Olivia Troye, Ex-Pence Aide, Runs for the House as a Democrat

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Euronews:

Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The channel broadcasts in 18 languages. 97.6% of the channel is owned by Alpac Capital, a company which belongs to the son of an advisor to Viktor Orbán, the leader of Hungary.

The woman being murdered in the video Trump posted was an immigrant. Her name was Nilufar Yasmin. She was from Bangladesh. Trump is weaponizing her death against communities like hers. Outstanding reporting from @pabloreports.bsky.social for Migrant Insider. migrantinsider.com/p/her-name-w...

If you have a truth social account, you should fill it with footage of ICE atrocities. And say, “I’m posting these horrific images merely to educate.”

I'm so confused. Are we "Open Hormuz" or are we "keep Hormuz closed?"

I am so very confused. My brain hurts.

My first thought was “gross… that sounds too sexual…”

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Opinion | To Keep Child Abuse Off the Internet, He Has to Watch It Removing child sexual abuse material from the internet exacts a heavy toll on the workers tasked with reviewing it.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

To keep child sexual abuse off the internet, someone has to watch it. After four years of working with Offlimits, a Dutch nonprofit that combats online child abuse, Eko shares the toll it has taken.

Black cat, black dog on bed. Another black cat in background.

Black cats (and dogs) are wonderful. The late Mr Joseph Patrick and the late Miss Hattie. In the background the late Miss Sophie. Rip. 💕

Black and white cat sitting under a footstool

Princess Fluffy of Tuna. Currently in mourning (previous owner passed), currently hates me (I am her new “owner”). Life is horrible: she doesn’t get to go outside anymore.
I see her when she creeps out as I’m going to bed. She stalks the night. By morning she has vanished into a hidden space.

Stench of 20 Tons of Spilled Tofu Hits Missouri Town ‘Like a Brick Wall’ A truck careened into a ravine in Jerome, Mo., leaving the tofu to stew for weeks. “It was worse than a landfill on a hot July day,” said the general manager of a towing company.

What happens when you leave 40,000 pounds of extra firm tofu outside for three weeks? One Missouri town recently found out. And it wasn’t pretty.

Stephen Miller Asks Why Texas Pays to Teach Undocumented Children

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As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...

Texas has emerged as the fastest-growing data center market in the U.S., and it could have more data centers than anywhere else in the world by 2030. www.houstonchronicle.com/business/ene...

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers.

(video shared directly with me)

GHW Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton

GHW Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton feels like it came from another planet - one where political rivals were still countrymen, not enemies. The ink is only 33 years old, but the sentiment might as well be from a century ago.

Netanyahu reveals the goal is to create Greater Israel and the return of the Jewish Messiah which in traditional Christian scripture is or is part the Anti-Christ and the beginning of Armageddon.

“We will make it to the return of the Messiah … Israel has become stronger than ever”

Gov. Abbott says Texas will stop observing César Chávez Day amid abuse allegations The allegations include claims that Chávez sexually abused women and girls tied to the farmworker movement in the 1960s and 1970s.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will no longer observe César Chávez Day, citing newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the late labor leader.

Hi all. Adopt a rent was alerted to 2 needs that are back rents for February & March and we do not have donors currently.

One is A who was detained by ICE from December to February and thus lost his work permit & job. He owes just over $3000 for back rent including march.

Can you chip in or share?

2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions Deposition videos are providing a look at two people responsible for the largest termination of federal grants in the National Endowment for the Humanities' history.

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Another great NYT story today, this one about Richard Hell's apartment in the East Village, a dumpy cramped tenement flat that he's lived in (rent controlled, obviously) since 1974!

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Rescuers responding to tornados ‘without key tracking tool’ because of Kristi Noem Storm mapping data currently unavailable to emergency responders after $200,000 contract with provider allowed to lapse and go unrenewed, according to CNN

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A cat poster done in the style of a mid-20th-century communist propaganda poster. A line of three cat faces face left in unison. Below them is a large crowd of cats marching. They represent various kinds of cats, ages, and jobs. The background is a large red flag. Text at bottom reads: The purrletarians have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. Workers of the world, Unite!"

A painting of a black cat dressed as a lineman harnessed to a pole working on telephone wires.

Hello cat lovers. Here's one poster work and a little painting from my working cat series. If you like my work please follow me here for more and visit my print shop at nathannunart.etsy.com - Thanks for taking a look and to Cats of Yore for the show!

Mayor John Whitmire says he’ll address police accountability after reports of HPD coordination with ICE Whitmire commended the Houston Police Department's work and said the city has worked to protect residents without legal immigration status by avoiding confrontations. 

Houston Mayor John Whitmire said he plans to improve police accountability after city council members condemned the Houston Police Department's coordination with federal immigration agents. 

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Thought I would have gotten used to it by now, but I’m still grappling with the realization of just how stupid the men running this country are.

“You’re a U.S. senator!”

Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽

This should go great

Markwayne on January 6

Putting Markwayne Mullin in charge of guarding the country is like putting the bouncer from Applebee’s in charge of NORAD.

Which is it: (a) is Donald Trump really that stupid? (b) does he really think *we're* that stupid? (c) is this really just an attempt to distract from the Epstein (at least that would kinda make sense)?

Or (d) all of the above?

(3/3)