For the same $6 trillion cost, you could crush child poverty with a child allowance and free childcare, fix unemployment insurance, do paid family, sick & medical leave, massively boost ACA subsidies, and eliminate child uninsurance with Medicare for Kids.
Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there.
On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
NEW ARTICLE #FREELUD
- Lud came to the US in 2002 when his mother married his stepfather
- they divorced, impacting immigration status
- Lud was allowed to stay in the US for work if he checked in w/ immigration annually
- he was detained AT THAT CHECK-IN
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There is no better way to insulate yourself from global oil & gas price volatility than to invest in technologies that generate useful heat & power without any oil & gas input. The Trump WH attack on renewables is a direct attack on your economic security.
The Big Loser Energy emanating from the Texas Rangers is off the charts.
"Biden dismantled the military but I had already rebuilt it so I can end the forever wars by fighting this war forever"
Truly, this is the day Donald Trump became president
Minnesota would like a word.
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
That’ll last for a week, maybe two. You might want to think about a bike, an e-bike, or maybe an electric car if you have no option to bike. This may be a long period of high gas prices. (Also, you might be shocked how much car business you can do with a cargo bike. I was.)
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
Riding my bike in Druid hill park in winter. The trees are bare, the sky is gray. There are 2 traffic lanes, 2 parking lanes, and 0 dedicated bike infrastructure
Make Druid Hill Park car-free, cowards
Anthropic, which presents itself as the most safety-forward of the leading AI companies, has been mired in weeks of disagreement with the Pentagon over how the military is allowed to use its large language model, Claude. US defense officials have pushed for unfettered access to Claude's capabilities, while Anthropic has reportedly resisted allowing ts product to be used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input. The Department of Defense (DoD) has integrated Claude into its operations, but has threatened to sever the relationship over what its top brass perceives as roadblocks erected by Anthropic. At stake in the negotiations is whether the AI industry will push back against government demand for the military use of their
“autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input” sounds really bad to begin with. But put it together with the report about the AIs preferring nuclear war and it seems to cross that line to into existentially bad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
So NOVA tonight is about Göbekli Tepe and Secrets of the Dead is about Hannibal crossing the Alps. It's like PBS is offering a night of bespoke programming just for me, personally
"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
there's an old saying in diy — I know it's in woodworking, probably in diy — that says, 'measure once, cut... cut twice, measure... if you just cut it you don’t have to measure again!
i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time
all eyes now turn to truth social, where the president is expected to respond from the toilet any minute now
musk tweet: for a country to survive, there has to be a common culture
this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk
Gallup reported in February 1965 that, when asked about the Civil Rights Act specifically, 42% overall believed the federal government was moving too fast in guaranteeing "Negro" voting rights and the right of "Negroes" (the term used in the question) to be served in public places such as restaurants, hotels and theaters, while just 25% thought it was not moving fast enough.
ah the always noble voters www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
"Liberals the world over have to stop playing defense if the left is ever going to stop the right's oligarch-fueled momentum. They must stop accommodating or—worse yet—imitating the fascists, and fight them." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-blaring-wa...
i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions
Ein rot asphaltierter Radweg im Winter in Utrecht: Eine Frau hält sich bei ihrem vermeintlichen Freund beim Fahrradfahren am Arm fest
Happy Valentine's Day
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
Baby's first bike lane.
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