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What happens if flags aren't lowered?

I have a former sister in law who thinks mammograms give you breast cancer. I would just stare into space when she offered that opinion. Not much you can say when people believe the stupid.

I used to live on corbina ceviche in Panama. Very simple recipe. Served with tiny little pie shells. Had fantastic shrimp ceviche there too. That dish is more complicated...takes some talent.

Very hard to find good ceviche.

In 2020, when I told people that I was building a pro-democracy media outlet, people thought I was kidding.

When I told them that the fight for democracy was the fight of our time, they thought I was being overly dramatic.

Well...here we are.

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Not to mention three week old salsa in the fridge

This is soooo your problem, not mine

And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!

Thank you for @kgandersen.bsky.social for writing this. Sadly it’s is all the rage among liberal publications (see @bostonreview). It’s irresponsible garbage.

Of course, it's always been an unspoken option.

Exclusive: New Trump administration plan could end asylum claims and speed deportations for hundreds of thousands of migrants | CNN Politics The Trump administration is planning to dismiss asylum claims for potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants in the United States and then make them immediately deportable as part of the president’...

Where is the business community?? In addition to the obvious humanitarian consequences here, this would mean something like a quarter of a million people who currently have legal permits to work would be forced out of their jobs. That is something employers will notice www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/p...

US steps into war between Israel and Iran, strikes 3 Iranian nuclear sites Iran’s nuclear agency confirmed that attacks hit its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but insisted that its work will not be stopped.

Iran’s nuclear agency confirmed that attacks hit its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but insisted that its work will not be stopped.

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and…

“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.

“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,” said another.

(Published April 2025)

In photos: Trump deploys National Guard to LA as ICE raid protests flare for 3rd day https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos https://www.axios.com/2025/06/08/la-protests-immigration-ice-national-guard-photos

I made a Current News List. It's got a few extras like Darth and some political. I keep updating, though, and check it more often than the regular feed. You're on it. Made it because News was getting buried here.

Did @bencollins.bsky.social take this photo?

TRUMP appoints 22 year old grocery worker to lead U.S. Terror Prevention.
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Very weird:

"Neither the location of the campground or date of the woman’s death were provided."

You'd think there is a public interest in knowing the location.

😂

Trump is the Taco 🌮 Toddler

Why does this even need to be said? People act as if kids got sick in a vacuum with no repercussions. I work in infectious disease and the number of parents and grandparents infected by school-aged kids is high. Try social distancing from your sick and miserable 6 year old.

I think (maybe hope) Gen Z and the legal system have better armored young women in preparation.

And the stories the generation before yours has. My god.

Yo

@realDonaldTrump I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!! 2.14k ReTruths 8.64k Likes May 26, 2025, 8:27 AM

FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value.

There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

Old Russian saying:
If there are potatoes, that means there are orphans in the mines.

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an education grant supporting long-running desegregation efforts in southern schools.

The Trump administration canceled funds for the program under its anti-DEI policy.

ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I guess some people like gagging.

University of Utah shuts down LGBTQ youth health clinic The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The University of Utah has shuttered its popular health clinic for LGBTQ youth — fallout from the Legislature’s 2023 ban on doctors providing gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

I am hoping—technology permitting—to live-blog this hearing at 11am for @lawfaremedia.org . Please stand-by. It relates to whether the Trump Adm violated a preliminary injunction by removing aliens to South Sudan. Backdrop below. ...
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Surprise! GOP Medicaid Massacre bill is also a Medicare Massacre bill! Pennsylvania Democratic Representative Brendon Boyle, on MSNBC last night: Rep. Boyle: This reminds me very much of 2017, I believe, I believed at the time and was proven correct that we won the 2018 ...

🚨🚨🚨 SURPRISE! GOP #MedicaidMassacre bill is also a #MedicareMassacre bill!

@repbrendanboyle.bsky.social broke the news last night: The CBO says the bill would require $535 BILLION in cuts to *MEDICARE* on top of Medicaid & the ACA being gutted.

acasignups.net/25/05/21/sur...