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HHS's new funding guidelines for Title X subvert its entire purpose. Instead of getting effective contraception to the country’s poorest women so they may decide if & when to have kids, Title X now seems aimed at getting more pregnant, whether they want to be or not.

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two older women are standing next to each other in a hallway holding hands . Alt: two old (80s or 90s) women dance together, awkwardly, in a hallway .

When I had braces the radio at the orthodontist played 50s–60s, easy listening 80s.
My kid's orthodontist plays early 80s, it's hard not to sing and dance.
But I was listening to 10–20 year old music. This is FORTY years old.

So the Benedict Option is not actually about withdrawing from modern society . . . it's about making money hating queer people internationally. Who could have predicted this?!?!?!

So much of our language reflects
the common “car first” bias around our streets, & we should never forget that much of that language was the result of deliberate campaigns to specifically re-write our perspective of streets as “for cars only.” This is one of the more subtle, but important, examples.

(FT) - Lufthansa has cancelled 20,000 flights between May and October to save fuel, one of the largest cuts by global airlines as jet fuel prices double following the Iran war.

@financialtimes.com $JETS
www.ft.com/content/bd0e...

There is no single one of course.
I mean, half the cast of Princess Bride, at least Edith and Archie in All in the family, definitely John Malkovich in being John Malkovich. Henry Morgan in MASH.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell the difference between good casting and good acting.

Wow, cool

I've been meaning to say - if you are a historian* looking to write about America 250, especially for a local or regional outlet, please let me know if I can help. There is and will be a lot of room for you to do this work, I think. /1

*as always, construed broadly

"hello" was kind of fun in that context, though.

I know about 600 ppl at the local renfair who would kill this guy in under 8 seconds in a swordfight where only he had a sword

West Virginia gets 87% of its electricity from coal, still. Just what Energy Secretary Chris Wright wants!

Natural gas (methane) comes with natural benzene. Right into your home for no extra cost. Financial cost, that is.

"it is generally considered that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."

American Petroleum Institute report (1948) published with Harvard.

They knew.

Boooom.... This feels like it's been an unusually thunderstormy spring in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Pete Souza was the freaking greatest.

Superpower Suicide The geopolitics of our moment

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

A water recycling plant Elon Musk promised to build in Memphis to offset the huge amount of local drinking water Grok's data centre devours has been postponed indefinitely.

Apparently, Musk considers drinking water for local people less of a priority than increasing computing power for Grok👇🏾

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Given that (correct me if I'm mistaken) Kevin Warsh has never been a faculty member at any college or university, this is a clear statement about how weak he considers 47's self-image to be. And how willing Warsh would be to lie rather than give 47 the straight scoop.

RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.

In California, Israel is emerging as a defining Democratic test As the war in Iran stretches on, it is inflaming an intraparty rift with ramifications for the midterms and the run-up to 2028.

“If you’re not going to take a stance on something that’s very clear at this point,” said Saikat Chakrabarti, “then how can we trust you to represent us?”

Saikat is right. Standing up against Israel's genocide of Gaza requires telling the truth and demanding real accountability.

Bird footprint in concrete

Neo-ichnofossil of modern aviną dinosaur (bird) feet imprints in the concrete floor of the Munich train station.
🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio

If you know anything about the smart glasses ICE is developing, text me via signal at 202-510-1268

‘It’s a big loss’: what happens when a beautiful village loses its bus route? Mousehole in Cornwall once had a butcher, post office and general store. Now it doesn’t even have an ATM – and one of its crucial bus services has been cut. Can residents save this vital resource?

"Buses aren’t a statutory entitlement" - oof, as a non-driver, living in a rural area, this hit hard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I hope you gave him & others the hard cold truth: EVERY VOTE not cast for Dems helps GOP win.
It's how we got here!
The reason ORBAN lost & DID NOT CONTEST HIS LOSS is that the OPPOSITION VOTE was so large, it could NOT be contested as a false result. @walshfreedom.bsky.social

JUST DO IT! 🗳️ 🇺🇸

Yes, he's definitely a non-interventionist and probably an isolationist. I can't imagine why they are even sending him to the Middle East or thereabouts on any level.

We might underestimate what a treasure Conan is.

At the WHCD in 2013(I think it was 2013), Conan O’Brien roasted Jake Tapper for “leaving journalism to join CNN”, and I didn’t realize at the time how well that was going to age.

I would really like to see a whole bunch of important invitees respond that they're going and then get dysentery at the last minute so that they have to cancel and leave mostly empty seats.

I have Walloon and Flemish ancestors.