ICYMI - which I'm sure you did not - Bluesky has a new interim CEO. Details here from Lola Murti @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/b...
ICYMI - which I'm sure you did not - Bluesky has a new interim CEO. Details here from Lola Murti @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/03/09/b...
βThe move could lead to a further escalation of the war, given Donald Trump had already acknowledged that Mojtaba Khamenei was the most likely successor and made clear he considered such an outcome unacceptable.β
awesome.
Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2518...
π§΅ Since we seem to love maps here, a small geography question:
Why do we call it the βMiddle Eastβ?
The answer actually says quite a lot about who originally drew the maps.
Israelβs closure of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt has thrown surgeries and school plans into limbo.
buff.ly/0j2RQxI
Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k.
Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force.
#NumbersDay #EconSky
Trader Joeβs products included in huge nationwide recall impacting more than 36 million pounds of food
A Nashville reporter who has reported on ICE was detained at a stop in South Nashville yesterday. Estefany RodrΓguez fled Colombia after getting death threats and is awaitng an asylum hearing.
nashvillebanner.com/2026/03/05/j...
"NOAA Fisheries has determined that one death a year is too much for this species to be able to recover," she said. "So they really are in dire straits."
β‘οΈ NATO intercepts Iranian missile heading toward Turkey in first such incident.
"We reserve the right to respond to any hostile attitude towards our country," Turkey's Defense Ministry said.
The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.
Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.
Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary.
www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...
tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.
so, let me help:
here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)
π§΅:
That sound you hear is irony dying.
Bloomberg terminal showing the spike in natural gas prices
JFC. European gas prices just surged 50%.
CNN confirming the F-15 went down in Kuwait β CENTCOM says it was actually 3 of them, calling it βa friendly fire incidentβ
At ~$350,000,000 worth of planes thatβs some expensive βfriendly fireβ
world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.
βDolly Parton Childrenβs Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure βevery child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.ββ
GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
ICYMI, the state of Kansas just invalidated the drivers licenses of 1,000+ ppl whose gender markers did not match their assigned sex at birth. These markers had been legally changed.
There was no grace period. It's now illegal for them to drive to the DMV to get a new license (w/ incorrect gender).
The most tone deaf detail is the Core Civic statement that it says some of the kidsβ artworks are ββproudly displayedβ throughout the facility.β
So theyβre proudly displaying pictures of sad faces and families behind a wire fence, and words that say βI want to go home.β
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just βcried and cried and cried,β a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
NEW: (gift) A Miami Herald Investigation: How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social and @clurhealy.bsky.social
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βWhen Shah Alam did not follow police commands to drop his curtain rod, they Tasered and beat him, then arrested him, Macaluso said.β
He didnβt speak any English. And he used the curtain rod as a walking stick.
Even just a tiny bit of empathy couldβve saved his life π
Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking.
A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.
βElections are approaching in which millions of people plan to cast their ballots by mail. Thomasβs opinion puts that mail β and those voters β at risk.β
Experts at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have rediscovered a recording and determined itβs probably the oldest whale recording still in existence. The likely vocalist? A humpback whale. π spklr.io/6007Dxy1Z
π·: BlackBox
ποΈ: Luis Lamar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Remember how Ex-Machina ended?
Central Park on Monday was fabulous. π
(via Noel Calingasan) #NYC
zohran increased the number of snow shovelers from 500 to 1,400 for this blizzard, paying them $30/hour to shovel sidewalks with at least a four-foot berth so that wheelchairs and strollers can get through. he didn't overhaul city government to do it, he just used the power given to him and did it!