Daniel Farina
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Stunning video from last night’s Aurora Borealis: recorded 30 minutes north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
#Canada
#AuroaBorealis
#Canada
#AuroaBorealis
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Stunning video from last night’s Aurora Borealis: recorded 30 minutes north of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
#Canada
#AuroaBorealis
#Canada
#AuroaBorealis
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Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Note active voice in thread when victim "upends" Gaetz career but passive voice in image when discussing her exploitation.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
"Gaetz sexually exploited a homeless child and destroyed his career in the process" would assign a man and a republican agency. And we can't have that.
I had no idea that a loan amortization would elicit such a strong response by, like, anyone. But so it is: people, and the entertainers that cater to them, that think even naturalized Americans or immigrants with paperwork should be next on the deportation agenda.
"Large parts of his base see deportation as the central tool for achieving progress—from housing affordability to crime to cultural renewal. For the furthest fringes of Trump's support, the real problem is a financing system controlled by Jews." www.liberalcurrents.com/dont-build-h...
Don’t Build Housing, Just Deport People: The Nativist Right Recoils at Trump’s 50-Year Mortgage Proposal
The backlash against Trump's proposal reveals the characteristics of his base's reactionary housing politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I had no idea that a loan amortization would elicit such a strong response by, like, anyone. But so it is: people, and the entertainers that cater to them, that think even naturalized Americans or immigrants with paperwork should be next on the deportation agenda.
That’s a big milestone for Waymo, whose engineers assessed that freeway failure conditions were too daunting for years. I hope their preparations and simulations work. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w...
Waymo expands robotaxi service to Bay Area freeways and airports
Freeways have come to represent a sort of manifest destiny, and a way for Waymo to ensure dominance in the self-driving car market.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
That’s a big milestone for Waymo, whose engineers assessed that freeway failure conditions were too daunting for years. I hope their preparations and simulations work. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/w...
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“The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said last month that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing.” The UK agrees with that assessment.” The intelligence sharing pause began about a month ago. Via @natashabertrand.bsky.social
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said last month that the strikes violate international law and amount to “extrajudicial killing.” The UK agrees with that assessment.” The intelligence sharing pause began about a month ago. Via @natashabertrand.bsky.social
“Modernizing the charter would allow city officials to manage like leaders rather than caretakers in a museum of past compromises.”
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
There’s no fixing San Francisco without fixing its City Charter. Here’s how
OPINION: “Reforming the charter isn’t just bureaucratic housekeeping; it’s the first step toward a government that works for the people it serves,” Sean Elsbernd writes.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Modernizing the charter would allow city officials to manage like leaders rather than caretakers in a museum of past compromises.”
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
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I have nothing especially original to say about Senate Democrats’ surrender on funding the government yesterday. Yes, it was a terrible look; why noodle around with a government shutdown at all if they were going to settle for a deal they could have gotten in September? 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I have nothing especially original to say about Senate Democrats’ surrender on funding the government yesterday. Yes, it was a terrible look; why noodle around with a government shutdown at all if they were going to settle for a deal they could have gotten in September? 🧵
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Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.
Absolutely sadistic.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.
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“Zealots like to talk about eternity, and think they have all the time in the world. But eternity is an illusion.”
Good morning and welcome to this giftlink thread of Weekend FT highlights. Get 'em while they're hot, try not to complain when they're gone!
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb
Yuval Noah Harari: Only generosity can secure peace between Israelis and Palestinians
[FREE TO READ] Both sides must abandon false moral certainties and oversimplified historical narratives if the cycle of violence is to be broken
on.ft.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
“Zealots like to talk about eternity, and think they have all the time in the world. But eternity is an illusion.”
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This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
Trump administration seeks to halt SNAP food aid payments after a court order
The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to block a judge’s order to distribute November’s full SNAP benefits during a U.S. government shutdown. U.S.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This might be one of the most monumentally insane things a government has done
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Workshopping a take that says social democracy is the pro-market ideology now because oligarchs have accumulated sufficient wealth to prevent losses from being a meaningful disciplinary tool.
November 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Workshopping a take that says social democracy is the pro-market ideology now because oligarchs have accumulated sufficient wealth to prevent losses from being a meaningful disciplinary tool.
