Sigh…. Simpler times…

Those mouthbreathers are mad they have to flex their reading comprehension.

I'd tell you to vote twice for TWINS FEST, but that'd be against the rules. So, find your twinsie and cast two ballots!

But first, here's a timeline cleanser: Go watch it at twins.longlead.com — it'll warm your heart.

Far be it from me to argue with Brené Brown, but no one “solidly in (their) fuck it era,” would ask for a correction.

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war.

This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does.

It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

Wow! I wasn't aware of that... What did the publisher remove?

(Googles, to be sure, "is discussion of published media a libel defense")

If you're in the Epstein files and you don't want people talking about you being in the Epstein files, the worst thing you can do is talk about being in the Epstein files. Don't believe me? Guess how I know...

My 11yo is turning into a musical genius who... doesn't listen to music. I play Radiohead, uh, probably too much. All I want is for the kid to learn some Radiohead, and then I'm like: Dude, he's 11. Chill out.

(But the Videotape riff is awesome)

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@ibramxk.bsky.social's work on racism proves time and again that racism is not history we look back upon with wiser eyes, but a force that continues to mutate. Yet, the scholar still feels "uncommonly hopeful" about the future. He says he has to be in order to bring about change.

It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first:

Remember when it was “just talk” and people asked “what’s the harm?” and “let him scream”?

I bet the families of the five DC police officers remember. I bet they think about those comments every day.

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In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today:

Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Is Trump About To Nuke Iran? The fact we can't say "no" for sure should terrify us.

Today's as good a day as any to start reforming the US nuclear launch protocols so a US president can't launch a first-strike.

For 80 years, the president has been a *check* on the desire of the military to use a nuke. Today, the president is the problem. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/is-trump-a...

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Just achieved my Apple Watch move goal by hiccuping.

Let's call it a week.

It's always wonderful to wake up, read a press release, and see your fledgling, tiny journalism studio flexing shoulder-to-shoulder with this competition:

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What could go wrong?

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The countries that make up the new Iron Curtain — bordering Russia — are attempting to shore up their borders, trying to curb Vladimir Putin’s imperial reach.

Has Russia’s aggression against Ukraine spawned new alliances among its neighbors?

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In WWII, when the US locked Japanese Americans away in camps, the country NEVER took away their citizenship. Today, the Supreme Court hears a consequential Birthright Citizenship case.

Mia Yamamoto was born in a camp. She's exactly the kind of person this administration would strip of citizenship.

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Japanese American Incarceration Survivors Remember What the US Forgot During WWII, President Roosevelt invoked the Alien Enemies Act and incarcerated 125,000 Japanese Americans. Eighty years later, some of the camps’ last survivors reflect on lives scarred by injustice.

Her interview was part of the Webby-nominated @longlead.com feature THE AGE OF INCARCERATION. Experience it for yourself here: age-of-incarceration.longlead.com

In WWII, when the US locked Japanese Americans away in camps, the country NEVER took away their citizenship. Today, the Supreme Court hears a consequential Birthright Citizenship case.

Mia Yamamoto was born in a camp. She's exactly the kind of person this administration would strip of citizenship.

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