Police in the Russian city of Novosibirsk arrested a local man on Monday after he staged a performance outside a school that involved juggling with a live hedgehog. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
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Police in the Russian city of Novosibirsk arrested a local man on Monday after he staged a performance outside a school that involved juggling with a live hedgehog. meduza.io/en/feature/2...
The problem isn’t refugees on boats. The problem is oligarchs hoarding obscene amounts of wealth while most people fight to stay afloat. Wages aren't tied to inflation, so the working class keeps falling behind no matter how hard they work.
Nobel Prize worthy 🔥👏🏽🙌🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DOC7KBw...
I wonder what anarchist-geographer Peter Kropotkin would think of this?
This little girl is wearing leg shackles, trafficked to who knows where. It was caught on the airport cameras
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
... And Francisco Franco!
Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...
Happy birthday! Its mine today too ... What a gift if true ...
No scheduled public appearances between August 26 and Labor Day. Slightly unusual but apparently breaks like this have happened before. Truth social tweets are still happening.
🚨🔥🔥🔥🚨 Truth to power! 1/2
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
SARAH PALIN: "There are going to be death panels!" RFK JR: "Technically, it's just me."
I agree but those who live at local stops don't!
This came to me in a vision
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
@mluckovich.bsky.social Please sign and share our petition to remove RFK Jr. www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...
BLACKOUT THE SYSTEM
Fuck I love this guy. He's a breath of fresh air. #Resist
Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
Chinese artist Leng Jun,I have never seen anything like it. Extraordinary!!!
This is good, very, very good.
I'm good w computers because of logic. Often tasks like generating keys are not logical - just a series of idiosyncratic tasks. I'm terrible w US health care bureaucracy for the same reason. The illogic makes my head spin.
Judge rejects Andrew Cuomo's efforts to scuttle the $450K settlement reached between the state and Brittany Commisso, the former gubernatorial aide who alleges the ex-governor forcibly groped her. A reminder of how Cuomo scandals continue to cost NY taxpayers millions in settlements, legal bills.
It should do neither - this approach is the heart and soul of Jim Crow. The right to vote should be inalienable.
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
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Parker is a true warrior with relentless spirit ✊ Parker was shot in the head in June.. she spent weeks in the hospital with a broken skull and a blood clot in her brain. Now out, she's back at the LA Music Festival.
Another winning animation from Freeonis.
When Oregon joined the Union in 1859 they outlawed slavery and forbade the immigration of free blacks. I don't know whether the law was ever enforced but it 100% supports your point.
Watch for Zach Shrewsbury in West Virgina (senate) and Rebecca Cook in Wisconsin (House), as two examples. Both are extremely credible "every person" candidates who the DNC has NEVER supported but to whom Bernie has given shout-outs and support. They're both on Bluesky.
This isn't just about the trade war. People have been detained and / or denied entry because of anti-Trump memes on their phones. I'm a dual citizen whose friends and family always want to visit me in NY. Fear is the reason I hear about most for why they haven't.
Russia Has The Epstein Sex Tapes And Client List French historian Françoise Thom documents ties between Jeffrey Epstein and the Russian FSB How better to blackmail the influential elite than to possess evidence of participation in sex orgies with children? european-security.com/the-cesspool...
Thanks for the reminder! I saw it years ago, and the shot I remember is the spiral, which I think of *every* time I see a spiral staircase. I'm going to re-watch it now ...
Again: this is not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
I had fun playing it. Very charming. I haven't figured it out but its fun trying to reverse engineer the rules. I guess that's why you call it a *puzzle* game. I'll check in later to see how it develops. Thanks for the effort!
These two jokes made my week ... just saying.
I just began day 7 of my fourth infection in NYC ... mellowest yet. I would not have known I was infected if my partner hadn't been feverish. I hope that COVID is mutating into something more benign, like our two flu strains, which only sometimes kill. My first three cases of COVID were scary.
For me, the funniest part of this is that when I saw a picture of who was attending I blindly guessed that he was a Nordic leader. I mean, what else could he be? Particularly at a table stuffed with leaders.
Can you verify Gwendolyn's claim? Perhaps Putin has the Epstein files from Dougan? This would explain a lot
Placing the phrase "we've got showers" in a sentence about concentration camps is a special kind of sinister.
He's at the top of my "most likely to save the USA" list and I'm an atheist progressive. We must support his bid to become Texas governor.
Russians are advancing in Zaporizhzhia oblast under the American flag.
The Rockland County case is real and very sinister from an election integrity perspective.
One emetic to another ...
I agree w everything he says and I'm an atheist. He may save the country if he wins the governorship. I hope Beto stays out of the race
100 years of July temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
THE CRUELTY… ICE snatched a high school student while he was walking his dog. Agents tied his dog to a tree and, and for extra fuckery, unclipped the collar—letting him run loose on a busy street. According to family, agents joked during his arrest, laughing about the $2,500 they just secured.
This "mail-in" talking point is sinister. There is evidence of some tampering with voting machines in the last election. Follow the case in Rockland County. I'm not one for conspiracies *at all*, but the researchers engaged in this case are credible www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeP...
This "mail-in" talking point is sinister. There is evidence of some tampering with voting machines in the last election. Follow the case in Rockland County. I'm not one for conspiracies *at all*, but the researchers engaged in this case are credible www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfeP...
It's really easy to get depressed/disheartened about everything happening out there. But I'm a simple market/economic watcher and not a political scientist. So I'm just going go ahead and outline a few ideas for why stocks are holding up despite it all. www.notion.so/yontodd/013-...
