Please keep the Iranian people in your hearts

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Trump’s Genocidal Threats on Iran Are Enabled by a Vast Apparatus of Destruction “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” Trump threatened.

Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.

This is one of seven medications I need every day. Not including any of the supplements that help me function

I'm crying bc the pharmacy just called me back, they found a discount code and will refill me 250 pills for $32 dollars. This will last me less than three weeks. Without this medicine I can't function

I will never ever have the words to explain to healthy people what its like to break down crying over medical care, especially medication

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

I can't stop thinking about Dolores Huerta

Manosphere influencers are just Drag Kings without any of the charisma

amen

I think I've heard @jamesstout.bsky.social say something similar but I need yall to know I called you both journalists when I cited a couple ICHH episodes in a paper last year bc I think if I said "according to this podcaster" my professor would have taken me out back and shot me

Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection, and that the idea itself is a modern invention.

CNN: Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with caution.

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density.

Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

When a guy works this hard to downplay and excuse blatantly predatory behavior, i wonder what he's done. This is all coming off as... Defensive.

Trump’s AI-Powered World Wars Nick Turse and Hooman Majd discuss war on Iran and other U.S. conflicts, and Sam Biddle breaks down how AI is being used.

"Whenever you try to hurry for the sake of hurrying — and AI is great at enabling that — you just increase over and over again the chance of killing someone that you didn’t intend to or didn’t care enough to avoid killing."

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars.

#Sinners #Oscars2026

One-third of Americans cut back on other expenses to cover healthcare in 2025, survey shows Roughly one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, research from ​the West Health-Gallup Center showed on Thursday, as steeper prices a...

About one-third of Americans cut back on food, utilities or other daily expenses to pay for healthcare last year, according to new research from the West Health-Gallup Center.

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I'm objecting to all of this as someone who works in and studies farming and food systems and ppl who dont know shit about ag are being reductive and unserious

Furthermore, there's really cool ideas up and coming in agrovoltaics but its not functional yet, so large-scale solar required to power this shit would once again mean sacrificing productive farmland.

A farmer's harvest drones would be reliant on aws servers somewhere thousands of miles away, like the ones currently getting bombed.

Skipping over the fact that its absurdly expensive, you understand the corps that make this tech won't allow such autonomy any more than they allow gmo seed saving or tractor right-to-repair now, right? Everything will be centralized because the tech companies will want to charge for it.

Hang on, are you suggesting every farmer individually pave over valuable farm land to house the servers and processing power for ai systems???

Hard to imagine in these very normal & stable times... but embracing this tech means when the power goes out/the server goes down (& it will), we will have divorced ourselves so completely from the land we wont know how to feed ourselves anymore. Bc robots growing food was good for corporate profits

We cannot have a rational debate about technology. As long as we rely on screens rather than on forests and sunsets to soothe our pain, we will fight to defend the screens, not the forests.

This technology doesn't spring out of a hole in the ground. It's built on unsustainable resource extraction and the burning of fossil fuels, and used for monocropping. Farmland needs to be protected, and farm workers need dignity and collective ownership. Corporate tech is not going to get us that

do i even have POTS or am i just carrying the weight of the world

You dont think its a candidate's job to earn votes by having a platforms and policies that appeal to voters...

I would be fascinated to know what you think a candidate's job is

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

Oh word?

January 9, 2026 THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ Governor of Minesota 130 State Capitol 75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd. St. Paul, MN 55155 THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY Mayor of the City of Minneapolis City Hail 350S. Fifth St., Room 330 Minneapolis, MN 55415 Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey, It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place. During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country? Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization 1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal were-changes-fled- tump-water. /Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D…

Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is "racist." While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership- or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established. Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc. Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended. While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

can yall please define a ceasefire for me I fear there is some misunderstanding