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Io Saturnalia!

2007 Expropriations. In 2007, the Venezuelan government expropriated the assets of foreign oil companies that declined to restructure their holdings to grant PDVSA majority control. Notably, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips resisted these terms, leading to the seizure of their assets.

Snowy Owl on a a snowy day.

Someone hire this young and excellent journalist, who interviewed me last summer about concentration camps for his Texas newspaper. He's won accolades from Scripps Howard, NY Press Club, ONA, NLGJA, and the Society of American Baseball, not to mention a shoutout from Best American Sportswriting.

I became disabled & lost everything. Today is my bday & I just got a notices my SNAP was reduced to $33/mo. There's no heating assistance this yr & since my Medicare is no longer covered,& my income is now over 2k below the poverty line. I wasn't kidding when I said this administration may end me.

Dusting off my course on financial fraud bc the AI collapse is shaping up to be a cataclysm on par with the OG stock market scam, the South Sea Bubble that burst in 1720. Granted, wishful thinking is difficult to puncture: last time I taught the course, students were eager to show off their NFTs.

Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state’s capital city said.

The resulting fire from the MD-11F, #UPS Flight 2976 crash near #Louisville, Kentucky today was detected by the short range infrared imager on the GOES-19 satellite. Note the black dot - representing the hot fire - near Louisville in this animation.

I'm looking to speak to people who rely on SNAP about what this past week has been like. If that's you, please reach out, or pass along to others. Can be anonymous. Signal: marisakabas.04 Email: [email protected]

No one hurt after ‘intentional’ explosion at Harvard medical campus, officials say www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Pips is a logic puzzle where players must arrange a set of dominoes to meet the conditions of the board to win. There are three new puzzles each day — Easy, Medium and Hard — so you can solve at your own speed, in any order you want. nyti.ms/4hHqzGK

Due to an overwhelming amount of Nonsense going on in the US farm sector, I am in need of a half-time to full-time video editor Anybody know someone who is 1) real good at it and 2) not heinously overemployed already?

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Sure you, a pessimist, sees blatant Nazi propaganda, but me, an optimist, sees a promise of full employment for closeted 50’s matinee idols.

Dear military members, The financial pain you and your families are experiencing is due to the Republican Party’s unending desire to hide Donald Trump’s child sex crimes from public view. Signed, Sgt. Joker, USMC #FDT #VetsAgainstTrump #VetsAgainstGOP

Never ask if you’re alone in your outrage. You’re not. #NoKings

I took this photo in 2014.

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

No money in the red kettles. Mutual aid instead. (And no, I'm not taking questions about this.)

With Yale Law School military justice expert Eugene Fidell and former JAG Maj. General Steven J. Lepper on the biggest civil/military crisis since the Civil War.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

Very much enjoying the inflatable frog segment of the civil war.

“Doing the work of a journalist can never be considered a crime”- Pope Leo. Amen. press.vatican.va/content/sala...

Still true.

Too real

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Hey folks: Many of you have been asking for a syllabus for "America at 250" -- the lecture course I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go (scroll down to the bottom): president.yale.edu/committees-p...

there is not enough coffee in the world for this shit

The United States will never recover from this

BREAKING — Notices for the Disney+ price increase went out at noon ET today, confirming my scoop from last night. Details: www.vulture.com/article/disn...

Alaskans celebrate the life of Mary Shields, the first woman to complete the Iditarod share.google/ccD0YzgFBk3n...

And ESPN

The amount of oranges produced in Florida in the past year hit the lowest since the Great Depression, according USDA data … at 12.2 million boxes of oranges, it is the lowest to come from the state since 1932 #EconSky

The official order to arm DC National Guard Members has come down from Sec. Def. Pete Hegseth:

John Bolton is just the craziest kind of opposition martyr. But this looks like one of the big escalation stages in this whole drama.

Trump administration ramps up crackdown on US visa holders | AP News share.google/dvDwDUU9Xd1p...

1. All the elite Beltway pundits with their, "Well, actually...crime in DC is a huge problem and somebody needed to do something takes," the latest being DC native Maureen Dowd, in response to Trump's military takeover of the nation's capital. Two 2 huge problems www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/o...

So…@hcrichardson and I will be livestreaming a conversation at about 7:00 tonight ET. You can find it at my YouTube channel m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

The United States government has declared war on people of color in this country. Make no mistake about what is happening.

Hey folks, Below is a place to submit your photos of Park signs. Supposedly they’ll be whitewashed by September 17. So now is a good time to start taking photos.

Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone Kristi Noem says it’s lazy of SOUTH PARK to make fun of women, specifically her for how they look. Maybe. But she seems to think it’s fine to arrest and assault people for how they look.

Things that will happen when he's gone: * we're going to learn about shit he did that's so heinous, it makes the stuff we know about look tame * his many minions will claim to have "always opposed" him and demand sympathy for their suffering at his hands * dancing in the streets, worldwide

Kremlin Kosplay on a Temu Budget