YouTube video by Adam Conover The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

Just started a new audio book. By Cory Doctorow
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Report: ICE shot a US citizen trying to help kids According to his lawyer, immigration officers shot Carlos Jimenez after he warned them that children would soon gather for the bus where they had pulled over a vehicle.

ICE officers reportedly shot a 25-year-old named Carlos Jimenez.

He was shot after getting out of his car to tell the agents, who had pulled over a vehicle, that children would soon be gathering in that spot for the school bus.

Cheap (not sustainable whistles) and locally-printed ones. Both are VERY loud. Do recommend ear plugs in whistle brigade kits.

"The Cory Doctorow Doctrine
Why are big tech products getting worse and worse? The critic has some answers about the origins of “enshittification.” "

Highly recommended!

Has life today been enshittified? Cory Doctorow's new book explores Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow in 2022. In his new book, Doctorow lays out how tech companies have made our lives progressively worse, finds Matthew Sparkes

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

📚 It’s Banned Books Week. Book bans don’t protect kids — they censor them. Stand with libraries, stand with readers, stand for the #FreedomToRead. ✊ #BannedBooksWeek #StopBookBans Sign the pledge today! via @everylibrary.bsky.social

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IMAGE OF PEOPLE DOING YOGA IN A PORTLAND PARK WITH A QUOTE FROM TRUMP "WAR RAVAGED PORTLAND"

Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.

"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
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Feel better soon!

Claudia Cardinale, star of '8½' and 'The Leopard,' dies at 87

Acclaimed Italian actor Claudia Cardinale, who starred in some of the most celebrated European films of the 1960s and 1970s, has died, AFP reported Tuesday. She was 87.

A student's winning podcast looks back to a way of life she never knew Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.

Avani Yaltho, this year's high school winner in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, brought three generations of her family together to talk about their shared history.

Coyotes are swimming all the way to San Francisco's Angel Island A recent video captured one of the animals paddling in San Francisco Bay.

Coyotes are swimming all the way to San Francisco's Angel Island www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

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The feral cats were skibbidy papping something in the yard.

I went to go chase them away in case I could save whatever bird it was.

Extremely angry bird.

Relocated to neighbors pond area

Trump is shutting down Job Corps—kicking vulnerable young people out of housing, job training, and education programs with zero plan.

Don’t tell me this man gives a damn about the working class when he’s gutting the very programs that help folks get on their feet.

From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer Multiple myeloma is considered incurable, but a third of patients in a Johnson & Johnson clinical trial have lived without detectable cancer for years after facing certain death.

After terminally ill patients tried a last-ditch blood cancer treatment, doctors are talking about a potential cure. https://trib.al/s1XkBk5

Death, Sexual Violence and Human Trafficking: Fallout From U.S. Aid Withdrawal Hits the World’s Most Fragile Locations Exclusive State Department records show: As the Trump administration abandons its humanitarian commitments, diplomats are reporting that the cuts have led to violence and instability while undermining...

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George Floyd should be alive today.

He should be raising his daughter, living his life.

5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.

His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”

Let’s stop failing her, and him.

Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

Moody’s downgrades U.S. credit as Congress considers bill that could add to deficits Moody’s knocked the government’s credit rating down a notch as debt soars.

Moody’s Ratings downgraded the United States’ credit rating, as the country’s debt soars and interest rates remain high.

The downgrade, from the highest rating to one notch below, comes as the president’s budget bill suffered a blow in Congress.

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥

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What a line from Warren Buffett this morning:

“Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer."

[applause] 🙏🏼

Cup of Gold Lily opened up over night!

U.S. economy shrank in early 2025, as tariffs sapped growth GDP shrank in the first quarter, a new report shows, offering a look at how tariffs are reshaping spending patterns and changing the economy.

Breaking news: The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of 2025, contracting by an annualized rate of 0.3 percent, a stark reversal after nearly three years of solid growth, as tariff-related uncertainty upended spending patterns and raised fears of an impending recession.

We need the best educated workforce in the world.

We need the best teachers in the world.

We need to pay our teachers fairly for the important work they do.

No teacher in America should begin at less than $60,000 a year.

This is what a rigged economy looks like:

In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker.

In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker.

This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker.

That has got to change.

Hi Sherry! Great to see you and your gardens here! Take care!

Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder In 2017, historian Timothy Snyder wrote the concise book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which went on to become a New York Times bestseller. A historian of fascism (then at Yal...

Actor John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny, Penned by Historian Timothy Snyder www.openculture.com/2025/04/acto...