Pentagon says troops can only be exempt from shaving their facial hair for a year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service.

No real reason to do this unless you want to drive Black soldiers out of the armed forces.

Yeah, @nytimes.com I’m not listening to a podcast about Laura Loomer. Not sure how being an openly racists Islamophobe is news. They lost me at her “origin story” of hating Muslim people after 9/11 when she was 8. #bsfr

From the “pro-life” party.

Or just don’t be a terrible company that gambles with people’s lives and livelihoods.

I really f*** with Clark saying, “you always tip, even if the service is bad.” #loveisland

The mascot of Love Island should be the lip filler pout.

Here’s what you need to understand about the Big Ugly Bill: even if you won’t lose your Medicaid, it still could cost you your healthcare. Rural and urban hospitals rely on Medicaid—and without it, they could shut down.

BREAKING: Senator Warnock calls Big Beautiful Bill “Socialism for the Rich”.

100% true!

I’m old enough to remember when a president would have never dropped an f bomb in public. Jimmy Carter would never.

Just spied a Dexcom on Love Island. Hell yeah.

I’m still waiting for CNN to devote multiple programming days to Trump’s obvious cognitive decline and dangerous mental instability.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

“Where is it? Where is the warrant?”

Watch NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander detained at an immigration court⬇️

Yes-Imagination Library partners with local orgs to manage distribution locally. Ours is called the Wren’s Nest in South Atl. They lost funding and cancelled the program a month ago. No more books.

Our program just lost funding. 😢

fighting tears

Gaza photojournalist who wrote, ‘If I die, I want a resounding death’ killed in Israeli airstrike | CNN Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months, was killed along with seven members of her family in an Israeli strike this week.

Fatima Hassouna, a war documentarian who had covered the conflict in Gaza on the ground for 18 months, was killed along with seven members of her family in an Israeli strike this week.

I love the covers!

Friendly reminder that Joann Fabrics isn’t closing because it’s a bad business. It’s closing bc it was bought by a private equity firm. This is also what is happening to Hooters and what happened to US Toys R Us and Red Lobster. These companies are being dismantled intentionally.

Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social

This is completely illegal. The reason it is being permitted is that the press refuses to say it is illegal, only describing it as contested.

The Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces.

OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN,
Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR.

IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.

Here we are.

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.

Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

When the toddler is up in her crib calling out “Mama…” in the sweetest way possible and you want to go snuggle, but also reinforce bedtime expectations.

What the far right is building is global apartheid, just so you know.

Indeed, we are burying more than just one man today. We are burying the myths of America. We have been profoundly exposed, in this era.

The goodness and decency of Jimmy Carter stands in such stark contrast to the rot and corruption that's coming to Washington in just 11 days. That makes today even sadder and more poignant.

A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the street

A fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fire

A fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the background

The inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.

These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.

You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.