Stuart Levy

Rare Exports.

OK, it's only 15 years old. But in it we learn the price of reindeer in Finland, and how Santa can be in a million places all at once on Christmas eve. And as one friend said, it follows the consequences of its idea right to the end. I love this movie.

Oh, this is a low blow.

Thanks for sharing it, Rachel!

Oh, I'm sorry, Rachel.

May you keep many good memories of her.

As others noted, this is cute but appears to be AI, not an actual video. Check out the "Sora" markings.

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Racism Knows No Bounds

Human Trafficking at Hyundai Concerns Raised Following ICE’s Raid & Detention of 300 Korean Workers in Georgia The plant had a notoriously bad safety record with two workers, including one Korean, killed in preventable accidents in just two months this spring. The raid has raised major questions about working ...

An investigation by Payday Report raises concerns about human trafficking in the ICE raid & detention of 300 Korean workers at Hyundai’s megasite in Georgia.

Hundreds of Korean immigrants were forced into dangerous work by Hyundai w/ no legal rights or status.

One worker was killed in May

So pretty!

I looked for a time when Jupiter was there... this could have been around July 3, 2019 (near new moon) or maybe mid-Sep 2019, though that would have been near full moon, harder to catch such a nice dark sky.

Did they eventually start reading to each other, too?

Oh no, Rachel!

She was too busy firing the only prosecutors who were trying to send people to jail for foreclosure fraud

We need to organize around medicaid cuts & highlight them

How astonishing!

Sure enough we can see lots of gracefully falling debris.

Is there any way to estimate how large the chunks of debris might be? Meters? Tens of meters??

Living in steamy Champaign, IL, I don't like summer weather but we do have great numbers of fireflies! Each year I note the date of first firefly spotted - usually late May, sometimes earlier. Last night walked under trees along a nearby creek & was completely surrounded with dozens of blinkers.

Are the starfield-with-foreground-streaks from some real imagery? The credits to this piece mention www.esa.int/Science_Expl... , and there are quite a few animations there. I've skipped around in them but can't find one with anything like those starfields - can anyone else?

This answer makes more sense than any other I've seen. But have you read elsewhere either (a) that FEMA has indeed run through its budget, or (b) that its budget was diverted to DHS/ICE? I would love to spread the word about that if so!

Pay raises for nursing home workers passes Minnesota House with bipartisan support • Minnesota Reformer Thousands of nursing home workers across Minnesota would see a significant pay increase on Jan. 1 under a bill that easily passed the state House 109-25 on Monday. The measure still needs Senate appro...

Pay raises for nursing home workers passes Minnesota House with bipartisan support

minnesotareformer.com/2025/05/06/p...

How DOGE Could Spark a Financial Crash Playing with fragile commercial real estate is like playing with fire.

Commercial real estate for older office buildings is barely hanging on, trading at massive discounts, with growing defaults on mortgages & related bonds.
Great time for the government to terminate thousands of leases!
The economics of the DOGE fire sale, from me:
prospect.org/economy/2025...

Saying the quiet part out loud.

Media Credit Trump for Gaza Truce—Sidelining Palestinian Resistance and Solidarity An accounting of the ceasefire is incomplete if it excludes how anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist forces in the Middle East thwarted US/Israeli designs.

fair.org/home/media-c...

How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump’s Mass Deportation Agenda This is a frightening time for immigrant workers. President-elect Donald Trump ran on the slogan “mass deportations now,” and has appointed a team of anti-immigrant hardliners. The leadership of the D...

"How Labor Can Fight Back Against Trump's Mass Deportation Agenda"
labornotes.org/2025/01/how-...

... but of course, if a party wants to go for malicious prosecution, or selective challenging of the other party's voters, the info needed is there for the taking.

At least in Illinois where I live, political parties are allowed access to the voter rolls - names / addresses / ages, including which party's ballot they chose in recent years' primaries. Presumably this is for purposes of canvassing. Though the general public can't see the whole lists.

I hope you can remind them how racism gets used to divide people who would otherwise find common cause. It's a deliberate tool of oppression. Being effective at countering it is what made Fred Hampton dangerous, and why they wanted ACORN taken down. Not news but we need to keep remembering it.

When / how was this taken? Is this a composite photograph, or a synthetic image?