A black cat peers out from the opening of his enclosed bed, face partially in a dramatic shadow.

in the shadows, he waits

My story about how 924 sailors died of influenza over the course of a month at Great Lakes Naval Training Station.

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Alaska Natives Make Up 44% of State Prison Population, New Report Calls for Sweeping Reforms Alaska Natives are grossly overrepresented in the state’s criminal justice system, and support systems and programs to buffer incarceration and recidivism are lacking in funding and accessibility. Ala...

Alaska Native people make up 14-19% of Alaska’s population, but make up 44% of its prison population. 60% of those incarcerated return to jail or prison within 3 years of release. nativenewsonline.net/health/alask...

Yeah, I’ve never quite got over the profound moral injury aspect of watching so many Americans absolutely refuse to even mildly sacrifice to help others during Covid - watching MAGAs somehow become even more evil was radicalizing.

And now the bastards are trying to destroy MRNA research.

CDC pauses testing for rabies and other serious infectious diseases Disease tracking is also temporarily halted for mpox and other common viruses, such as Epstein-Barr and varicella zoster.

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Such a niche conspiracy theory, I never thought I'd meet another one of us!

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

The four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (live action 90s versions) looking their heads up from under a manhole cover with a wide angle cityscape background. Over the cover is generated text set in the same way as the title of the TMNT cartoon reading Maybe it will happen today’.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

I hope you all enjoyed a relatively nag-free weekend from my end! I had no mental room for posting, hopefully I'll be better soon! I owe you a lot of Thread™!

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I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year.

Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical.

So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:

the most important thing they never tell you about aging is that falling down hurts more

Sweet potato hot beds

Sweet potato hotbeds in Merced County CA are thriving the current warm conditions. Plants are growing quickly and are close to approaching the stage where they can be cut and prepared for planting in the fields. #WeFeedYou

A farmworker stands beside his tractor hooked to a water tank used to irrigate or suppress dust across dry field roads.

A farmworker stands beside his tractor hooked to a water tank used to irrigate or suppress dust across dry field roads. This is essential as the dust can settle on grapevines, increasing the risk of diseases, mites, and fruit rot. #WeFeedYou

Yellowish rocks comprise most of this outcrop scene. Darker, brown rocks cap the outcrop. Trees and vegetation are widespread. There is a person for scale at centre left.

See those yellowish rocks?

They're about 1.4 billion years old.

The rocks on top are around 500 million years old.

This is part of the Great Unconformity, where almost a billion years of Earth's history is just... missing.

We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.

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Sonia's car got repossessed and she needs one to get back and forth to her jobs as transit is practically nonexistent. She's talked the car lot into a $2500 down payment. This DV survivor needs your help. paypal.me/MsSoniaD or cashapp $spunkylilminx #UrgentNeed #MutualAid 💸 💕 💸

The real story here is more like "cell phone maker senses there's money to be made in humanoid robot bubble, courts investors with goofy mannequin that would get smoked by a tween on a Huffy dirtbike"

Anpanman. 💜

Indeed.

Apr. 19, 1989 | Five Innocent Teens Arrested and Prosecuted for Rape in New York City Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1989, NYPD officers arrested five teenagers—four of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino—subjected them to coercive interrogation, and charged them with rape despite their innocence. All were sentenced to 5-13 years.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” -James Baldwin

The Baldwin line about children gets so much mileage on social media that it risks becoming trite but I refuse to give into the cynicism because at the end of the day he’s 100% right

Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."

These apple trees have “root stock” trees as a strong base, with branches from trees bred for flavor or fruit quality grafted onto them.

These apple trees have “root stock” trees as a strong base, with branches from trees bred for flavor or fruit quality grafted onto them. The root stock tree makes for a strong and vigorous tree while the grafted stem control fruit features. #WeFeedYou

Not many people know this, but the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is responsible for making sure the coal industry is never inconvenienced. Pretty sure it's part of the oath he swore.

THE DUCKLING LOAD! OVER 20 WOOD DUCKLINGS WITH A SINGLE MOTHER!!!!

After 6 days baby bird free, today more than made up for it!

I don't know if it's a bluesky record, but it's a Brett Banditelli record! 🪶 🐣