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They probably had to talk him out of 1930s accurate bordello fan dancers.

Looks super Christian.

"Alarmingly high levels of plutonium-239 have been found at...former Hunter's Point shipyard."

"Alarmingly high levels of plutonium-239 have been found at...former Hunter's Point shipyard."

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U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald...

(Miami Herald) - The Trump Administration has made the decision to attack military installations inside Venezuela and the strikes could come at any moment, sources with knowledge of the situation told the Miami Herald ..

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Hey folks, an update on the battle to bring down prices!

Koehler highlights bill to boost vaccine transparency SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Dave Koehler today advanced House Bill 767, legislation designed to put clear, expert vaccine guidance at the center of Illinois’ public health response.“Families deserve s...

Illinois is essentially ending the power RFK Jr. has over state vaccine policy.

They’ve passed a bill through the state legislature to give their state vaccine advisory committee more power, and to require insurance to cover vaccines that the state committee recommends, not ACIP.

The Late Great Planet Earth was written in 1970. I think it goes back earlier, tho.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Someone should tell Johnson the Three Wise Monkeys are a Buddhist trope, not Christian. And they don't represent what he thinks.

These Nazi cosplay images are so on-the-nose for ICE that I doubted they were real, but I checked and, yeah, they’re real. Here’s another:

Compressed Oolong Tea

Tea in a crackleware bowl

Spent tea leaves

Zhangping Shui Xian (Roasted) from Rivers and Lakes tea. This version is tasty too, but as a small matter of preference, this morning I feel I prefered the previous unroasted version.

#OolongTea #WulongCha #RiversAndLakesTea #TeaSky

Selective Service System public service announcements on San Francisco buses reminding men ages 18-25 to register seems a little too Starship Troopers to be true, but here we are.

Tom of Finland out-takes?

Just the above should be enough to disqualify him for a post working with the ANC. But, as we know, Trump and the admin are actively working to return the minority white colonial Afrikaners to power in South Africa.

"...Bozell wrote that he was "proud to become a member of the Coalition Against ANC Terrorism." In 2013 Bozell complained on Twitter that the mainstream media "mythologizes" the late anti-apartheid leader and first president of a post-apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela."

According to Wikipedia, Bozell started his career as a advocate against South Africa's ANC. "In 1987, Bozell and the NCPAC joined a coalition of groups opposed to the Reagan...meeting with the president of the African National Congress, the leading anti-apartheid group in South Africa..."

You know how newly dead creatures keep moving after they have been killed? That's how the US' experiment in representative democracy feels to me at the moment.

Dear very rich people in other cities. It appears you can prevent ICE mobilization in your vicinity.

I guess that whole Onion thing fell through?

Satellite view of the White House showing an image on the left where the East Wing is still standing and an image on the right where it's completely demolished

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.

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Pity The Nation By Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero and aims to rule the world with force and by tortur e. Pity the nation what knows no other language but its own and no other culture but its own. Pity the nation whose breath is money and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed. Pity the nation - or, pity the peop le who allow their rights to erode and their freedoms to be washed away. My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty copyright Lawrence Ferlingetti

"PITY THE NATION"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Pity the nation whose people are sheep
And whose shepherds mislead them
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars
Whose sages are silenced
And whose bigots haunt the airwaves ...

Good plan!

Tea pillow

Brewed tea

The other end

Spent tea leaves

For the most part oolong tea isn't sold in compressed form. The only real exception is Zhangping Shui Xian from Southern Fujian. It is often sold in these cute little tile shaped pillows. This is a very nice example from Rivers and Lakes tea.

#RiversAndLakesTea #OolongTea #WulongCha #TeaSky

"The East Wing was built on top of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center". Is the point perhaps not the ballroom, but expanding and improving the PEOC?

Holy shit, this cartoon.

Thanks! I usually pick the tea the night before. I really hate making decisions in the morning before I've had my tea.

Dry rock tea leaves

Rock tea in a special cup

A small dog

Spent rock tea leaves

What tea do you drink on your birthday? Do you pick a special tea or a special type of tea? Or just drink your usual teas? I picked this "Lotus Peak Shui Xian" from Tong Xin She Teahouse as a special tea to start the day and the next year of my life.

#RockOolong #YanCha #TongXinSheTeaHouse #TeaSky

Opening the bag, it is very obvious that this is gardenia flower scented tea. Pleasant enough, but not something I would search out.

#EcoChaTeas #OolongTea #TaiwanTea #TeaSky

This was a bonus sample from the Eco-Cha tea club. Reading the label, "Gardenia Flower Oolong Tea", I wasn't sure if it was Oolong tea with gardenia scent characteristics or if it was Oolong tea scented with gardenia flowers.

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

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