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I'm doing that thing again where I take this app off my phone for a few days or weeks or months to get some actual work done 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Does it surprise me that publicist #PeggySiegal is in the #EpsteinFiles ... NO ...

Frankly it wouldn't surprise me if that ♀️🐩 turns out to be a #pedo (though currently the evidence just points to gross 🤢 anti-blackness & poor taste in jokes about Madonna).

Still horrible in & of itself.

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm Desalination of seawater and sewage treatment plants leave behind water that contains high concentrations of salt, metals and other contaminants. What if that water could be separated from the rest?

The world produces 25.2 billion gallons of contaminated brine water daily from wastewater treatment.

Most gets dumped in the ocean or stored in evaporation ponds. A chemical engineer explains how reclaiming that water could be a game-changer for drought-stricken regions.

I always find it so funny how the brainiacs on jeopardy can answer questions about like, rocketry, but as soon as the question is something dealing with black culture they look like they just got asked to solve the cure to cancer.

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Let's try to remember that our planet is fecund enough that we could all sustainably be "millionaires" and heal the parts of the planet industrialization harmed if we shared fairly and didn't have hateful fascists & greedy oligarchs.

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Or even just the privilege of not living in a country with a fascist leader running the government.

It would behoove us all to learn to target our anger on the actual Fascists & those billionaires who support them financially, rather than that celebrity millionaire who's house you're jealous of.

We on the left & center need to learn to give each other more grace in error and/or cultural misunderstanding in order to fight fascism. Living our values of kindness towards each other more particularly if one has more power in this current system due to being male and/or white.

I agree but if she states it that way it leaves MJ up for libel 🙍🏻‍♀️ we know that clown loves to sue 🤦🏻‍♀️

Yeah, probably... quoting back is common in American debate forms, in academia+journalism often required.

FWIW American English "sloppy" doesn't necessarily carry the connotation of accidentally or not on purpose like in 🇬🇧 aligned English, just without care.

Not caring on purpose common here 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

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In British English - Yes it implies accidental or at least not on purpose in addition to without care.

In American English - it doesn't because people can do things without care on purpose. Unloaded example "sloppy joes."

You're having a difference in cultural connotations. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Friendly fire 😔

Black Trans Trailblazers That You May Not Learn About in History Class For Black History Month, we’re honoring these Black trans pioneers from across America.

It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes.

Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism.

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US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he dislikes the term ‘established science’

RFK Jr’s sham of a vaccine advisory board is now “reevaluating” decades of evidence based, life-saving science & denigrating routine shots while vaccine preventable diseases return. Surely a wise choice as the US has all but lost measles elimination status, and ongoing measles outbreaks persist 🤡🎪

Report: Education Department's "efficiency" layoffs cost at least $28 million Roughly half its civil rights employees were fired. Almost all complaints were thrown out.

The Department of Education gutted its civil rights staff—only to spend tens of millions recalling them.

Both John Buccigross and Matthew Berry continue to have big, public-facing roles with ESPN, despite the allegations against them. As with seemingly all men in sports media accused of sexual misconduct, the public eventually forgives, forgets, and then lashes out at those who remind them. Some of these men go on to become the faces of sports coverage for their outlets. Mike Tirico, for example, was disciplined by ESPN decades ago for one of the most egregious allegations of sexual harassment/assault I’ve heard of, in addition to multiple allegations of stalking and harassment by other female colleagues. In his book ESPN: The Uncensored Story, Michael Freeman recounts Tirico’s inexplicable behavior toward a work colleague at a house party. After ignoring the woman’s pleas that he leave her alone, Tirico, who had just met the woman for the first time, continued to follow her around the party and insist he was in love with her. When the woman, fed up with Tirico’s harassment, left the party, he followed her out to her car and attempted to block her from leaving. When she rolled down the driver’s window to tell him to get out of the way, Tirico reached into the car and shoved his hand between her legs. In another case, Freeman writes that Tirico followed a woman’s car after she rejected

his proposition to “throw you on the table right here and fuck your brains out.” This wasn’t the only harassment allegation against Tirico. In the book Those Guys Have All the Fun, James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales write that at least six other women came forward with stories about Tirico. In 1992, ESPN suspended him for three months and told him to seek counseling. After that, Tirico began a meteoric rise at ESPN, eventually becoming the host of ESPN’s crown jewel, Monday Night Football. Tirico was put front and center by ESPN, despite his disturbing history, and I often think of the women he left in his wake as he went on to call NBA and college basketball games, US Open tennis matches, and World Cup soccer. In 2016, before #MeToo exploded on Twitter, Tirico left ESPN for NBC, which would, the following year, fire Matt Lauer for similarly predatory behavior. Like at ESPN, Mike Tirico became the face of NBC Sports, replacing Bob Costas as the lead studio host for coverage of the Olympics. And, in an impressively tone-deaf move by NBC, they had Tirico interview snowboarder Shaun White about a sexual harassment lawsuit against White. When asked, NBC admitted they knew of Tirico’s past but dismissed it as something that happened long ago.

Despite my best efforts, too many people still don’t know about Mike Tirico. Here’s what I wrote about him in my book:

“Is the writing bad or are you just trying to order a milkshake from Home Depot?”

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The hidden cost of "deplaytion" Ban social media all you like – but don't ignore their crap playgrounds

The hidden cost of "deplaytion"

Ban social media for kids all you like – but don’t ignore their crap playgrounds

🖊️ @anooshc.bsky.social

What kind of idiot shoots endangered animals

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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

An Agent Revolt: Moltbook Is Not A Good Idea OpenClaw is a breakthrough AI assistant. Moltbook, its new social network for agents, is a security catastrophe waiting to happen.

If you have an AI and you're letting it access intimate data like text messages or your bank account then you're a 🤡

www.forbes.com/sites/amirhu...

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Holy Cow! This San Francisco anti-ICE protest is huge! Solidarity with Minnesota. 🤍

He's white right? ... then it's highly unlikely he'll be targeted. I'm worried about my fellow BIPOC humans, we tend to get the brunt of it because racism & sexism in America is wildly violent.

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Do you know what to do if you’re subjected to a search or arrest at a protest? Join EFF for a livestream discussion about how to protect your electronic devi... EFFecting Change: How to Protest with Privacy in Mind

Joining those standing up for our First Amendment rights in the wake of ICE's actions? Be prepared before you protest with "How to Protest with Privacy in Mind" eff.org/protestprivacy

YouTube video by The Real News Network “A hero”: Nurses, federal workers honor Alex Pretti

🚨 "I COULD BE ALEX PRETTI": NURSES & FEDERAL WORKERS HONOR THOSE KILLED BY ICE

NEW FROM ME @therealnews.com

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