Steve Conklin

AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —

Reg E. Cathey. We were standmates in band and both in theatre.

Two men shaking hands over Women's beauty.

I'm not going to link to the propaganda press release by the DOJ, but here's a sample:

". . . the defendants were members of a North Texas Antifa Cell . . . defendants [redacted] are alleged to have been part of a group that created and distributed insurrectionary materials called “zines.”

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A graphic from the front page of the WSJ, titled, "The Epstein Email Cache: 2,300 Messages, Many of Which Mention Trump." Using blue does it compares how many of the email threads released by Oversight are about various people. 1,670 are about Trump. 207 mention Michael Wolff. 155 Kathryn Ruemmler, 117 Larry Summers, and 512 Clinton.

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

Empathy from another member of the Wonky Knee Club.

Transdiagnostic reduction in cortical choline-containing compounds in anxiety disorders: a 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy meta-analysis - Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry - Transdiagnostic reduction in cortical choline-containing compounds in anxiety disorders: a 1H-magnetic resonance spectroscopy meta-analysis

Anxiety disorders linked to low Choline levels. Not mentioned in this study, but some studies have linked pesticide exposure with reduced brain Choline levels in humans.

A Public Notice from the US Army Corps of Engineers granting a request to fill wetlands without the normal permitting process, in order to build a Uranium enrichment plant in Paducah, KY. Justified by a national emergency declared by President Trump.

The President's national emergency being used to bypass environmental permitting to build a Uranium enrichment plant.

Charlie Brown spins through the air because Lucy has again pulled away the football he was trying to kick.

turtrucken

An U.S. citizen of Indian descent being questioned about Zohran Mamdani (as if there is something wrong with knowing who the mayor-elect of NYC is) by masked men.

" . . . Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Knitting Variegated Yarn: Gestalt Techniques Amazon.com: Knitting Variegated Yarn: Gestalt Techniques: 9781737193043: Bryan, Kitty: Books

My lifelong friend Kitty Bryan just released a book. She's an accomplished engineer and fiber artist, and I highly recommend her book, which I had the good fortune to read in an earlier draft form.

[P] HECK YEAH!

I remember the "Billy Beer Scandal".

If they’re comparing it to themselves, sure. If they’re comparing it to someone capable of putting on their pants without crying, probably not.

Happy f'ing Holidays!

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response Migrating wild birds are spreading the virus to domesticated flocks, increasing the risk of eventually seeing a human outbreak. Scientists are troubled by the muted federal response.

This is fine.

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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Trumpsgiving: a box of Saltines and a jar of Peanut Butter.

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor - Longreads It's a recognition that comes in the aisle of a grocery store.

The Difference Between Being Broke and Being Poor (2018)

Wow — Fox News fell for a racist AI video about SNAP recipients with “7 baby daddies”… then when called out changed the story to be about AI videos going viral 🤔

Gilded Rage: Talking With Jacob Silverman Why Silicon Valley went from libertarian to authoritarian

"Silverman: . . . tendency in tech in some areas of finance that they think that they’ve discovered ideas for themselves or they have very little respect for experts. . . . They don’t really entertain a lot of outside knowledge and they think that they’ve discovered ideas for the first time"

$4200/year is $81/week. For a family of four, that's less than $1/meal/person.

I looked it up...over 48,000 of those SNAP households are in Clay Higgins' district.

That's around 126,000 of his constituents, or 16% of the entire population of LA-03.