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Missouri AG Now Siccing ICE on Gerrymander Referendum Signature Gatherers Read more here.

AG Catherine Hanaway publicly announced she has referred the state’s grassroots referendum campaign to ICE, claiming without evidence that canvassers are “employing illegal aliens” to collect signatures to overturn the mid-decade redraw.
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Decades of silence preceded a painful reckoning for a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation on the Kenai Peninsula

Decades of silence preceded a painful reckoning for a Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska. Some of the victims say the abuse was well known by congregation leaders for years.

DOGE did not fail in any way to accomplish its goals.

Its goals were never efficiency or saving money.

Its goals were to destroy as much of government as possible forever, and to steal data for the Space Nazi.

DOGE is fading away like bank robbery gangs fade away after the robberies are done.

I'm once again forced to concede AI art can be more compelling than one wants to give it credit for because "there's clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is" is a fascinating effect on an audience

Brown and black speckled bird with a blue face and pale bill perched on a slanted branch against a soft, blurred background.

I watched a large group of young Ocellated Antbirds hunting in an antswarm with their parents yesterday. I've never been this close to this species, as I could have literally reached out and touched this bird.

This is an obligate antbirds, meaning...

#birds #costarica

YouTube video by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne, more - "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" | 2004 Induction

Every once in a while I go back and rewatch this performance, and every time I'm glad I did youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

“Shape” gives Witkoff and Kushner too much credit. They simply accepted Russia’s terms and proposal while making some under the table deal

Choosing? I was supposed to choose? Did I miss a meeting?

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

It was the same University (Weber) that did this: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

They'll tell you that the arts and humanities aren't practical and then read poetry at funerals and weddings, cry over films and search for meaning in ancient philosophy. Surviving is one type of practicality, knowing why we bother is another. — ON THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES

#art

Officials celebrate construction of revolutionary structure over major US freeway: 'This was an impossible dream' — The Cool Down A team of engineers, biologists, scientists, and mycologists all contributed. Nov 22, 2025 The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is one step closer to its completion with its first official native pl...

Anyone want some good news? The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is nearly done and it’s pretty awesome

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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.

Saved by the redistribution of kickers!!

Tom nichols racist

tom nichols racist

Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.

Brett Kavanaugh's legacy is now firmly determined...

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

🤞I have been holding this screenshot since '16 hoping one day this sociopath reveals himself. And what do yo know - Lizza would have been 42. A bunch of empty careerists. www.gq.com/story/inside...

Mama cat Porsche (right), a brown tabby cat with big splashes of white, with her “mini me” daughter Mercedes.

Young grey tabby cat Bentley with his brown tabby sister Ferrari.

Mercedes, a young brown tabby cat with big splashes of white fur.

Ferrari, a cute and round young brown tabby cat.

It’s hard to believe but the Auto Club family— mama Porsche & her now 7-month old kittens Ferrari, Mercedes, and Bentley— have had no applications. Not one for any of them. They’ve been growing up together in foster care, shy at first & needing a quiet home. Elkton, MD Apply crits4cats.petfinder.com

Orange kitten flopped upside down over foster momma’s hand

Tater honey, up is the other way…

What a sweet and intrepid explorer! Homing to Momma.

Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.

"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Packaged bags of groceries and necessities waiting distribution

Volunteers packaging food for distribution to immigrant families in our school district

Lists of foods to distribute

Packaged bags of groceries and necessities waiting distribution

The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

I was looking at protest photos from NC and if this isn’t the shadiest, most southern ass sign… I love you, Durham!

Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.

@hhmi.org Summer Undergraduate Research Experience - #CechFellows named in honor of Prof Tom Cech
Deadline to apply: 12/22/2025
Spend 9 weeks in a paid, mentored biomedical research experience in an HHMI lab. See you next summer!!!
www.hhmi.org/programs/cec...

if you weren't able to get in on a personal Adonis yesterday you can still help! very kind friend of Adonis TallFroGuy compiled them all into this incredible piece of art, which will be live for a month with all proceeds going directly to charity!

link: www.inprnt.com/gallery/tall...

It’s exhausting reading descriptions of RFK’s actions as “reshaping public health,” or taking an “unorthodox approach.” He’s just killing people. Whether out of cruelty, deliberate ignorance, or some deeper psychological problems, he’s killing people.

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

All right, you all fucking owe me.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I can re-post this but cannot read it even for free.

But thank you for your service to those who can.