Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

James Talarico tonight:

"It doesn't matter what happens in this Republican runoff. We already know who we're running against: The billionaire mega-donors and their corrupt political system. Not any one politician ... We are running against the broken system and the powerful people who broke it."

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

How has Tim Sheehy not yet been arrested for assault and hauled away as the deranged violent thug that we all saw brutalizing a marine veteran in the senate today?

How an underground fungal map of the world's oldest, slowest-growing rainforest trees can boost Earth's resilience The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Globally, mycorrhizal fungal communities move roughly a billion tons of carbon per year into Earth's soils, above all in old-growth forests.

Wild, natural ecosystems are the bedrock of a healthy planet. It's time we started recognising and acting on that.
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starting to wonder if the people on the left trying to wash away platners tattoo are trying to make it seem thats the only possible disqualifying thing about him

its awful, obviously

but there are So. Many. Things.

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...

Side note: If past is prologue, the rapid outcry among conservatives over Talarico's primary victory suggests the GOP *thinks* he's a strong candidate for Democrats.

That *doesn't* mean he'll win. But such a intense reaction to a Democrat in Texas doesn't exactly exude confidence from the GOP.

I don't think "affair" is the really right term when he was texting a congressional aide explicit messages and she wrote back "this is going too far, boss"

Is this person responding to me noting that AI steals books telling me my books are not my books because if so

YouTube video by Deckervideo The Overview Effect - As Told by the Astronauts

Listen to the astronauts.

Earth is the only home we’ll ever have.

It is miraculous.

It is a rare jewel in the infinite void of space.

We must protect it, not blow it up.

We are all one people.

There is no place for greed, ignorance, and hate.

We all need the Overview Effect.

‘My scientific career is essentially over.’ A brain drain imperils Massachusetts’ biomedical future. - The Boston Globe In a first-of-its-kind survey, the Globe asked hundreds of scientists about the impact of federal funding cuts.

“This is like asking, how do you think dropping an atomic bomb on New York City will affect the future of Broadway musicals? This is a generational loss of innovation, technology, and economic power.”
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Some important reporting! #scicomm 🧪

What is there to “muse about” re: Hitler’s politics?

It’s not as if Hitler was particularly secretive or mysterious about what he believed. Namely, genocidal hatred for minorities he considered to be sub-human.

“The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.” In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

“In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.”

I initially thought that Joel was sharing an old news story because I didn’t realize that this is different from the New York/Arizona/Vermont/Arizona YOUNG Republican Nazi group chat.

Is Dahlia Lithwick high?

4 March 1902 | A German Jewish woman, Lotte Mamlok, was born in Wirsitz.

She was deported to #Auschwitz in 1943 with her husband Max and sons Robert & Peter. Husband and Peter were registered in the camp and perished later. Lotte and Robert were murdered in the gas chamber.

Also, meeting Chris Menges (who had been a hero of mine) and have him praise my photography was the thrill of a lifetime.

IIRC Konchalovsky said “Who is this kid? He’s done nothing, fuck him!” or words to that effect.

Boy howdy, had I gotten that for my life would have been completely different.

No complaints though. I had gone to the set at my own expense and got to hang out with the camera crew for a week anyway.

In 1986 Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges wanted to hire me to do 2nd unit photography for “Shy People” based on footage I’d shot for my graduate student thesis film (shown to him by my friend who was a technical advisor on “Shy People”) but director Andrei Konchalovsky wouldn’t let him.

The senator assaulted him and broke his fucking arm, you galactic assholes.

GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

We’ve been literally BEGGING the team to hire a dedicated, skilled, professional public communicator but they’d rather just blame us for not having enough information….because they’ve chosen not to give it to us.

Alex @alex.bsky.team • 2h our userbase is already conspiracy brained enough about our rationale for suspensions without us making it this easy for them to accidentally entrap themselves

Uhhhmmm don’t love a Bluesky dev publicly calling the entire user base conspiracy brained.

If Bluesky users are prone to conspiracies @alex.bsky.team it’s because y’all place no value on communicating and don’t give people enough information, forcing them to come to their own conclusions.

Our userbase is… excuse me?

if @moderation.bsky.app is not allowed to be blocked in order to be on bluesky then bluesky needs to remove the ability to block it imho

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Just got this email and didn’t even know I had @moderation.bsky.app blocked but now I don’t lol. But I guess permanent suspension is happening if people block? Yikes.

Looks legit too? Just started my day and wasn’t anticipating this

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Kristi Noem testified under oath yesterday that detainees receive medical attention within 12 hours. Yet another shameless lie.

That frigate was at the international fleet review in India BTW, along with US forces. This amounts to sinking a ship under a flag of truce so it's even worse than it seems