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Opinion | How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Presses Up Against the Limits of Empathy (Published 2024)

How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Presses Up Against the Limits of Empathy www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/o...

No tomahawks, none.

Fact-check: ❌
-#Iran has no Tomahawks.

This is a particularly bad lie, because it shows he has no idea how US arms sales work:
-The only significant transfers of Tomahawks go to close US treaty allies: UK, Australia, Japan & Holland.
-ALL US arms transfer require end-use certification. ALL of them.

So he’s surrendering without accomplishing any of his stated objectives while declaring victory. Exactly what we said would happen.

The pride and power of Iowa State basketball's Audi Crooks Audi Crooks hears the haters. But Iowa State's star inherited resilience from her mom and joy from her dad. Her high-scoring game is the ultimate counterpoint.

Spent some time in Iowa and went long on Iowa State’s Audi Crooks. Despite her dominance, she deals with a lot of negativity, especially about her body. But no matter what is said about her, Audi Crooks wears a smile. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

@maggieblackhawk.bsky.social

Awesome work on the Ken Burns “Revolution” series.

DHS detains US citizen from Evanston at O'Hare, releases her in Wisconsin after nearly 2 days The woman's family said federal agents told them that she was not in custody despite her phone location previously showi

Reminder: DHS is still routinely violating people’s constitutional rights.

Democrats must continue to fight to rein them in.

https://abc7chicago.com/post/sunny-naqvi-us-citizen-detained-dhs-chicago-ohare-airport-sent-broadview-ice-facility-dodge-county-wi-released/18693499/

How did my generation – the baby boomers – squander the potential our parents left us?

What can our children do to correct our mistakes?

These are the central questions of my new memoir: Coming Up Short.

You can preorder it now. sites.prh.com/reich

When Massachusetts passed a "millionaires tax" in 2023, conservatives claimed the rich would flee.

But two years later, they haven't — and MA has collected $5.7B for infrastructure and public education.

A reminder that positive change can still happen at the state level.

Trump’s Sons Accused of Trying to Profit Off Iran War With Drone Investment Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are investing in a drone company that’s “vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon.”…

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are investing in a Florida-based drone company called Powerus that “is vying to meet fresh demand from the Pentagon” for drones that started when the Trump administration banned foreign-made drones and drone components from the US in December.

This is devasting to US innovation and the economy

He really is dumb as shit

Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act He’s been railing against it since the early 1980s.

Roberts has overseen the destruction of the VRA, which has allowed African America, Hispanic, and Native voters take control of their own communities.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana... Chief Justice Roberts’s Vendetta Against the Voting Rights Act

It is times like this that I am glad I fly in and out of a small airport, and the line was a little longer than normal this morning, but it is ridiculous that the GOP in Congress are forcing TSA workers to work without pay solely to avoid crossing Trump and his secret paramilitary police force.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheehan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.

DHS made a massive purchase of 2,500 new custom marked ICE vehicles that are now sitting in parking garages because nobody wants to use them: “ICE has never had marked vehicles. We don’t want to use these - we can’t.” www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immig...

In contrast to the coverup of the EPSTEIN crimes here in America, there are ongoing investigations in the UK, France, Turkey, Poland, Latvia & Lithuania that is sure to expose his central, filthy role in the largest crimes against humanity case in world history. #AccountabilityIsComing

As if you needed any more evidence that "Faux News" is state-run propaganda media:

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan An interview with Sana Atef, a reporter with the Zan Times who covers the lives and work of women in Afghanistan.

Meet The Female Journalist Risking Her Life To Report On Women In Afghanistan

The Demon of Unrest with Erik Larson and Barbara McQuade | Schuler Books Grand Rapids  l  Okemos  l  Ann Arbor  l  West Bloomfield

Looking forward to moderating Erik Larson’s talk about his fabulous book, “Demon of Unrest,” at Schuler’s Books in West Bloomfield, Tuesday evening. Details here.
www.schulerbooks.com/event/demon-...

YouTube video by Jellyfan Love And Money - 'Candybar Express' PROMO in 1080p

Scottish #FunkRock band Love & Money’s 1986 single “Candybar Express” was produced by #DuranDuran guitarist #AndyTaylor. Critic #BjornHass called it “a punchy groove track”- it failed to chart in the USA & stalled at #56 in the UK but was a much beloved Starck fave
#Glasgow

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NBC’s Richard Engel: “The White House meme campaign is outraging many former US military commanders… they say only someone who has never really seen combat would think it’s a joke and put out material like this.”

Drought and heatwaves occurring together (compound events) have “surged” across the world since the early 2000s, a new study shows.

This increase is predominantly driven by events that start with a heatwave.

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Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

Read here: buff.ly/IoMIeUt

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.

That's $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

Thousands of lives lost.

People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

YouTube video by MS NOW O'Rourke on Talarico: 'One of the most talented politicians I’ve ever seen'

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In Fort Worth, TX, Beto O’Rourke asks all of us, “What if?”

Thru the window….

Sunrise, Lake Superior

Duluth, Minnesota #GreatLakes #DuluthMN