Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this?? electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...

"...ending federal oversight of IDEA isn’t about giving control to the states. It is about denying the civil rights of all students with disabilities. "

All you need to hear at this moment

Step away from all this other crap and watch this live stream of #Kilauea.

A grain bin filled with soybeans collapsed in Iroquois County, Illinois, taking out power lines but causing no injuries.

“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives.” However, “it is painful for them to lose money...” This is how the oil industry became the Ukrainians’ most important target."

Was wondering why some items disappeared from the site. Will still continue to support this company. #woodworking

It’s now been a day and a half since Russia launched a premeditated military attack on Poland, ostensibly an ally of the USA. And so far this is the only reaction of the US president. And some people still think the US will defend Europe from Russia…

Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.

What a remarkable career and contribution to the English speaking world. Will miss hearing the academics being told to "briskly" introduce whatever subject it was.

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

The Ukrainians clearly don’t have this hindrance as they rapidly iterate and evolve their use of battle technology. The Russians are learning too.

Everyone should know this & make use of it. I have been successful about 85% of the time appealing my insurance claim denials. It takes persistence, but you can do well. Document every conversation & get each person's full name.

Excellent point: If US took 3 yrs and 1 million casualties to capture <1/3 of Iraq no one would say we were "winning".

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

Russian forces have been stopped in Donetsk, where Ukraine has a strong belt of fortresses. If Trump tries to hand over all of Donetsk to Putin in exchange for a ceasefire, it would be another Munich: a dishonorable and destructive bargain. Ukrainians would never go along. wapo.st/45rmMaW

So, soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying. Then the worst happens: Markets shrink and collapse; businesses and industries shut down; and millions of people lose their jobs. - Ronald Reagan (4/25/1987)

Much much more that just juked jobs reports... #econsky

The fix is in

Every "tech" guy is just a VC guy in a subculture that gets called "tech" for no particular reason. Most real "tech" - like, i dunno, cutting edge materials research - doesn't get called that while "a new pizza delivery app" does

Was listening to an interview with @anneapplebaum.bsky.social this morning and this topic came up about how juked government statistics about the Soviet economy were a contributor to its demise.

Very sad news. What a player. Just married 2 weeks ago. #ynwa #lfc

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

When a chatbot encourages a user's destructive behavior, who should bear responsibility? If an AI MRI technician misses a patient's cancer diagnosis, where does the patient go for restitution? defector.com/when-an-ai-a...

Good to find a bipartisan failure. kyivinsider.com/ukraine-conf...

RIP Bill Atkinson. Hypercard was the real OG

3D Printed waterstone holder. #woodworking

Hats off to Ukraine for their cunning and daring — demonstrating they can strike anywhere in Russia, raising the cost to Putin domestically, specifically targeting dual-capable systems to show they’re not afraid of escalation. Brilliant plan, well executed.

It even mimics the what seems like eternity slow “paging”. Well done.

“I’ve been a policy journalist for more than 20 years. I’ve covered more bills than I can count. I cannot remember a more cruel or irresponsible piece of domestic legislation that has been seriously proposed.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

Influencer Kristi is performing online MAGA norms for the adulation of the online crowd. Norms were rewired by the incentive structure of communicating on X. That’s the attention game she needs to win to maintain power and clout among the influencers & crowd she cares about.

Good Morning from Western NC.

GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL: “I think people are bothered by the lack of seriousness (at the Pentagon under Hegseth) — it’s a team. No one in the military cares if you’re trans. They want to get the job done. And what best defends us is EVERYBODY.”

Is this happening more often or are we paying closer attention? This happened last night in Knoxville,TN. I called my Congressman’s office about this to urge increasing FAA funding. #knoxville #faa

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...

I'm still not clear why the @nytimes.com went along the idea that a presidential library owning a jet for the personal use of the ex-president was anything that real presidential libraries do. Weird.

So here I am right now, reading a NYT article about chronic understaffing at the FAA written in the '80s, and realizing it 100% could be published today and would be just as relevant. Other than the names of the folks running FAA and DOT, nothing has changed.

The average person who engages with foreign governments in virtually every industry I’ve been in - finance, academia, tech, govt - files disclosures about any gift over the most nominal value, or turns things down lest they appear to cause a conflict. But this guy…

“News is no longer a public service; it’s a product optimized for engagement. Platforms reward outrage, and journalists, desperate to remain relevant, have adapted accordingly”

How best to describe a POTUS-endorsed investment opportunity where 58 people make money while 764,000 get taken to the cleaners? www.salon.com/2025/05/07/7...

Justice David Souter —Appointed by GW Bush —voted in favor of affirmative action, gay marriage, separation of church/state and abortion rights. —Did the work, quiet, strong, empathetic…kind —enjoyed hiking and doing his own home repair A great role model for young men. RIP 🇺🇸

MUST-WATCH — SMALL BUSINESS OWNER @haleypavone : “Even if Trump’s tariffs go away tomorrow, my year through the fall is shot.” Always extremely impressive and clear, Haley testifies about how Trump’s trade war is hurting 🇺🇸 small business owners.

Not an apology for not paying off your debt but where’s the efficiency and effective service to our larger national debt?

Good Morning from East Tennessee

Some very bad news coming out of NWS Goodland KS. Sources confirming that they are no longer 24/7 operational due to such low staffing issues and will be closed 5 hours a day which requires other NWS offices to issue warnings for them when closed

“Hope is the state of wanting things to be different than they are.”

With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free. (Published 2019)

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

As a 20 year communications professional I’d like to offer Democrats my most sophisticated advice: While Trump is punching himself in the nuts, you could choose to 1. Also punch him in the nuts; or 2. Punch yourself in the nuts. I strongly advise number 1.