Confirmation that 16 third-country nationals arrived late last night to Paraguay on the flight we tracked originating in Arizona www.reuters.com/world/americ...

One in 10 kids rescued from Russia and the occupied territories by Save Ukraine have been sexually abused including girls who are pregnant from rape. Raping and forcibly impregnating girls under occupation is a genocidal act as we know from Rwanda.

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

The entire modern world is built on the creations of Native American scientists (corn and potatoes)

Bluesky friends! I’m hunting for a copy of Amtrak’s "The National" magazine (2017) featuring the Cleveland food scene. My friend shot the cover photo and met her husband because of that issue! I’d love to gift it to her, since they no longer publish it. Can ya’ll help me find this issue? 🙏🏽

Report from journalist Pedro Garcia López: "The roundup has begun, and it’s not #ICE agents from the #US—it’s officers from Mexico’s #INM. First, they surround the #women and #children who, exhausted, have fallen behind the #migrant #caravan walking along the coast of #Chiapas;

Happy Earth Day! Let’s commemorate by ending the practice of dumping 💩 into the Charles River. Visit CutTheCrapCharles.org

The median DACA renewal processing time is now 2.3 months (the longest since 2016) per USCIS's own data. That's the median. The tail matters more: individual cases running 6+ months, work permits lapsing, jobs lost with no removal order ever issued.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Oh apparently Russia is requiring all owners of .ru and .su domains to be verified through gosuslugi. Good luck to burrito taxi guy jules dot The Soviet Union.

A hotel in Osh, Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, allegedly put a sign in the door saying “Jews and animals are not allowed” in 3 languages. I can’t say I’m surprised: this kind of vile and dehumanizing language has become all too common in the region m.akipress.com/news:892132:...

This is really cool and funny because North Mexico has been struggling with a series of Measles breakouts and it is presumed that they’re largely a result of transmission via USA along with the mennonite colonies which, by no coincidence, travel regularly to the other side of the border.

Palacios says that when onboard the patrol vessel, the crew’s phones were confiscated and most photos and videos of the attacks wiped. Once the men were on the patrol boat, the US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Cutting the affordability requirement would’ve raised net operating income by around 10%. Given they went to the effort to submit a multifam planning application, the choice between the Taco Bell drive-thru and the 123-unit apartment building was probably close, and that 10% would’ve flipped it

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out

People. Don’t tell each other loudly what you guesstimate is true about citizenship and immigration as though you actually knew anything about anything, please?

A real sign in Osh in Kyrgyzstan x.com/israelinkg/s...

Little surprise that they keep losing on the battlefield if they are just unable to grapple with material reality

Disappointed this week to read yet another deterministic claim about what's going on in Chiapas based on a 3 day press trip. The Anglo left (all of it) arguably among the worst things to happen to Latin America

There’s also just an economic illogic to funded IZ. Why does the public need for housing subsidy increase with more market-rate development? Isn’t it actually the opposite? If there’s no nexus justifying a private exaction, where is the nexus justifying the public one?

Frankly, it’s marketing. They are selling the image of evil genius which started with Steve Jobs and Zuckerberg being assholes and evolved into this.

‘Simply stop giving millionaires water for literally free’ is one of the most insane sounding but actually serious policy solutions out there

Somewhere deep in the Georgian mountains, the sky just closed. A no-fly zone, larger than greater Tbilisi, appeared almost without notice. The official story involves a telescope. The telescope hasn't been touched since the Khrushchev era. The real story involves something else entirely. 👽🧵 [1/10]

i've been thinking ever since 2022 how forced linguistic assimilation, like what Russia did to Ukraine, is not just an attack on a culture's right to express itself but also an attack on its right to express itself /without/ being understood by the dominant power

Muy buen post de @uriondo.es sobre el absurdo de la regulación española de autobuses interurbanos. uriondo.substack.com/p/espana-en-...

