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Right. Same thing as 2020 [see below].Through 2 debates and a session on Economics in Chicago during the 2024 campaign I never heard a reporter bring up the cost of the 2020 tariffs & the bailout to farmers WE paid for to cover Trump’s tariff folly. I’m sick of it. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
"Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah"
Oh how I do know the latter - I'll be recommending the book you shared earlier with a loved one also dealing w/ a narcissist, thanks
Genuinely ty for bringing insight & facts, unlike the troll above. My comments stemmed from being tired of how much, in this age of BS inundation from the right, many ppl my politics would otherwise align w/ post misinfo for the snark (also grew up in an adhd fam where looking it up is law lol)
It's still only 1-2%.
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From 1 in 100 to 1 in 6 in 10 yrs?????
Cat holes or wag bags? Researchers studying human waste in parks and protected areas outline options for responsible pooping outdoors to minimize environmental impact and protect public health. cc @lnt.org
California lawmakers reach an agreement with Uber and Lyft that will open the door for app-based drivers to form unions. This is a victory for organized labor that could lay the groundwork for similar efforts in other states.
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I'm aware of the whistleblower - who was forced to resign today btw, a violation of whistleblower protections - but whistleblower claims are usually filed with their own agency, & the SSA is an independent agency, not under DOJ. Also wanted to know bc filing a complaint doesn't guarantee review.
Yeah, wouldn't zoot suits be some of the earliest streetwear, based on the style's spirit of elevating everyday/urban in a subversive way (tho I think it was coined later)? Christian saying the hat looked Western was weird, considering the cultural and historical significance.
Not finding a source speaking to an investigation - can you please share a source?
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
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For those of you who don’t like to open links or don’t have instagram. I downloaded the video for you. If you haven’t heard about this guy before don’t scroll past it, his name is Jesse Welles. I promise you won’t be disappointed. #jessewelles #wellesmusic #thekaelosproject #kaelos #wordshaveweight
THOU SHALT STOP WORSHIPPING GUNS!!!
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
If the US follows through with a COVID-19 vaccine ban this fall, many Americans will be forced to do a vaccine run to Canada. "Moderna’s latest COVID-19 vaccine is both approved and ‘made in Canada’" globalnews.ca/news/1134908...
Headline: Trump's DC Occupation Costs 4x More Than It Would Take To House City's Entire Homeless Population Link: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-n...
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
We listened to 20+ hours of public hearings on the EPA's reconsideration of the Endangerment Finding so you don't have to 🧪: eos.org/research-and...
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Some good news: Last week, a federal judge ordered less reliance on pesticide spraying on millions of acres of Western rangelands — rather than a “spray first, ask questions later” approach. More details: biodiv.us/45BMue9
Trump can't deny funds to L.A. and 30 other 'sanctuary' jurisdictions, judge rules
Another little veggie garden buddy. 🥰 (There're actually 2, and both are only about 2-3 inches each. 🥹)
Growing some trellised sugar babies myself rn! Thank you for the preview. 😍
It was a Mississippi law that the Supreme Court used to overturn Roe v. Wade. State health officials now claim they want to improve maternal health when Mississippi never expanded Medicaid, which would allow more people to see a doctor *before* they get pregnant
This is fucking crazy! The offshore wind farm is almost finished!
The ruling sided with environmental groups and the Miccosukee Tribe, who had filed a suit alleging that the facility built in the Florida Everglades violated federal environmental laws.
We’ve posted about this before, but now it’s official a federal judge has made it clear: Alina Habba has been serving as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney without legal authority for over a month.
The use of national security rhetoric to justify mass incarceration today echoes the same logic that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans. It is inconceivable that the US is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...
An American President messing with free elections because the leader of Russia told him to, is what we call a Russian Agent.
Five years ago, a very close relative died of a glioblastoma brain tumor at the age of 13. Today would have been his 19th birthday. And now comes news that an mRNA vaccine is being trialed to treat this very (incurable) malady. Fingers crossed. mbi.ufl.edu/2024/05/01/v...
“Our bill would provide $25 billion over five years — $5 billion a year — to support state and local transit agencies to create fare-free public transportation systems. Not here just in Massachusetts, but across the entire nation,” Markey said.
47% of Project 2025 has been implemented. The United States is doomed. White America ruined their own nation. You hate to see it.
Why aren't there more support for Republicans among academics and scientists? We may never know.
Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior. By @heathervogell.bsky.social
There's a magical Canadian faucet, too?? I just know abt the CV one where he wasted 2.2 billion gal. of our summer water... bc federal waterways in CA end in Bakersfield - on the other side of the Transverse Ranges from LA. Still shocked USACE complied w/ that order. www.sfgate.com/centralcalif...
“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.
I liked other designs by Yuchen (at least what's been shown of work before PR), but for that design to win went against the entire aim of the unconventional challenge. The whole point is to make the audience forget/guess the materials by totally transforming it. That screamed soccer balls. 🙄
Four episodes in, I can tell you it barely gets better. It's turned into such a childish, draining show with maybe 5 minutes of actual design. 😮💨 (I do like the silly, little captions)
Imagine if they’d had sandwiches. 🥪
My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Calling all scientists and science supporters! You have a crucial role to play in countering the authoritarian threat we currently face in this country. Learn more about how you can stand up for the facts and truth that are essential for a free and democratic society. blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...
The insurrectionists were smart not to bring sandwiches to the capital on January 6. Otherwise they’d be in real trouble now.
