Carrie Reiling

Now that's a military parade I'd want to watch!

#nokings #puppies

If you’re in DC environs and free tomorrow, hmu

Add me, please and thank you.

Detailed table of excess, crisis-attributable deaths in Gaza from 7 February to 6 August 2024, broken down by cause and three scenarios (ceasefire, status quo and escalation). The lowest possible assuming no epidemics and immediate ceasefire was 2,530 deaths. We know that didn’t happen. The highest possible assuming epidemics and escalation was 259,680 excess deaths).

Keep thinking on the LSHTM-JHU estimate of excess mortality in Gaza (paid for by FCDO, all but ignored). In the *six months* from Feb last year, between 67,000 and 86,000 likely already died.

Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today.

And they didn’t count famine.

Chart titled "Proposed change to the federal government budget from 2025". State Department -85%, EPA -55%, HUD -44%, Labor -35%, Interior -31%, HHS -26%, NASA -24%, Treasury -19%, USDA - 18%, Commerce -17%, Education -15%, Justice -8%, VA +4%, Transportation +6%, Defense +13%, Homeland Security +65%

These proposed budget cuts look like the IMF's structural adjustment policies have been turned loose on the United States.

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Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Again, from Keguro: "Crisis patriotism undermines freedom work. It demands allegiance. It demands loyalty. It demands a chorus of voices determined to save and uphold damaged and damaging institutions and practices."

on crisis patriotism notes on Kenya and the United States

"We are told by USians that their nation is in crisis. That democracy is in crisis....
In response, some of the groups most targeted for harm by a flurry of executive orders are insisting that their task is to save democracy....
—Black and Queer and Trans USians
Loyalty pledges are being activated."

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

From our college president: "We are unpublishing websites pertaining to DEI—specifically our diversity statement and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion site and associated pages and links."

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I am incredibly happy about this!

'I Am Finally Free!': Leonard Peltier Released From Prison After Nearly 50 Years Joe Biden granted clemency to the Native American rights activist literally minutes before his presidency ended.

"I am finally free."

Leonard Peltier walked out of prison today at 8:40am, nearly 50 years after the U.S. govt lied to put him there.

New statement from Peltier, along with photos of him moments after leaving prison, in the sun, happy. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

A drone damaged the outer shell of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday's strike damaged the shell and briefly started a fire.

They attacked Chernobyl. Yes, that one.

"A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant."

My nsf-score is just a big flag that reads “woke,” a mad libs of the flagged words

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up:

Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief.

If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

525-Lb. Bear Discovered Under Evacuated Altadena Home Too Fat to Tranquilize: 'Not an Option' An Altadena, Calif., man was shocked to discover he couldn't return to his home — which he evacuated due to the Eaton fire — because a 525-lb. bear had nested in the crawl space under his house. It to...

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

We got one, backed away from the gate, then the flight was canceled because Philly was closed. Heading home now, but should have stayed in Miami

a man in a pilot 's uniform is wearing a hat and sunglasses Alt: a man in a pilot 's uniform is wearing a hat and sunglasses

What happens if you vape weed on a plane? Well, if the captain “comes into contact” with it, then he has to be medically evaluated and can no longer fly (we’re still on the ground) and we have to get a new captain.

Wut.

Bottle of Wycliff champagne with a screw top

Screw-top American champagne, tenure edition.

Are advent calendars available all year? I kind of want to buy a bunch of them with little treats (jams, paper goods, chocolates) and then open the little doors for project rewards. I don't want to make them myself because I want the surprise!

Could you add me please? Thanks!

Who among us …

A map of flight paths emanating from breeding colony of gulls, with this caption: Early on, LifeWatch noticed something odd. Most gulls were making daily trips to Mouscron, a city on the French border 65 km away. They went to investigate and found the birds bingeing on discarded snacks at the Roger & Roger potato factory.

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

Would like to be added, please!

Yes, The Onion buying InfoWars is funny, but the real best part is that the site will fight against gun violence alongside the Sandy Hook victims' families.

Poorly done yet somehow accurate line drawing of a face with brown hair and a bow, giving side eye, with a half-frowny face.

I’m starting a kick rocks/leave me alone starter pack. It’s just me; don’t ask to join. Leave me alone.

I was an election judge today in rural Maryland, and the number of people who were first-time voters over the age of 40 was … surprising. (We clapped even louder for them than the 18-year-olds.)