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Frank Gehry, whose designs defied gravity and convention, dies at 96 Gehry transformed modern architecture with exuberant buildings such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Guggenheim Museum. "I've always been for optimism and architecture not being sad," he said.

I think everybody at NPR is glad our Susan Stamberg left us an advance obit for Frank Gehry. A legend on a legend.

this shit is just beyond parody, man

#TrumpTrash

7-Year-Old Boy Who Lost Legs After Complications from the Flu Urges Everyone to Get the Flu Vaccine Kaden Stevenson contracted the life-changing case of the flu in December 2022. Within days, the 7-year-old boy developed toxic shock syndrome, and the infection went into his bloodstream, causing his ...

“While hospitalized, Kaden learned of a 5-year-old child being treated at the same facility who did not survive his flu infection. "I remember my baby telling me, 'I survived. I'm gonna survive for that kid,' " Michele says. "And that's kind of been like his attitude going forward”

Opinion | Actually, the Supreme Court Has a Plan

Feel like if a publication is going to give a former Trump official column space to write about the SCOTUS master plan, it should inform readers that the author was the spokesperson for the DOJ during Trump I.

Insane to me that known liars get plum writing opps.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hammer seismics is one of the standard experiments done in intro applied geophysics. It is crazy no one had previously thought to use it to map out the soils. It looks like you and your colleagues were just as amazed.

8. Oh, and I forgot to say - happy World Soil Day, which is (not entirely coincidentally) today.

Labor Realities Behind the Immigration Debate By S. Shrestha

Labor Realities Behind the Immigration Debate -- In the US, nearly 2.1M immigrants support the country’s food supply, from planting and harvesting to processing and selling the food. The majority of these workers are Hispanic and non-citizens.

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Since genAI has completely fucked the market for home computers, I guarantee there'll be an article complaining that people are playing older and less resource-intensive games and how this is killing the AAA gaming industry

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today.
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...and to mitigate the risk of conflict between Russia and European states. Interesting. I always thought Ukraine was in Europe. This is not a strategy, it's a business plan. USA does not cope well with being the second economy world wide in PPP, after China. In Trump words, USA is the first loser.

Stop Turning Women’s Bodies Into Crime Scenes 12.3.25

"lead on abortion: with proactive legislation that reflects what’s actually happening on the ground, and by keeping Republicans on their fucking heels...decriminalization bills are a win-win...they force Republicans to admit...they want the option to arrest women for miscarriages and stillbirths."

Like this? Yes, you’re right.

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

A California man found the underside of his house in disarray. It turned out that a 550-pound black bear had moved into the crawl space. trib.al/y7jyZmk

I'm not going to sit here and pretend the United States has some long history of honorable combat or anything, but to have this kind of blatant murder on video while regime officials pretend it was justified is the definition of abhorrent

Misinterpreting the most vulnerable and self-defensive attempt to survive as a hostile act? Who do you think you are, a cop?

Costco Sues Trump, MAGA Chuds Cancel Memberships They Forgot To Cancel Over DEI Well ... Bye.

Angry and stupid is no way to go through life. And yet, they persist.

Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits Contact Congress today!

While Mike Johnson is running around trying to act like he’s not the most incompetent Speaker in US history, we’re pushing hard to extend the ACA tax credits for millions of Americans.

We’re almost there, and you can help!

Listen, Paul Dano doesn’t need me to stick up for him, but this is just the most absurd conversation to even be having. It has nothing to do with Dano; it’s about the fact that Tarantino apparently not only lacks imagination about women but also lacks much imagination about men.

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race" . . . unless the plaintiffs refuse to draw a map showing the state how it can politically disempower people of color. Unserious requirement. Unserious people. Taney 2.0.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three democratic appointees, #SCOTUS puts Texas's new House maps back into effect for (and, presumably, through) the 2026 midterms.

The three Democratic appointees, in an opinion by Justice Kagan, dissent.

I'll post the ruling shortly.

This is one of many decisions that only makes sense if you see the court as a political body, where six Republicans are willing to overturn a well reasoned District Court opinion with a 2.5 page opinion, with the likely and intended effect being to determine that Republicans hold Congress

So gas and electricity prices are set to rise again - because we have to pay for substantial infrastructure upgrades.

I wonder how much infrastructure could have been upgraded if private companies hadn’t spent over 30 years stealing our money for a few shareholders?

Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.

They wouldn’t have, because they didn’t want them to say “hey we were just fishermen, go check our boat.”

But they could have. It’s evil.

They could have rescued the survivors

A few years ago, we had a debate about the validity of Tom Cotton's judgment when it came to unleashing military violence upon American citizens. Those opposed to "send in the troops" were accused of wokeness, but their judgement has been vindicated as a simple matter of constraining coercive power.