it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence inside the U.S.

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal:
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mRNA vaccines continue to show major promise.

In a small Phase 1 trial led by Dr. Balachandran, some patients with pancreatic cancer (one of the deadliest cancers) reached 6-year survival.

This is why sustained investment in science & research matters.

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As someone who lives here the what are we fighting for question is what won him the election no doubt

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement—

If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.

Apparently like every day.

Saturday's Weather Rating: 9/10

Noticeably cooler, but still very nice with high temperatures reaching the upper 60s this afternoon. Sunshine is in control early, but clouds increase later this evening. For much of the day, the vibes are VERY good out there!!

New York City has like 3 alleys. There's that one in Chinatown, that one in the LES, and the one near the REI that's near the library. You have seen each of them like seventeen thousand times on various iterations of Law and Order.

Outside NYC’s ‘Sanctuary City,’ Local Police Routinely Collude With ICE A review of federal court documents by THE CITY reveals three dozen cases in which local law enforcement allegedly cooperated with ICE agents.

Formal agreements like this are just one piece. All ICE collaboration must end.

Pass New York For All NOW.

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I don't even understand why we're still going through with this.

Senator Slotkin says new NSPM-7 Joint Mission Center likely includes CIA and NSA, for "looking at...people who may just take a very different view on the world than the president."

Head to the Queens Night Market for a smorgasbord of cheap street food The Market returns this weekend for its 11th season, and everything is $6 or less.

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FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying Drones Near ICE Vehicles You won’t go to jail for filming ICE with a drone, but the government may still shoot it down and it expanded the list of protected agencies to include the Department of Justice.

big news, the FAA has gotten rid of criminal penalties for flying drones near ICE vehicles

the momentum is there. people hate these things. politicians need to pull it together and enact the political will of their constituents. those big tech checks will clear today but will it be enough to buy your next election?

Because ignorance isn't bliss it's expensive

Hegseth is such a wet brained drunk and everyone tried to say so at the beginning like this really our own fault

each time an inquiry is made. Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person’s sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain. Hence, the inability of transgender Montanans to receive government-issued identification documents accurately reflecting their gender identity is fundamentally about the nature of sex and suspect class discrimination under Article II, Section 4––a clause that enshrines individual dignity, equal protection, and nondiscrimination. Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28

5. Now, a 5-2 majority of the Montana Supreme Court has affirmed that ruling and gone further. Justice Laurie McKinnon, writing for the majority, declared that trans discrimination is sex discrimination.

4. The decision rests on Montana's constitution, whose Equal Protection and Individual Dignity clause has been repeatedly interpreted to protect transgender people—and which the court made clear provides far greater protection than the federal constitution.

3. The ruling in Kalarchik v. State of Montana blocks a definition-of-sex law and related state policies that stripped all legal recognition from transgender people and barred them from obtaining accurate birth certificates and driver's licenses.

2. On Monday, the Montana Supreme Court issued a landmark 5-2 ruling declaring that "transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," and that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause.

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Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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Tweet by director Joseph Kahn: The solution to the theatrical problem is very simple. Extend the time before it goes to streaming. Make it 180 days. 6 months. If you don't watch it in theaters you won't get to see it for a long time. Studios have devalued their product by letting the consumer know there's no urgency. They're going to see it for "free" later. They've cheapened the business into a buffet and violated basic supply and demand.

plainly true

Friday’s Weather Rating: 8/10

The good vibes continue this morning, with high temperatures near 80° F later. A few showers and maybe a storm will pass through this afternoon, but otherwise the vibes remain quite good!!

Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza is getting a people-first redesign #brooklyn #nyc #urbanism YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC

Brooklyn's Grand Army Plaza is getting a grand redesign that puts pedestrians and cyclists first. youtube.com/shorts/fpMkN...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

As entertainment and a close-enough I enjoyed it as an adaptation. And visually it got better and better in my opinion. Transferring that many sheer words into television is an impossible task and only something that amazon could come close to affording lol

The set piece in s3 with what the spider lady did to that general was breathtaking, and Matt's sequence where he asks for need, that creature? Shit was getting wild man.

The books were a long time ago, the tv series I think is really good, got better and better. Like crazy cool effects and writing near the end.

I've been stuck inside a lot and watching the #WheelOfTime series. I've read the books years ago, this show is pretty damn good I think. Thoughts?

The Sunny Act would allow apartment dwellers, whether renters or homeowners, to use easy-to-install and affordable solar panels: gothamist.visitlink.me/cF0lVc