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A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

Seems premature to make this the lede story on the strength of a two day old ceasefire with zero certainty the rest of the ‘deal” will work & no indication that even a lasting truce would lead to an Israeli reckoning with its hugely powerful genocidal extremists.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

The cruelty is the point

CDC ‘Not Functional’ After Trump Administration Orders Mass Firings The layoffs targeted leaders in departments related to respiratory diseases, chronic diseases and global health.

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.”
time.com/7325192/cdc-...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Doubling down on the worst of the worst miscarriages of justice.

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

I suspect one reason they hide their identities is to conceal past restraining orders and DV arrests.

Behaviour of a totally upstanding civilised democratic state.

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A quartet of illustrations arranged in quadrants of the graphic. Surrounding the graphic is an green-yellow ombre striped border. In the center it reads “Artist Spotlight: @nisnow.art”. Artist Spotlight is in black font while the handle is in teal font.

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our first artist reveal for the November Queer & Quirky crate! First up is Nisnow @nisnow.art who illustrated the endpapers for the Starship Teapot Omnibus by Si Clarke @clacksee.bsky.social 🧵

Folks playing some thematic standoff music now.

Really just cannot express how non-threatening this small group of neighbors appears at the moment, and how absurd this massive police presence appears in comparison.

Quite a shakedown operation for folks in uniform fencing goods.

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Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

The US is going to host a Qatari air base in Idaho which is somehow fine but Mexican immigrants are somehow not

Friday evening in Joburg, a great town for jazz. This lovely set popped up in the community center in Braamfontein where I’ve been working, without even having to get up from my desk. Jazz against Palestine protest art — what could be better?!

Well, at least playing the guitar will mean some period of time in which your fingers aren't slandering rice on the Internet. ;)

I know so much of the apocalyptic AI doomer stuff has been about playing AI up to be much more than it’s turned out to be but it does seem like it possesses the capacity to be an existential threat because of the sheer fucking stupidity of the people who are super into it

orange cat lurking in the window

my neighbor stopped me in the parking lot to say "is that your cat?? he's so handsome and I need you to know I'm obsessed with him" and I looked up and saw this

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.” (gift article) Go, MIT!

So gay billionaire Peter Thiel, the guy who funded racist Hulk Hogan's penis-size lawsuit against Gawker, is now doing an evangelical Christianity bit about the Antichrist being opposed to tech development? Buddy, being a billionaire is an affront to Christ and inherently Antichristian. FOH.

This is the problem with the Schumer-backed Mills run blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Do you all know how many times Democrats weren’t able to do key resistance things in the House this year because extremely old people dropped dead in office

the idea that the only way we can have a primary is to run a 77 year old career politician against a newcomer is a sign of a tragically unimaginative politics

We need retirement from being an elected official to be a thing for politicians

Janet Mills — who is 77 — should stay the absolute fuck away from the Senate race and this situation is honestly

FRUSTRATING. AS. FUCK.

GRAHAM PLATNER FOR SENATE!

Grand jury indicts N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, a Trump opponent, on bank fraud charges James, a Democrat, has clashed with President Donald Trump after she brought civil charges against him in New York.

“Based on the government’s allegations, James has paid about $594 less in interest per year, or roughly $50 less a month, over the last five years than she would have paid had she characterized the purchase as an investment property.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

If knowing that the legendary SF/F writer Michael Moorcock wrote a book called Pegging The President doesn't make you at least chuckle, you might be lacking a sense of humor.