TIL that when the Beatles first came to America there was still someone alive in the US who'd been born into slavery here

The fact that I'm only in my 40s and missed by only a decade or so being alive at the same time as a former American slave further brings home for me just how recent slavery was

A bar in Los Angeles finding out Mamdani won.

I’m gonna milk the hell out of this collective joy.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Pope Leo calls for ‘deep reflection’ about treatment of detained migrants in U.S. “Many people who have lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what is going on right now,” Chicago-born pope says.

"Pope Leo said Scripture emphasizes the question that will be posed at the end of the world:

'How did you receive the foreigner, did you receive him and welcome him, or not? I think there is a deep reflection that needs to be made about what is happening'..."

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Here's the #BeaverMoon from tonight, the last #SuperMoon of 2025. Shot from La Cumbre Peak, above #SantaBarbara.
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/11
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO: 800

Democrats in Mississippi Break the G.O.P.’s State House Supermajority

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1/What happens when you indict a ham sandwich? The Justice Department is about to find out, at least what happens when you indict a salami sub. The trial of the DC man accused of throwing a salami sandwich at a federal agent began on National Sandwich Day. Maybe federal judges have a sense of humor.

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

Trump just continually shooting our country in the face. This unwarranted (and likely illegal) destruction of Goddard is madness. It jeopardizes the next several decades of space exploration.

Spreading terror wherever they go.

This is ethnic cleansing. It's an international crime. I hope there is a reckoning for these vile kidnappings.

Mary Sheffield has been elected as the next mayor of Detroit, becoming the first woman to ever lead the city.

A history-making moment for Detroit.

“Randy Fine said he wants to nuke Gaza. He called for them to be starved.

And he’s going to lecture me about morality and Hitlerism and about racism, and morality police?

It's like, F*ck you!”

— American journalist Saagar Enjeti makes a brilliant point

I repeat Israel should not exist.

Enough will never be enough for Trump. We need to end his revenge tour that’s really an addictive pursuit of power and greed to escape the private horrors of being Trump. 😡

Post from Silicon Curtain - YouTube In the early hours of Nov. 2, long-range Ukrainian drones hit the Tuapse oil terminal on Russia’s Black Sea coast. There are strong indicators that the HUR n...

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Although voters across Virginia, New Jersey and New York City were most concerned with the particulars of their respective states and localities, there was no question that this was also a chance to register their discontent in a way that might send a message to Washington and the rest of America.

EPSTEIN FILES NOW 💥

Good!

A win! A federal judge has ruled that the White House must once again provide American Sign Language interpreters during press briefings. The U.S. District Judge Amir Ali emphasized that these briefings inform Americans about critical

Make him stop please somebody take the spray paint and glue gun away.

It’s like they wake up every day and ask themselves “how can we make this place look even cheaper and tackier and less historic?”

Well, everyone, we had an amazing day yesterday. But it's far from over. There is a runoff in Orlando which both candidates are black Democrats. I'm just glad Regina didn't get elected, after she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly constituent. And of course they have a

I really wish MSNBC would get that hyphen out of “hotly-contested” in its chyron, it’s making the back of my brain itch.

This is how a real President is supposed to act

Trump administration announces 16th deadly strike on an alleged drug boat Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the reg…

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced yet another deadly strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, coming the same day an aircraft carrier began heading to the region in a new expansion of military firepower.

This has to stop. Castrate these bastards or it is time for International Intervention and trials.