Costco defied Trump’s DEI directive as Target and Walmart scaled back. Business is booming | Fortune Many companies have dialed back their DEI programs since January 2025, but not Costco.

Welp.

In Ink and Watercolor Illustrations, Felicia Chiao Immerses Curious Characters in Surreal Scenarios The characters in Felicia Chiao’s drawings encounter surreal circumstances that tap into complex emotions.

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You don’t put that much into infrastructure just for holding people to deport. They are absolutely going to use them for people who dissent.

4 times as many measles cases in few weeks than US typically averages in year: CDC There have been 733 cases so far this year, a CDC report said.

Remember: In the prevaccine era, measles would peak in late winter- early spring. Don’t be surprised if in the next few weeks we see a surge

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So he’s saying if something horrendous happens to him, he’s attracted that, and there’s an upside?

We know so little about all of these details of DOGE staff. They use them a lot to hide their tracks dogetrack.info/people/details

Homelessness Authority Rescinds Tiny House Village Grant, Gives Money to Salvation Army Instead - PubliCola By Erica C. Barnett The King County Regional Homelessness Authority has rescinded a $3 million grant it gave the Low…

Homelessness Authority Rescinds Tiny House Village Grant, Gives Money to Salvation Army Instead

LIHI worked to secure the funds in Seattle's budget. KCRHA said the nonprofit took too long to secure a site.

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This totally sucks

Why was Dr. Oz inviting Epstein to parties 8 years after Epstein was convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution?

LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

I remember John Curley when he was young, this is really cool to see

So - that baby seal guy is very antisemitic, fyi

Never, ever let people be ignorant on the meaning of the bloody hand pin worn by antiIsrael people

We need all women colleges. I have my own disgusting experiences with male faculty years ago, and it hasn’t changed enough. And yes, men who didn’t directly participate and pled ignorance were very carefully looking the other way.

Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.

The Trump administration wasn't just blindly zeroing out spreadsheets of foreign aid money—they were upending decades of critical, lifesaving work abroad with life and death consequences.

A figure sits in the center of a round desk built on the top of four hydraulic robot legs. He's writing with a pen, and is lit with yellow light coming from the desk or paper itself.

Moebius, 1986

Senior US health official Oz invited Epstein to Valentine's Day party, documents show Mehmet Oz sent the invite almost a decade after Epstein's first sex crime charges became public.

Dr. Oz emailed an invite to a Valentine's Day party in 2016 to Jeffrey Epstein.

Oz appears several more times in the Epstein files, including an email sent from an account under his name to Epstein on Jan. 1, 2016, that has the subject line "Dr oz." The body of the message is completely redacted.

Hannah Arendt: From an Interview | Hannah Arendt What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the c...

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed. … If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.” Hannah Arendt, 1978
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Two of them were convicted drug traffickers. But hey, they were former NFL players so they shouldn’t have to endure those kinds of things on their records. As usual, follow the money.

Texas businessman running for office owns Epstein's Zorro Ranch in Santa Fe County The family of Texas real estate businessman Don Huffines, a Republican running for state comptroller, purchased the property through an LLC.

lots of juice in here!

The family of Texas businessman and political candidate Donald Huffines have been identified as the owners of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch in southern Santa Fe County, which was purchased in 2023 by a limited liability company.

If a subpopulation of humans insisted on only breeding with others based on stupid shit like eye color and hair color and skin color, they'd probably end up dumber than the rest of us. But nobody would do something like-- hold on, someone is handing me a note here

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

We're supporting Ukraine. We're preparing for peace and building, for the first time in our history outside of NATO, credible and robust security guarantees that will ensure, when times come, that the aggression can never restart.

FM of France Jean-Noel Barrot:

Thanks to the courage of our Ukrainian friends and support of their allies&Europeans in the front line,the special operation of Putin is a total failure.

Vladimir Putin is ruining the Russian nation.The Russian economy is exhausted. Recession is forecast for 2026.

Remember Trump wanted to host Taliban at Camp David?

Speaking to male doctor
Playing any sport
Going to the gym
Going to a park
Wearing bright clothes
Wearing anything not Taliban-approved
Looking in direction of men they don’t know
Showing their faces in public
Yelling for help when they are beaten up by their husband
Objecting being domestic slave

These scam Gaza accounts are really ramping up again. Every day for the past week I’ve gotten a follow from a new one that gets set up after Bluesky suspends the previous one. Make sure you report the accounts and posts as scams before you block the accounts.

Review of Wuthering Heights movie: "emily bronte died of tuberculosis 177 years ago yet this adaptation is still the worst thing that has ever happened to her"

Got to appreciate a no-nonsense movie review.