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Heathcliff walks past a candy store and towards the meat store that neighbors it. A pair of candy store patrons watch him pass while talking to the store's proprietor, and he says "No, I said 'Meat Tooth'."
10 Mar 2026
Official map from NOAA depicting the relative rank of winter 2025-2026 temperatures at a county level across the contiguous U.S. Many counties in the western and central U.S. are depicted in dark red color, signifying record-warmest winter. All other counties in the west and central U.S. are depicted in dark orange colors, signifying a "near record warm" rank.
The official NOAA stats out this week confirm that winter 2025-26 was the warmest on record across a huge portion of the western and central U.S., which has contributed to extremely low mountain snowpack & worsened the CO River crisis. Meanwhile, record March heat is in forecast.
A close view shows a person using a laptop displaying a news website with a headline and photo on the screen. Another laptop sits nearby on the desk, and the scene is set in a modern office environment with glass walls and overhead lighting.
A conservative organization with decades of influence in California has quietly turned attention, and millions of dollars, to a national initiative of right-leaning news operations, records show. bit.ly/4aYdk2K
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Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Riker and Geordi, in uniforms red and gold, meet at a Enterprise corridor intersection. Riker is *very* tall. You don't always see it, but here facing and compared to Geordi, sheesh he's a tall drink of water. Anyways, his hair's a bit messy. Closed caption reads, "I'm having trouble waking up."
Even if it takes years, we have to bring EVERYONE who made this happen to justice. No moving on, no letting this go.
Revenge is good enough motivation for me personally, but the nobler and important reason is to ensure that anyone who thinks of doing this again knows they’ll rot in prison for it.
Whatever was going on, there was nothing I could do about it now, and that just made me more furious. So I watched five minutes of episode 174 of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. Did that work? No, no, it didn’t.
JUST IN: Trump DOJ proposes surprise rule aiming to let Attorney General Pam Bondi suspend state bar investigations into alleged misconduct by DOJ lawyers. Very unclear if there'd be legal authority for the AG to intervene in this manner.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shaheen & Peters are retiring. But if any of these other Dems vote to give a single additional dollar to the Trump regime so it can keep illegally bombing in the Middle East, they should be primaried into oblivion.
Call the Senate: (202) 224-3121. Not a single additional $ for Trump's illegal war.
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of ID verification (which they’re calling age verification) at account setup.
This makes absolutely ZERO sense if you have even the most basic understanding of technology
Discworld QOTD, from Jingo
“History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.”
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
"A 2019 survey found that 93% of British Columbians who participated supported adopting year-round daylight saving time." And they're further north than we are, meaning this will have a bigger impact in winter, yet they're still in favor. We need Congress to let WA, OR, CA follow BC's lead.
CA Dem Party chair Rusty Hicks kind of downplays the potential for a Democratic lockout in the primary for governor but then says this:
cadem.org/open-letter-...
Fearing GOP win, California's Democratic leader urges unviable party candidates for governor to drop out
Last year, 9 law firms offered massive payments to Trump to “settle” baseless allegations of wrongdoing.
I sent letters calling out their settlements as potentially violating anti-bribery statutes and ethics rules.
The DOJ’s decision to drop their baseless lawsuits makes clear we were right.
SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
The proposition of liberalism is dead simple: An attack on the basic rights and political equality of one group is an attack on all of us. We do not know when fascists will turn the violent arms of the state against our group, so we must treat an injury to every group as if it were against our own.
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
We used to live in a country that worked like this:
1. Congress passes a "you can't sue if USPS lost your mail" law.
2. SCOTUS says "that means you can't sue if USPS threw your mail away."
3. Congress passes a law saying "you absolutely can, because "lost" and "threw away" are different."
Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."
Ok, here’s a proof of the 2nd layer, which adapts a broadside published in April of 1854 to warn Black residents of Boston about slave-catchers in the city, following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act www.nps.gov/articles/000...
SCOOP: Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.
have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books?
good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader
you won’t regret it
(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.
"What lends further urgency to these discussions are where matters go beyond kitchen table economics and reach into matters of public safety, a place where PG&E has an at best dubious record. San Francisco’s power outage is the latest in a string of disasters caused by PG&E"
Pro Se litigants be like:
Federally-operated automated license plate readers installed on California’s state rights of way would be a “back door” around the state’s data sharing restriction, EFF’s @maassive.bsky.social told @inewsource.org. inewsource.org/2026/02/11/...