If you think the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford is the most powerful ship in the world, you are wrong. It's actually the German cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 (pictured), which successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend

with the water issues IT’S THE FARMER’S FAULT BLAME THE FUCKING FARMERS is like Newtonian physics: it won’t get every single particular right, but for practical purposes it’s all the information you need most of the time

i can only assume @quantian.bsky.social is too much of a coward to post this here on bsky so i will do it for him bsky.app/profile/ayou...

#Moldova This month marks 80 years since the 1946-47 Soviet famine, which killed around 2 million people across the USSR. Proportionally,🇲🇩 was the hardest hit, losing around 10% of its population - a blind spot in the country’s history. Report with Bastien Renouil 🎥 🇫🇷 f24.my/BpNa 🇬🇧 f24.my/BpPK

so-called "artificial intelligence" is actually made by trapping thetans and forcing them to answer queries and because thetans are the souls of dead aliens this violates the biblical command against necromancy

This framing is wrong. It wasn’t these guys, who were already rich, warm, and well fed, who most stood to benefit from sanctions relief. It was the Syrian people. And Republicans held their future hostage until congressmen got free dinners and vacations and dangled a golf course in front of Trump.

Чи може хтось з моїх підписників знає імена людей, які говорили щось про зв'язок Чорнобиля і рос колоніалізму, про атомний терор? Дуже треба для радіо! І на позавчора Поширте пост бумласка!

Geez “ ocho de Brasil, tres de Rumania: tres de China, dos de Azerbaiyán: dos de Uzbekistán, una de Irlanda, una de India, una de Vietnam y otra de Bielorrusia. Se incluye una menor de edad (rumana) que viaja con su madre y una adulta mayor irlandesa.” semanariouniversidad.com/pais/ocho-ti...

Steel bollards filled with concrete for transformers, plastic bollards filled with air for bicyclists and pedestrians.

People are trying to make Justin Fairfax into some kind of #MeToo martyr. It’s egregious. It’s disrespectful to Cerina Fairfax. He is a murderer and women who tried to point out the danger back in the day were 100% right. nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/justin-fai...

We’ve been at the “convoluted schemes to loot public assets” stage of this for a while, but I think it’s escalating. There has to be justice.

My annual reminder that if you need to buy a window A/C this year do not simply buy the largest model you can afford. Energy Star has a sizing guide. Why do you want an AC that is sized for your room? Because an undersized A/C won't cool well and an oversized A/C will leave a space humid

Maybe someone can make a viral TikTok with cursing about how everything is so full of corruption, I hear that works.

I want to hear politicians talking about cracking down on large scale public corruption. The reaction to billions literally being looted through a variety of schemes can’t just be “elect us and we will focus on the price of eggs.”

There it is. The SCE rule that said “no more transformers in vaults, its surface mounted pads and bollards forever”. Like uncovering some ancient cursed text in a Lovecraft novella.

I was probably 13 years old the first time I went to Arlington. I stood in front of Lee’s old manse, and looked down over the neat rows of pearly white headstones & saw the gleaming temple to Lincoln across the Potomac. The meaning behind that design was not lost on me.

fun fpga fact: - the slowest commercial fpga still in production is called "QuickLogic EOS S3" - the second slowest is called "Lattice UltraPlus"

Looks like one will be able to take a train directly from Finland to Sweden soon: www.railwaypro.com/wp/finland-a...

Service improvements are good and all but this is what I am referring to with Renfe's key metric being "seats per day".

... anything around the topic of news in Europe from circa 1400 to 1800, be it handwritten, printed or orally flowing, text and image, in every bookish form, etc., you might be of great help and be thanked. In short: Who might suggest Portuguese, Bulgarian, Polish etc. literature on the topic? 2/2

75-year-old widow. One of her stepsons, a cop, called ICE on her so he can grab as much as he can from the estate.

This is a roadmap to delivering all of ST3 without decades of delay. If not this, then Sound Transit and the board must come up with another approach that delivers the full system with out scope cuts or decade long deferrals. #noexcuses www.theurbanist.org/op-ed-reconn...

No single Massachusetts law has done more damage to the commonwealth than Proposition 2.5