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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

YouTube video by Banned Books Week George Takei, Banned Books Week 2025 Honorary Chair

"Those who ban books want to lock away ideas they fear. But in truth, they are trying to steal our freedom."

#BannedBooksWeek honorary chair @georgetakei.bsky.social encourages all of us to stand up for the freedom to read! #CensorshipIsSo1984

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so now link is suspended with no email

If you see this post, I’d like to ask you to visit www.HUD.gov and see if you notice anything out of the ordinary.

#law #governmentshutdown #shutdown

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

a man with a beard is holding a pair of binoculars in front of a trendzisst logo Alt: a man with a beard is holding a pair of binoculars

RIP Robert Redford, a brilliant artist and performer, visionary philanthropist and the star of one of the most resilient reaction memes on the internet, even if most people don’t realize this is him:

Per Justice Sotomayor, "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction."

The Supreme Court has stayed a lower court's order preventing ICE agents from using racial profiling to justify detentions. The Fourth Amendment is under attack.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

#law #supremecourt #dueprocess

Is the ST episode you’re referring to the one where Tasha gets kidnapped by space Africans? If so I’ll need to mentally prepare myself before starting SG1.

Just another day in the nation’s capital. #NewNormal #FreeDC #DCStatehood #WashingtonDC

Bill Clinton hasn’t been president in a quarter-century. Most Democrats today do not condone his actions. Or his conservative politics, for that matter.

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

“If people can’t trust that the data they are giving the government will be protected, (and believe) that it will be used for things other than what they gave it for, it will lead to a crisis of trust,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @nytimes.com.

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy with Hubble. What looks like a smudge of light to the unaided eye is actually a vast galaxy containing an estimated 1 trillion stars.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

The President of the United States is calling himself a king and posting AI art of himself wearing a crown. This is not normal.

For anyone wondering: I can confirm that Kagi Maps still labels the Gulf of Mexico with its proper name. Highly recommend.

#GulfofMexico

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Starting today, same-sex marriage is officially legalized in Thailand.

It’s the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality.

TikTok is shut down in the US

YouTube video by Metro Richmond Zoo Live Poppy the Pygmy Hippo Cam

Alternative YouTube link: youtu.be/gsBp7p4wsmo

Poppy The Pygmy Hippo - Metro Richmond Zoo

If you need more cuteness in your life, the Richmond Zoo is hosting a livestream of their baby Pygmy Hippo, Poppy. The Poppy Cam will be up every day from 9 AM to 5 PM EST!

metrorichmondzoo.com/animals/popp...

Some things I love:

✨ Books
✨ Food & Cooking
✨ Music
✨ Cocktails
✨ Dogs
✨ Stardew Valley
✨ Baldur’s Gate 3, The Witcher, etc
✨ Board games
✨ K-pop & k-drama
✨ Anime
✨ Science
✨ Nails 💅
✨ Candles
✨ Cozy vibes

#promosky

ONE MONTH TO CIV

I read that Bloodclaat is used by Jamaicans similarly to the British use of bloody or the American use of goddamn. So I’m guessing it may be used in this context to express additional frustration at the complexity of logic?

We have two in D.C. now! Kramer’s and Solid State Books. Unfortunately both have reduced hours post-Pandemic, though.

Supreme Court to hear case challenging Obamacare’s preventive coverage At issue is a provision requiring health-care plans to cover no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception. A Christian-owned business has challenged it.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will review the constitutionality of a provision of the Affordable Care Act that requires health plans to provide no-cost preventive care, including cancer screenings, immunizations and contraception, to millions of Americans.