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How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did In ancient Egypt, writing hieroglyphs was a highly specialized skill, one commanded by only a small fraction of the population.

How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did

ok which one of you left all this snow all around here??

Crossing my fingers you survive Snowmaggedon!

Red states are doing what Trump won't: Going after abortion pills in court A new case in Louisiana tests how far courts will go to restrict access in a post-Roe landscape.

“Telemedicine has been a game changer for abortion access since Roe v. Wade was overturned, which is exactly why Louisiana wants to eliminate it.”

Red states are doing what Trump won’t: Going after abortion pills in court:

A U.S. veteran adopted an orphan from Iran. Decades later, ICE is trying to deport her The woman has no criminal record and is unsure what prompted the threat of removal. She fears being deported to Iran given her father's military service and her Christian faith.

Now ICE is targeting adoptees. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

People said Roe v. Wade would never go away. It did. Now, PAY ATTENTION this time.

@andertoon.bsky.social

Because I will only be able to see blue chalk messages if I have one from the same maker.

True.

fully secure device, no malware, no baseband firmware, no hidden proprietary code, immune to remote spurious RFI eavesdropping, immune to SSL attacks, all data can be wiped in seconds, infinite battery life.

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Yeah, and I follow a few there that don't want to get on YET ANOTHER platform.

I have been a supporter of EFF.org pretty much since the beginning. I will continue to do so.

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign

After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

youtube.com/watch?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p&v=wWKSoxG1K7w&feature=youtu.be

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant commu...

My head feels cold, I think I will fix that. www.npr.org/2026/01/31/n...

No administration, good or bad, lasts forever. Eventually they all end.
Cling to that hope and love your neighbor. We will get through this.

California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of Trump Newsom launched a review of the platform, despite TikTok saying a systems failure was responsible for the issue California governor Gavin Newsom has accused TikTok of suppressing content critical of president Donald Trump, as he launched a review of the platform’s content moderation practices to determine if they violated state law, even as the platform blamed a systems failure for the issues. The step comes after TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said last week it had finalised a deal to set up a majority US-owned joint venture that will secure US data, to avoid a US ban on the short video app used by more than 200 million Americans. Continue reading...

California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of Trump

Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti “In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti

WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/palant...

UK loses measles elimination status Decision made after outbreaks in 2024, when there were nearly 3,000 cases in England and Wales.

The UK has lost its measles elimination status, the World Health Organization has announced.

Vaccine disinformation is a worldwide pandemic that is killing us.

Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’ | Oliver Bullough The long read: Innocent people are being frozen out of basic banking services – and it all traces back to reforms rushed through after 9/11

Access denied: why Muslims worldwide are being ‘debanked’ | Oliver Bullough

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

Matt Eicheldinger
@matteicheldinger.bsky.social

It could take a generation to recover the talent lost from federal science.

But it doesn't have to. We should be ready to scale up the Presidential Management Fellowship program to triple what it once was and rebuild U.S. capacity by 2030.

A graphic of a quote from Dr. Heather Cox Richardson’s January 25, 2026, “Letter from an American,” which says, “The Minnesota National Guard made it clear which side they were on. Wearing neon vests to distinguish themselves from federal agents, they handed out doughnuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters.”

In her “Letter from an American” on Sunday, January 25, 2026, Dr. Heather Cox Richardson wrote, “Reports out of Minnesota say that in the face of the terror inflicted on it by federal agents, the people there are even more closely linked together in community solidarity. ->
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STOP! LEAVE HER BE!
GET OFF OF HER!

Nothing says "support the troops" more than murdering their nurses in cold blood. RIP Alex Pretti.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

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