She raised concerns about her company's contracts with ICE. Then she lost her job Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Billie Little had worked for Thomson Reuters for about two decades. She was fired after questioning whether federal immigration agents unlawfully used their products.

Satellite Data Reveal Scope and Scale of US-Israeli Strikes on Iran New data analysis shows the level of destruction in Tehran and across the Islamic Republic — and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out war.

Satellite imagery reveals that US has damaged or destroyed an estimated 7,645 buildings in Iran (including 60 schools) while killing at least 3,300 individuals since 28 Feb. Nearly 3,000 of those buildings were in Tehran

New case: Triangular Support for a Candelabrum, contributed by Emily Hamann:

This candelabrum base was repatriated to Italy in 2006 after being linked to the Medici trafficking network.

“I was tired. It didn’t appear anything good was ever going to happen,” he said. “And then Renee Good got shot. And I don’t remember being so distinctly angry at a news story in my life. I was just so fucking angry for days. Then I turned on Alex Jones to see what he was talking about, and he had Kyle Rittenhouse on and he was saying things that weren’t true and I was like nope, that’s it. He’s just going to keep selling boner pills on the back of the worst tragedies in our country in perpetuity unless someone puts a check on this.”

May I have the strength to be as furious and as totally irrational as @bencollins.bsky.social forever

Here he is, in conversation with a colleague and friend @lindseyadler.bsky.social at @flaminghydra.com, on the topic of buying INFOWARS

flaminghydra.com/issue-548/

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Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

“All we have to fear, is fear itself”

“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”

“What the hell is a corner store?”

Great Presidential quotes of our time

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, BRATS (1930) 👶👦

🏠 This gimmick comedy used normal-scale and oversized sets, letting Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy appear as both adults & their pint-sized sons. 🎬

😂 It's slapstick at two sizes.

Full short ➡️ archive.org/details/brat...

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

A New Handbook, a Dutch Trial, and the Mona Lisa on Stage

A new Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law has just been published by Edward Elgar, co-edited by Sophie Vigneron, Janet Ulph, and Antoinette Maget Dominicé. The volume is a substantial one — 682 pages — and it brings together…

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Just a reminder that the US ran the most expensive wargame in history concerning Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz because every expert knew it would happen in a US/Iran conflict and it requires careful strategy to resolve. But our President decided to Leeroy Jenkins it.

In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart

anyway so yeah the strait of hormuz is closed, what do you think?

karl marx: can i have another el tiempo margarita

Chessmen at NMS National Museums Scotland - National Museums Scotland

195 years ago, on the 11th of April 1831, the Lewis chessmen were first exhibited at a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland shortly after being rediscovered. The pieces wee made between 1150 and 1200 and commonly believed to have been made in Norway. #otd #history 🗃️

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

Take a look at the CNN sourcing and fact-checking on their Swalwell article. Look at how many extra people they contacted in order to corroborate claims. They viewed screenshots, called parents/husbands/friends/colleagues. They viewed TV footage and interviews, & more. Two things worth pointing out:

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

Okay CTA. This is a good sign.

HOUSTON MENTIONED meme

every 30 seconds on comms

"A great view of the moon out Window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday."

"Guess we'll have to go back." #ArtemisII

Frog exclaims to Toad that he is happy. From "Alone" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“But Toad,” said Frog, “I AM happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up, I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you for a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”

we have got to get it together, in like twenty-four hours the astronauts are back

SPACEX RECORDED NEARLY $5 BLN LOSS LAST YEAR DUE TO AI EXPENDITURE - THE INFORMATION

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

You as Craigy K used to say, are one of life's winners

Wishing this fabulously competent—and joyful—crew a safe return to a planet that, frankly, doesn't deserve them.

Immigration agents are seen inside Newark Liberty International Airport's Terminal A in Newark, N.J., on March 23, 2026.

Thousands of Mathematicians Protest International Conference in U.S.

The U.S. is not safe for international mathematicians given the risk of detainment and harassment by ICE, they argue. https://bit.ly/4cewiRU

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Hard day, for many reasons.

I took care of my health across by taking for the dogs into a park where Rachel Carson once birded, up the canal where thousands of mules once pulled barges, now populated with turtles, herons, & red-winged blackbirds, high above people boating & fishing on the Potomac.