Among those killed in Israeli strikes today were 3 journalists: - Mohammed Wishah, an Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza - Ghada Dayekh, a presenter with Sawt Al-Farah in Lebanon - Suzan Khalil, a reporter and presenter on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV and Al-Nour Radio, also in Lebanon

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If you need to distract yourself for a few hours, no better way than diving into this darkly comic, hopeful sci-fi classic, even if you could not give one iota of a shit about football:

It’s just “Lemon, it’s Tuesday,” forever and ever until we pass out, huh

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

remember those other branches of government

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

If you're looking for an online event, I'll be speaking at this one: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even.... Join us!

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

You: People who write about TV need to leave the politics out of it. It’s just an escape from the real world! Me: The president’s aides are producing him a daily TV show of the war www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

JAVIER BARDEM NO TO WAR FREE PALESTINE YES BABYYYYY

In @fspnwu.bsky.social the secret third thing is you organize with dozens of wildly smart, interesting, radical(ized) freelancers to build solidarity and pugnacious collective power to improve creative workers’ labor conditions

me and the other scheming viziers are wearing shoes gifted to us by the king that are way too big. we look ridiculous. the whole court is laughing at us behind our backs. honestly this is a pretty low point for us, the scheming viziers

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

I'm out of words here

PELICAN DELAY IN SANTA BARBARA

New: Internal tension at the Associated Press over use of AI. One of the AP newsroom leaders leading the company's AI initiatives told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and told them when it comes to using AI in the newsroom "resistance is futile."

Glob-glob! Absolutely magical sea anemone larva (about 7 mm) from The Lombok Strait, Indonesia 🇮🇩

man i am trying to win by saving what i love rather than fighting what i hate but these fuckers sure don't make it easy

This is why people are so upset when people say Democrats need to stop focusing on trans issues because it's too woke and people aren't ready for it: we're not talking minor inconvenience here. We're not talking microaggressions We're talking: they are stripping IDs from trans people

As the guy who wrote the book on zoning abolition, I'd like to go on record as saying: if you can use zoning to stop the concentration camps, fucking go for it.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

BREAKING: An immigration judge has *terminated* the Trump-Vance administration's efforts to deport Columbia pro-Palestine student protestor Mohsen Mahdawi. Mohsen was first detained 10 months ago, when agents ambushed him at a citizenship interview.

Wow.

strange but true: you don't have to fight the 2028 primary on here yet if you don't want to

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

This shows the true scope of these layoffs — and it’s deeper than numbers on a page. These numbers aren’t just statistics. They reflect careers, communities, and a profound shift in who gets to shape the journalism and mission of The Washington Post.

Today's pigeon is comin late from an air bnb with hard lighting but. As it says. I am trying my best.

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

now that's the power of a union

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

Ms Kordia has been incarcerated by ICE for eleven months. www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actio...

small crab eating a grape (important)

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Peasant and Nestrobber, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1568

HOW DARE YOU TRY TO SELL ME AI IN THIS EXACT MOMENT

Unfortunately it does track that Ferris Bueller would use AI for work (derogatory)

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956