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white smoke pouring from my chimney indicating i have chosen Lunch

From One Day, Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

Canadians are now referring to the United States as the 11th province

Yes; he knows that.

“After we’ve discriminated against, deported, or disparaged all the immigrants, the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women, and minorities. Once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends… what comes next?” - Gov. JB Pritzker

Adorno got it right in 1945

Do Key and Peale know about this?

Barron. Honey. You’re stupid. You sit down.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

"Canada has the longest total coastline in the world, therefore we are well within our rights to rename our major oceans. Henceforth, the Pacific Ocean will be known as Poutine Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean as Hockey Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean as the Gulf of Brian Adams." - PM Trudeau

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The community note 🤌😘

Ooooh well played.

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out. Or when McConnell was chased out of a resraurant and not allowed a peaceful meal. Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home. That. Do that.

I deeply hope cis people start paying attention to how this government is beginning to interact with us. In an official capacity.

What? A country with a backbone???

😂😂😂😂

This is as good a summary as any of Trump's approach to government: it's awful and I don't know anything about it

Kendrick Lamar put on a fine halftime show but its politics were a bit iffy. wouldve been way better if at the end he turned to the camera & said "i am communist now" & then specified hes the exact kind of communist i am

half time show 2025

just pried the gun out of Charlton Heston's cold dead hands which - i have to stress - he had explicitly stated, on camera, is allowed

who is this hero journalist we need to protect at all costs?

Speed but the bus is the country

from today's post — link is here, go read it, thanks: bit.ly/4hBkfPQ

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

It’s things homeless people need and might steal.

Holy shit. “USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down. Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.” Follow the money.

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

This Black History Month remember human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers but not to the enslaved was legal. Prison slavery still IS legal. Do not let legality & power be a measure of morality & justice.