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Jack DeJohnette, Revered Jazz Drummer, Dies at 83

RIP Jack DeJonhette 'a colorist on the drums'. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/a...

Thinking about all my friends in the US. I'm with you: NO KINGS, NO CLOWNS.

RIP Jane.

Jeffrey Epstein Leaned on His Elite Network for Help as Investigators Closed In A cache of 18,000 messages shows the elite support the disgraced financier got in his “hour of terror.”

NEW: Jeffery Epstein's emails, obtained by Bloomberg news, shine a freshlight on how the disgraced financier's elite network supported him as investigators closed in.
🎁 LINK: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

People become attached to places they spend time in. 3D maps allow visits in VR. Santoso & colleagues show that visiting distant locations makes even politically conservative participants care about real climate change news in that city, compared to static images.

vhil.stanford.edu/publications...

Isn't it ironic?
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?”
“Counting or not counting gang violence?” - Charlie Kirk's last words

EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as PFAS Despite MAHA promises to reduce chemical exposures, experts warn the Trump administration is approving a wave of ‘frightening’ pesticides.

This is not an error, not a mistake, it's actively destroying a country and it's population: EPA Approves Four New Pesticides That Qualify as #PFAS civileats.com/2025/09/08/e...

Protecting Big Tech, not free speech Trump and Farage are using censorship as a cloak for disinformation

"Rightwing populists all over Europe want to destroy the ability of the UK and the EU to regulate large tech platforms — a move that might threaten their disinformation campaigns with genuine political debate." - @ranaforoohar.bsky.social

🔴 Breaking: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital warns of catastrophic power failure, urgently needs new generator

The hospital for nearly 1 million people in central Gaza says its generators are collapsing, leaving operating rooms, ICUs, and newborn incubators at risk.

Destroying a country by the whims of idiots

Polish city becomes first to deploy drones against mosquitoes

'drones against mosquitoes' is such a great name for an electroacoustic droney band | share.google/syvmtkMv8p5D...

SAD.

I have friends who are/were in 18f & USDS. “The one person” is burning every single institution down to claim it all. It’s tragic, and unfortunately nobody knows the depths unless they’re on Bluesky and subjects themselves to the daily horrors.

RFK Jr. says he finds it ‘convenient’ to wear jeans to the gym

These are not the absurdities that matter about RFK Jr. share.google/bzqqBcy84j6Q...

Nope nothing to see here...

What side are you in? Who do we need to protect? Humans OR AI?

Cognitively impaired man went to meet Facebook chatbot. He never returned home Incident illustrates potential dangers posed by vulnerable people accessing artificial intelligence

Stories like this keep surfacing: AI bots endangering behavior needs to be regulated and criminalized share.google/wCGDLmoyeZBu...

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying It's time for a reckoning.

Mark Zuckerberg's vision for humanity is terrifying www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Margaret Atwood 🇨🇦

Cracked at: 'Mr. President POO-tihn.'
Pls search: #kakistocracy.

How pediatricians are quietly preparing immigrant families for the unthinkable: leaving their children behind | CNN On a warm June day in Nashville, Briana cradled her one-year-old son in the pediatrician’s waiting room. She was there for his routine checkup, expecting to talk about vaccines and growth charts.

Cruel. Remember: it's only for the 'others' until they come knocking at your door.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/16/u...

JFK Jr.’s Favorite Timex Just Got a Modern Makeover in a Smaller Package Timex teams with Dimepiece to relaunch the ’90s Intrepid in a sleek 36mm case with genderless design, purple accents, and instant sell-out status.

JFK Jr.’s Favorite Timex aka let's turn fascists into fashion icons while they destroy a society, remove every health and environment safeguards and regulations share.google/O1EWWsZq6yzc...

Important to remember that Trump is only concerned about Trump and nothing else.

The delirious (and misleading!) visions of the ultra rich always go to space and they make it seem so immediate (Humans in spaceships exploring the solar system in 10 years?!). NEVER do they envision a future on the most hospitable planet: EARTH.

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Ur-Fascism Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

Well, authoritarian governments more or less work in consistent ways.

A great introductory approach to fascism:
theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umbe...

A useful intro to what authoritarian regimes look like and how they work:
academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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I come from a country that had a dictatorship until 50 years ago, I never felt it in my bones but the stories were enough to know we don't want it. The passivity of the majority of Americans is as scary as what is to come.