Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more.
And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share!

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.

This should be a much bigger story. Kegseth is essentially saying he wants to use the Anthropic software to commit war crimes and will therefore not agree to be bound to well established US and international law rules. Outrageous.

The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?

Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards

My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

James Talarico: Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.

There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

Cato Study: Immigrants Reduced Deficits by $14.5 Trillion Since 1994 The best way to balance the budget is to reduce spending—particularly on wealthy retirees—but rather than hinder our efforts to control deficits, immigrants are helping.

Immigrants are carrying this country on their backs while the right screams into the void.

Here’s the Cato Institute report:
www.cato.org/blog/cato-st...

Immigrants:
📌Pay more in taxes and take fewer benefits
📌Work more, earn more than the average native-born worker
📌Cost less in retirement, they do not drain Social Security for decades
📌Barely touch welfare, there is no free ride

Undocumented immigrants alone saved $1.7 trillion.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Am I asking too much to ask that the Director of the National Institutes of Health gets his facts approximately correct?

There are examples that would illustrate his point, but this is not it.

This really makes me crazy; it reflects lack of knowledge, scholarship, and care.

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Does this mean Texas gets invaded now? Or is that only after intrepid reporter Nick Shirley gets a scoop?

www.fox4news.com/news/48-texa...

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Quote of the day from George Orwell’s classic novel 1984: 'Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood' George Orwells famous line from 1984 about wanting to be understood more than loved becomes a lens to explore modern loneliness, work culture, and the hunger for genuine recognition. Tracing Winston S...

George Orwell was only 42 years off with his book.

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”

m.economictimes.com/magazines/pa...

Thousands 'without light and warm water' — At tournament, Ukrainian tennis player speaks out on Russian energy grid strikes

Thousands 'without light and warm water' — At tournament, Ukrainian tennis player speaks out on Russian energy grid strikes
"I play every day with pain in my heart... My sister sleeps under three blankets because of the cold at home," Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostiuk said...

Victoria woman seeks living liver donor after incurable disease diagnosis - Victoria News Primary sclerosing cholangitis affects 1 in 10,000 Canadians and can lead to liver failure and death

Please share - a woman in Victoria BC is seeking a living liver donor. I donated a kidney two years ago - being part of the organ donation process is pretty neat and the folks at BC Transplant are amazing. Please give this article a read to learn more. #yyj

vicnews.com/2026/01/07/v...

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

Absolutely shameful that the Trump administration ordered NASA to close its library.

The books and research will reportedly be destroyed.

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI

Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.

Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.

I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes

Harry Eccles V @Heccles94 Musk sacked 80% of staff when he bought twitter Bezos is sacking 14,000 people to replace with Al Microsoft are cutting 4.1% of jobs (9,100) to replace with Al Intel are cutting up to 25% of staff to replace with Al What's that about billionaires creating jobs?

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We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool.

It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump’s megabill, even if the politics haven’t | CNN Politics As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its only health clinic.

"The 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.

Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations..."

www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/p...

My bipartisan IRS MATH Act with Senator Bill Cassidy is now law.

Now, if you mess up your taxes, the IRS has to tell you where you made a mistake and how to fix it.

No more spending a fortune on lawyers or hours to find errors.

That means fewer headaches and more money in your pocket.

Number of SNAP recipients Amazon 2,456 Walmart 2,318 Uber 1,799 DoorDash 1,462 Tempus Unlimited 1,425 Stop & Shop 989 Mass General Brigham 956 Dollar Tree 952 Albertsons Companies, Inc. 896 Bayada Home Health 887

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."

Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

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A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited | CBC News Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.

A rare photosynthesizing sea slug has been found off N.S. Here's why scientists are excited #NovaScotia

Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...