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Dad. Doofus. Data dork. Now Florida Man. Coffee tastes absolutely horrible.

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a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down

a graph of employment at newspapers, which continually goes down

It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down

06.03.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 209 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
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I wish this quote wasn’t still so relevant

06.03.2026 13:43 πŸ‘ 866 πŸ” 341 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 15
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

06.03.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 6267 πŸ” 1237 πŸ’¬ 55 πŸ“Œ 88

As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"

06.03.2026 12:23 πŸ‘ 805 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9

Her "Cleaner" seems to be somewhat similarly reviewed? But "Young Woman And The Sea" gets great reviews.

06.03.2026 03:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The paper delivered to my house this morning had an opinion piece telling me the biggest villain in the Epstein document dumps was ... a lawyer representing victims.

Turns out the author's been defending ... Epstein himself?

So, uh, I guess there is no bottom this year.

06.03.2026 03:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9760 πŸ” 5146 πŸ’¬ 613 πŸ“Œ 620
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ICE detains reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany RodrΓ­guez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

05.03.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 12099 πŸ” 7327 πŸ’¬ 288 πŸ“Œ 334
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To the surprise of some officials in Kyiv, no one from the U.S. bothered to ask Ukraine to share its expertise in how to defend against drones before starting the offensive in Iran, Simon Shuster and Nancy A. Youssef report. theatln.tc/AFPCstm6

06.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 316 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 26

Obligatory youtu.be/CptWCSreg_w?...

06.03.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Classic Chotiner interview, in that Landsman thinks it went great for him and is wondering why his family looks sad and is wearing black and there are all those casserole dishes in the kitchen

04.03.2026 19:43 πŸ‘ 1409 πŸ” 204 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 10
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Alan Cumming Busks on the Green Line This is "Alan Cumming Busks on the Green Line" by Neddershred Media on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

May I offer an amazing thing Alan Cumming did? I listen to this a few times a year. Still have no idea how they got such good audio.

vimeo.com/277552962

05.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
A world map showing the countries that have reported a case of polio within the last year. They are: AFRICA
1. Algeria
2. Angola
3. Benin
4. Burkina Faso
5. Cameroon
6. Central African
Republic
7. Chad
8. CΓ΄te d'Ivoire
9. Dem. Rep. of the Congo
10. Ethiopia
11. Ghana
12. Guinea
13. Niger
14. Nigeria
15. Senegal
16. Somalia
17. South Sudan
18. Sudan
19. Tanzania
20. Zimbabwe
EASTERN
MEDITERRANEAN
21. Afghanistan
22. Djibouti
23. Pakistan
24. Gaza
25. Israel
26. Yemen
28)
3
EUROPE
27. Finland
28. Germany
29. Poland
30. Spain
31. United Kingdom
WESTERN PACIFIC
32. Papua New Guinea

A world map showing the countries that have reported a case of polio within the last year. They are: AFRICA 1. Algeria 2. Angola 3. Benin 4. Burkina Faso 5. Cameroon 6. Central African Republic 7. Chad 8. CΓ΄te d'Ivoire 9. Dem. Rep. of the Congo 10. Ethiopia 11. Ghana 12. Guinea 13. Niger 14. Nigeria 15. Senegal 16. Somalia 17. South Sudan 18. Sudan 19. Tanzania 20. Zimbabwe EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN 21. Afghanistan 22. Djibouti 23. Pakistan 24. Gaza 25. Israel 26. Yemen 28) 3 EUROPE 27. Finland 28. Germany 29. Poland 30. Spain 31. United Kingdom WESTERN PACIFIC 32. Papua New Guinea

The CDC has just issued a Travel Health Notice specifically related to polio popping up in about 30 countries.

They recommend making sure you’re up to date on your vaccinations, and if you are traveling to one of the countries in red, you should consider a booster.

wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/notic...

05.03.2026 01:30 πŸ‘ 284 πŸ” 177 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 20

The Gaslighting continues...

Trump Spox Leavitt blamed the 500,000+ Americans still present in the 14 countries for which the White House issued "DEPART NOW" orders for not leaving sooner. She said that they should have known to leave when the State Department raised the risk level to 4.
(1/2)

04.03.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 91 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 4

Okay you’re right, I get it now β€” you’ve already started the war and need some background information. This is heavy β€” I’ll try again. Let’s start with the basics of starting a war.

- Cassus belli
- Supply chains
- Allies

04.03.2026 12:17 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a line from the story making it sound like it's purely about liberal politics, rather than betraying giant swaths of demographics to boot.

03.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shorter: ... I would ... cut a man ...

03.03.2026 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

PragerU is probably whitelisted by many orgs and they still have online Ty Seidule's peculiar institution lf a discussion ...

03.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The Confederate Constitution banned states from banning slavery ...

03.03.2026 12:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Military officials question fortifications at site where U.S. troops were killed in Iranian strike The first American service members to die in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran were killed in an apparent Iranian drone attack on a makeshift office space in Kuwait, sources told CBS News.

On the 6 US troops who died at Shuaiba port in Kuwait: Troops asked for more drone defeat capabilities, none came. It was recommended that the makeshift tactical operations center not be used because it was hard to defend and concentrated too many troops in one place. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-st...

03.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 1023 πŸ” 489 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 74
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Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran.
www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

03.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 1384 πŸ” 665 πŸ’¬ 91 πŸ“Œ 89
Counting The Votes In Mirabelli v. Bonta We only know how Justice Gorsuch voted because Justice Kagan told us he was in the majority.

reason.com/volokh/2026/...

03.03.2026 11:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Timeline of confusion: A look at FL's cost projections for 'Alligator Alcatraz,' 'Deportation Depot' β€’ Florida Phoenix For months, the price tag of the notorious β€œAlligator Alcatraz” lockup was left to media speculation.

Here’s a timeline from June to December of what DEM believed the β€œAlligator Alcatraz” and β€œDeportation Depot” migrant detention facilities would cost, and how the agency arrived at those numbers: floridaphoenix.com/2026/03/02/t...

02.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Kyiv.
Late evening.
Air defence is shooting down drones.
I say it like,
β€œThe weather is fine outside, just cloudy.”

That’s what four years have done to us.

Protect peace.
Don’t let war become normal.

02.03.2026 20:02 πŸ‘ 578 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 1
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New records show Florida officials burned more than $1.2 million per day on 'Alligator Alcatraz' Last August, the Florida Division of Emergency Management requested a $1.49 billion grant from the federal government, underscoring the staggering scale of spending of taxpayer dollars on federal immi...

New records show #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous burned thru more than $1 million a day on his Everglades concentration camp floridatrib.org/2026/03/01/n...

01.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

posting is free and therapy is expensive

28.02.2026 23:20 πŸ‘ 420 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2
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Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas Stolen Relations seeks to recover stories of Indigenous slavery in the Americas. The website has a database as well as a map, timeline, interviews, and curricular materials.

It is weird that a far more robust digital database was launched at Brown University last year, but somehow didn't get a mention in the piece. See stolenrelations.org

01.03.2026 13:05 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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> @covie93.bsky.social

28.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 25944 πŸ” 5449 πŸ’¬ 247 πŸ“Œ 188

If not clear I'm referring to a consequence- and accountability-free mishandling in that very complex.

01.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, for you maybe.

01.03.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0