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I'd love to do it when I have the time! Some of the links need to be refreshed anyway I believe.

Estate planning is an important part of growing older.

If you haven't already (shame if not, but there's still time - for now), start learning about wills, trusts, estate and gift taxes, caregiving, and be sure to not ignore life insurance.

Planning ahead gives you control of your legacy.

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. We're on a Earthy looking planet with greenery & tropical plants and a foggy haze behind our characters. Probably quite humid and moist. Centered is Riker, freshly shorn, with Data to his right and Tasha Yar an extra step behind on his left. She looks concerned, Data is pulling a reading on his tricorder, and Riker has his foot propped and his knee up in the classic Riker stance. Closed caption reads, "Your mother."

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

I can't believe we have a Pope from Illinois. People from Chicago usually hate the Cardinals.

Where does the new pope fall on the papal political compass?

The big reveal is that this - what you’re seeing right now - is in fact *exactly* how businesses are run; chaotically and at the whims of sociopaths who think they know everything, actually know nothing, and run away with a golden parachute to leave others to clean up their mess.

We were excited to welcome @derecka.bsky.social tonight to join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in conversation on his new book, but she was injured defending a student from the police at Columbia last night. @lkspence.bsky.social has graciously agreed to pinch hit, though, so see you at 7!

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

US gov with the The Stock Market

Shaxs from Star Trek Lower Decks is pictured. He's a cartoon, because Lower Decks, besides deserving another 37 seasons, is a cartoon. Shaxs is a big burly man wearing his gold Star fleet uniform and also an apron over the front like he's doing some sort of art project or baking a nice sourdough. In each hand he's holding a broken bottle like that thing you do where you take a bottle and break off the bottom and then use it as a weapon. His eyeballs are bulging large his brow is furrowed and he looks absolutely unhinged with rage and anger. Closed caption reads, "Fighting fascism is a full time job!"

An edited black and white picture of Spock and Kirk from Star Trek TOS, in the corridors of the USS Enterprise. The picture is taken at an askew angle, making everything seem off-kilter. Spock is standing in the foreground, looking off into the distance, at the ready with his phaser in his hand. In the background, Kirk is running up behind Spock. He is a blur of motion, with his arms at his sides as he runs, his feet barely touching the ground. Spock is labeled "me, just minding my own business," and Kirk is labeled "The sudden reminder that the world is on fire and everything is so completely fucked up in ways so huge and all encompassing that you can barely wrap your head around it."

sisko in ds9 saying "im tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing"

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨

Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:

Diane Seltzer for President
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Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.

Get your ballot and vote ASAP.

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in ... Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password"

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison

People might think this is an exaggeration but it’s a literal description of what happened in New York, where Cuomo partnered with a small group of turncoat democrats to hand control of the NY Senate to Republicans

Someone knows who this man is and where he spends his time. He should be identified. And he should not feel comfortable showing his face in public after this.

Wishing Meta a bad day in court today. Here's how you can make your data less valuable to this monopoly: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

It's official: The Tesla Cybertruck is a flop The Tesla Cybertruck has done what very few modern-day vehicles have been able to achieve – become one of the most recognizable cars on the road. However, Tesla has a major issue on its hands: Its ang...

Tesla Cybertruck sales are declining rapidly, the company won't accept them as trade-ins, 46,000 have been recalled, and the used price of the vehicle has plunged 55% year over year.

For our first three years, we did a lot of street-facing work. This is important and more folks should be daring enough to engage this way.

Today, most of our work is direct-to-community, helping our friends and neighbors that we know and have made connections with.

Here’s why that’s so radical:

Friendly reminder that ~every HIV infection since 2012 is a policy failure.

We've had the means to end HIV for over a decade. The fact that the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues is a feature of government *policy* and global capitalism, not a scientific inevitability.

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance Ordinary people have more power than they know.

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me."

Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know.

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