Bezos ignored offer to save jobs of dozens of journalists The owner of The Washington City Paper offered to buy The Washington Post’s sports and local news desks weeks before the journalists on those teams were laid off.

Well, both The Ick and the hypocrisy are they ck.on the ground this week!
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‘The trend is irreversible’: has Romania shattered the link between economic growth and high emissions? Emissions have plunged 75% since communist times in the birthplace of big oil – but for some the transition has been brutal

America's excuse is...?
Ah. Yes. Profits over people and planet.
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Major corporations bankroll "America First" propaganda Mastercard, Deloitte, and ExxonMobil are spending millions to promote events supporting Trump and his divisive political agenda.

Ew

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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

It does not.
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And I'm sure they won't be doing this on the sly in a week when the furor dies down...

YouTube video by That Good News Girl Crime-fighting llamas catch thief in England 🦙 #llamas #shorts

Y'all. Even llamas are better at detaining people than ICE! AND they show better restraint and judgment in a crisis.

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Friday the 13th is the best because terrible things are still happening but for 24 hours there's a neato spooky reason

House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.

In a 218-213 vote, the House passed a new, more aggressive version of the SAVE Act.

The measure’s documentary proof of citizenship requirements to vote would particularly burden the roughly 69 million married women who took their husband’s name — a group that leans to the right.

“In the past three years, according to the Forest Service’s own assessments, it has suffered an attrition rate of 45 percent among permanent employees.”

Not clear if this cited figure relates to attrition of permanent firefighters only, or agency wide.

@nffe-fsc.bsky.social any thoughts on that?

Bonus #DarwinDay content:

Six of the best grumpy Darwin quotes.

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I don't know why you are surprised that he could learn Cantonese during his hundreds of years on this planet

The Trump admin is setting our country back decades on climate—as the @EPA announces it will rescind a framework, which enabled the U.S. to take action since 2009: the Endangerment Finding.

This is a direct threat to public health, & continued attack on our climate leadership. We are fighting back.

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:

Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …

Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS

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When CHINESE STATE MEDIA drags our leaders to absolute filth, AND it's a banger? Things have, indeed, gone very wrong...
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Aaaah *shit.* 😖

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

I want every single one of you who is an artist to find success and happiness making it, and I want every one of who loves to consume art to be swimming in an absolute sea of genius. Every attempt to shortcut that muddies those waters and robs real artists of success. That's my anti-AI stance.

Let God get this straight.

- In 2019 the Trump admin created a press release for Epstein’s death the day before he died.
- He allegedly died the next day.
- In 2026 the Trump admin released this info from the Epstein files.

Could it be any more obvious?

I actually agree that there is going to be a skill gap between people who regularly use AI vs those who refuse to use it, and it's that after the bubble pops the refusers will be fine while the AI-dependent will be missing or have let atrophy basic skills

Photo from https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/cdc-shooting-officer-david-rose-honored-at-memorial-service/ar-AA1L13Nr Photo of memorial for Officer Rose - outside CDC Roybal Campus. Photo of Rose on a posterboard with the words “Officer Rose Gave His Life Protecting Us"

5/5 In Honor

We honor Officer Rose not with fear,
but with resolve.

Together. 🫂

Jeff Bezos makes enough money to fully fund this literally every two minutes.

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests Juan Leon sends a "chase" car to check out where abandoned vehicles are located and arranges discreet drop-offs. Since late December, he estimated they have dropped off 250 cars.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota.

This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats.

They hate the helpers.

Which is why must keep helping.

Reminder that children, elders and immunocompromised folks etc implicated by their bringing this plague to DC certainly don’t have a fucking choice about this at all.