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A momentary joyful break from the ills: this crossing guard playing air guitar, not realizing he’s playing perfectly to my son Holden Miller’s song Eggshell blasting in my car.

A momentary joyful break from the ills: this crossing guard playing air guitar, not realizing he’s playing perfectly to my son Holden Miller’s song Eggshell blasting in my car.

'It is truly monstrous': Inside the besieged Sudanese city where families are forced to eat animal feed to live Al Fashir is being suffocated to death.

'It is truly monstrous': Inside the besieged Sudanese city where families are forced to eat animal feed to live

YouTube video by Abi Carter Abi Carter - Ghosts in the Backyard (Live in the Coke Studio at Spotify Studios LA ft Holden Miller)

So very beautiful. youtu.be/UOQ_SxPZKSk?...

Sen. Booker (D-NJ): “I am sick and tired of hearing this kind of heated partisan rhetoric, which is one of the reasons we have divisions in this country. The attacks we see from POTUS, trolling and dragging judges is what we should be talking about that puts people in danger.”

June 8 is World Oceans Day. Why not introduce your readers to our laugh-out-loud environmental farce that also opens eyes about #oceanpollution and #tikkunolam ? #middlegrade reads 💦

House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035 Both the Senate parliamentarian and the Government Accountability Office have concluded that Congress lacks authority to block California’s climate policy.

Lawmakers voted 246-164 to pass a resolution targeting the rule, which ranks as one of the nation’s most ambitious policies aimed at combating climate change and promoting electric vehicles.

However, it is unclear whether the Senate will follow suit and send the measure to President Trump’s desk.

Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it.

Now newly uncovered security flaws in AirPlay mean that those same wireless connections could allow hackers to move within a network just as easily, spreading malicious code from one infected device to another.

Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it.

Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it. www.wired.com/story/airbor...

Major Gun Violence Research Center Threatened by Proposed Cuts Governor Phil Murphy’s move to slash a New Jersey research hub comes as the state braces for leaner budgets under the Trump administration.

“We are the only research center out there that not only conducts research, but is a funding agency.”

A proposed $1 million cut to the New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center could undermine research on a variety of gun-related topics.

Thank you, Janet.

DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy In an email to staff, the head of the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs said the canceled grants don’t align with Trump administration priorities.

The Justice Department on Tuesday canceled hundreds of grants to community organizations and local governments, including funding for gun-violence prevention programs, crime-victim advocacy and efforts to combat opioid addiction, according to an email obtained by The Post.

Happy Earth Day. Kirkus star. 9/10 from Time Magazine for Kids. Funny. Poignant. Important.

Happy Earth Day. Kirkus star. 9/10 from Time Magazine for Kids. Funny. Poignant. Important.

You’re fabulous!

Just some art. These pieces and more at the Huntington Public Library, NY, May-June.

House Democrats: DOGE is building a “cross-agency master database” of Americans’ sensitive information Wired reports the database could combine IRS, SSA, and voting records for surveillance targeting undocumented migrants.

House Democrats: DOGE is building a “cross-agency master database” of Americans’ sensitive information

Live updates: Salvadoran president says he won’t return wrongly deported man to U.S. Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the new Congress.

Breaking news: Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said Monday that he did not plan to return Kilmar Abrego García to the United States, the man at the center of an ongoing court battle after the U.S. government wrongly deported him to El Salvador.

Art. Books. Art. Books. Art. Books. Art. Books. Art. Books. TikTok video by Gaepol

Some recent stuff

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Trump issues order to block state climate change policies U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change.

US President Donald Trump issued an executive order that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change reut.rs/42miaBn

We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, describes how free and fair elections might end in America as soon as 2026.

“They are living in a self-created delusion.” Senator Chris Murphy, of Connecticut, talks with David Remnick about his Republican colleagues and how they enable Donald Trump’s actions because they are “deeply scared of him.”

New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.

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Our kids are smart, and caring and hopeful. They deserve so much better than this shit world we’re heaping on them. We need to do better and fast.

The House Speaker’s Eyeing Big Cuts to Medicaid. In His Louisiana District, It’s a Lifeline. - Verite News New Orleans Nearly 40% of Louisianians in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s district were enrolled in Medicaid last year, according to data complied by KFF.

Nearly 40% of the people in House Speaker Mike Johnson’s district rely on Medicaid. In interviews, several of them said they were unaware of his efforts to upend the program. Now they’re nervous about what it could mean for them.

‘Strongman vibes’: Trump plans military parade as market crashes and federal jobs slashed President Donald Trump is trying to get the military parade his “generals” blocked him from having during his first term, reportedly planning to spend millions of taxpayer money to honor himself on hi...

“So what if you go broke or your kid dies of measles?”

I mean, come on people. What the actual fuck?!? Such heinous bullshit.

The Forgotten Dystopian Vision That Explains Trump’s Canada Obsession The president’s outlandish fixation on annexing Canada and Greenland makes sense when you understand his worldview. It’s pretty similar to one articulated in 1941.

Trump’s threats should not be dismissed, at this point, as crude bargaining tactics or buffoonish theatrics. We’ve been here before ... In the spring of 1941, as Hitler’s armies swept across Europe.

Russia on track to build artillery shell stockpile triple the size of the US's and Europe's combined: top US general Gen. Chris Cavoli says Russia is rebuilding its forces swiftly, including by producing 10 times as many tanks as the US each year.

Gen. Chris Cavoli says Russia is rebuilding its forces swiftly, including by producing 10 times as many tanks as the US each year.

Macron urges French companies to halt investments in the United States In today’s edition of #TheCapitals, read about Trump carpet bombing global trade – Irish pharma on borrowed time, Meloni not ruling out tariff response to the US, Greece eyeing Israel for ‘Shield of Achilles’ dome, and so much more.

Macron urges French companies to halt investments in the United States