Thank you, that reconciles his actions w/ the motivations I knew him to have... Californians' opinion of him is definitely complicated, myself included lol I guess we have to see who the primary candidates are.
Bc half of voters are in a cult that blindly follows Trump, bc Americans do not read & think Fox News is news, bc the Electoral College - heck, anecdotally, bc I just did a roadtrip where the unsolicited misinformation spouted at us when they learned we were from CA was both laughable & disturbing.
How is that possible when according to Trump all water flows south to LA?? (Couldn't resist the joke lol)
Your parenthetical aside is rly interesting - I've been surprised by his leadership on this bc it could also end any presidential ambitions he may have. He might now be a household name even outside of CA, but half of voters are in a cult loyal solely to Trump. (Either way, glad he's fighting.)
I certainly did. Lol on this, I'd call him useful. I am surprised he continues to take a strong stand when it could end an aim at presidency, which seems likely. He typ seems... ambitious & a little smarmy lol him holding the line is wild, & his media team deserves massive raises. 😂
He's term limited btw. He can't run for governor again.
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
2024's mass monarch death at the Pacific Grove Sanctuary (an overwintering site of the western population) was linked to pesticides, w/ 15 total pesticides found in those analyzed & an avg of 7 each. 3 pyrethroid insecticides were found at/nearly at lethal dosage in *all*:
The Vreamery in Paso Robles, CA ships and is how I've found out about so many good brands 🤤
Let me be clear: none of this is about immigration, it’s about cruelty and the targeting of people in vulnerable circumstances. To strip our clients of their rights and threaten them with deportation is a gross violation of the law and public trust.
1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.
Texas hasn't received FEMA aid yet. The callous disregard from officials is shocking. I hope Texans remember this in 2026. Ultimately, it seems the priority is enriching the wealthy using funds collected from struggling individuals.
Priorities.
This is too much. Too much. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...
Is it just me, or is #ProjectRunway solely focused on highlighting drama this season? Sure, the sassy chyrons are entertaining, but I think there's been *one* mention of the designers' inspiration & process. If I wanted drama & unprofessionalism, I'd turn on the news.
Noticing a pattern here.
Let them eat cake.
17 million people might lose their healthcare but at least your tax dollars will be going to good use in other very, very important ways.
The Big Beautiful Bill gives Meta a $15 billion check. That’s more than our federal government spends on child care in an entire year. If we invested that much in child care & early childhood education, we’d create stronger futures for everyone, not just Mark Zuckerberg.
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
We're continuing to report. If you have information about the deportation operation or the Venezuelan immigrants who were deported, we want to hear from you. You can reach out via Signal at 917-512-0201, on WhatsApp at 917-327-4868, or fill out the form below ⤵️
Love to see it. Haven't tried Eritrean (yet), but Ethiopian is one of my absolute fave genres of food. 😍🤌🏼
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We are the enemy because we do not feel threatened by diversity or inclusion. Decency will survive, but it will cost us.
One of my faves!
This ain’t about abortion, it’s about punishing folks who can’t afford private care and women who dare to demand control over their own bodies. Shutting down clinics means more undiagnosed cancer, more untreated STIs, and more folks left out here with nowhere to turn.
Me after saying I wasn't gonna buy any more books for a while
Hmm
What could go wrong?
Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.
Nancy Mace gets wrecked by a community note
Someone (@lewfoo) posted a long thread on the THREADS app about this. I’m posting the @npr.org story on which her thread was based here. PLEASE READ & SHARE. It’s so important. @cbsnews.com @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social www.npr.org/sections/the...
A man was robbed and assaulted in Milton, Delaware, by two masked men impersonating ICE agents www.delawareonline.com/story/news/c...
This is patently false. DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion — and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop.
Facts matter.
Interviewed ICE agents reported that current immigration policies are preoccupied with quotas, not community safety (no 💩) A) www.msn.com/en-us/news/p... B) www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the oath you vowed to uphold."
If churches are allowed to endorse political candidates, then they must also pay taxes.
Imagine this is you. You’re locked in a cell thousands of miles from home. No one knows where you are. No charges. No trial. No end in sight.
🚨EPA workers who wrote and signed an open letter warning against the admin’s actions have been put on leave and under “investigation”. Feds are being punished for speaking out. Please sign their letter to show you stand with these brave EPA workers! www.standupforscience.net/epa-declarat...
But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸
Military strikes may slow nuclear programs – but history shows they rarely stop them. When it comes to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, diplomacy has proven far more effective. A nonproliferation expert explains what that means for #Iran now: theconversation.com/military-for...
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
Jeffries, still going strong 8 hours in: "Extraordinary to me, Mr. Speaker, that you got folks in this town talking about draining the swamp. Guess what. You are the swamp ... we've never seen anything like this -- the type of corruption that has been unleashed on the American people."
lol
Republicans pulled an all-nighter to: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national debt -raise health care premiums for seniors
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Chris Murphy: "The CBO, nonpartisan, says it's gonna kick between 10 and 15 million people off their healthcare. And for what? To be able to afford a new $270,000 tax cut for the richest families in the country ... it's a moral abomination."
Whoa! Alligator Alcatraz is going to be complete by Tuesday and open for operation on Wednesday. Am I the only one wondering how Ron DeSantis got this together so fast? Floridians, make sure you remember this the next time a hurricane hits and you can’t get disaster relief in your state.
A new study found that the United States was responsible for 55 percent of the pollution emitted by private jets globally.
We all need a place where we feel safe… Goodnight everybody. Sweet dreams.