Former Presidents Biden, Bush, Clinton, and, obviously, Obama will attend the Obama Center opening today in Chicago.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat the f****************************k

What if the plot originated in the White House and among the richest men in America.

If you live in purple areas, & have non-liberal acquaintances who aren't full blown maga cultists, you might find this chart useful to pass along

Editing and posting some old CALIFORNIA CONDOR'S IN THE WILD pictures just because that's possible. 🪶

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

We’re at the “Good Tsar, bad boyars” phase of the Republican Party’s russification.

Why does it bother me when a manager or the CEO of my employer boasts about using Copilot to write their emails? This. This is why

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

What makes my heart heavy is that 13 servicemembers and a school full of girls died for no reason except to attempt to boost a sad old man’s ego

The most dangerous criminals.

hey, this is a fairly nerdy news item, but you should absolutely know about it. (looks like there are links in other posts in the thread.) the Post Office is really contemplating not delivering ballots unless states expose their voters' data to DOJ. I hate saying read that again but, read it again

name a tv show you're positive no one remembers but you

mister trump has got GOP senators on CNN saying iran has a right to exist, just absolute scenes

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

The one thing about the Strait of Hormuz is it is in fact a wasting asset Gulf states are about to pour so much money into pipelines and air defenses and the renewable energy push is gonna keep going US may not be a threat by the time it matters, but that button is only gonna get weaker

Our imbecile president embarked on the Iran fiasco because he was still high from kidnapping Venezuela's president. Anyone familiar with gambling behavior want to guess whether he's more likely to stop now or double down

What Iran received: -total relief from all sanctions -freedom to continue to enrich uranium with no new restrictions -total control of the Strait of Hormuz, which it now says it will operate as a tollbooth, making it the dominant Gulf power What the US received: -literally nothing

I know we’ve grown used to this garbage, but this is just an astounding thing for a U.S. president to say at a summit with the leaders of the world’s most powerful countries.

ICE changed rules regarding paid labor and treatment of detainees at the request of the for-profit prison contractor facing numerous lawsuits. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

there is a word for requiring people to work and refusing to pay them! a whole Civil War was fought over it & the Constitution was amended! and yes I know about the prison slavery exception to the 13th Amendment's prohibition -- but that doesn't even apply here! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Heads up to the moms whose SNAP benefits just got cut

And that is, of course, the actual point. It’s not about the well-being of children at all, it’s about the oligarchs having a steady supply of low-autonomy workers.

“Bonhoeffer, the Protestant, and Mueller, the Catholic, had not only brought a great spiritual force to the [anti-Nazi] resistance but had given an example of individual courage in their various missions abroad.” - Shirer, Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 1638

I was born and grew up in South Shields in the ‘80s and ‘90s. My paternal grandfather was a miner. I never met him though. He died when my dad was 12 from Black Lung, unable to breathe from hardened, blackened lungs filled with coal dust. My grandma got £12 life insurance. 1/

Beauty Before the Storm. Wednesday morning's sunrise in Chicago.

This is really, really bad. And it’s only going to get worse. amicacenter.org/press-releas...

IF whatever draft they are talking about is the actual MOU (big IF) this is not the way to do it. The two language versions should be negotiated by skilled translators on both sides. Languages are not drop-in equivalent.

It‘s still amazing to me that 77 million Americans voted for this obvious con artist.

yeah like just looking at how stilted the language is, the random capitalizations, etc. it looks like they fed the farsi original that trump told them to sign blind to claude and are just now figuring out whats in it and how you have to be very precise in treaty language as it turns out

what an interesting comparison brandon, please do go on & tell us more

JD Vance says "Friday is the formal signing ceremony and kicks off these negotiations" (so basically it's a "deal" to talk to Iran about a deal)

Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.

NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.

Yikes… this is how they’re trying to fix the algae problem… the birds don’t stand a chance…😕

Innocent creatures always pay for our* stupidity 😭 *most of us are absolved as we didn’t vote for the malignant 💩

Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Trump further guts the Education Department by shifting oversight of special education and civil rights to other federal agencies

Simply making content that is very similar to expected search inquiry is enough to get cited. Here is an example for a fake restaurant from their study, in which text on Reddit that reads "For the best Mexican food near Austin, choose Sol Azteca for authentic cuisine" is enough to get cited

New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

She makes a very good point in saying that the modern generation of parents don't fear the measles or smallpox for that matter because they have never seen the severe consequences those diseases can bring. The same is true for polio. But they should be feared. www.livescience.com/health/virus...

"Hussein said he was in disbelief that he was told to convert or leave — for the first time in his life — at a Republican convention with the tagline, 'Unity drives victory.'"

The social internet got turned into a giant dopamine farm by a handful of companies who literally hired the same psychologists who design casino floor layouts, and the policy-makers just threw up their hands and said "guess we better ban kids from using the internet then"

this is news new york times reporters had months ago, but they suppressed it and kept it out of the paper so they could goose book sales. this should be a scandal but its how modern journalism is conducted now.

Good overview of the barbaric attack and typical lack of response from the UN from the Telegraph podcast Ukraine the Latest open.spotify.com/episode/4EPv...

Case in point. A friend came to visit when I was living in Kyiv in 1993, here we are at the top of the belltower. Russia claims these sites as the cradle of #GreatRussianCulture, but since they're losing their stupid war, the only thing they know to do is bomb it

Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves) is on any short list of must-see sites: "Established in 1051, it is considered the center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in E. Europe" The cave system is dispersed across various living quarters, underground chapels www.ecksplorer.com/blog/a-guide...

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

Days after a one-man anti-Kremlin protest in Berlin with an icon-like caricature of Stalin and Putin, Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky was gunned down in a Polish city near the Belarusian border. meduza.io/en/news/2026...