Linda Mills

Because they assume he is the main subject of the prayers?

Every time a cop walked by (making sure we stayed off the street) here in suburban Philadelphia, we thanked him for being there.

What was more unusual today was the apparent lack of smart-ass kids who kept cruising past us last time, taunting. Drivers were either honkingly enthusiastic or neutral.

My favorite sign from the #NoKings protest in Havertown, Pennsylvania: "This isn't about politics, this is about humanity"

And oh, the humanity who were there!

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

24,576 pounds of cheddar cheese to Food Bank for the Heartland in Nebraska;

270,000 eggs to Harvest Hope Food Bank in South Carolina;

4,640 pounds of chicken legs to Maui Food Bank in Hawaii

--> just some of the food aid canceled by Trump

projects.propublica.org/trump-food-c...

I hope the sale went well for you. It continues to be my favorite event for HPS/MAG. Your Ceanothus made the journey home safely, and as soon as I stop scrolling through your website I will go out and get it in the ground! Thanks for being there.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social A good question for Mystery Hour today would have been "What happened to last week's podcast?" [The 3rd hour isn't on the full show, either. I wanted to listen more closely to your bird sounds. Were they from the Merlin app?]

What I Witnessed as I Photographed the Disappearances and the Homecomings of My Countrymen Over the past four months, a photojournalist documented the lives of five families whose sons had been imprisoned in El Salvador, including their long-awaited reunions. CECOT left a mark on the men, t...

I try to share links to our stories with the most striking passage or quote, but this piece has far too many to do that. It's also hard to say what speaks louder: the photos or photographer Adriana Loureiro Fernández's words. Beautiful. Haunting. Make the time: www.propublica.org/article/ceco...

With a little kerning, it could be EMS NOW.

Actually, Dave, the idiots who couldn’t be bothered to vote or pay any attention to current events or life outside their own little bubble “voted” for this. Some of us fought like hell and lost to ennui

I swear it definitely helped during lockdown

Agreed.
Choice colo(u)r commentary there

Yo, Allentown, Easton, and the rural areas around them!

Yo, Bucks County!

This bill is a Monstrosity.

It’s indefensible to cut the Healthcare and SNAP for Americans to give Tax Cuts to Billionaires and Big Business.

This Pennsylvanian agrees

They do this cause they know the bill is terrible for their states & districts. So they post a tweet opposing it, then fold right after. That way, come election time, they can claim they “fought it.”

99% of the time, that fight was complete BS.

There is nothing like a power outage to turn conversation to the really important things, like how long milk will last in an unopened refrigerator

A bar chart showing "What Americans say they saw on the news last month." The top category, with 16%, is "Trump and Elon Musk feuding." In order, the others are: LA protests and National Guard deployment Partisanship/party conflict Immigration and deportation Tariffs/trade policy Concerns about authoritarianism/rule of law Inflation and economic news Media bias and misinformation Cuts to social services and government funding Foreign policy and international conflict I've marked the "cuts to social services" with a red box.

I'm so grateful for @gelliottmorris.com's new project.

Americans aren't learning that Trump is cutting their healthcare.

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-appr...

Spotted lantern fly season is coming around again

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

500 miles south and searching for the corduroys and heavy sweaters.

Please!

I Worked for Joe Biden. I Love Joe Biden. He Must Rethink His Post-Presidency. I understand his desire to defend his legacy. But he needs to do it differently.

I KNOW, I KNOW: Many people are irate about all the articles coming out everywhere about Joe Biden this week—occasioned by the new book or his appearance on 'The View.'

Can I just say, though: This one is worth your time. It's warm and clear-eyed.
www.thebulwark.com/p/joe-biden-...

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Every time I go to the medical center, I am reminded, by text, that security has been increased and my belongings will be scanned on entry.

When I finally see the doc, they tell me, "we now use AI to help me take notes."

No heads-up on that? Yikes.

Amen. Let's move on, please

Different ring!

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Down with this sort of thing!