Samantha Perry

Salt Lake City and Boise Adopt Official Pride Flags in Response to State Laws

Salt Lake City, Utah, and Boise, Idaho, adopted official Pride flags on Tuesday in response to state laws barring the display of any nonofficial flags at schools and government buildings.

Good lord, that last sentence of Viser’s is so deeply contemptible and illustrative of how American journalists have lost their way entirely.

Then she asked me a question I hadn’t considered before. What is the difference between a bias and expertise? In a previous newsroom she worked in, there were a few people who had pilots’ licenses. When a plane crash happened, those people were looked to as experts. Similarly, newsrooms seek to hire people with military experience, seeing that as expertise as opposed to bias. Many news outlets sent reporters to cover Hurricane Maria who were either Puerto Rican or had lived in Puerto Rico. Ho believes she’s a better business reporter because she worked in banking for three and a half years. So why do we consider some lived experiences — being a woman, being a person of color, being queer, having had an abortion — biases, and others expertise? From: https://longreads.com/2018/03/29/is-journalism-a-form-of-activism/

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

Absolutely.

Sad but true

So when are we going to start issuing travel advisories suggesting the US is a high risk destination? Just a thought.

So the US won't share data with international health agencies - but now US is not even going to have data at all

Flu season is going to be bad

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Chile Declares Curfew as Power Outage Sweeps Across Country President Gabriel Boric said electricity was being restored, but the situation remained unstable.

Chile’s government imposed a curfew and declared a state of emergency in response to a sweeping blackout that cut electricity to most of the country including the capital, Santiago, on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

The South African livestock and poultry industries have faced several challenges these past few years, and the recent one is higher feed costs. This was on the back of a lower maize and soybean harvest because of the drought in 2024. 1/

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

24 February 1890 | A Polish Jew, Majer Finkielsztejn, was born in Radom. A butcher.

In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37469
He perished in the camp on 2 July 1942.

Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or r...

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Key federal agencies refuse to comply with Musk's latest demand in his cost-cutting crusade

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are RADICAL DOMESTIC TERRORISTS and must be REMOVED FROM POWER by any means necessary.

UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

If you're a white dude with some flexibility in your life, get a group of your like-minded bros together & go to these events to act as counterbalance to these "private security forces." Get in their way. Occupy space. Ask for their IDs. Outnumber them. Make their fascism difficult.

who could’ve predicted that confirming a white nationalist, christian extremist, drunk, sexual predator, tv host to lead our country’s armed forces would end in ruin

My post from Wednesday.

My piece on Thursday

Just leaving this here.

DEPARTAS MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR All, FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses. Thank you, Kash Patel

DOJ leadership contradicts—and, it would appear, supersedes—the guidance sent out by FBI director Kash Patel a little while ago saying *not* to respond to the OPM email.

And we’re the third world shithole? 😂😂😂😂😂

This is clown shoes, people.

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

He nails it.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

The community note 🤌😘

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And there we have it…. Just. Wow….

Trump administration backtracks on firing nuclear arsenal workers Cuts to nuclear security workforce were made on Thursday – but agency can’t find workers to offer them their jobs back

Make America a Laughing Stock Again, what? 🤦🏼‍♀️

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