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Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

We should add him to the negotiation team so that he could sit in the corner and just stare at the russian delegation

The FBI has "requested tips from the public on hospitals, clinics or practitioners performing gender-affirming surgeries to youth."

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

"Studies find an increased risk of suicide and epileptic seizures during heat waves, as well as an increase in hospitalizations and emergency-room visits for mental health disorders. Heat can also disorient thinking, making people slow to realize that they need to seek shelter or help."

"The team found that the proportion of rats that tested positive for coronaviruses was tenfold higher at the markets and restaurants where they’re sold than in the fields where they’re caught." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A horrifying read. "We’re talking about nearly half the tree of life disappearing in one human lifetime. That is absolutely catastrophic." 🌍🧪 www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Biodiversity #Insect #Pollution #ClimateCollapse

According to AP, the typical pay package for S&P 500 CEOs rose to $17M last year — an increase of 9.7%. At half of the companies surveyed, it would take the median worker 192 years to make what the CEO did in one year.  This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

This Saturday marks the 4th anniversary of the launch of my newsletter The Present Age. Here's a thanks to readers (and a discount for anyone considering becoming a paid subscriber): www.readtpa.com/p/celebratin...

You could waste your time reading that New Yorker article, or you could listen to the Behind the Bastards episode about Yarvin that rightfully mocks him mercilessly for being an edgelord idiot that doesn’t understand history.

Ban congressional stock and crypto trading now. The American people overwhelmingly support it. Time to get it done.

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

I’m officially running to be the Ranking Member of the House Oversight Committee. These are not normal times—and this cannot be a business-as-usual moment. Read my full letter to my colleagues here: crockett.house.gov/media/press-...

“Y’all, we did it — Tulsa just created a $105 million reparations plan for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.” (From @thebwstimes.bsky.social )

BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

at lake and bloomington where ICE were seen. large group of angry people

Selling off national parks to private corporations is theft — of land, ecosystems, and public trust. Once they’re sold, they’re stripped, drilled, mined, and wrecked. And most of that damage can’t be undone.

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

What's behind the attacks on trans women and girls in sports? Today on Assigned, @billiejsweeney.bsky.social teases out the threaded political, legal, business, and media arms of the coordinated conservative assault on trans inclusion in athletic events.

Kroger is extremely convinced the key to getting me to shop there is to mail me physical coupons for 40¢ off onions. They do it like clockwork every month