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…

running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…

Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education

🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.

Opinion: Public lands are a national treasure and must not be sold “When public lands are sold off for profit, we lose the places that define our country and unite us as Americans,” writes Tracy Stone-Manning in an op-ed.

“When public lands are sold off for profit, we lose the places that define our country and unite us as Americans,” writes Tracy Stone-Manning in an op-ed.

Perhaps someone should publish a photo of him dressed as Mother Theresa… see how that goes over with the maganites.

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal WASHINGTON—In an effort to assuage any fears over the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s flurry of executive actions, a D.C.-area think tank called The Himmler Institute reportedly assure...

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-tank-c...

Cave exploration & survey…

#cave

Dicks gotta dick

Given djt’s high regard for the UN, all this will do is make Waltz a public spectacle: Modern-day social pillory.

On what planet, in the aftermath of SignalGate, does Waltz survive a Senate confirmation fight?

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Meanwhile, Petey H…

But will they wear suits? The all-important question.

Wouldn’t it be nice to just spell his last name “Mïllër.”

#umlauteverything