The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.
Here's @bluestein.bsky.social's uncensored thread of the town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), in which an unhappy audience pushes back against DOGE cuts: threadreaderapp.com/thread/18927...
Seal's humiliation continues #superbowl
Believe it or not, Colombia is an important export market for US wheat, which is already under pressure from climate change. This will probably impact the Great Plains the most.
DNA recovered from an Iron Age burial ground in southern England reveals a Celtic community where husbands moved to join their wives’ families — a rare sign of female influence and empowerment in the ancient world.
For three, people start to recognize that you stand for nothing, which means you won't stand for anything hard. No one is going to follow someone who clearly isn't leading.
Listening to this banger
you have to understand that MTG is just expressing her sincerely-held beliefs. the real antisemitism is saying publicly that you think palestinians are human
I don’t know what it means but when I see things like special operations hammers and tape measures, it makes me think bin Laden succeeded in irreversibly damaging the American psyche in ways few of us could have even fathomed.
Cool. What could go wrong?
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Calls grow for Gaza mass graves investigation www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...
Avoiding terms like "occupied territories" and "refugee camps" that are more accurate, descriptive, and in line with international law to sanitize coverage. NY Times losing more credibility...
Jose Andres, who recently spoke to Biden, calls bullshit after Israel apologizes for murdering his aid workers. Says they were in contact with IDF before being “systematically” targeted.
Real talk: if you eat shrooms and want to watch a fun romp of a movie with your pals, don't watch Heat. You're gonna have a bad time. It is good though.
AI company: we trained this dog to talk. It doesn’t actually understand language, but it kinda sounds like it’s having a conversation by mimicking the sound of human speech.
CEO: awesome, I’ve fired my entire staff, how quickly can it start diagnosing medical disorders
Strange bedfellows perhaps. I hope we can all always be able to count on pizza.
What wonderful help! Can we just make Israel stop blocking aid convoys already? Oh yeah and ending the mass murder of civilians would be nice too. #ceasefirenow
Incredible direct action by Bay Area artists here in SF. Artists in a local triennial were censored from including pro-Palestinian statements, and responded by defacing their own work to read “Free Palestine”
hyperallergic.com/872425/artis...
*Seems* unfortunately necessary these days
Particularly the most beautiful, principled and creative ones... Principles outside of loyalty to Putin cannot be tolerated in this system.
Pretty pathetic and long delayed response to a corporate Chernobyl. Maybe he thought people would misread the headline and think he was doing something to help (Middle) East Palestine?
In East Palestine, Ohio, the stream that flows under residents’ houses is still polluted following a train derailment.
Climate reporter Reid Frazier joins us to discuss his reporting on this community a year after the chemical spill.
www.sciencefriday.com/segments/eas...
Also the public narrative that the Soviets blinked in response to Kennedy drawing a line in the sand obscures the reality that a quiet deal was reached where we removed missiles from Turkey for them removing them from Cuba
mithril shirt was a good choice. crafted by the Elves. more valuable than the Shire itself.
Don't get me started on who actually runs the CIA
The FBI is now a CIA operation.
