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Donald Trump doesn’t understand the drug war he’s fighting
The president's war on fentanyl is just another way to expand state power and inflame fear
www.salon.com
if you’re baffled by how trump plans to lower overdose deaths, you’re not alone. it’s pretty clear he doesn’t know what he’s fighting against. as usual, it’s not about the drugs at all. my latest for @salon.com
www.salon.com/2025/11/05/d...
www.salon.com/2025/11/05/d...
why has this been normalized
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 AM
why has this been normalized
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Sending all my love to NOLA.
Arrests begin in New Orleans immigration crackdown, pictures suggest – live
Images show federal forces taking people into custody in New Orleans, Louisiana
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Sending all my love to NOLA.
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I was right he did need a top hat.
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I was right he did need a top hat.
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everyday i learn about a new empty headed idiot who happily gobbles up the administration's slop in defense of the utterly indefensible
Batya might be just fine with a dudetrustme basis for a terrorist designation, but Americans with a functioning moral compass actually expect a plausible public rationale for who is to be treated as a terrorist in our name.
December 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
everyday i learn about a new empty headed idiot who happily gobbles up the administration's slop in defense of the utterly indefensible
Goodbye to my lovely Grandma Barbara. She was a great writer, who had a strong influence on my father's creativity and thus mine. She sent me the weirdest xmas gifts, usually stuff related to science. She drove me to my first job at a newspaper in Laconia, NH. I'm so grateful she was in my life.
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Goodbye to my lovely Grandma Barbara. She was a great writer, who had a strong influence on my father's creativity and thus mine. She sent me the weirdest xmas gifts, usually stuff related to science. She drove me to my first job at a newspaper in Laconia, NH. I'm so grateful she was in my life.
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December 3, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
Apple Rejects India’s Order Forcing Smartphone Makers To Install State-Run App, Report Says
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
www.forbes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”
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Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
December 3, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Jacob Frey: "If we are now at the point where the federal govt is deploying agents on legal American citizens with a goal of uprooting people who have formed lives here, have families here, started businesses here, definitively made Minneapolis a better place, everybody should be speaking out."
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One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.
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Was really fun to talk to the @eff.org about 404, Defector and indie media: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
Gate Crashing | Episode 3: A New Path for Journalism | Jason Koebler and David Roth
YouTube video by EFForg
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Was really fun to talk to the @eff.org about 404, Defector and indie media: youtu.be/19pQAkStncI
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RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr: "Two weeks ago we ended, under your leadership, a twenty year war on women".
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
Three out of five men in this shot have been accused of sexual misconduct, harassment or abusive behaviour towards women. A fourth signed into law a near-total abortion ban in his state as governor.
island of trees in the mississippi river saturday night after a blizzard, illuminated by the moon. color is not adjusted, looks monotone
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
island of trees in the mississippi river saturday night after a blizzard, illuminated by the moon. color is not adjusted, looks monotone
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What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections
A Great Egret searches the foliage for small lizards, snakes, or tree frogs. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photgraphy #egret #greategret #birdphotography #wildlifephotogrpaphy
A Great Egret searches the foliage for small lizards, snakes, or tree frogs. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photgraphy #egret #greategret #birdphotography #wildlifephotogrpaphy
December 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
For the #BirdOfTheDay #Reflections
A Great Egret searches the foliage for small lizards, snakes, or tree frogs. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photgraphy #egret #greategret #birdphotography #wildlifephotogrpaphy
A Great Egret searches the foliage for small lizards, snakes, or tree frogs. © Sandra Blair
#birds #photgraphy #egret #greategret #birdphotography #wildlifephotogrpaphy
beneath RFK's attacks on science and vaccines is something more sinister: the erosion of the idea that public health should be about the public at all. my latest for @salon.com
www.salon.com/2025/11/29/r...
www.salon.com/2025/11/29/r...
RFK’s individualism rhetoric hides a deeper public-health threat
The debate isn’t about “trusting experts.” It’s about who shoulders responsibility for staying healthy.
www.salon.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
beneath RFK's attacks on science and vaccines is something more sinister: the erosion of the idea that public health should be about the public at all. my latest for @salon.com
www.salon.com/2025/11/29/r...
www.salon.com/2025/11/29/r...
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Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed. Raisins turn water into wine; the assassination of a medieval Hungarian duke; why woodpeckers grunt when they peck, and more. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed
The assassination of a Hungarian duke, why woodpeckers grunt when they peck, and more.
arstechnica.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed. Raisins turn water into wine; the assassination of a medieval Hungarian duke; why woodpeckers grunt when they peck, and more. arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Disse che l'aveva trovato
Voleva uccidere il lupo
Ma il lupo non morì mai
Doveva mordersi nella sua pelle
Perché stava pensando, disse la foresta
Stava pensando a un modo come farlo guarire
Quel povero leone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU3...
Voleva uccidere il lupo
Ma il lupo non morì mai
Doveva mordersi nella sua pelle
Perché stava pensando, disse la foresta
Stava pensando a un modo come farlo guarire
Quel povero leone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU3...
You're Lionel Richie
YouTube video by Mogwai - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Disse che l'aveva trovato
Voleva uccidere il lupo
Ma il lupo non morì mai
Doveva mordersi nella sua pelle
Perché stava pensando, disse la foresta
Stava pensando a un modo come farlo guarire
Quel povero leone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU3...
Voleva uccidere il lupo
Ma il lupo non morì mai
Doveva mordersi nella sua pelle
Perché stava pensando, disse la foresta
Stava pensando a un modo come farlo guarire
Quel povero leone
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SU3...
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These little scale boys really don't need my help in finding a mate, but the way the little guy would climb onto my finger instantly and hop off when I put him next to a female*... 🥹
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
These little scale boys really don't need my help in finding a mate, but the way the little guy would climb onto my finger instantly and hop off when I put him next to a female*... 🥹
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
I love the yearly emergence of these silly Neosteingelia texana scale insects on my maple trees. ♥️🧪
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Microplastic existence in two feeding zones of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in Gulf of California, Mexico 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Microplastic existence in two feeding zones of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in Gulf of California, Mexico 🦑🌎🐟🦈 www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti...
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Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
Speaker 'barely holding it together' and 'crushed by his workload': NYT
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made several revealing admissions about the stressful and chaotic nature of his job, according to a recent New York Times report.The Times' Annie Karni wrote in a Wednesday article that Johnson turned what was meant to be an easy interview with a friendly podcast h...
bit.ly
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Doing your best to literally destroy life-sustaining ecosystems while also sanctioning the torture of people is hard on the spirit, wow who knew
omg this is cool
Narcan appears to work almost miraculously, reversing an opioid overdose in minutes. But exactly how it does this was a mystery since the FDA approved it in 1971.
Until now. Biology researchers have captured the mechanism at the molecular level. buff.ly/5VnUILA
Until now. Biology researchers have captured the mechanism at the molecular level. buff.ly/5VnUILA
How does Narcan work? Mapping how it reverses opioid overdose can provide a molecular blueprint for more effective drugs
Naloxone can reverse an overdose in minutes, but exactly how it does this at the molecular level has previously been unclear.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
omg this is cool
we need far more of this instead of the myopic focus on honeybees
The EU has published rules for the Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Butterflies, moths, bees and hoverflies will all be monitored by every Member State. Target to reverse decline in Pollinators by 2030 and increase pops. A big step in conserving biodiversity environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-...
Better monitoring to support restoration of EU pollinators
The Commission has adopted a new Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
environment.ec.europa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 AM
we need far more of this instead of the myopic focus on honeybees