A red tailed hawk starting to take flight off a telephone pole with high voltage signage

Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶

A 4-panel image depicting a conversation between Mayor Mamdani and Cardi B Mayor Mamdani: Universal 2-K deserves a universal jingle. Cardi B will pick the winner. Cardi B: Think you've got the song? Submit your jingle! Mayor Mamdani: Write the anthem for free childcare in New York City!

2-K JINGLE CONTEST RULES 1 Must be 15 seconds OR 30 seconds. 2 Must name "myschools.nyc" (2-K registration site). 3 Original music and lyrics. No remixes or Al! 4 Must be appropriate for all ages - this is for the kids! 5 Must be an NYC resident to win. 6 Bilingual jingles encouraged!

Submit your jingle by May 1st at nyc.gov/jingle!

Steve Kornacki: New Gen Z poll shows clear divide on Israel-Palestine NBC News chief data analyst Steve Kornacki breaks down a new NBC News Decision Desk poll for Meet the Press showing Americans are evenly divided in their sympathies between Israelis and Palestinians, ...

A new NBC News Decision Desk poll shows that 75% of all Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than with Israelis.

It also shows that 74% of all of Gen Z, total, sympathizes more with Palestinians than with the Israelis.

This essay is totally worth your time. The USA has committed suicide.

Families left reeling after hospitals in blue states drop transgender care for youth Massachusetts passed laws and joined lawsuits to protect access to gender-affirming care for minors. But faced with the Trump administration's threats, some hospitals voluntarily stopped care.

Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.

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Oregon’s early childhood agency shut down 3 Washington County Preschool Promise programs this week, leaving about 25 low-income families scrambling to find high-quality child care that they had been promised for the remainder of the school year.

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Infinite Patience Is Not Good for Education How many times does Sal Khan get to fail?

"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...

Refusal to Review I wrote the below email, when invited to review a paper that was partially processed by ChatGPT. As I imagine the email could be useful inspiration for others, I decided to make it available. Feel …

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”

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For the evening crowd. Matthew Cortland works so hard to help so many; if you can chip in or share this out to help them in their hour of need, please do.

“President Trump has repeatedly threatened war crimes in Iran and now he is expressing genocidal intent,” said Sarah Harrison, an associate general counsel at the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel, International Affairs during Trump’s first term. “Every single lawmaker and national security leader needs to stand against this and make clear to the U.S. military that these are unlawful orders and if carried out they will someday face criminal prosecution.”

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The plans for Orbán's current election psy ops were leaked by members of the Hungarian intelligence services back in February; they are now being implemented, precisely according to the plan.

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.

Feb. 4 Trump abruptly shuttered this widely accepted account of humanity. CIA framed the move as one of progress.
Many mourned an America that valued knowledge for its own sake. Some saw darker forces at work under a president who has promoted — “alternative facts”
#Pinks
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The White House App Is Riddled With Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Cybersecurity experts’ reviews of the app have turned up concerns about the undisclosed data it collects.

The Trump White House app is riddled with vulnerabilities:

Cybersecurity researchers warn that the app regularly shares users' IP addresses, time zones and other data to third-party services.

Most of its users wouldn't know that, because the app doesn't disclose its data sharing like others do.

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

I know I keep re-upping this but on TDoV we need to make sure the really serious harm being done to trans children by Streeting, Starmer, Cass & others that is being systematically ignored by mainstream media is visible.

The ἀμαθία (amathia) of Streeting and Starmer is harming & killing children.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

BLM opens comment period on proposal to shrink or remove Chaco Canyon buffer zone A 20-year buffer zone of 10 miles around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park prohibits new mineral leasing in the area.

The Trump admin is trying to roll back protections around Chaco Canyon, harming cultural resources and lands that communities fought decades to protect.

Chaco is not for sale. I’ve taken on Trump before to protect Chaco, and I’m ready to do it again.

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Trump-Vance White House Escalates Holy Week Assault Against Catholic Church A judge forced ICE to open the doors. On Holy Thursday, four priests washed the feet of fourteen detained migrants. The next morning, the Pentagon excluded Catholics from Good Friday services.

NEW: For the first time in modern history, the Pentagon offered no Good Friday services for Catholics.

Earlier this year, Pete Hegseth invited his pastor to speak at the Pentagon. That pastor has called for banning public expressions of Catholicism in the United States.

‘Power and Dominance’: Atlantic and Times Champion Transphobia  — Assigned The genocidal campaign against trans people is not being led by right-leaning news outlets, our analysis shows. Two elite media institutions are leading the charge.

When it comes to elite tastemaking, the Atlantic and the New York Times are unparalleled. That's why it's so concerning that both outlets are committed to an anti-trans political project.

New, from @billiejsweeney.bsky.social

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RFK Jr., Creature of the Tanning Salon, Throws the Industry a Bone The HHS secretary has crispy, orange-toned skin in the game.

"The danger of tanning beds is an actual case of a well-documented, high-quality scientific finding that really has been waiting for government action, in part because of industry pressure." Nah, let's trash-talk vaccines instead.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

In Defense of Joyful Protest In a city where feds tear gas little kids, a street party helps clear the air of oppression

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Here's What Trump is Turning the U.S. Economy Into He's just the latest Republican president to do this

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The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them!

The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

A law professor told me on background that depending on jurisdiction, witholding medicine may not count as as disability discrimination. I'm still having trouble wrapping my brain around that when I see stories like this.

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This admin’s got its assault on our elections locked and loaded and ready to go 10 days after the SAVE Act is enacted.

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

A Reckoning Long Overdue This moment of truth — for Dolores Huerta and for the other survivors — must also be ours

A Reckoning Long Overdue
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Paraben Panic: The Misinformation Campaign That Made Products Less Safe How a flawed study, media hype, and chemophobia convinced the public that one of the safest classes of preservatives is dangerous.

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Also, please know that trans people in particular are under brutal attack right now. Please do not tolerate politicians who won't defend them. And please do support efforts you see to support trans people, especially in your local communities.