It’s important to recognize, as we see more and more media mergers, that they are not about quality. They’re about control. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Brought to you by the "both sides are the same crowd" is:
this stupid shit
Pumpkin spice contains no pumpkin. It blends cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and, sometimes, allspice.
First created to season pumpkin pie, the mix now perfumes lattes, cookies, and candles. Learn how simple combinations can define the taste of an entire season ➡️ w.wiki/FLhU
"Hurry up and wait" is a way of life
The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.
Did the cyclists cause them to go 60 mph?
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good
A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies. By @juliaradio.bsky.social
The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.
perhaps it's a bad idea for breaking news to be moderated by a chatbot
It’s truly so insane we figured out how to turn sunlight into electricity and we’re not using it to power everything.
But when you click the link it has DISAPPEARED
The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.
In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”
A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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Does anyone else find it absolutely crazy that we task our public school systems with creating their own public transit networks?
Like, it's no wonder they're all broke. "We can't afford, public transit," but we make the schools do it. That's crazy, right?
Why not share the whole image, NPR?
Just wondering how conservatives would have reacted if Biden's first cabinet meeting had been attended by George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, or Bill Gates.
Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours
A new government tracker claims DOGE has saved billions from ending federal contracts. But an NPR analysis of the data finds the claimed savings don't add up.
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280 (1976), laws that make the death penalty mandatory for certain crimes violate the Eigthth Amendment.
Read that again.
Yes, it says "mandatory death penalty"
"A society grows when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit"
What proverbial trees are we planting today?
We’re focused on feeding our kids.
Investing in our schools.
Making sure child care is affordable.
Regardless of the chaos unfolding in Washington, we’re making Minnesota the best state for kids to grow up.
The only thing required for evil to succeed is for good men and women to do nothing.
OMG, Bernie! You cooked him! Straight to a crisp! He might as well be a charred lump on the chair.
UPDATE: This bill was defeated today in the Senate.
This is a victory for government accountability and our First Amendment rights.