🧪A new brain-computer interface can decode imagined speech with up to 74% accuracy. To protect user privacy and prevent accidental translation of internal thoughts, the system only activates when the user thinks of a preset password. 🧠
Every time ...
Some #ICEvictims don’t survive. This may be one such case. open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
Department of Truth?
Oh so it does have phd level intelligence
Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.
My friend's young son died a couple days ago due to complications with #insulin dependent #diabetes. #Americans deserve #healthcare. Parents shouldn't watch their children die. #America #HealthCare #society #community #love
So, this is making the rounds and really -- desparately -- needs to be clarified. The TL;DR is this: Polls don't measure shifts in opinion so much as shifts in context. news.gallup.com/poll/693203/... (A brief 🧵) /1
Scolds are almost as bad as trolls. My experience w AI is similar to yours. It's very useful in situations where one can critically assess its work. I know how to program and find AI very useful at clearly defined programming tasks. I have to vet the output but it can save a ton of time.
#StandUpForScience 🧪🧬🦠🌎
The monthly job numbers are very unreliable. Revisions of this size happen all of the time . The revised numbers are the ones to look at
There's been a lot of Schadenfreude out of Europe about a supposed capital flows exodus from the US. Here's the thing. There is no exodus. May saw the biggest inflow in foreign portfolio flows into the US ever. Markets really don't think the US "exceptionalism" story is over. Dollar positive...
UnitedHealthcare is raising premiums for policyholders in New York and Washington after spending $9B on stock buybacks last year. Healthcare companies are robbing you blind to enrich their executives and shareholders. This is why we need Medicare for All.
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch
Just went a ways down this rabbit hole and found this story on Epstein's Russian connections from Khodorkovsky's investigative unit Dossier. Unclear when it was published. dossier.center/jeffreyepste...
Ilya Sorokin: Russia's Mengele. Remember this name the next time Hegseth or Trump obstruct arms deliveries to Ukraine.
Phew. Dynasties often come pre-bought.
Via Barchart: Renting is now significantly more affordable than buying a home — by one of the widest gaps ever recorded #EconSky
Watch till end youtu.be/bXdBzpRDR5I?...
To quote Blood Simple, "Now in Russia, they got it mapped out so that everyone pulls for everyone else -- that's the theory, anyway. But ... down here in Texas you're on your own."
This picture is fake! Mordor was exempted from tariffs because we're negotiating a mining deal with them!
#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth A team from Utrecht University took samples at varying depths from 12 sites across the North Atlantic. They estimate that some 27 million metric tons of nanoplastics are spread across just the top layer of the North Atlantic ocean. www.sciencealert.com/atlantic-oce...
US lawmakers complain to Canada: Your wildfire smoke is ruining our summer. Canada responds: We are battling climate-fueled megafires. Science explains: Most fires are caused by lightning and global warming. Congress 👉😠👈: Anyway, just fix your forests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
My son was 1 when leaders posed for the cameras & pledged to keep temperatures BELOW the ‘safe level’ of 1.5C. He was 10 when the Earth spent an entire year ABOVE 1.5C. We’re on track for 4C within his lifetime. Our children are being betrayed & their futures obliterated.
An energy advocacy group said utilities sought approval for 142% higher rates in the first half of 2025, raising questions over whether the fees will be shared among all users, or charged directly to the large industrial consumers driving rising demand. https://on.ft.com/3Il3VGD
JUST IN: Judge Breyer sets trial for Aug. 11-13 on whether Trump's deployment of military to Los Angeles violated Posse Comitatus. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Wasn't sure about this one, even with Idris Elba as the UK PM, but then I learned that Paddy Considine plays a Russian arms dealer named Viktor Gradov
Key numbers in cell biology Having a sense of scale helps to think more rigorously and realistically about biological systems.
The only violence I've ever experienced in the NYC subway was when two Wisconsin tourists got frightened by a Black man (not dangerous-i think the convo was about football). The tourists pepper-sprayed a packed subway car. I couldn't see properly for two days. The tourists wore cheese hats .
Tolerance is the new intolerance.
Reminds me of Peterloo! Though the Peterloo massacre was just about class war. This is a little nuttier.
Mine is human rights though food is second. Most Guinean's in NYC have undergone severe hardship to get here. Its something to be proud of that NYC is still welcoming when the entire western world has closed its doors to asylum seekers. Its our win - good people, educated, great music and food. Win.
The govt of Guinea is a major human rights violator. It is particularly savage toward the Fulani people. The Central Prison in Conakry, the capital, is one of the worst centers of human rights abuses in the world. CECOT level savagery. NYC is a sanctuary. I'm proud of that. Good outreach Zohran!
.. . And has good posture! I'm a dual citizen in the US and Carney's capitulation is scaring me. Noem is giving pep talks to ICE about the threat from the north. I had always counted on my citizenship as a defense. Canada does not have my back.
The Cantonese opera about Donald Trump, including this scene depicting his spat with Zelensky, appears to be quite something. In the show, Trump has a twin brother named Chuan Pu, living in China, who must pose as U.S. president when Martians abduct the real Donald. www.reuters.com/business/med...
"The doubling of the energy imbalance has come as a shock, because the sophisticated climate models we use largely didn’t predict such a large and rapid change. Typically, the models forecast less than half of the change we’re seeing in the real world" #ClimateEmergency
The Old Deal.
I call it the "Old Deal".
"Getting services for free" is Newspeak for "receiving services in return for taxes paid".