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The Trump Administration Ramps Up Its War On Coal Miners A planned rule to set new silica exposure limits—and address Appalachia’s ongoing black lung crisis—has been under continued assault. Now, it looks like it's off the table.

I love reporters who stick with throughlines through years of evolution, building trust with sources and intimate knowledge with all the nuances of the story. @kimkelly.bsky.social's work with coal miners is exemplary.

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

"rich Americans" are an identity (politics) who get disproportionate articles written about their concerns/ feelings. Are there the same flurry of stories/ narratives about how poor new yorkers react? mainstream media is systemically built to privilege the voices of the powerful. #powerbias

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Guys! GUYS! If you are an iPhone user you are NOT crazy. You're not just getting old. You're not suddenly all thumbs. Our iPhones are broken - that's why you keep misspelling shit so often in texts. I shared this with Jess and we both went 🤯

Black and white photo of a small shorthaired calico cat standing outside on rocky soil, looking sassy.

Sass machine! Photo from my collection, no date/info.

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it. It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."

Sushi is my lifetime favorite food, and I stopped eating octopus specifically because of their otherworldly intelligence

Interesting profîle.

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it. It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

New in PN: We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.

"If you fed a low-rent knockoff version of ChatGPT a diet of Trump Truth Social screeds and X posts from Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, this National Security Strategy is what it would spit out."

The Ethicist | A high school senior in our co-op wrote her college essay about her nanny being deported and got into Yale early action. While we love our Irma, my daughter is a junior at Brearley and has Ivy aspirations. What if I arranged for Irma to just be detained, not deported?

Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar Day 11: Kim Novak in BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE - Tom + Lorenzo Yesterday, a faithful holiday wife! Today, a scheming Christmas witch. In director Richard Quine's Bell, Book and Candle, Kim Novak plays Gillian Holroyd,

Christmas Movie Dress Advent Calendar, Day 11: Kim Novak's blood red dress and cloak in BELL, BOOK and CANDLE and how it changed from scene to scene: love-starved witch to holiday princess to seductress
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How should foreign heads of state react to Trump’s increasingly deranged behavior? We asked three unvaccinated UFC fans at a Chick-fil-a in Spartanburg.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves ICE detention after federal judge ordered his release, attorney says A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia's immediate release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody.

GREAT news

Some further updates to our font preferences: The Justice Department will be switching to Comic Sans because current fonts have a veneer of professionalism that feels out of place in communications written by Lindsey Halligan. Now all "fundamental misstatements of law" (a judge's words, not ours!) will be in a font where they will feel more at home. The Department of Transportation is switching to Goudy Old Style to fix everyone's biggest problem with air travel: pajamas The fonts aren't square enough! It will also be phasing out Clearview on road signs, on the grounds that this typeface is entirely too legible. Legibility is DEIA at work. People should struggle to read. This is also why we are dismantling the Department of Education.

Some More Font Upgrades, After Yesterday’s Calibri News www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.

If at first you don’t commit misconduct, try try again

The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization.

Treat their people accordingly.

Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error.

And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.

This country's being run by the kind of emotionally spavined subnormals who want to leave NATO because they had to see a sign language interpreter on the teevee

Q: Why does Trump keep saying the farm bailout will be paid for by tariffs when Sec. Rollins says that's not the case?

LEAVITT: *never answers question*

The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.

Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?” www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Disappointing first week book sales, job loss, and public shaming are not enough. Are there no workhouses?

This is the man who runs the federal police force. What could go wrong?

there’s a lot of irony around how writing a genuinely good prompt for LLMs requires the exact kind of clarity and precision in communication that is taught by good (human) writing instructors - who have now almost all been laid off by college admins