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Much Ado About Nothing for the Beatrice sass. Henry IV part I for general characters. Twelfth Night overall plot.

Never ever ever ever ever vote for a Republican.

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

Good morning! Yes, this is he

Wild how some people resent having to make literally any small effort and yet spent all that time complaining about Twitter's algorithm changing how they see things.

This, tbh. I have no issue getting news from trusted sources on here.

The DOJ has been taking down Epstein files. Here's what remains. The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released.

The Trump DOJ has been taking down Epstein files.

The massive tranche of files the Justice Department currently maintains is more than 65,000 pages shorter than what the agency initially released, according to a CBS analysis — and the number continues to fluctuate.

Mind you these workers are specifically Kenyan workers who are made to view and annotate the absolute worst things created by man and machine for extremely low pay and absolutely no support or care from Meta for the trauma they endure every day at work

So ChatGPT tells people to kill themselves, and OpenAI's response is to shift responsibility to unpaid, untrained, non-professional friends and family members.

So if you get designated as the "trusted contact," you're doing terrifying unpaid work for this evil company.

Shut it all down.

Hollow Opposition On Iran, top Democrats only have procedural concerns

I wrote about how Democratic leadership has abandoned the moral high ground on Iran, and how it has left them toothless when opposing Trump.

A deeply underreported story. I know so many people struggling to pay their electric bills

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

@nullzone.bsky.social

And for those outside the wage system altogether, it's even worse. If you're disabled and rely on SSI, payments are currently capped at $994 a month nationwide.

*Nowhere* in the country is that enough to afford even a modest one-bedroom apartment.

But it's not just low wages. Work itself—increasingly gigified or contracted out, and stripped of basic benefits—has become more precarious than ever.

For many, the real threat isn't job loss. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours or stability to keep them housed.

The numbers are staggering:

Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.

Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.

Paperback edition of There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone

Today the paperback of THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is out.

It's arriving in a country once again waging war—a country that can spend tens of billions on bombs without blinking, while millions of Americans are one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from homelessness.

Let's take stock of where we are.

either (a) there was no evacuation plan; (b) it wasn't feasible to begin with; (c) it wasn’t executed in time; or (d) it wasn't activated on purpose.

This is like one of those Freddy vs Jason vs Chucky vs Alien movies…you don’t want any of them to win, but you can still applaud a particularly good hit.

🚨 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ELECTION UPDATE 🚨

🚨 YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR ASSIGNED PRECINCT 🚨

We are hearing that NEARLY 1/3RD of Dallas County voters are being turned away from polling locations because they are NOT at their assigned voting locations. #VOTE

A photo of a blue Global X plane seen from a distance with a bus and five white vans in front of it.

FORTY-SEVEN NEIGHBORS shackled and loaded onto this Global X ICE flight today at Baltimore’s BWI.

There are four ICE flights a week now taking our Maryland neighbors to detention centers down South.

“What you may not know is that the original artist and creative director was removed from the project shortly after the visual foundation was completed. Shen dismissed her without offering credit, residuals, or any future involvement.”

I wish this was rare behaviour.

Trans Kansans are Right to Distrust Federal Courts Transgender Kansans are challenging a new discriminatory law in state court, refusing to leave their freedom up to an untrustworthy federal judiciary.

Two Kansans are suing in state court over the new law invalidating trans people's licenses & deputizing bathroom bounty hunters

And they're arguing on state law grounds alone

Kansas's anti-trans law violates federal law too, but federal courts can't be trusted

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/kansa...

It happened at a time of his choosing

A combat-unit commander told noncommissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God's plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," according to a complaint by a noncommissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

oh cool we’re doing a crusades reboot

Microsoft Bans the Word "Microslop" on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.

I'm just re-upping this because it's still making me laugh

Mothers and the disappeared Pregnant child detainees are sent to Texas, as harm crosses generations.

The Trump regime is sending every pregnant girl they've kidnapped to Texas. I think you can guess why.

This doesn't just show us the natural endpoint of the anti-abortion rights movement in the US. It has dark echoes of dictatorships in our not-so-distant past.

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

One of the most fun things you can do with some extra cash is commission art for your D&D games. There's such a great community of artists out there who *get* D&D, and it's so fun to work with them.