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Rebels Post Videos of Mass Killings in Darfur as the World Watches After the fall of El Fasher to the R.S.F., observers fear for the next target in the war.

Last month, El Fasher, in Sudan’s Darfur region, fell to rebel forces. “The world hasn’t caught up to what a big deal El Fasher is,” a humanitarian researcher at Yale said. “We are talking tens upon tens of thousands of potential dead in five days.” https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ePchw0

Deeply exonerating.

Female reporter: “Hey, were you involved in this huge scandal about horribly mistreating abusing and disrespecting women?”

Trump: “Of course not now shut up stupid fat woman”

Graham Platner's getting a lot of buzz in Maine's Democratic Senate race. He's running as a blue collar rural guy with rough edges, but he’s also an alumnus of the elite Hotchkiss School and the grandson of a celebrated Manhattan architect.

AI doesn't just assist cyberattacks anymore - now it can carry them out Chinese threat actors reportedly abused Anthropic's AI to automate mass break-ins of target organizations.

Not concerned about it? Perhaps the following article will change your mind?

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What Would Jesus [Not] Do?

Good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social on Kash Patel's tenure as FBI Direction, and consequences.

Recommended.

US Companies Announce Most October Job Cuts in Over 20 Years US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates, according to data from outplacement firm ...

#WolffBite: Good economy? US companies this October announced the largest job cuts in 20 years. No wonder Americans find socialism ever more appealing.

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two possibilities, both impossible to dismiss:

1) The Trump White House views the Epstein files as such a threat to its survival they must be discussed in a secure room

2) Leavitt has no idea what the situation room is and thinks its just a figure of speech

What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.

The future of America’s climate catastrophe would warrant “consternation under any administration,” Vann R. Newkirk II argues. But the Trump administration is accelerating global warming and making communities less resilient to its effects:

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Do you job!!

Bad pain day and my husband’s jeans scraping together when he walked were making my autism beat me up. He offered to go change into different trousers and on the way to do so, walked out like a crab so his legs wouldn’t rub together and it was the single funniest thing he’s ever done

Gerrymandering is now the wind beneath Gavin Newsom’s wings His winning gamble to counter Donald Trump’s brazen redistricting may make him the next Democratic nominee for president

Gavin Newsom has Donald Trump’s habit of providing his own political commentary, supplying a meta narrative for his politicking that somehow can pass as transparency and authenticity

Zohran Mamdani: “Hope Is Alive” A full transcript of the mayor-elect's victory speech to supporters.

"This new age will be one of relentless improvement." Read, re-read, maybe even memorize Zohran Mamdani's electrifying victory speech.

They fear what they can not control.

Episode Five: What Fourth Amendment? How the killing of Trevon Cole by Las Vegas police almost made prime-time TV.

How the killing of Trevon Cole by Las Vegas police almost made prime-time TV.

Judge orders Trump administration to fund food aid for millions of Americans The decision, in response to a lawsuit from nonprofits and cities, comes ahead of a Saturday funding cliff for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program.

A federal judge in Rhode Island orders the Trump admin Trump administration to fund food aid for millions of Americans.

The job market is getting worse. So why are stocks booming? The paradox at the heart of today’s economy.

It’s getting harder to find a job and easier to lose one. 💼

And yet, even as corporate America rains pink slips on its workforces, stocks keep hitting record highs.

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

Will America finally treat child care as a public good? Some states are about to find out In November, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free daycare for children as young as 6 weeks. On the other side of the country, child care is a key issue in New York City's mayoral elect...

Essay: Families in many of our peer nations have had public child care for decades, writes Abigail Leonard, author of "Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries." So why don’t we?

This is sad. We once went to the moon. Now we can't even get faster trains or stop burning coal.

The planet wants to live, despite what we want. I hope that once humans are no longer the dominant race, life will appear once again. Maybe the octopus will take over.

Chicago TV producer’s arrest in Ice raid ‘alarming and horrifying’, lawyers say Attorneys for Debbie Brockman, released with no charges, deny agent’s claim she ‘threw objects’ at border patrol car

Attorneys representing a producer for Chicago’s WGN television station who was temporarily detained by federal agents last week in Chicago, say the incident “should be alarming and horrifying to every person in this country”.
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I bet a lot of U.S.-born native English speakers can't meet those standards.

A New Road Safety Group Targets Self-Driving Cars A Tesla Takedown alum has launched a campaign for stricter regulation of autonomous vehicles in the US.

A Tesla Takedown alum has launched a campaign for stricter regulation of autonomous vehicles in the US.

We need stricter safety regulations for self-driving cars than for human-driven ones. Computers can make mistakes faster, and in cars, those mistakes kill people.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

I think she is right, we can not give an inch to the GOP. They will not compromise unless forced to.