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Husband & father, American Jew, entertainment journalist, environmentalist, reader, regular blood donor. SoCal native, home after Boston & Atlanta sojourns. “Find the good, and praise it" - Alex Haley

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Turn a band into theater.

Lamb of God of Carnage

10.03.2026 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Senator mocked ‘green energy crap.’ His house runs on it. Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.

The Montana Republican installed rooftop solar and battery storage systems at his Bozeman home several years ago, according to property records, satellite imagery and two local renewable energy industry officials. 🔌💡
www.yahoo.com/news/article...

10.03.2026 15:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

10.03.2026 14:15 👍 400 🔁 258 💬 9 📌 28

For an upcoming story, I'd like to hear from people who have had an encounter with a stranger recording them on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses. If that's you or you can pass along this request to someone else who has experienced this, I'm at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal. Thanks!

09.03.2026 23:06 👍 257 🔁 173 💬 11 📌 2

"'When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take,' [Trump] told Iranians on the night of the first attacks. Revolts, however, generally require people to take to the streets. And that requires breathing the air."

09.03.2026 21:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women
How Jeffrey Epstein Used Doctors to Control Women YouTube video by The New York Times

"Often they [the doctors] treated Epstein as if he was the real client."

09.03.2026 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Judge says Kari Lake unlawfully ran USAGM, voids Voice of America layoffs | CNN Business In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year.

ICYMI:

Plaintiffs: "Even as we work through what this ruling means for colleagues harmed by her actions, it brings renewed hope and momentum to the next phase of our fight: restoring VOA‘s global operations and ensuring we continue to produce journalism, not propaganda."

09.03.2026 17:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

09.03.2026 15:52 👍 706 🔁 243 💬 38 📌 31
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Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount U.S. President Donald Trump bought more than $1.1 million of Netflix bonds over the last three months as the streaming giant unsuccessfully fought Paramount Skydance to ​buy Warner Bros Discovery , ac...

Trump bought Netflix and Warner Bros bonds at height of bidding war with Paramount
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

09.03.2026 14:58 👍 1073 🔁 562 💬 65 📌 116

Add one word to a film to ruin it.

The Secret Agent Orange

09.03.2026 06:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When we switched to an EV, not having to keep track of gas prices was an even bigger relief than not having to go to gas stations at all.

09.03.2026 01:20 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

08.03.2026 02:42 👍 3637 🔁 1433 💬 32 📌 119
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March 7, 2026 At 8:50 yesterday morning, President Donald J.

March 7, 2026

08.03.2026 06:10 👍 999 🔁 335 💬 40 📌 57
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Judge says Kari Lake unlawfully ran USAGM, voids Voice of America layoffs | CNN Business In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled Saturday that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year.

In a victory for Voice of America staffers, a federal judge ruled that Kari Lake unlawfully ran the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) for several months last year. The mass layoffs and other actions undertaken during that time “are void,” the judge wrote. https://cnn.it/46LPSTM

08.03.2026 03:28 👍 470 🔁 130 💬 15 📌 12

“We don’t have to look for an individual... I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war.”

07.03.2026 19:41 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

Update: They are up over 50,000 videos now, and besides the decade-by-decade playlists, they have channels for MTV2, VH1 Pop-Up Video, MTV Spring Break, 120 Minutes, Headbanger's Ball, Yo! MTV Raps, and more.
wantmymtv.vercel.app

07.03.2026 18:35 👍 234 🔁 113 💬 5 📌 14
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It's a marathon, not a sprint When you've committed to holding a Summer Olympics, a marathon route becomes a guaranteed death march

With tomorrow's highs in the 80s, the LA Marathon is letting runners bail at mile 18 and still get a finishing medal. But how will LA28 handle the Olympic marathon at the end of July in what will almost certainly be hotter weather?

Plus a 2028 state hearing, and the latest Hot Links headlines 🔥

07.03.2026 16:51 👍 80 🔁 25 💬 7 📌 9

The problems were “all too obvious,” but the didn’t see them. “They came in thinking this is cool and it has Elon Musk attached, so it’s inevitable.”

Now, replace “Elon Musk” with “AI.”

(In the sentence, not in reality… although…)

07.03.2026 17:59 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

“We want to believe that progress—in all its forms—is born from audacity alone and does not also require collective action, patience, and occasional sacrifice. We want to believe that big things can be easy instead of hard and that belief itself can make them so.”

07.03.2026 17:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great minds – @strandjunker.com and @billmckibben.bsky.social – think alike. bsky.app/profile/bill...

07.03.2026 06:59 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Popular culture has long elevated certain women by portraying others as rivals, obstacles or villains,” Hannah wrote. “Isn’t it textbook misogyny to tear down one woman in order to build up another?”

07.03.2026 05:33 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

I’ve seen too many great docs to just just choose one, so I’ll go with the first one I remember watching, Hoop Dreams, and the most recent, the Oscar-nominated The Perfect Neighbor.

07.03.2026 05:26 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year

the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter

www.statesman.com/business/art...

06.03.2026 17:07 👍 5292 🔁 1898 💬 70 📌 137
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Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

From @us.theconversation.com: First oil, then water?

06.03.2026 19:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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GOP Rep. Gonzales ending reelection bid after admitting to affair with late staffer | CNN Politics GOP Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales said he is ending his reelection bid after admitting to an affair with a former staffer who later died by suicide.

GOP leaders had called for Gonzales to drop his reelection bid… but not for him to resign his seat in the Senate’s narrow majority.

06.03.2026 05:12 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Holy Moses, let us live in peace
Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease
There's a man over there, what's his color? I don't care
He's my brother, let us live in peace

-- Bernie Taupin and Elton John, "Border Song"

06.03.2026 03:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🎵toppings, cheese – tasty pies 🎵

06.03.2026 02:37 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer, has died Voting rights organizer Bernard LaFayette has died. LaFayette's son says his father died Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 85.

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

05.03.2026 22:51 👍 1886 🔁 771 💬 42 📌 88
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Billions of dollars, decades of progress spent eliminating devastating diseases may be lost with undoing of USAID Public health campaigns had made significant strides toward eradicating diseases like elephantitis and river blindness. But this progress has since unraveled with the second Trump administration.

From @us.theconversation.com: For 50+ years, the global health community worked to eliminate infections such as river blindness and elephantiasis, in areas where these diseases are endemic.

Withdrawal of USAID support will undo decades and billions of dollars of work.

05.03.2026 23:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0