Ed Miliband today: "The era of fossil fuel security is over and the era of clean energy security must come of age....To ignore two crises in less than five years would be completely irresponsible… our action must now be faster deeper and more wide ranging.”
PragerU is now launching its own book fair to "compete" with scholastic. It sounds like they're maybe absorbing the SkyTrees Book Fairs, which started with the same nonsense.
www.prageru.com/book-fair
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
BREAKING: A federal appeals court has upheld a Texas law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom.
Students' right to be free from religious indoctrination is protected by the Constitution. We won't stop fighting.
LAWYERS: is there a way to combat this heinous behavior by filing a lawsuit accusing the paper of fraud if they actually do it? Because I don't think you can put somebody's name on something and claim they wrote it when they didn't. Or is there maybe some other statute that could be used?
Every fucking time!!!!!
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This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
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person on a time trial bike in black "E-bikes are cheating," says man wearing a space helmet whose bike and components are made of ultralight materials designed by NASA and aerodynamically tested in wind tunnels for F1 racecars.
"E-bikes are cheating," says man wearing a space helmet whose bike and components are made of ultralight materials designed by NASA and aerodynamically tested in wind tunnels for F1 racecars.
My 70 something parents use their e-bikes to go on 40 km rides with their friends.
E-bikes are life-extenders, leisure-extenders, and enjoyment-extenders for so many people.
It is not cheating to get more fun out of your day and ensure you have the oomph to come home at the end.
Blanche // Our Indictment alleges Southern Poverty Law Center secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN FUNDS to white supremacist & extremist groaps including: $ 1M + National Alliance affillate $300K+ Aryan Nations affilate $270K + "ente the Right" member $140K+ Elia National Alliance Chairman $73K + Farmer KKK members $19K+ pressient Efelon
Blanche and Patel
BREAKING: DOJ announces charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center based on allegations of paid informants in an indictment in the Middle District of Alabama.
"This investigation is very much ongoing," FBI Director Kash Patel said.
Looks like Coachella's owner supports a lot of anti-LGBT institutions.
The "gender critical" movement will not leave this trans woman alone, even though she has had to relocate to Australia over their bullying.
Marking an LGBT+ person out as a "sexual predator" is how bigots have traditionally endangered LGBT+ people.
Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman
This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.
It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.
These two grafs are from 'The Great Influenza,' a book about the unfathomably deadly epidemic that many of us read in the spring of 2020.
A recurrent theme of the book is how rapidly, and lethally, the disease spread among soldiers readying for or serving in World War I
everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
For a complete list of Trump’s known third-country removals, see my tracker here.
And please consider subscribing/sending me a one-time tip. I’m an independent journalist (former WaPo, sigh) covering ICE flights full-time. These flights are wrong and inhumane.
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An ADSBx map showing two ICE charter planes crossing the southern US and the Caribbean along a route I’m very familiar with at this point.
By the way, there are two ICE charters headed to Africa right now. The Afghans in the NYT story aren’t onboard since they are in Qatar. But hundreds of immigrants who had been living in the US, sometimes for decades, have already been sent to 8 African “third-countries,” most of which are unstable.
This is important and shocking news from NYT.
And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.
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This is so overt that even Goebbels would be like, "don't you wanna like...tone down the messaging a bit bro?"
RFK Jr. just said HHS is "cleaning up the risk pool" (i.e., people who are unhealthy) to bring down healthcare costs.
I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:
"Are we really expected to believe that, despite their lives of excess, they're secretly miserable people for whom no amount of power can make up for the fact that, deep down, they know they've utterly failed as human beings?"
NEWS: The D.C. Council has preliminary approved a permanent bill that will allow the city to declare 8 p.m. teen curfew zones, on a 8-5 vote. Congressional review required, so it won't take effect until fall.
Big next vote is on emergency bill to extend the zones over summer.
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
Sec. Hegseth: "It's Just Gay" To Require Our Warriors To Wash Hands After Using The Bathroom
Williams says that the bill wouldn't apply to "appropriate drag," and said that it's written in a way that obscenity could be determined by individual law enforcement.
Conservatives *want* the vagary inherent in the law because it makes them, and their police, the arbiter of morality. They don't like the idea of justice being blind.
"Of course we won't go after Shakespeare!" they say honestly, and they're correct.
They'll decide what drag is "appropriate."
Like, ma'am, you had a flock of drag queens show up at the state capitol to explain how the bill's language would ban anyone with fake boobs and you still kept it in.
So I'm going to have to go with the broadest possible interpretation of the law. I wish news outlets would too.
The peak of fear mongering. The author claims Ohio HB 249 will jail women for going braless in a T-shirt. HB 249 is about shielding kids from adult performances & imagery —not policing whether women wear bras, bikinis, or T-shirts. Twisting it into "women could be jailed for going braless" isn't just wrong —it's a deliberate misrepresentation. It's common sense to shield kids' innocence from adult performances & imaginary. Nothing but perversion - twisting a bill that aims to protect the innocence of children into something it's not. Do better.
Here's the thing:
If legislators didn't intend for HB 249 to be used against women wearing leggings and low-rise jeans, if they didn't mean for it to be used against trans people existing... THEY COULD FIX THE LANGUAGE.
They drafted it that way for a reason. It's naive to think they won't use it.
