The Words English Doesn't Have — But Needs Right Now | Dr. Ben Danielson YouTube video by AHSHAY Center

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What happens when the language we speak doesn't have words for what we're currently living through?

Dr. Ben Danielson explores how other languages can help us express what English can't—and help us recalibrate our ability to appreciate the world.

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Musk says DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials say that’s not true. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

"Cuts have no apparent regard for civil society or opportunity costs or long-term strategic thinking. Their targets are Elon Musk’s and Project 2025’s targets. They have found no fraud, just democracy at work. They’re apparently eager to see what happens when it no longer does." Brian Barrett:

CDT's Greg Nojeim: "This decision will protect Americans’ privacy and communications security. Unlike the DOJ, which knew about the impending order to Apple to build a back door to its encrypted cloud back-ups and hid the fact from Congress, the DNI has done the right thing by taking this stance."

It's genuinely astounding how Trump's main thing is that evil foreigners are coming to the United States to rape white women and yet they pressured Romania to release a serial rapist so he could go to the US and rape women there

Let there be unlimited Q&A. If the recipients are in red areas, have it there. Those local Republicans would have to respond.

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important

Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone

Call it a Day Of Transparency

Instead of Google search try DuckDuckGo
Instead of Chrome try Firefox
Instead of Gmail try ProtonMail
Instead of Google Docs etc try LibreOffice
Instead of Google Photos try Ente

For every Google product there are multiple replacements you can try. The above suggestions are just examples to try

"Armored Tesla" forecast to win $400 million State Department contract after Trump's election, government document shows The State Department’s procurement forecast, revised as of late December 2024, lists Tesla as the recipient of the largest expected contract, with Marco Rubio’s department planning to buy $400,000,000...

Musk's company has been awarded a $400 million government contract for "armored Tesla." This is what the tech oligarchy looks like.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

I oversaw global health programs at @USAID.

They reached 100s of millions of people, added 6 extra years to the lifespan of children in partner countries, and were eradicating health threats worldwide.

What insanity and cruelty to break that.

Never forget that he could have stopped this. In the aftermath of J6, he could have ensured Trump could never be president again by whipping votes to impeach.

That failure is McConnell’s legacy.

Trump Just Made America More Vulnerable to Ebola—Here’s How America's Ebola shield is gone.

The successful strategy of helping countries contain Ebola at the source can no longer be carried out because Trump has gutted USAID, frozen foreign aid, and barred cooperation with the World Health Organization.

www.globaldispatches.org/p/trump-just...

This top Facebook executive thinks that before Roe v Wade, abortion wasn't a politicized issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar (Published 2018) The company, citing a human rights report it commissioned, said it was moving to prevent further abuses of its platform in Myanmar. Critics said they were unconvinced.

A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:

L.A. folks:

I'm looking for anyone caught in the jam of abandoned cars on/near Sunset in Pacific Palisades around midday Tuesday who'd be willing to chat for a story.

If this is you (or you know someone who was there), please drop me a line at nathan.fenno@latimes.com.

Many thanks.

Fire hydrants ran dry in Pacific Palisades as a major wildfire raged Janisse Quiñones, CEO of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said the fight to contain the flames has put immense strain on the system.

Water is becoming a major issue in the Southern California fires.

As crews battled the wildfire in Pacific Palisades, they put so much strain on the water system that the fire hydrants ran dry.

The fires have also fed ash into the water supply, leading to a boil order notice.

Tweaking the algorithm to promote "positivity" right as Trump becomes president? You can imagine what will be deemed "negativity."

If you are unclear about who calls the shots, Elon told Trump supporters on X to “fuck yourself in the face” and then Trump called the NY Post and said he agreed with Elon

Power out? See where fellow Texans have lost electricity right now Track Texas power outages as they happen in real-time across the state

Track Texas power outages as they happen in real-time across the state. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

Do this to spite the worlds richest man

Off Leash: Inside the Secret, Global, Far-Right Group Chat Military contractor Erik Prince started a private WhatsApp group for his close associates that includes a menagerie of right-wing government officials, intelligence operatives, arms traffickers, and…

Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, invited around 650 of his contacts to join a secret, private group chat. And now it has leaked.

Published 5/30/24:

The House ethics committee has released the Gaetz ethics report: ethics.house.gov/press-releas...

Raw milk is one of those ideas that can really only take hold when people haven't seen a cow. if you see a cow from let's say ten feet or less you immediately understand the problem that pasteurization is solving

Publishers reckon with dark patterns "News organizations will have to reckon with their use of designs that place them in the same categories as annoying sales sites and scammers."

"That dark patterns allow the sites to get something of value that it otherwise would not points to the continuing battle that news organizations have with creating and sustaining audience trust and their economic interests," Jasmine McNealy says.

Mark Robinson logs in to state meeting as ‘minisoldr,’ the handle at the center of CNN allegations The username 'minisoldr' became famous in September, when CNN reported allegations that Robinson used the moniker to post messages on a pornographic website. Robinson, who is suing the network for def...

I like how everything he touches gets worse… www.wral.com/story/mark-r...

Syrians have become a ‘scapegoat’ in Germany, says Syrian journalist We spoke to Syrian journalist and pro-democracy activist Rami Jarrah.

Syrians have become a ‘scapegoat’ in Germany, says Syrian journalist