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why exactly is the white house allowing known circulators of CSM into the briefing room?

submitted 4 days ago • 286 comments

If you haven't read the Enchanted, Inc. series, Random House has put the e-book of the first book on sale for $1.99 today (US and Canada). This is humorous contemporary fantasy/rom-com. I guess they're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the initial publication a month early.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

submitted 54 days ago • 179 comments

finally got a tax refund from years ago in the mail yesterday, deposited it, and woke to a message from the bank saying it’s on hold because of “confidential information that it may not be paid”

submitted 87 days ago • 15 comments

In Terry Pratchett's 'Going Postal', Moist Von Lipwig, a lifelong con man, explains to Mr. Pump, a golem, that killing is wrong. Mr. Pump explains that Lipwig has killed people, by degrees, with every penny he's stolen. The older I get, the more Pratchett's wisdom applies.

submitted 146 days ago • 2 comments

On #December6, we remember the names, faces, and lost futures of 14 women killed in an act of femicide, and recommit to working for change. #NationalDayOfRemembrance #GBV #WomenInSTEM #EndVAW #Polytechnique #MontrealMassacre

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Reminder that the woman accusing Pete Hegseth of assaulting her is a Republican, and the incident occurred at a Republican conference. She was there with her husband. Pretty difficult set of circumstances to dismiss as a witch hunt but seems like Republicans are going to try.

submitted 153 days ago • 287 comments

A fellow Michigan representative is saying my marriage to the man I love should be illegal. This is definitely both controversial and extreme, along with anti-family. I grew up believing I'd never be able to get married and I'm not going back.

submitted 153 days ago • 6 comments

I don’t always have good news to share first thing in the morning BUT… IT’S BOOKS WE LOVE DAY!!!!! apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

submitted 161 days ago • 106 comments

If House Republicans really wanted to protect women, they'd release the Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz' alleged sex trafficking - not try to ban their colleagues from using the bathroom. Stop the bigotry and release the report.

submitted 166 days ago • 212 comments

*Oklahoma’s

submitted 170 days ago • 875 comments

Jules got a haircut today, and she’s looking extra cute.

submitted 180 days ago • 0 comments

i do have a single issue and that's not fucking dying

submitted 183 days ago • 6 comments

🚨🚨 Per The Daily Beast “Trump waited to make sure that Bezos did what he said he was going to do, and then met with the Blue Origin people,” he said on Saturday. “Which tells us that there was an actual deal made." Ex-WaPo Editor: This Is a Straight Bezos-Trump ‘Quid Pro Quo’

submitted 190 days ago • 58 comments

Today's @washingtonpost.com editorial cartoon: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 191 days ago • 21 comments

Just sent 200 postcards to voters in Michigan.

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

Please take fifty-eight seconds out of your day to marvel at the elegance, agility and effortless natural grace of the panda.

submitted 202 days ago • 83 comments

For Asheville folks who need food:

submitted 212 days ago • 5 comments

Cops are first responders. There are still people missing. There are people on roofs, desperately trying to contact loved ones, people without their lifesaving meds or power for life saving machines. And their first responders are protecting bread that’s about to go moldy instead of responding.

submitted 216 days ago • 19 comments

Four new water-distribution sites in Buncombe County, NC, have just been announced, via Blue Ridge Public Radio

submitted 216 days ago • 0 comments

PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off

submitted 218 days ago • 404 comments

Dear Pennsylvania’s mail-in voters, To make sure your vote gets counted and doesn’t end up in a legal fight, remember to: 1) seal your ballot in the YELLOW ENVELOPE 2) write the CURRENT DATE on the return envelope Sincerely, The reporter who wrote this👇 www.npr.org/2024/09/26/n...

submitted 220 days ago • 3 comments

My final UU Library update has been made on LEGO Ideas! Part count is down, a Terry Pratchett Minifigure added and the bookcase now includes the Terry Pratchett Discworld series! It only needs around 350 supporters so please do what you can! ideas.lego.com/projects/b02...

submitted 221 days ago • 2 comments

Gov. Abbott and AG Paxton are bragging about having “scrubbed” the voter rolls—and the deadline to (re)register is Oct. 7. CHECK YOUR REGISTRATION TODAY. teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

submitted 220 days ago • 11 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #724,896!

submitted 230 days ago • 0 comments

Everybody's hitting the press for not clarifying how absolutely deranged yesterday's press conference was, so I looked up the transcript for the part where he was talking about soldiers losing their faces, which doesn't seem to get getting any coverage. Here's that segment in its context:

submitted 269 days ago • 43 comments