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Apparently the source of this photo is the White House official Instagram? Cool, cool. www.instagram.com/p/DNY3rapR_DI/

We are not a rational people when it comes to state shape and letter recognition.

An old one from Twitter:

What kind of Irish?

Tell me again how relaxing regulations is going to solve housing?

It's really great that news - especially national news - skews white and male right now. The same news that started writing about people being too covid careful before most of us were even vaccinated

Women and trans folks are used to having to be the ones to patch together safety nets for our family (biological and/or chosen) when life is unfair and fucks us and.our communities over.

Men aren't taught or expected to practice that sort of mutual aid.

Speaking as a man, this is…true

seems notable

Seeing this again and thinking of all the MAGA men whining that they're afraid to walk down the street.

Surprising no one, Facebook’s approach to AI chatbots is sinister and wildly unethical

This is a must read. 40 y/o 1st time homeowner of 4 months now & I, too, have the dread.

"At our old house it hadn’t mattered when things went wrong because they weren’t our things. We just lived with them and around them. Now we owned every faulty light switch, every weeping pipe."

America for Sale! Everything Must Go! Trump’s "Big, Beautiful Bill" trades tax cuts on millionaires for the dissolution of society

"The wealthy who will win out from this bill should view these tax cuts as one of the last refunds they will get in return for the dissolution of the mighty U.S. federal government." @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on the #BigUglyBill inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

National Park Service to restore and reinstall Albert Pike statue - National Mall and Memorial Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

Trump restoring monument to slavery and white Christian nationalism

www.nps.gov/nama/learn/n...

I wanted to name a band Vulpes Vulpes but then Wes Anderson adapted Fantastic Mr. Fox and sort of made it a thing

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

Every TERF is like 'birds and bees, it's easy, folks' and (almost) every scientist actually working on questions of sex is like 'oof guys, what can I tell you, I have been working on this question for 52 years, and frankly, I know less and less every year' theconversation.com/world-athlet...

A lot of the technical assistance work I did at NREL - which provided analyses of different energy technologies’ generating capacity and impacts on jobs and tax revenue - was predicated on the availability of federal lands for siting… especially in rural coal regions. All blown up.

I have no shortage of ideas for books. I just have no time to give work that won't get me a payment next month. Most writers live hand to mouth & when advances for a book might be eg. £500 it's not going to go far in covering the time, labour, travel and access needed for a few months' writing.

read this at first as 7 being in the same grade as last year and internally was like, “you go, 7”

an eye for what now

This is an excerpt from a deposition, so don’t take it as fact, but JFC

we do in fact want to discourage people like that from holding office

How people are weaponizing state systems: ‘We file liens that crush their credit’ Financing statements — meant to record legitimate business liens — are now a vehicle for conspiracy-laced claims, trillion-dollar demands and vendettas against politicians, businesses and public emplo...

Across the country, antigovernment “sovereign citizens” are flooding states and counties with liens, alleging government officials owe them money or property, a tactic the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service have identified as a form of “paper terrorism.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

My God Green Beret Anthony Agular recounts how a 5-year-old Palestinian kissed his hands to thank him for the food Agular gave him Seconds later, Israeli soldiers shot and killed the starving child ISIS prisoners were treated with more dignity than these children, Agular says

It is not possible to find the words for this.

Coastal areas of Honolulu and across the Hawaiian islands are being evacuated due to a highly likely tsunami, expected to reach the islands in about an hour

For Hawaii, they write “TSUNAMI WAVE HEIGHTS CANNOT BE PREDICTED AND THE FIRST WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. TSUNAMI WAVES EFFICIENTLY WRAP AROUND ISLANDS. ALL SHORES ARE AT RISK NO MATTER WHICH DIRECTION THEY FACE.”

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Hundreds warned they may need to "relocate temporarily" The alert comes as people in other states have been told to monitor themselves for symptoms such as unusual fatigue and coughing.

Wildfire doesn't need to be near people's homes to cause dangerous effects. But what happens if you usually take transit, bike, or walk, and are thus exposed? How can you "relocate temporarily" if you don't have reliable transportation (let alone somewhere to go)?
www.newsweek.com/colorado-wil...

How I Lost a Million Dollars In Crypto Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

In 2014 I thought crypto was an interesting economic slash computer science experiment worth keeping an eye on, and now think crypto is vaporware coopted by the VC class to try to defraud the world. www.splinter.com/how-i-lost-a...