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Black Lives Matter. Lived in London, Munich, & Fieberbrunn (Austria), now in North Carolina. Retired UNC Press. Episcopalian. Gardening, music, reading. kdrama addict. she/her

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Well, doesn’t that title sound honorable “Interior Proposes to Restore State-Aligned Hunting Regulations on Alaska National Preserves.” What it actually means is the Trump administration just moved to bring bear baiting back to Alaska’s national preserves.

10.03.2026 00:21 👍 964 🔁 357 💬 63 📌 23
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ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

“Think about that for a moment: a six-year-old child with a disability suddenly in a different country, separated from the country he has come to know, now surrounded by silence. The horror stories from this White House continue from ICE.”

09.03.2026 22:07 👍 497 🔁 272 💬 16 📌 16

Absolutely the first thing I noticed and it grated on me so much I couldn't attend to what he actually said.

09.03.2026 19:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Patrick Stewart Reads All 156 of Shakespeare’s Sonnets in New Audiobook Sir Patrick Stewart, in a forthcoming audiobook, reads all of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets and provides his personal reflections of the works.

variety.com/2026/digital...

07.03.2026 18:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Heh

07.03.2026 18:03 👍 491 🔁 74 💬 10 📌 0

I agree, and I'm a boomer. In the most recent primary I voted for the challenger against the incumbent just because she was younger. (I'm in a majority blue district and both are pretty progressive) Incumbent won though.

07.03.2026 18:16 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Old enough to remember this, and it wasn't just evangelicals.

07.03.2026 18:10 👍 28 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

between the secretary of the treasury going on cable news to discuss war strategy, and the secretary of state speaking on a roundtable about college sports during a war... i'm starting to wonder how much it actually matters who is secretary of what over there

06.03.2026 23:05 👍 311 🔁 61 💬 3 📌 0

This! Some of us were against it back then...

04.03.2026 20:12 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 👍 9141 🔁 3041 💬 430 📌 163
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28.02.2026 23:45 👍 19239 🔁 5440 💬 397 📌 266
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Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

"Private money cannot replace public funding of science"
Thank you @naomioreskes.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🧪 🌊 ⚒️ #scipol

27.02.2026 19:46 👍 199 🔁 93 💬 6 📌 8
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some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights ALT: some of you may die written on a poster with shrek and knights

Basically:

01.03.2026 16:25 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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China Deploys Thousands of Fishing Boats off Japan's Coast, and They Are Not There to Fish Thousands of Chinese fishing vessels have appeared in tightly packed formations near Japanese-administered waters, captured in striking satellite images.

China Deploys Thousands of Fishing Boats off Japan’s Coast, and They Are Not There to Fish

Japanese authorities seized a Chinese fishing vessel suspected of violating domestic fisheries law after it entered territorial waters.
indiandefencereview.com/china-deploy...

27.02.2026 07:46 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Civil Servants Demand: Impeach Russell Vought The Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. Russell Vought created lawlessness in every part of the Trump administ...

Russell Vought is the central architect driving the destruction of your government. We are urging Congress to act now to protect the American people by impeaching and convicting Vought. We invite all Americans to join us by signing on to our letter to Congress.

actionnetwork.org/forms/civil-...

23.02.2026 01:32 👍 165 🔁 69 💬 6 📌 3

.@nytimes.com Nice article on aging in place Feb 28 but the fancy graphics don't work on Firefox or Safari. Can anyone read it?

01.03.2026 00:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Perfect.

28.02.2026 16:58 👍 956 🔁 194 💬 18 📌 2
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US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

28.02.2026 16:00 👍 17024 🔁 6536 💬 469 📌 550

Or in my case, 76

28.02.2026 14:43 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I got that reference...

28.02.2026 14:33 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 BREAKING: They’re Already Laying the Groundwork to Steal 2026 and 2028
🚨 BREAKING: They’re Already Laying the Groundwork to Steal 2026 and 2028 YouTube video by Dean Blundell

This Is An Important Listen. Denver Riggleman was on the J6 Committee, He's an Intelligence Expert & Former Congressman.

youtu.be/5aBhA9qWQn8?...

28.02.2026 03:00 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a Hague Research Institute article on rare earth elements in Iran, including cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, and yttrium

Screenshot of a Hague Research Institute article on rare earth elements in Iran, including cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, and yttrium

Screenshot of a section of a Hague Research Institute article on Iran's rare earth element riches, including elements used in advanced tech: praseodymium, neodymium, cerium, yttrium, mischmetal, ferrotitanium, and lanthanum.

Screenshot of a section of a Hague Research Institute article on Iran's rare earth element riches, including elements used in advanced tech: praseodymium, neodymium, cerium, yttrium, mischmetal, ferrotitanium, and lanthanum.

Why Iran, you ask? Same reason Trump wants Greenland and we're blockading Cuba: rare earth elements. This is not about no nukes. It's not about killing the protesters. Not even about covering up the Epstein files. It's about greed and plunder, plain and simple. hagueresearch.org/rare-earth-e...

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28.02.2026 12:47 👍 15610 🔁 4746 💬 379 📌 347
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From the interestingasfuck community on Reddit: 65 year old woman calls in and nearly breaks CSPAN host by telling her she’s slowly starving to death.. Explore this post and more from the interestingasfuck community

This is wrong. And shameful. And cruel.

And it's why we fight. So our neighbors aren't being starved to death by a class of cruel robber barons while they grow ever richer.

www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

27.02.2026 15:17 👍 77 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 9
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26.02.2026 23:24 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Five members of the Olympic hockey team who stayed away from Felon tRump.

They were:
Jake Guentzel of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Kyle Connor of the Winnipeg Jets, Colorado Avalanche forward Brock Nelson, Dallas Stars goalkeeper Jake Oettinger and Anaheim Ducks defenseman Jackson LaCombe.

26.02.2026 20:11 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Was thinking the exact thing.

26.02.2026 23:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2/2 Even our local Wegmans had a full shelf of different kinds of Spam. (I didn't know Spam was a thing in Korea until I visited our local H-Mart out of curiosity.) And this is in the southern US.

26.02.2026 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Over the past year, my chain grocery stores (Harris Teeter & Publix) have reduced their "European" sections and now have Asian and Hispanic filling a full long aisle. Costco now has an entire freezer aisle with bibigo frozen items and the Korean fish shaped ice cream sandwiches. 1/2

26.02.2026 19:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Same. 25 years, also shopping for one. I'm fortunate to live near my Costco so I get all my gas there too. People complain about the lines on our bougie subreddit but the lines move quickly and if you're able to go at the right times = no lines.

26.02.2026 19:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0