Wow! My father had that same style desk. I remember always thinking it was such a cool desk with so many compartments for correspondence.

A pro-Susan Collins super PAC keeps running this ad with corporate lobbyist & former House GOP Leader Ellie Espling going on about how Collins cured her cancer or something. Let's look at Ellie's record in the Maine House on health care:

A screenshot of Hex packages showing gleam_stdlib v1.0.0. with description "A standard library for the Gleam programming language". Above the screenshot there's a pink star smiling - Gleam's mascot, lucy

It's here! gleam_stdlib v1 released!

I was reluctant to use WhatsApp before, but begrudgingly decided to try it since a local group wants to use it to organize an event.

1. Signed up for WhatsApp using my phone.
2. Signed into WhatsApp web app on my computer.
3. Joined group that required me to sign up for WhatsApp.
4. Account immediately suspended without sending a single message.

I have not yet read the article, but I am eager to know the background of the experts. Are they teleportation experts? Waffle House experts? FEMA experts? Have the Times reporters lost the ability to understand reality without expert guidance?

Cool… and this will finally get me started on that apple pie I’ve wanted to make.

Bajor – Palestine Flag Enamel Pin Soft enamel. Two posts with black rubber backers. Measures 1.25″ x 1.15″ (3.2 x 2.9 cm) 100% of proceeds are donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. Together we’ve …

I love this. willburrowsart.com/product/doub...

Strong Geomagnetic Storm Underway. Check the Space Weather dashboard for more information.

Was Meta’s metaverse just a poor clone of Second Life?

“I’m worried,” Ratner said, “that we’re going back to a time where people die in childhood.”

-->terrifying, essential reporting by @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Algorithmic Bias

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo...

I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study

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Hey everyone remember this tweet from a week ago?

Tell me again how this is going exactly as planned?

Mills has often been at odds with the rest of the Democratic Party. She obstructed the implementation of LD1971 which limited cooperation between Maine law enforcement and ICE and vetoed the right to repair law. I’m not sure I would say she’s supportive of democratic beliefs.

Episode 214: Maine Senate Candidate Graham Platner on DEFEATING Susan Collins The path to flip the US Senate blue goes through Maine — where polling has Graham Platner leading Susan Collins by double digits

On the latest episode of the Qasim Rashid Show, I sit down with Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to discuss his campaign against Susan Collins, opposition to U.S. wars, support for Palestinian rights, defending trans people, and the economic populism driving his grassroots movement.

America needs a movement to curb billionaires' power | Steven Greenhouse The country’s 900 billionaires have far too much influence over our government and economy. Here’s how we can reduce the power of the ultra-rich

📢 ALSO APPLIES TO THE UK 🔽
Paul Krugman was absolutely right when he wrote: “Any project to save American democracy must include a push to reduce the extreme concentration of wealth at the top.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vaccine Preventable Encephalitis - Measles - Gemma's Story YouTube video by Encephalitis International

Since the rate of measles is rising, here’s a little bit about a deadly complication we’re likely to see again in higher numbers. youtube.com/watch?v=yA53...

It would be nice to carry your computer in your pocket and be just a keyboard and monitor away from your full work setup.

I can’t watch more than a few minutes. I think about how much time, effort, and study goes into grant writing and how difficult it is to get federal grants only to have these idiots yank the funding away without any expertise and without putting in any effort. It’s hard not to throw my phone.

If any news outlets are covering this and want to talk to a trans Genomics PhD who specialized in human genetics and the evolution of sex, please reach out to me

This is complete nonsense scientifically. It's fascist eugenics, not biology

Setting a horrifying precedent for genocide

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

I’m tired of all the Platner will be another Fetterman people. Where are the Mills will be another Golden people?

I can’t predict the future, but I feel like we have to try electing progressive candidates if we want things to change and shouldn’t be swayed from trying by the experience with Fetterman. I also hope the campaign he built would turn against him if that happened.

What I’ve seen so far suggests he won’t. He reached out to my daughter’s union as they were organizing and showed up to lend his support at their rallies. He also mobilized his campaign to help defeat the Maine voter ID initiative.

PFAs (people from away) all mad at us for not supporting Mills don't know she vetoed or sat on every progressive bill put in front of her for 8 years.

She refused to sign the bill stopping PDs from cooperating with ICE, just a few weeks before the ICE surge began in ME.

She's Collins lite.

Folks need to hear that these are the political conditions being navigated in Maine

Algo in the genocide Omar Sakr Okay I won’t use the word Jewish And I won’t use the word Zionist And I won’t use the word genocide And I won’t use the word apartheid And I won’t use the word settler And I won’t use the word colony And I won’t use the word killed And I won’t use the word watermelon And I won’t use the word Palestine And I won’t use the word resistance And I won’t use the word law And I won’t use the word moral And I won’t use the word men And I won’t use the word God And I won’t use the word river And I won’t use the word sea And I won’t use the word free And I won’t use the word children For the young of _____ are always _____ What are we left with at the end? A murdered dictionary and field After silent field of unmarked graves. Feature Date March 5, 2026 “Algo in the genocide” From THE NIGHTMARE SEQUENCE: by Omar Sakr. Published by Nightboat Books on September 16, 2025. Copyright © 2025 by Omar Sakr. All rights reserved. Reproduced by Poetry Daily with permission.

Algo in the genocide
Omar Sakr

#Poetry that matters

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why Trump Iran Operation Isn’t Winning Over the Hill Plus: Senators are confused about whether to call this a “war.”

You’d think after 30 years in public office, “are we at war” would not be a tricky question!

“When I then asked if we are now at war, Collins said, “I’ve just had a classified briefing and I’m not gonna . . .” before cutting herself off to step into an elevator”

www.thebulwark.com/p/why-trump-...