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Multiculturalism IS superior, he's right and he should say it

What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval! Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?

so, full disclosure, I feel like you will get something slightly different than you expect when you click on this!

wi kn̩ ɒɫ ɹəfjuz tʰə bi izɨli ɪntʰɚpɹəɾɨd baɪ eɪ aɪ.

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months

* Down in 2025
* Still below Mar 2024
* Clean energy wave a key factor

If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far…

www.carbonbrief.org/...

"Evaporate" is a word that should not remotely describe anything happening to a human being

Where Mexico

I don't even want most of this
🚫Wealth, power, notoriety
Living a long life is the only desirable thing on his list imo

I like "perforated raw beef hide" as a MAHA alternative, especially since that's *still just skin*

I'm always saying this

This image of a helicopter over the Sydney Opera House shows neither adequately.

Hopefully ICE doesn't find our state anytime soon either. Keep looking "northwest of Chicago" lol

do not go piggly into that good wiggly

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Israeli strikes kill 30 Palestinians, including children, as Gaza ceasefire inches forward Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least 30 Palestinians, marking one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire.

Really bugs me that ppl keep calling it a "ceasefire" when clearly the firing, strikes, and killing are only reduced
apnews.com/article/mide...

A good start, Senator

Nature is eating him and he knows it.
A bruise. A slouch. Unspooling.
There’s no price or poll to stop the chewing.
His masked men can’t shoot the teeth of time.
(1/3)

Oh I can't wait

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

A GM screen on a table. Black with white decorations of two knives in the center, a crescent moon and a ghost on the left, and a broken circle (the shattered sun of Doskvol) on the right. A table lamp, turned on, rests behind the screen.

The same GM screen as before, from the same angle, reversed. There are sheets of paper affixed to this side. The center two are covered in text too small to read at this distance. On the right is a map of the city of Doskvol. On the left are several index cards: again, the text is too small to read.

Planning on running a #BladesInTheDark one-shot for my brothers on Saturday, my first time GMing

Rather than purchasing a screen or making do without one, I made my own!

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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"The signing ceremony in Paraguay's humid capital of Asunción marks a major geopolitical victory for the EU in an age of American tariffs and surging Chinese exports, expanding the bloc's foothold in a resource-roch region increasingly contested by Washington and Beijing. It also sends a message that South America keeps diverse trade and diplomatic relations even as U.S. President Donald Trump declares dominance in the Western Hemisphere."

Big news for globalists!

apnews.com/article/merc...

My sister and I drove an hour to go see Wake Up Dead Man on our birthday b/c it wasn't showing at the local theater anymore

Made some mushroom-stuffed ones today also, yum

Five arepas on an oval-shaped plate with a blue design around the border. One of the arepas has a bite taken out of it.

The other day I was watching a video where @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social eats his "last meal" and one of the courses had some arepas

There was some masa about, so I made some myself yesterday, and I've been sleeping on these!

So tasty, and a peach to make too

At least it really is a woodpecker

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate

For table top fans, Eat The Reich lets you play as Cool Vampires on a mission to eat Hitler and it's a hoot and you don't have to give money to EA or Activision

I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...