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That there were reports of B2 bombers in motion in advance of the attack on Iran seems like some sort of malfunction in stealth capability. That Congress wasn't involved in this also seems a significant failure.

Please review our updated privacy notice & learn how we make efforts to protect your privacy, while also sharing your data, widely, selling it at every possible opportunity, using every part of the animal, nothing goes to waste.

The email in question? Written by AI. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

The poise & tact shown by NPR & PBS correspondents in covering the administration's ongoing efforts to destroy public media. It's giving Al Gore presiding over electoral college certification. www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

#2073 goes hard. I thought I was here for Morvern Callar doing some 12 Monkeys stuff in dystopic landscape, then I'm whisked into an unsparing, found footage documentary of the modern era? Cannot shake it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDE9...

The segment on US doctors working abroad consistently encountering identical cases of children receiving direct sniper shots to the head & chest is peak This American Life. www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-gr...

Hashtag Resistance is futile. It will never be enough.

So talc & asbestos are linked minerals; all talc has asbestos & all asbestos contains talc? And people have rubbed this carcinogen on their babies' nether regions for a century? www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n... That the olfactory memory is triggered by the mere mention of talcum powder makes me cringe.

All this tariff-chaos has put into focus how US manufactures next to nothing, along w/ cries that making shoes is impossible w/o cheap foreign labor. But I've crunched the numbers & looks like America could domestically produce quality sneakers. Just need to lose a few high-cost positions up top.

What's the bare minimum prerequisite for calling yourself a "filmmaker"?

Giving up food in order to pay the higher, tariff-induced costs of coffee.

New word of the day: "Fauxlibuster"

Job listing caveat: "This opportunity is likely for someone who lives outside the US in a lower living cost location or for someone who has other financial support."

Everybody having "just the flu" all the time. The new normal.

Ah, the ol' Ceasefire Psych-Out trick apnews.com/article/isra...

I'm so put off by US states that incessantly call themselves commonwealths. Time to let it go already.

Today I learned that US Presidents are wholly exempt from conflict of interest violations (which doesn't seem right). However, a "special government employee" with multiple government contracts & a car company is not.

"you're gonna be under arrest." apnews.com/video/attorn...

Can't think of a single Democratic politician that couldn't be improved by being AOC. Get the hell out of her way.

Catching myself listening to podcasts while editing another podcast.

Spend all your money, before it's all gone.

In the US we've done a good job of normalizing the abnormal for so long that there's very little of the unacceptable that we won't accept so long as we don't have to do anything different.

The commision to transform Democrats into Republicans (to combat the Republicans who have become an authoritarian cult) has returned from their retreat (surrender) with some findings (that neolibs have always wanted). www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

New WAPO motto: "Darkness"? Or "Democracy Dies"? apnews.com/article/wash...

Getting geared up for the midterms & all future elections. www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

Moving fast & breaking everything... www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

“These are facts. They need to be faced...The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

I don't care for the new Mad Max films. Even if you're fortunate enough to live in a resource rich, green oasis during the apocalypse, you name your kid Furiosa & you're gonna get a certain result one way or another.

Hypothetically, if a Bond villain used teenage hackers to takeover the US financial system could those highly impressionable, yet malicious actors then be tried as adults?

Members of congress all like, "Guys, call your representatives."

Thoughts & prayers for our distressed federal government...

Could BlueSky possibly just buy the naming rights to the now defunct Twitter? Great legacy brand

A lot of publications are highlighting the "toxic masculinity" part, but can we discuss the "Neo-Nazi" aspect? news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/meta-...

This is our new weather map; Windy with chance of fire tornado.