The phrase “affordable housing” is never used this way, but I can’t help but thinking of it as an engineering property of a building, not the real estate price.
i wrote a thing on this like a decade ago
it's part of why condo fees in berlin and other cities are so low
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/22/i...
it's part of why condo fees in berlin and other cities are so low
www.theurbanist.org/2018/08/22/i...
In Praise of Dumb Boxes » The Urbanist
# One of the more, ummm, interesting complaints about new buildings is that they are
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November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The phrase “affordable housing” is never used this way, but I can’t help but thinking of it as an engineering property of a building, not the real estate price.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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"If you could get these data centers to get off the grid, say 50-60 hours a year, they really wouldn't create any cost pressure at all," @severinborenstein.bsky.social on NPR.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame
Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power.
www.npr.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"If you could get these data centers to get off the grid, say 50-60 hours a year, they really wouldn't create any cost pressure at all," @severinborenstein.bsky.social on NPR.
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
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…And there we are (via @chadbourn.bsky.social). I have nothing deep to say about this campaign or what it means. Just the obvious: 1. Mamdani is a New Yorker who likes New Yorkers; 2. He’s an exceptionally talented campaigner; 3. He’s got himself a challenging job.
I wish him success.
I wish him success.
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
…And there we are (via @chadbourn.bsky.social). I have nothing deep to say about this campaign or what it means. Just the obvious: 1. Mamdani is a New Yorker who likes New Yorkers; 2. He’s an exceptionally talented campaigner; 3. He’s got himself a challenging job.
I wish him success.
I wish him success.
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By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
www.bu.edu
November 5, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
More than 260,000 will be children.
Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Interesting that despite the toxicity and hysteria that the yimbys are winning in Marin County. Pro-commercial upzoning and anti-recall over apartment development in Fairfax are winning.
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
Pro-housing measures leading in early Marin results
Marin County adopt a pro-housing tone by approving Sausalito's density increase and denying recall of mayor and vice mayor
www.sfchronicle.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Interesting that despite the toxicity and hysteria that the yimbys are winning in Marin County. Pro-commercial upzoning and anti-recall over apartment development in Fairfax are winning.
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
www.sfchronicle.com/election/art...
While posed in a friendly format, this was done quiz-show style, with unforgiving time pressure. I am impressed with his speed and skill in phrasing answers.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
While posed in a friendly format, this was done quiz-show style, with unforgiving time pressure. I am impressed with his speed and skill in phrasing answers.
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US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
People keep talking about all the bad stuff that might happen with AI video, but what if mobile broadband was the most important technology that results in nuclear war in the twenty first century?
November 3, 2025 at 12:50 AM
People keep talking about all the bad stuff that might happen with AI video, but what if mobile broadband was the most important technology that results in nuclear war in the twenty first century?
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This whole SNAP disaster has shown (even more) how Republicans dont give a damn about people in need. Its pathetic. They claim to be the party of Christian values, BULL!!!
Glad the courts ruled this way.
Glad the courts ruled this way.
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This whole SNAP disaster has shown (even more) how Republicans dont give a damn about people in need. Its pathetic. They claim to be the party of Christian values, BULL!!!
Glad the courts ruled this way.
Glad the courts ruled this way.
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Santa Clara County is allocating up to $4.5 million to support food aid for about 130,000 residents likely to see their federal food assistance disrupted if the federal government shutdown persists.
Another Bay Area county is sending millions to support SNAP recipients during shutdown
Santa Clara County is allocating up to $4.5 million to support food aid for about 130,000 residents likely to see their federal food assistance disrupted if the federal government shutdown persists.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Santa Clara County is allocating up to $4.5 million to support food aid for about 130,000 residents likely to see their federal food assistance disrupted if the federal government shutdown persists.
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NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
October 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.
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The former president of the Philippines is literally sitting in The Hague right now for doing this exact same thing.
Donald Trump and Peter Hegseth have now murdered 57 human beings on their boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history
Where is The Hague?
That means they've passed Seattle's "Green River Killer" (49) to become the most lethal serial killers in American history
Where is The Hague?
October 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The former president of the Philippines is literally sitting in The Hague right now for doing this exact same thing.