Bee Ostrowsky

Arizona teachers' costumes weren't about Charlie Kirk. They're facing death threats anyway Math teachers at Cienega High School in southern Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of the organization’s co-founder, Charlie Kirk.

Math teachers at Cienega High School in Arizona are facing death threats and calls that they be fired after a Turning Point USA employee falsely accused them of wearing Halloween costumes mocking the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

We have a word for leaders who starve their own people to force unpopular political policies.

*raises hand*
"If you were gonna need government assistance then you shouldn't have had kids" is, uh, a Bad Take. There's no time machine to go back and unmake a child. That child exists, they deserve to eat.

Devastating. Teen Vogue's politics coverage has been incredible and this is a major loss for journalism.

Legacy journalism keeps on getting rid of the only people making it worth anything anymore.

Some context to the viral videos:

Around 9am Friday, ICE/CBP *encircled* several square miles of a safe suburb and *stormed* it using multiple units.

They were in cars, on foot in alleys & gangways, and in helicopters. They demanded papers, threatened residents, pointed guns, kidnapped people.

I have watched as so-called "compromise" positions on transgender people's rights have failed over and over--in statehouses, the Biden White House, and in liberal rhetoric. There is no middle ground acceptable to the politicians, activists, and billionaires obsessed with trans people and our lives.

I live in the other LA, and people check on me when there's a hurricane threatening New Orleans and I'm up here by Duck Dynasty, so far away the fastest way to drive there would involve leaving Louisiana

Protesters playing music again to keep their spirits up against a half dozen different local and federal agencies.

"Some of those that work forces...are the same that burn crosses!"

I did not have any of this on my bingo card, because a bingo card is typically just a grid with sets of numbers on it

Your chilly sneer
Of cold command
Your trunkless legs
Upon the sand
Once awed the Persian, Turk,
And Damascene

A pedastal
Beside your smirk
Proclaims “Look up,
You lazy jerk!
Behold the mighty work
Of great
Jolene.”

“But what if someone who doesn’t need food gets food”

I’m from California where every child in school receives a free hot lunch every day.

Who gives a shit and why do you care? Why are you complaining when your tiny red state check taxes pays for NONE OF THIS.

I’m glad my taxes pay it. I love it.

DOJ Indicts Congressional Candidate Amid Threats to Arrest Dems Over ICE Accountability Efforts Read more here.

Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice against his political opponents. This is just the latest example. Everyone who cares about democracy and the rule of law needs to speak out loudly and clearly that this is wrong. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I like to paste suspicious URLs into www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/what... to see if there's any Unicode foolishness going on

Allegheny-West. 725 Allegheny Ave - Wendy's. Caller is with the hardest Wendy's in the city and says that they have someone arguing with them in the drive thru over a refund. It's just verbal at this time but they're willing to beat her ass, if needed.

COUNT I

Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall.

COUNT II

The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

Me (to myself): This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in tooth, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve,

(but seriously how awesome!)

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

I'm sympathetic to your claim but pretty much all my understanding of tort law comes from watching fiction so...

Taylor swift as Bombalurina from the live action cats movie. She is laying down in a crescent moon chair with one leg hanging off of the moon and one leg propped up on the inside. Taylor is portraying an orange striped tabby cat

her name was kitty
made her money being pretty and witty

Hebrew calligraphy in dark green stretches in lines across the image. Negative space makes room for a simple representation of an inflatable frog costume with a blue bandana. That shape consists of the English translation of the Hebrew, in a lighter green, and in much smaller text. -- Famously, the Egyptian tyrant causes Egypt to be overrun with frogs because he refuses to free the Hebrew people, but there are additional details that make this a fun one to ponder. For one, the Hebrew says "the frog came up" - ONE frog - even though the rest of the time it says "frogs." So there are a few explanations rabbis have come up with to explain this. One is that a single frog multiplied to create swarms. A more creative explanation is that there was a singular giant frog who traveled and brought destruction. Jewish social media was sharing videos of the Portland Frog protester with the caption, "One Big Frog! One Big Frog!" Of course the frog protesters did multiply, and many were seen in crowds all over the world on "No Kings" Day. This calligraphic work takes the verses addressing the frog plague and combines them to form a simple rendering of the Portland Frog protester. The frog figure itself is made up of the English translations of the Hebrew around it. At the bottom left my signature is in the shape of a lily pad.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)

As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

Eric Flint wrote a lot of that, and if I see this thread later I'll find you more!

How embarrassing to work for the organized kidnapping ring known as "ICE." Rolling out of bed every day to be a brainless goon. You are lower than a worm to me

Two acres. Instead of "90,000 square feet", say "two acres". It's easier to picture.

sometimes i’m like man star wars has so much fighting but then i remember it’s called star wars

How hard do I have to click this message for it to work? I don't want to damage my screen...

It's two acres.

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

The ENTIRE TIME I was on SNAP I had a job, was in school full-time, and raising kids. When jobs don't pay a living wage or cover childcare so people can work full-time, some kind of stopgap is needed. Making sure people can live is literally the point of civilization.

That's why I became a librarian! I saw the thrill of going through Falken's Maze. Sometimes I even hear that music.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.