Kyle Bella

#TeamWater Help us give 2 million people clean water for decades

My non-profit has partnered with creators Mr. Beast and Mark Rober to raise 40 million dollars for clean water access around the world as part of #TeamWater. We hit 10 million today but still have 30 million left to go. If you can donate, every dollar counts! teamwater.org

"We don't believe in erasing American history—we honor it," says the guy working for the government that mandated that the website for the Stonewall National Monument erase all mentions of the word "transgender."

in retrospect i guess it was inevitable there would be attempts to frame any pushback against tech as the same "annoying hippie lib busybody" stereotype the left has been getting hit with for decades

RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

We need a word for someone who is beyond perverse, sadistic, sociopathic. Blocking mRNA vaccine research means that you or someone you love will die of something you could have avoided or survived. He is intentionally killing people.

AI Flight Pricing Can Push Travelers to the Limit of Their Ability to Pay Airlines, including Delta, are testing artificial intelligence in pricing. Get ready for what one startup calls the “exploitation phase.”

My coworker @chafkin.bsky.social got ahold of an internal white paper from Fetcherr, the AI pricing company that is working with Delta and other airlines to make fare prices even more erratic for consumers. It details what the company calls the “exploitation phase”: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country

Arrested on a reported (purported? still no charging papers) claim of assault by cops who'd already thinking about putting him in handcuffs.

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how Ramos's day is going:

Pride Megamix '25 by Kyle Bella on Apple Music Playlist · 55 Songs

My annual Pride Megamix is here. Lots of fun to be had and the cover is a nod to the spirit of David Wojnarowicz. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...

I spoke with someone at the Blade just now and they said the Park Service issued a statement early this morning that they had rejected DC Police's request to rescind the order. So, this is a Trump/Park Service thing.

Shortly after coming to power, the regime orders a massive military parade in the nation’s capital, to be held on the regime leader’s birthday - symbolizing the regime’s claim that the leader embodies the nation.

This should be anathema in a democratic republic. It’s insulting and dangerous.

Osprey perched in a nest above the water

U.S. Coast Guard building in the sand dunes of the Outer Banks

Sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean

Wild horse runs around in Carova, North Carolina

Visited the Outer Banks this past weekend, which is a lovely place nature-wise but the whiteness conservative politics is disorienting in a time like today.

216-214. One Democratic absence (Norcross) and two Dem vacancies due to deaths (Turner and Grijalva) proved decisive on a budget that unlocks the door for Republicans to make trillions in tax/spending changes.

Profoundly profoundly stupid

it’s honestly so revealing about how stupid he is. literally, literally incapable of thinking past the green or red number on the teevee. actual brain injury stuff and our whole elite class is like “yes sir, very wise, sir”

I actually increased my retirement contribution percentage and rebalanced to a longer term retirement fund that's slightly higher risk. Nothing crazy because they are diversified funds but thinking of the long term.

DOGE drove layoff announcements to their third-highest-ever level in March | CNN Business More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report published Thursday.

More than 275,000 layoffs were announced last month, reaching a level not seen since the pandemic, according to a new report. The biggest culprit was one particular employer: the federal government cnn.it/42dIxcF

New Yorkers: dare to DREAM* of a mayor that doesn’t suck shit.

* Don’t Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor

The press secretary is texting reporters saying that China's tariffs of 34% are already on top of the 20% tariffs so effectively there will be a 54% tax on all goods from China. iPhones will be $1,500-1,700 now?

So we’re clear, tariffs combined with tax cuts for the wealthy is just upward transfer of wealth. It’s regressive taxation. People who make money by not working get to keep more of it, while people who work spend a larger percentage of their dwindling income on a worse standard of living.

I am reading that the 10% across the board tariff goes into effect for everyone on April 5th and then the additional percentages in the chart (which include the 10% baseline) go into effect on April 9th. 🙃

Laptops, phones, cars, groceries, clothing, wine - everything will be more expensive soon! And the economy will be in a recession so tons of folks will get laid off and definitely not be able to afford everything, especially as they gut social benefits.

Fun how no one is going to be able to ever afford anything ever again

NURSE.

Any Perfume Genius slander will not be tolerated. "Glory" is another home run. Beautifully, deeply immersive songwriting on the muck of living in this world today.

Donald Trump just did an interview where he said he thought that Signal referred to the quality of your cell phone’s reception. Here’s why Joe Biden was too cognitively impaired to continue as president.