“In the 1960s and 1970s, as Kenya made the transition from colony to democracy, Joseph Kamaru sang messages of national pride, anti-corruption, class betrayal and gender politics to an emerging nation.” Joseph Kamaru in @aquariumdrunkard.com aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/13/j...

The Republic has identified the guard who brutally punched a 22-year-old outside a Phoenix nightclub. Rafael Montoya died after the brawl.

Epstein was obviously the story of the day but it’s wild that we got confirmation the CIA was engaged in biological warfare in Afghanistan for at least a decade

New: We analyzed prison rules and sanctions, and gathered accounts from incarcerated people, to reveal how DOCs use disciplinary policies to punish people for menstruating. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/11...

Today, Oklahoma is set to execute Tremane Wood even though a state panel recommended his life is spared

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

Canada announces a $1.7 billion program to recruit top H1B visa holders from America

Very cool looking role on @tealtan.bsky.social's @propublica.org team! grnh.se/943kjeba6us

Leaders of the Colorado River Indian Tribes formally granted the Colorado River legal personhood status, making it the third river with such legal protections in North America. The Yurok Tribe granted personhood to the Klamath River in 2019. @debkrol.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Tiny spiders that build giant 'puppet' decoys from disembodied prey discovered in Peru and Philippines www.livescience.com/animals/spid...

High Country News is another independent journalism outlet that does great work, focusing on the American West (public lands, indigenous affairs, climate change, water, arts & culture); a digital subscription is only $25/yr.

It's not just Starbucks: coffee shop workers across the country, from national chains to local cafes, have unionized in a quest to turn being a barista into a good job www.bonappetit.com/story/barist...

When cats go in submarines, do they want to eat the fishes they see?

Honestly don’t know how fantastic this life in plastic.

And just to underscore the loss and human suffering associated with this, the IEA now says demand for oil and gas could continue to grow until 2050.

NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state. José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time: “I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"

The should play Born in East LA on PBS.

ProPublica 🤝🏽 The Onion

There are like three employees in the whole store. Two of them only work pharmacy.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

The state is justified in tracking residencies and online identities of convicted child sex offenders, the court ruled story via @glorihuh.bsky.social

“I’ve been hearing that standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She also asked openly, ‘What’s the point of standards?’” one CBS source said. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Man, whatever happened to Dirty Vegas? They ever get a bath?

Bracing stuff from the homie @rachelmonroe.bsky.social.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

A bayonet is a tool with a worker on each end of it. It's also, with a bit of work, the start of a plowshare.

Thank god my doctor didn’t read my livejournal.

this is cool and people saying "just buy a whistle on amazon" did not read the story, have lost the light in their hearts, and will not enter heaven with that attitude www.404media.co/the-latest-d...

the only thing my ex bought for the house that i didn't dismantle or throw out when he left was the bidet and i think of him every time i use it (derogatory)

i collect both vinyl and cds, and while i am obviously partial to vinyl, i see where the youth are coming from. cds are cheaper, easier to store, sound pretty great. i feel like every generation will dabble in the listening customs of the generation before it

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

First day of training for a five k from no running ability at all, using the dubious Runna app. You guys are into this kinda shit? This is what you like? jfc. strava.app.link/RZTlhPWtbYb

In his first interview on the job, Syria’s new tech minister Abdulsalam Haykal talks to @emilywither.bsky.social about how he plans to rebuild the country’s shattered digital infrastructure — and why he came back after years in exile https://restofworld.org/2025/syria-tech-minister-abdulsalam-haykal

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Some Decorator Somewhere: “Now, all we need to do is get rid of the books that don’t spark joy, organize them by color rather than subject or author and maybe turn their spines in so they’re all an attractive beige and—“ (Trapdoor opens and drops them in a swampy, gator-filled moat)

Kayfabe is fine in entertainment but it's corrosive in democratic politics.

A reintroduction of shellfish, just to improve water quality and not as a commercial fishery. Welcome news for #Dublin Let’s see how they get on. #rewilding www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...

Covering a pickleball championship today?

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil theconversation.com/the-unraveli...

Can regenerative agriculture save coffee? It is much lauded by corporations as the latest solution to the climate crisis, despite farmers practising the same techniques for generations. So is regenerative agriculture anything more than yet another corporate sustainability slogan? #CoffeeSky

main thing I'm noticing from the photo contest this year is the noise is unrestrained on a level I've not noticed before. folks are *not* reigning in their ISO and it really hampers their otherwise successful images.

What a nightmare! Chinese astronauts can’t come home because space debris hit their return craft. The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.

gritty reboot: flubber

Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...

It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"