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I’m gonna save you all some time, the liquid center nerds gummy clusters are not as good as the regular ones

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

This was a fascinating read!

I just want it to be really clear, to people from out of the area, if they see pictures of fires in Minneapolis: THEY WERE STARTED BY ICE. NOT BY PROTESTERS. NOT BY RESIDENTS.

At some point, everyone living with one or more cats realizes: You did not train cat. Cat trained you.

Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

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Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down.

This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Fascinating History is good (YouTube), Pablo Torres Finds Out does good exposes, American Greed is more historical

NCAR manages the Wyoming Supercomputing Center, where researchers from other institutions have access to high-performance computing resources (most recently Cheyenne and now Derecho) to model weather, climate, wildfires, air pollution, etc. Everyone is less safe if NCAR is dismantled.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

New @propublica.org story: we found that most BLM land used for grazing had either failed land health assessments or never received one. Read our deep dive into the environmental impact of wide scale grazing on public land: www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Me too. We should do that again sometime ❤️

Would they be better at synchronized diving or synchronized swimming?

“oh so you think the east wing being demolished is worse than-“ it’s a synecdoche, man. a visual metaphor. there’s a reason the aliens in Independence Day don’t aim a huge laser at SNAP benefits

Yes, accurate

Urgent: me and him and the cats need somewhere to live within the next two weeks, I've just been (I think very unfairly) fired and need to move somewhere ASAP

Trump in a beige v-neck merino sweater and beige chinos.

Donald Trump Jr. wearing a USA flag sport coat. The jacket tag has been left on the sleeve.

Brendan Carr and Benny Johnson. Both wearing blue suits with tan shoes. Carr's suit is mid-blue. He has paired it with blonde shoes. Johnson is wearing a navy suit with walnut colored shoes.

Matt Braynard wearing a navy suit with a white French cuff shirt and gold colored tie. He has a giant Windsor knot and a metal sports watch.

Some of the crimes I've seen in Washington DC:

— Beige sweater with beige chinos
— Jacket sleeve tag left on
— Tan shoes with navy suits
— Giant Windsor knots (triple felony with the metal sports watch paired with dark suit and French cuffs)

Went to see Les Mis at the Kennedy Center a few months before moving away

The Saddle Club: Willowbrook Stables

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

I took a different approach to telling the forecast in today's newsletter. I may not have the opportunity in every 2-minute TV update, but it's a small thing to add to my articles. I hope others will consider similar strategies to underscore what's at stake.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Ok, *this* is best comparative stat, members of media: The DC Pride parade one week ago had a bigger turnout.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Thousands sing "This Land is Your Land" during a 'No Kings' protest in Napa, CA.

The fact that the rest of California is currently rooting for LA is how you know this is really crazy